WWE SmackDown! gearing for name change Submitted by Brian Cantor on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 at 2:44 PM EST
Beginning with its new timeslot premiere on September 9, WWE SmackDown! will be called "Friday Night SmackDown!"
During its upfront presentation this past May, UPN announced that it would be moving the weekly wrestling show to Friday nights. While wrestling analysts took the move as a sign that UPN was planning to drop SmackDown (the contract runs out next year), the network has held that the move should not be taken as an insult to WWE. The second-tier broadcast network simply wanted to open Thursday nights up for its original comedies, including the anticipated "Everybody Hates Chris."
