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WWE Velocity, also known as simply Velocity, was a professional wrestling television program for World Wrestling Entertainment. Once a weekly Saturday night show on Spike TV, it became a webcast in 2005. 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 SmackDown! and was recorded before the television taping of SmackDown!
The show was primarily used to summarize major occurrences on the latest episode of SmackDown!, which airs each Friday nights on UPN. The program also featured matches involving wrestlers who were not featured in major matches or storylines on SmackDown!.
When WWE RAW moved from Spike TV back to the USA Network, the USA Network chose not to broadcast this or WWE's other weekly Spike TV program, WWE HEAT. WWE streamed Velocity from their website for their US and Canadian audiences. However, Velocity continued to be broadcast on television stations overseas to fulfill international programming commitments.
With the re-introduction of ECW, Velocity was cancelled, with the last episode being uploaded to WWE.com on June 10, 2006. The Velocity section was removed from WWE.com on June 30, 2006, though the link for the Velocity archives still works.
ECW has taken the place of Velocity in European and Australian television markets, eliminating the need to have the show at all.
The final match in Velocity history saw Matt Hardy defeat Simon Dean.
Commentators
The final play-by-play commentary on the show was done by Steve Romero and the final color commentator was Josh Mathews.
| Year(s) | Commentators |
|---|---|
| 2002 | Michael Cole and Tazz |
| 2003 | Ernest Miller and Josh Mathews |
| July 2003 | Tazz and Josh Mathews |
| November 2003 - December 2004 | Josh Mathews and Bill DeMott |
| December 2004 - June 2006 | Josh Mathews and Steve Romero |
External links
World Wrestling Entertainment television programs | World Wrestling Entertainment webcasts | Spike TV network shows
"WWE Velocity"