SmackDown moving to 3 hours in January-ish?

[Cwalker]

For about another couple weeks or so yeah.

So you believe?

 

[Brandon Blaze]

So you believe?

I just know they definitely putting the belt on Joe, and it’s probably the right choice. He’s over af. Strike while you can.

 

[JakeYourBooty]

They gotta before he cools off

 

[Cwalker]

Put the belt on Joe and have it on NXT

 

[Dale]

Put the belt on Joe and have it on NXT

I'll be massively shocked if he doesn't enter the Rumble this coming year

 

[Dale]

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[Smart Marx]

If the show is as good as the clips I’ve been keeping up with, I’d happily watch 3 hours for both shows. Just don’t cut up SmackDown to 90 minutes wherever you add the replay.

 

[Brandon Blaze]

Now that I won’t be able to watch Raw starting in January I guess I won’t mind Smackdown being 3 hours I guess.

 

[Dale]

To start 2025, WWE SmackDown moved to three hours with the first three hour episode taking place on January 3rd.

It was reported by WrestleVotes, "the 'chatter' in WWE is that SmackDown will be three hours long until June 2025, when it will go back to a two-hour show."

Speaking to Pat McAfee on the Pat McAfee Show, Triple H confirmed WWE SmackDown would move back to two hours, though he didn't say when.

"Yes, for right now (it is three hours), and then it switches back to two," he said about the runtime of WWE SmackDown.​

 

[Chris]

How many times are they going to say this without ever explaining why it's going back to 2 lmao

 

[Butters]

That's good news I think. Friday is a terrible night to have 3 hours of programming on.

 

[Brandon Blaze]

Like what the fuck? That’s so dumb to even change it for a few months.

 

[Chris]

Like what the fuck? That’s so dumb to even change it for a few months.

The only thing I can think of is it has to do with the content that USA has at the time but they don't have a Friday night show that I know of starting in July so idk

 

[Shane]

I think they’re just tryna kick off 2025 with a bang

 

[Dale]

I wonder if they replace the third hour with one of these reality shows or something, though that would probably be less beneficial than just airing 3 hours of SmackDown.