Some of the names listed for sd's 20th Anniversery Show

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

WWE will celebrate the 20th anniversary of SmackDown in October during the company’s premiere episode on Fox — and the show will be loaded with legends.


The press release for SmackDown’s 20th anniversary celebration explains:

The 20th anniversary celebration will mark the premiere of SmackDown on FOX broadcast network at 8 pm ET and take place at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Friday, October 4, 2019. Tickets are available starting this Friday, August 16 at 10 am PT via the Staples Center box office, www.AXS.com or by calling 1-888-929-7849.

WWE Superstars past and present will be on hand at Staples Center to celebrate the occasion including Kurt Angle, Lita, Mick Foley, Booker T, Hulk Hogan, Trish Stratus, Goldberg, Jerry Lawler, Mark Henry, Ric Flair and Stink.

“SmackDown has been delivering action-packed, family-friendly programming for two decades, and we look forward to entertaining generations to come as we begin this next chapter on FOX,” said Vince McMahon, WWE Chairman & CEO.

“Since we announced our five-year agreement last June, we have been eagerly counting down the days to the launch of SmackDown Live on FOX Sports,” said Eric Shanks, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Producer of FOX Sports. “We couldn’t be more excited and are pulling out all of the stops to commemorate SmackDown’s 20th anniversary celebration.”

In addition to these names, WWE is reportedly working on booking The Rock for the show as well.

Let the hype for WWE on Fox begin!

Haven't seen these bums in a while

 

[HollywoodP]

Didn't we just do like 3 of these already. Reach for the brass ring brehs.

 

[Sypress]

Stink

 

[23Barrettcity]

rock you son of a bytch

 

[PharaohAtem]

Rock just come back for one night man

 

[Reality Check]

Surprised no Lesnar on that list

 

[Heelish]

You would think they’d stop wheeling out these geezers after Roddy Piper and Jimmy Snuka croaked.

They used to bring those motherfukkers out with Sgt Slaughter at least 3-4x a year

 

[ThisIsLife]

Surprised no Lesnar on that list

The list includes retired hof'ers/non reoccurring talent.

 

[JerseyBoy23]

We just saw these people two weeks ago

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

Hogan right next to Booker.

 

[Silkk]

Goldberg & Sting?

There is only ONE name that matters and everyone knows who that is.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

So start a new era of Smackdown........by doing another reunion show....

 

[Silkk]

So start a new era of Smackdown........by doing another reunion show....

Didn’t even catch that at first. That is so fukking STUPID. I get they want ratings to be high, But wtf they think will happen the following weeks when NONE of those people are around anymore

 

[Hey_zeus]

No Rock nobody cares.

 

[R=G]

If Rock isnt in the main event segment..it wint have the same feel of a huge anniversary event.