SmackDown to get name change in September, Diva Trades and Hogan

Reported by Adam Martin of WrestleView.com
On Tuesday, August 23, 2005 at 6:05 PM EST

WWE SmackDown will be undergoing a name change to "Friday Night SmackDown!" starting on September 9th when the show officially moves to Friday night's on UPN. TVweek.com also picked up a story on this and it can be read here.

There was said to be little to no advance plans regarding the "WWE Diva Trades" this week involving Torrie Wilson & Candice Michelle coming to RAW and Stacy Keibler & Christy Hemme going to SmackDown.

Credit: Dave Meltzer @ WrestlingObserver.com


Chris Day sent this in: Something I forgot to send in is that Hulk Hogan was mentioned on a late night edition of ESPNews on Sunday night. He was compared with NASCAR driver Tony Stewart and how both men had big events on Sunday. Stewart with a race and Hogan with his match at SummerSlam with HBK.