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| Format | Sports entertainment |
| Created by | Vince McMahon |
| Starring | SmackDown! Brand |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 204 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 46 minutes per episode |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Spike TV (2002-2005) Webcast (2005-2006) |
| Original run | May 25, 2002 – June 11, 2006 |
WWE Velocity, also known simply as Velocity, is a professional wrestling television program for World Wrestling Entertainment that replaced two syndicated WWE shows, Jakked and 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 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 is the counterpart show to SmackDown! and WWE Raw and is recorded before the television taping of SmackDown! (however SmackDown! is broadcast first).
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Format
The show was primarily used to summarize major occurrences on the latest episode of SmackDown!, which had already aired Thursday and later Friday nights on UPN. The program also featured matches mostly involving wrestlers who are not featured in major matches or storylines on SmackDown!. Although most title changes occurred on SmackDown! and RAW, Velocity had a title change when Nunzio defeated Paul London to win the WWE Cruiserweight Championship.
From television to webcast
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 U.S. and Canadian audiences. However, Velocity continued to be broadcast on television stations overseas to fulfill international programming commitments.
Cancellation
With the re-introduction of ECW and the decision to tape ECW on Sci Fi at the SmackDown! tapings, Velocity was canceled, with the last episode being uploaded to WWE.com on June 10, 2006. ECW on Sci Fi then took the place of Velocity in the European, Australian, Indian subcontinent, and Latin American television markets.
Commentators
| Commentators | Year (s) |
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| Alternated between Michael Cole, Tazz, Josh Mathews, Marc Loyd and Al Snow | 2002 |
| Josh Mathews and Ernest Miller | 2003 |
| Josh Mathews and Tazz | July 2003 |
| Josh Mathews and Bill DeMott | November 2003 - December 2004 |
| Steve Romero and Josh Mathews | December 2004 - June 2006 |
TV/Web Schedules
- United States
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- TNN - Saturday afternoons (2002-2003)
- Spike TV - Saturday nights 11PM-12AM (2003-2005)
- WWE.com - Saturday afternoons (2005-2006)
- United Kingdom
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- Sky Sports - Sunday nights 11PM (2002- 2004)
- Sky Sports - Sunday mornings 9AM (2005- 2006)
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