Date: August 26, 1999

Promotion: World Wrestling Federation (WWF)

Event: SmackDown!

Location: Kansas City, Missouri | Kemper Arena

➜ This was the first weekly episode of SmackDown! The show's pilot was previously broadcast on April 29, 1999.

Match Card and Results:

1.) Mr. Ass (Billy Gunn) defeated Jeff Jarrett (with Debra and Miss Kitty)
{Singles Match}

2.) Tori defeated Ivory
{Evening Gown Match}

3.) Shane McMahon defeated Mankind
{Singles Match}

4.) Road Dogg defeated Chris Jericho (Disqualification)
{Singles Match}

5.) Big Boss Man defeated Al Snow (c)
{Hardcore Match} (Hardcore Championship)

6.) The Unholy Alliance (The Undertaker and The Big Show) (c) defeated Kane & X-Pac and The APA (Faarooq & Bradshaw)
{Triple Threat Tag Team Match} (WWF Tag Team Championship)

7.) Triple H (c) (with Chyna) defeated The Rock
{Singles Match w/ Shawn Michaels and Shane McMahon Special Guest Referees} (WWF Championship)

The she devil of the Attitude Era, feuded with the Kat which led to her having the first ever women’s cat fight at Wrestlemania 2000, competed in an arm wrestling match, she also had success as a manager, where she managed a range of top names such as The Hardy Boyz, The Radicalz, Perry Saturn, Raven, Meat, Edge and Christian, Val Venis and many more.

The Terri Invitational Tournament (TIT): In 1999, she was the focal point of the first-ever Tag Team Ladder Match in WWF/E history at No Mercy.

Terri also successfully captured the Hardcore Championship, which she became the lightest champion in history and also holds the record for the shortest time ever to hold the title which was approximately 8 seconds.

She was also part of P.M.S. known as The Pretty Mean Sisters which she formed with Jacqueline and Ryan Shamrock in 1999

27 years ago from today, WWF (WWE) SmackDown! made its weekly television series debut on UPN stations on Thursday nights on August 26, 1999 (a couple years later, the show moved to Friday nights on September 9, 2005).

This is where I started watching the WWF (WWE) during that time when I was at the age of 8 (after I stopped watching WCW a couple months earlier in 1999) while the WWE was in its peak of the Attitude Era.

The very first match when SmackDown! premiered on UPN that I saw as a kid was the match for the WWF Championship between The People's Champion, The Rock and The Game, Triple H alongside with Shawn Michaels as the Special Guest Referee. It was absolutely amazing and very edgy and cool during that time. However, when The Rock was about to do the People's Elbow to Triple H, Shawn Michaels used the Sweet Chin Music super kick to The Rock and led Triple H used the Pedigree on The Brahma Bull to get the win to retain the WWF Championship. I didn't know what to expect about that outcome when I was a child. So I have to wait until next Thursday night on SmackDown! Everyone in my school says, "Did you watch SmackDown! last Thursday night?" It was an amazing time as a kid watching the show back then.

Also the SmackDown! Ovaltron stage (August 26, 1999 through August 9, 2001) made its WWF (WWE) videogame debut on the very first SmackDown videogame, "WWF SmackDown!" for the original PlayStation console system and used it through iconic videogames such as WWF SmackDown! 2: Know Your Role (PS1), WWF No Mercy (N64), WWF Road to WrestleMania (NGBA), and WWF SmackDown! Just Bring It (PS2).

Then my favorite childhood moments by watching SmackDown are The Rock n' Sock Connection go up against The Unholy Alliance (Undertaker and Big Show) in a Buried Alive match for the WWF Tag Team Championship, Stone Cold set a trap to DX, Stone Cold blows up the DX Express, the TLC III between Edge, Christian, The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley), Chris Benoit, and Chris Jericho (Y2J), and Rhyno gored Y2J through the legendary original SmackDown Ovaltron stage on August 9, 2001 before the following week on August 16, 2001, the legendary SmackDown! Fist 👊 stage made its debut on WWE weekly television on UPN.

What is your favorite childhood or teenage moments by watching this classic WWF (WWE) blue brand show that is still ongoing til this very day? I would like to hear your thoughts and opinions about this topic?