WWE Reportedly Making Major Change To SmackDown

Last week Friday Night SmackDown officially moved to the USA Network, and in January of 2025, Monday Night Raw will be moving to Netflix. It was recently announced that starting October 7th, Raw will air as a two hour show for the remainder of the red brand’s run on USA Network. Now it seems that a big change is coming for SmackDown as well.

WrestleVotes Radio is reporting that starting on January 3, 2025 a third hour will be added to SmackDown. It’s also rumored that new episodes of SmackDown could be available on Netflix the day after they air on USA Network, but that’s not confirmed.

“Before we move off of SmackDown, our first real WrestleVotes tidbit here, as we get going on this backstage pass regarding SmackDown, is that we have learned that starting on the January 3 show 2025, Smackdown will indeed shift to three hours.

The other big news here is there are rumors that once the show ends, it will be available on Netflix, which we haven’t heard elsewhere. Those are the internal talkings right now is that probably the day after Smackdown will be available on Netflix. But the real nugget here is that starting January 3, that show will be three hours.”

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