"smackdown"

[Sam Clements]

How about 24 Oct, 1947.  Newark(OH) Advocate.  page blurry/1

[headline:  Welcome Smackdown]
If the Taft-hartley Act never accomplishes another thing, it can rest on its
laurels, confident that it has led to the rap heard 'round the picket lines,
and proud of its achievement. <snip>
(It goes on to talk about John L. Lewis. )

SC



From: "Jesse Sheidlower" <jester at PANIX.COM>


> Does anyone have an example of _smackdown_ before the 1999
> debut of _WWF Smackdown!_? I'm looking for it specifically
> in the sense 'a beating; defeat; confrontation',