Bruce Prichard On SmackDown Almost Being An All-Female Show

Today, SmackDown Live is essentially viewed as WWE’s “B show.” However, upon its inception, SmackDown actually rivaled Monday Night RAW for quite some time. The show has had quite the history, establishing some of WWE’s top stars of all time. This includes The Undertaker, Eddie Guerrero, John Cena, JBL, Batista, and many more.

To think, that it all very nearly didn’t happen. During a recent edition of his podcast, “Something To Wrestle,” former WWE producer Bruce Prichard discussed the first-ever episode of SmackDown.

During the show, Prichard revealed something rather interesting. In the midst of the development of SmackDown, the idea of making it an all-female show was actually considered:

“We definitely discussed it,” said Prichard. “We looked at it, but we just didn’t have the depth to do it on a consistent basis week after week.

“We really didn’t have enough talent to do that, and in addition to that, if you were going to do that maybe not do it on the broadcast show because Vince McMahon was looking at that the more eyeballs maybe if this broadcast show takes off to possibly make Raw an all-women’s show, but we definitely discussed that many times throughout the years.”