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Also a staple of the wrestling games of the era was being able to create your own characters, no idea if the newer Smackdown vs. Raw games even do that. I quit watching WWE around the time Stone Cold started to become a rare sight but I still enjoyed the hell out of the games despite not knowing half the fucking wrestlers. My friends and I got probably hundreds of hours of entertainment out of Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth over the years because we spent so much fucking time making people we hated from school in the character creator and beating the shit out of them or having those same characters face off against the Slim Jim guy and Goku among other whacky characters in a Royal Rumble. Shit was hilarious, watching Triple H pick up the fattest black man custom character on Earth and throw him off of a ladder or Stone Cold beating the shit out of Peter Griffin.
The Smackdown vs. RAW and WWE 2K games still allow you to create your own wrestlers, and to download other people's created ones. However, downloading other content is removed once the WWE 2K servers for a game are shutdown, and they shut down the servers every 2 years. As an example, the WWE 2K23 servers will be shutdown next month.
Creating your own wrestlers was also part of why AEW Fight Forever didn't sell as well, because the creator was VERY limited, and most of the other features, aside from the wrestling itself, was lackluster.