WWE Velocity was a professional wrestling

Professional wrestling

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 television program

Television program

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 produced by World Wrestling Entertainment

World Wrestling Entertainment

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 (WWE). It replaced two syndicated WWE shows, Jakked/Metal

WWE Jakked/Metal

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. Once a weekly Saturday night show on Spike TV and on Sky Sports 2 in the UK 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 was the counterpart show to WWE SmackDown and WWE Raw

WWE RAW

WWE Raw ) is a sports entertainment television program for WWE that currently airs on the USA Network in the United States...

 and was recorded before the television taping of SmackDown!

History

WWE Velocity was primarily used to summarize major occurrences on the latest episode of SmackDown!, which aired Thursday and later Friday nights on UPN

UPN

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. Due to the WWE Brand Extension

WWE Brand Extension

WWE, formerly the World Wrestling Federation and World Wrestling Entertainment , currently promotes its core business of professional wrestling through two "brands" named after their two major television shows Raw and SmackDown...

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

WWE HEAT

WWE Heat was a professional wrestling television program produced by World Wrestling Entertainment...

 and its relation to the Raw brand

WWE RAW

WWE Raw ) is a sports entertainment television program for WWE that currently airs on the USA Network in the United States...

.

Following WWE Raw

WWE RAW

WWE Raw ) is a sports entertainment television program for WWE that currently airs on the USA Network in the United States...

 moved from Spike TV back to the USA Network

USA Network

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

United States

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 and Canada

Canada

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 and became webcast

Webcast

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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.

The last episode of Velocity aired internationally on June 10, 2006. It was also the last episode to be streamed on WWE.com.

Commentators

Commentator(s)	Year(s) Active
Michael Cole Michael Cole Michael Sean Coulthard , better known by his ring name Michael Cole, is an American professional wrestling commentator, currently signed to WWE on both its Rawand SmackDown brands. Coulthard is a former news journalist....	2002 (alternated)
Tazz Tazz Peter Senerchia is a retired American professional wrestler and current color commentator best known by his ring name Tazz, originally Tazmaniac and later shortened to simply Taz...	2002 (alternated)
Josh Mathews	2002 (alternated)
Marc Loyd	2002 (alternated)
Al Snow Al Snow Allen Ray Sarven is an American professional wrestler and actor better known by his ring name of Al Snow. He is best known for his work in Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment and currently works for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as a road agent.-Early career:Sarven...	2002 (alternated)
Josh Mathews Ernest Miller Ernest Miller Ernest Clifford Miller is an American actor and former professional wrestler who worked for World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment better known by his ring name, Ernest "The Cat" Miller....	2003
Josh Mathews Tazz	July 2003
Josh Mathews Bill DeMott Bill DeMott William Charles "Bill" DeMott II is an American professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment as Hugh Morrus and Bill DeMott respectively and as Crash The Terminator in Extreme Championship Wrestling and Japan...	November 2003 - December 2004
Steve Romero Todd Romero Todd Romero, from Denver, Colorado, is a former employee of World Wrestling Entertainment, who worked as a backstage interviewer and a back-up commentator for the SmackDown brand under the name Steve Romero... Josh Mathews	December 2004 - June 11, 2006

Ring announcers

Ring announcers	Dates
Howard Finkel Howard Finkel Howard Finkel is a professional wrestling ring announcer currently working with WWE in a variety of roles. Hired in 1975 by Vincent J. McMahon's World Wide Wrestling Federation, "The Fink" was the first person brought in to Vincent K...	2002
Lilian Garcia Lilian Garcia Lilian Annette García , is a Spanish-American singer. She is best known as the former ring announcer for WWE's Raw brand. During her time in WWE, she became the first Diva to remain with the promotion for ten years.-Early life and career:...	2003
Justin Roberts Justin Roberts Justin Jason Roberts is an American professional wrestling ring announcer, currently working for WWE appearing on its Raw brand.-Career:...	2004
Tony Chimel Tony Chimel Anthony "Tony" Chimel is an American professional wrestling ring announcer, currently employed by WWE working as the ring announcer for SmackDown brand.-WWE :...	2005– June 11, 2006

General Manager

General Manager	Dates
Paul Heyman Paul Heyman Paul Heyman is an American entertainment producer, best known for his career in professional wrestling as a promoter, manager, commentator and journalist. He is also an occasional actor in film....	May 25, 2002 - October 16, 2003
Theodore Long Theodore Long Theodore R. "Teddy" Long is an American professional wrestling manager and former referee who currently works for WWE on its SmackDown brand as its General Manager.-National Wrestling Alliance / World Championship Wrestling:...	October 23, 2003- July 17, 2004
William Regal General Manager Interim	July 24, 2004-December 31, 2004
Finlay Dave Finlay David John "Fit" Finlay Jr. is a Northern Irish professional wrestler and road agent. He is perhaps best known for his time in World Championship Wrestling and WWE as an active wrestler and later as a road agent...	January 1, 2005– June 11, 2006

Television and internet schedules

• United States
• The New TNN/Spike TV
  Spike TV
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   - Saturday Nights (2002- 2005)
• WWE.Com - Saturdays (2005- 2006)
• United Kingdom
• Sky Sports
  Sky Sports
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  - Sunday Nights (2002- 2004)
• Sky Sports - Sunday Mornings ( 2005- 2006)