WWE Velocity

*WWE Velocity*
WWE Velocity
Genre	Sports entertainment; Professional wrestling
Created by	Vince McMahon
Starring	SmackDown brand
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	204
Production
Running time	46 minutes
Original release
Network	TNN/Spike TV
Release	May 25, 2002 –; September 24, 2005
Network	Webcast on WWE.com
Release	October 1, 2005 –; June 11, 2006
Related
	WWF Jakked/Metal (1999–2002); WWE ECW (2006–2010);

WWE Velocity is an American professional wrestling television program that was produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and ran from May 25, 2002 to June 11, 2006. It replaced two syndicated WWE shows, Jakked and Metal. Once a weekly Saturday night show on Spike TV and on Sky Sports 2 in the United Kingdom on Sunday mornings, Velocity became a webcast from 2005 to 2006. 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 served as a supplementary show to the SmackDown! brand, focusing more exclusively on its mid-card performers and matches, and was recorded before the week's television taping of SmackDown!. 8 episodes of Velocity are now available on Peacock in the United States and the WWE Network in international markets.

History

WWE Velocity was primarily used to summarize major occurrences on the latest episode of SmackDown!, which aired Thursday and later Friday nights on UPN. Due to the WWE Brand Extension, Velocity aired matches and content from the SmackDown brand.^[1] The format was set to mirror that of WWE Heat and its relation to the Raw brand.^[1]

Following Raw's move from Spike TV back to the USA Network in 2005, Velocity and its Raw brand counterpart, Heat, were discontinued from television broadcast in the United States and Canada and became webcasts streamed on WWE.com. Internationally, Velocity and Heat continued to be broadcast on their respective television networks due to WWE's international programming commitments.

With the relaunch of ECW, Velocity was cancelled. The last episode of Velocity aired internationally on June 11, 2006. It was also the last episode to be streamed on WWE.com.

Commentators

Commentator(s)	Year(s) Active
Michael Cole and Al Snow	May 25 - June 8, 2002; June 22 - July 13, 2002
Michael Cole and Tazz	June 15, 2002
Michael Cole and Marc Loyd	July 20 - August 17, 2002; August 31 - December 7, 2002
Marc Loyd and Lita	August 24, 2002
Josh Mathews and Ernest Miller	December 14, 2002 - August 30, 2003
Josh Mathews and Tazz	September 6 - October 25, 2003
Josh Mathews and Bill DeMott	November 1, 2003 - December 11, 2004
Steve Romero and Josh Mathews	December 18, 2004 - June 11, 2006