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WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2006

2005 professional wrestling video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ577532 ↗
Source-derived summary

WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2006 (also known as Exciting Pro Wrestling 7 in Japan) is a professional wrestling video game developed by Yuke's and published by THQ that was released on the PlayStation 2 in Europe on November 11, 2005, North America on November 14, 2005, and Japan on February 2, 2006, and the PlayStation Portable in the United States on December 13, 2005, Europe on December 16, 2005, and Japan on October 12, 2006. It is part of the WWE SmackDown vs. Raw video game series based on the professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), and is the successor to the 2004 game of the same name. SmackDown! vs. Raw 2006 was also the first game in the series to be released on PlayStation Portable and the last game in the SmackDown!/SmackDown! vs. Raw series that was PlayStation exclusive.

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“WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2006” enters the record as 2005 professional wrestling video game. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what SmackDown, professional and wrestling can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2005, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005-11-11. Its strongest next move is a source search built around SmackDown, professional and wrestling.
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“WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2006” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, SmackDown, professional and wrestling provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q577532. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2005 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2006” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.