On This Day in Pro Wrestling - April 27
On this day in 1999 WWE taped the pilot episode of ‘SmackDown!’ in New Haven, Connecticut.
The pilot was scheduled to be a single episode to air on UPN to test the viability of the show on network television.
When aired, it became the first WWE show on network television in the USA since Saturday Night’s Main Event in November 1992.
The main event featu…