NBA's Denver Nuggets defeat WWE Raw
A major scheduling issue came up recently which saw a conflict between the NBA's Denver Nuggets and televised WWE Raw for next Monday evening. The Nuggets were scheduled to host the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 4 of their Western Conference Finals matchup. Meanwhile, WWE had scheduled a live Raw event to take place the same night also in the Pepsi Center arena. According to the latest reports, the battle was won easily, by the Denver Nuggets. The game will go on as scheduled in the arena Monday night, but as of right now, Raw doesn't have a place to go, and fans are holding tickets expecting a Raw show Monday night.
According to the Denver Post's article, the WWE had reserved the Pepsi Center back on August 15th, 2008, and had sold more than 10,000 tickets for Monday Night Raw at the arena. Ticket prices range from $20 to $70 and the arena would be a sellout crowd according to WWE spokesman Robert Zimmerman.
According to the LA Times blog:
Prior to that Vince McMahon was livid with Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke, making the following statement to ESPN, as reported by Denver Post:
It'll be interesting to see how this is handled and we now know we won't see a shot of the Nuggets players clowning around in the front row at Raw, but maybe Vince McMahon will invite the Harlem Globetrotters instead to send another message. Now Jim Ross' comment on Monday Night Raw is much more clear "I'd like to see Carmelo Anthony do that" in reference to a wrestling move during one of the matches, a jab right at the competing brand of entertainment, the NBA. There's been recent articles comparing the two respective companies, with NBA being likened to the WWE due to recent events that have gone down. The WWE has lost this battle, as Kobe Bryant of the Lakers and Carmelo Anthony of the Nuggets will grapple on the arena floor rather than Ric Flair, Batista and Randy Orton, who will be in search of an arena to put on their show. According to the WWE, they may forgo using an arena, and just use the parking lot, which would be an interesting format, and maybe a good buildup to the Extreme Rules PPV, with a show full of parking lot brawls.
Read more about this story at the Denver Post article here.
According to the Denver Post's article, the WWE had reserved the Pepsi Center back on August 15th, 2008, and had sold more than 10,000 tickets for Monday Night Raw at the arena. Ticket prices range from $20 to $70 and the arena would be a sellout crowd according to WWE spokesman Robert Zimmerman.
According to the LA Times blog:
"I'm up the creek and I don't have a paddle, either," Vince McMahon, WWE chairman, told the Denver Post. I really don't know what to do.... I have no idea what's going to happen."
Prior to that Vince McMahon was livid with Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke, making the following statement to ESPN, as reported by Denver Post:
"Quite frankly, it's my view that Stan Kroenke should be arrested, should be arrested for impersonating a good businessman, because he's not a good businessman," McMahon said on ESPN. "A good businessman doesn't book a World Wrestling Federation live televised event on Monday night realizing that his team in all likelihood would not make the playoffs."
It'll be interesting to see how this is handled and we now know we won't see a shot of the Nuggets players clowning around in the front row at Raw, but maybe Vince McMahon will invite the Harlem Globetrotters instead to send another message. Now Jim Ross' comment on Monday Night Raw is much more clear "I'd like to see Carmelo Anthony do that" in reference to a wrestling move during one of the matches, a jab right at the competing brand of entertainment, the NBA. There's been recent articles comparing the two respective companies, with NBA being likened to the WWE due to recent events that have gone down. The WWE has lost this battle, as Kobe Bryant of the Lakers and Carmelo Anthony of the Nuggets will grapple on the arena floor rather than Ric Flair, Batista and Randy Orton, who will be in search of an arena to put on their show. According to the WWE, they may forgo using an arena, and just use the parking lot, which would be an interesting format, and maybe a good buildup to the Extreme Rules PPV, with a show full of parking lot brawls.
Read more about this story at the Denver Post article here.
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1 Comments:
Well, you can say the Nuggets won this particular battle, but Kroenke looks like a fool for double booking the venue like that when WWE has held it since August. Of course, there's also going to be the massive lawsuit for breach of contract, so I think when it's all said and done, WWE's going to win the war.
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