WWE Velocity

Velocity

Created by	Vince McMahon
Starring	SmackDown Brand
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	204
Production
Running time	46 minutes
Release
Original network	Spike TV (2002-2005) Webcast (2005-2006)
Original release	May 25, 2002 (2002-05-25) – June 11, 2006 (2006-06-11)

WWE Velocity was a professional wrestling television program produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It replaced two syndicated WWE shows, Jakked/Metal. Once a weekly Saturday night show on Spike TV and on Sky Sports 2 in the UK on Sunday mornings, Velocity became a webcast from 2005 to 2006. The newest episode would be uploaded to WWE.com on Saturdays and be available for the next week. Older webcast episodes were also archived. It was the counterpart show to WWE SmackDown and WWE Raw and was recorded before the television taping of SmackDown.

History

WWE Velocity set used from May 25, 2002 to June 11, 2006, which is exactly the same set used for SmackDown.

WWE Velocity was primarily used to summarize major occurrences on the latest episode of SmackDown!, which aired Thursday and later Friday nights on UPN. Due to the WWE Brand Extension, Velocity aired matches and content from the SmackDown brand.^[1] The format was set to mirror that of WWE Heat and its relation to the Raw brand.^[1]

Following WWE Raw's move from Spike TV back to the USA Network in 2005, Velocity and its Raw brand counterpart, Heat, were discontinued from television broadcast in the United States and Canada and became webcasts streamed on WWE.com. Internationally, Velocity and Heat continued to be broadcast on their respective television networks due to WWE's international programming commitments.

The last episode of Velocity aired internationally on June 10, 2006. It was also the last episode to be streamed on WWE.com.

Commentators

Commentator(s)	Year(s) Active
Michael Cole	2002 (alternated)
Tazz	2002 (alternated)
Josh Mathews	2002 (alternated)
Marc Loyd	2002 (alternated)
Al Snow	2002 (alternated)
Josh Mathews Ernest Miller	2003
Josh Mathews Tazz	July 2003
Josh Mathews Bill DeMott	November 2003 - December 2004
Steve Romero Josh Mathews	December 2004 - June 11, 2006

Ring announcers

Ring announcers	Dates
Howard Finkel	2002
Lilian Garcia	2003
Justin Roberts	2004
Tony Chimel	2005–June 11, 2006

Television and internet schedules

United States

The New TNN/Spike TV - Saturday Nights (2002-2005)
WWE.com - Saturdays (2005-2006)

United Kingdom

Sky Sports - Sunday Nights (2002-2004)
Sky Sports - Sunday Mornings (2005-2006)

References

1 2 Shields, Brian; Sullivan, Kevin (2009). WWE Encyclopedia. DK. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-7566-4190-0.

External links

WWE Velocity at the Internet Movie Database
WWE Velocity at TV.com

Former WWE programming

Action Zone (1994–1996)
All American Wrestling (1983–1994)
All-Star Wrestling (1972–1986)
Championship Wrestling (1972–1986)
Confidential (2002–2004)
Cruiserweight Classic (2016)
ECW (2006–2010)
Excess (2001–2002)
FCW (2008–2012)
Friday Night's Main Event (1997)
Heat (1998–2008)
Heavyweight Wrestling (1950s–1972)
Jakked/Metal (1999–2002)
LiveWire (1996–2001)
MSG Classics (2006–2009)
Mania (1993–1996)
Prime Time Wrestling (1985–1993)
Saturday Morning Slam (2012–2013)
Saturday Night's Main Event (1985–2008)
Shotgun Saturday Night (1997–1999)
Sunday Night Slam (1994–1995)
Super Astros (1998–1999)
Superstars (2009–2016)
Superstars of Wrestling (1986–2001)
The Main Event (1988–1991)
Tuesday Night Titans (1984–1986)
Velocity (2002–2006)
War Zone (1997–2001)
Wrestling Challenge (1986–1995)
Wrestling Spotlight (1984–1995)

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