{"id":354029,"date":"2026-06-21T03:47:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=354029"},"modified":"2026-06-21T03:47:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:17:02","slug":"the-date-wwe-smackdown-will-be-going-back-to-a-two-hour-format-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/the-date-wwe-smackdown-will-be-going-back-to-a-two-hour-format-is\/","title":{"rendered":"The Date WWE SmackDown Will Be Going Back To A Two-Hour Format Is &#8230;.. ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_91\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>WWE SmackDown is officially set to return to its two-hour format.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the USA Network schedule, starting with the July 3 episode, SmackDown will once more air for 2 hours. Following the show, the USA Network will air a brand new episode of <em>Every part on the Menu with Braun Strowman<\/em>, followed by a replay of <em>WWE: Made in America<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>WWE SmackDown has been running three hours for the reason that start of 2025, but that stretch is coming to an end.<\/p>\n<p>The format change mirrors what happened last 12 months, when SmackDown aired as a three-hour program through the first half of the 12 months before reverting to a two-hour show for the rest of the 12 months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> If you&#8217;ve gotten any news suggestions or podcast recaps that you simply\u2019d wish to send in for us to post (full credit will likely be given to you), please email me at <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"1547567974677e454246554c747d7a7a3b767a78\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWE SmackDown is officially set to return to its two-hour format. In response to the USA Network schedule, starting with the July 3 episode, SmackDown will once more air for 2 hours. Following the show, the USA Network will air a brand new episode of Every part on the Menu with Braun Strowman, followed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":354030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21056],"tags":[2222,19648,9262,11,32072,6221],"class_list":["post-354029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwe-and-more","tag-date","tag-format","tag-smackdown","tag-technology","tag-twohour","tag-wwe"],"aioseo_notices":[{"message":"The permalink for this post just changed! This could result in 404 errors for your site visitors.","status":"warning","options":{"id":"0a2ae5f84bc2c0423042ed7ec22d2e40","isDismissible":true,"actions":[{"url":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/wp-admin\/admin.php?page=aioseo-redirects","label":"Add Redirect to improve SEO","class":"aioseo-redirects-slug-changed"}]},"allowedContexts":["posts"]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354032,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354029\/revisions\/354032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}