WWF Smackdown 1.11.2001

WWF SMACKDOWN
Thursday, January 11th, 2001

Taped (1/9) from the Oakland Arena in Oakland, CA

List of WWF Champions at the time:
●  WWF World Heavyweight Champion: Kurt Angle (10/22/2000)
●  WWF Intercontinental Champion: Chris Benoit (12/10/2000)
●  WWF World Tag Team Champions: Edge & Christian (12/21/2000)
●  WWF European Champion: William Regal (12/04/2000)
●  WWF Hardcore Champion: Raven (12/25/2000)
●  WWF Women’s Champion: Ivory (11/02/2000)
●  WWF Light Heavyweight Champion: Dean Malenko (4/27/2000)

~ Smackdown comes on the air with clips of Triple H cheating Steve Austin out of the title and the resulting brawl. Michael Cole and Jerry “The King” Lawler then welcome us to this special 90-minute edition of Smackdown because UPN is taking over the last half hour for a sneak preview of their new show Gary & Mike, which was about as successful as 92% of the shows UPN has ever churned out.

WWF Raw Is War 1.08.2001

WWF RAW IS WAR
Monday, January 8th, 2001

Live from the San Jose Arena in San Jose, CA

List of WWF Champions at the time:
●  WWF World Heavyweight Champion: Kurt Angle (10/22/2000)
●  WWF Intercontinental Champion: Chris Benoit (12/10/2000)
●  WWF World Tag Team Champions: Edge & Christian (12/21/2000)
●  WWF European Champion: William Regal (12/04/2000)
●  WWF Hardcore Champion: Raven (12/25/2000)
●  WWF Women’s Champion: Ivory (11/02/2000)
●  WWF Light Heavyweight Champion: Dean Malenko (4/27/2000)

~ Raw comes on the air with clips of Austin’s week with the McMahons and his road to his title shot tonight. Jim Ross then welcomes us to the show along with Jerry “The King” Lalwer and talks about the electric atmosphere because tonight as mentioned Steve Austin finally gets another shot at Kurt Angle and the WWF Championship. JR is already calling it the “slobberknocker of the year” and even Lawler admits things don’t look good for Angle.

WWF Smackdown 1.04.2001

WWF SMACKDOWN
Thursday, January 4th, 2001

Taped (12/30) at the Freeman Colliseum in San Antonio, TX

List of WWF Champions at the time:
●  WWF World Heavyweight Champion: Kurt Angle (10/22/2000)
●  WWF Intercontinental Champion: Chris Benoit (12/10/2000)
●  WWF World Tag Team Champions: Edge & Christian (12/21/2000)
●  WWF European Champion: William Regal (12/04/2000)
●  WWF Hardcore Champion: Raven (12/25/2000)
●  WWF Women’s Champion: Ivory (11/02/2000)
●  WWF Light Heavyweight Champion: Dean Malenko (4/27/2000)

~ Smackdown comes on the air with highlights of Steve Austin’s on-going war with Stephanie McMahon on Raw. We specially get clips of Stephanie cheating Austin out of his match and costing him a shot at the #1 contendership. We then get a shot of Austin walking into the parking lot and pacing, perhaps waiting for Stephanie to arrive. Uh-oh!

~ We then go to the intro with Michael Cole and Jerry “The King” Lawler welcoming us to the show. Tonight The Undertaker, Kane and William Regal do battle for a shot at Kurt Angle and the WWF Title on Raw. And the WWF Champion himself is in action as Angle meets The Rock. Must be non-title since it’s on free TV. The annoucners also fear for Stephanie’s safety once she arrives as Austin can’t be in a good mood after Monday.

WWF Raw Is War 1.01.2001

WWF RAW IS WAR
Monday, January 1st, 2001

Taped (12/29) from the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, TX

List of WWF Champions at the time:
●  WWF World Heavyweight Champion: Kurt Angle (10/22/2000)
●  WWF Intercontinental Champion: Chris Benoit (12/10/2000)
●  WWF World Tag Team Champions: Edge & Christian (12/21/2000)
●  WWF European Champion: William Regal (12/04/2000)
●  WWF Hardcore Champion: Raven (12/25/2000)
●  WWF Women’s Champion: Ivory (11/02/2000)
●  WWF Light Heavyweight Champion: Dean Malenko (4/27/2000)

~ This New Year’s Night edition of Raw comes on the air with highlights of Stephanie McMahon’s rampage on Smackdown. We then get a shot of Steve Austin arriving at the building (on time for once, even!) when Earl Hebner runs up to him saying that Stephanie wants to speak with him in her office. Austin says it’d better be about his title shot.

~ We then go to the intro with Jim Ross and Jerry “The King” Lawler welcoming us to the show. Tonight we’re having a mini-tournament for a title shot as The Rock faces Kane and Undertaker faces Rikishi with the winners of each match to meet on Smackdown. And the winner of the match on Thursday gets a shot at Kurt Angle and the WWF Championship on next week’s Raw.