''WWE Velocity'' was an American

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that was produced by

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(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

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and on

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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!''.

History

''WWE Velocity'' was primarily used to summarize major occurrences on the latest episode of ''

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!'', which aired Thursday and later Friday nights on

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. Due to the

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, ''Velocity'' aired matches and content from the SmackDown brand. The format was set to mirror that of ''

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'' and its relation to the Raw brand. Following ''

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s move from Spike TV back to the

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in 2005, ''Velocity'' and its Raw brand counterpart, ''Heat'', were discontinued from television broadcast in the

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and

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and became

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s 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 ''

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'', ''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

Ring announcers

Television and Internet schedules

*Australia :*'' Fox8'' - Saturday Afternoons (2002 - 2006) *United States :*'' The New TNN/Spike TV'' - Saturday Nights (2002-2005) :*'' WWE.com'' - Saturdays (2005-2006) *United Kingdom :*''

'' - Sunday Nights (2002-2004) :*''Sky Sports'' - Sunday Mornings (2005-2006)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wwe Velocity 2002 American television series debuts 2005 web series debuts 2006 web series endings 2006 American television series endings Spike (TV network) original programming

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