UK Raw and Smackdown tapings announced!
 

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RAW & SmackDown! heading to Manchester


WWE is coming to Manchester. Check below for more information:


RAW
Purchase Tickets Online at www.bookingsdirect.com Usual ticket outlets, and the Arena Box Office 0870 190 8000 Tickets Are Available On The Following National Credit Card Hotline Number: 0870 735 5000

MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS ARENA Monday, 11 October 2004 at 7:30pm On-Sale: Saturday - 17 July 2004 - 9:00 AM Tickets Priced £60.00, £45.00, £30.00, £20.00 – (these prices are with out the booking fee included)

agency & credit card bookings subject to booking fee
Maximum 6 per person

FEATURING ALL YOUR FAVORITE RAW SUPERSTARS LED BY GENERAL MANAGER ERIC BISCHOFF:

WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION CHRIS BENOIT
TRIPLE H
RANDY ORTON
LA RESISTANCE
KANE
RIC FLAIR
EDGE
BATISTA
CHRIS JERICHO
WOMEN’S CHAMPION TRISH STRATUS
MATT HARDY
LITA
EUGENE
WILLIAM REGAL
VICTORIA
RHYNO
STACY KEIBLER
AND MANY MORE!


SmackDown!
Purchase Tickets Online at www.bookingsdirect.com Usual Ticket Outlets, Arena Box Office, 0870 190 8000 Tickets Are Available On The Following National Credit Card Hotline Number: 0870 735 5000

MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS ARENA Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at 7:30pm On-Sale: Saturday - 17 July 2004 - 9:00 AM Tickets Priced £60.00, £45.00, £30.00, £20.00 – (these prices are with out the booking fee included)

agency & credit card bookings subject to booking fee
Maximum 6 per person

FEATURING THE SMACKDOWN! SUPERSTARS LED BY GENERAL MANAGER KURT ANGLE:

WWE CHAMPION JOHN “BRADSHAW” LAYFIELD
EDDIE GUERRERO
THE UNDERTAKER
JOHN CENA
THE DUDLEYS
REY MYSTERIO
BOOKER T
RENE DUPREE
CHARLIE HAAS
ROB VAN DAM
PAUL HEYMAN
CHAVO GUERRERO
MISS JACKIE
TORRIE WILSON
SABLE
DAWN MARIE
AND MANY MORE!

I'm suprised some ticketsd are on sale for £20 and £30, I thought they would all be upwards of £40

Wanna meet up in manchester?

Yeah if I get tickets, sounds good. I'm gonna attempt to get tickets for both shows, so either day would be good..:y:

Me too

Even if i only get tickets for 1 shows i'm still giong for both days as I know from past experience that there's always some touts about

£60? Are they serious?

Thats going to be a tough trip. They'll be coming off one PPV in early Oct, then have the trip overseas for the TV tapings and house shows, and then for the RAW guys they have a PPV the Tues after they come back.

At least all the shows will have strong crowds, so they should get a decent payday out of it.

Still, tough run.

:y:

Does it really matter how much they cost??? I'll be getting my tickets for BOTH shows for free!! :)

How's that then?

*listening*

It's because my wrestling teacher knows practically everyone in the business (well anyone major from like 10 years ago and beyond). The guy is respected big time from everyone and he can get tickets easily for free - he's even managed to allow me to wrestle before in a WWE ring whilst the crew are preparing for the event. I've met alot of the Smackdown wrestlers before, but I didn't go to the Raw show in May and I missed out on seeing HHH, Benoit and Stephanie McMahon (surprised to hear that she was there)

Jammy sod.

Well from the looks of it, loads of TPWW will be in Manchester on Tuesday morning. Lets try to work something out

Meet up earlier during the day then

:)

*BUMP*

The go on sale in 10 minutes good luck people

6th row block C for smackdown.

DAVE YOUELL signs in the HIZZOUSE

oh and upper tier for raw :(

I'm gonna be there also, so were soooooooooo gonna meet up. (and mark out) :love:

Got my tickets, floor for both. Not too bothered about being right at ringside coz of the signs....

Going by myself though which is bad, but my mates couldn't afford it...*middle of the month syndrome*

Just got this of a poseter on UKFF.com

Maximum Capacities:

Oct 7 Thu Sheffield, England (RAW) 12000
Oct 7 Thu Belfast, Northern Ireland (SMACKDOWN) 6000 SELLOUT
Oct 8 Fri London, England (RAW) 10500 SELLOUT
Oct 8 Fri Belfast, Northern Ireland (SMACKDOWN) 6000 SELLOUT
Oct 9 Sat Frankfurt, Germany (RAW) Festhalle 13000
Oct 9 Sat Florence, Italy (SMACKDOWN) The Palasport 7800
Oct 10 Sun Turin, Italy (SMACKDOWN) Mazda Palace 9000
Oct 11 Mon Nottingham, England (SMACKDOWN) 10000
Oct 11 Mon Manchester, England (RAW TV Taping) 18330
Oct 12 Tues Manchester, England (SMACKDOWN TV Taping) 18330

Potential maximum attendance for the UK shows = 81,660.

Bear in mind, when Summerslam 1992 came to England, it was a one off show, with no house show tour based around the event, and the previous UK tour having occured 4 months earlier. and Summerslam ended up doing a paid attendance of 78,927.

So for every show on this tour to sellout, including the tv tapings, the maximum number of people attending the 7 shows combined needs to exceed the huge Wembley Stadium crowd figure by nearly 3000.

these numbers are huge!

Anyone know how to find out how many tickets are left? I wasn't really that bothered about goin as I assumed they would all sell out this morning and I would have to go on my own anyway as none of my mates like wrestling but I suppose I could try and find 20 quid for a cheap ticket if there's any left.

Well there's no way in hell I'll be able to get £60 for a good seat, hell I haven't even got £20 to spend really but with a bit of begging :shifty: I might be able to get it

Also I see that because the Smackdown house show date has changed it means that it will be happening at the same time as Raw. A gutter for people who splashed out to go to the Smackdown house show.

There's loads of odd 1 or 2 seats together all over the place. Pick them up before the touts do.

I'm not surpised they haven't sold out that quick. If it was just Raw and Smackdown alone with no house shows it would, but people aint made out of money, when in the US they have to travel out of states between house dates and for this one they are doing 5 shows in the same country within 5 days of each other and another 2 in Ireland. Plus we have alot smaller land space and most fans will only go to 1 event.

I think the WWE tried to bite of more than i could chew with this one, In April when they do this again, they shouldn't do the house shows with it

So I take it that Raw won't be live while in Manchester....unless you guys want to go to a show that starts at 2:00 am.

Does Raw actually start at 7:30? I assumed they were gonna film Heat first and then Raw at 9pm like they usually do in America :?:

I'd imagine Heat will probably be first, maybe some dark matches, hopefully with some British guys. I would imagine Raw will start at 9pm, if it's going to be Live on Sky Sports (and I couldnt imagine Sky missing an oppotunity to) it'd have to be at 9pm to avoid trouble from the ICC

Good, the more the better.

So, so far confirmed for "The Great UK TPWW Raw and Smackdown Meet Up 2004" (i'll work on the name) is:
HardKore UK
King Jericho
Tornado
and imagine Dave Youell will be in aswell....

Few drinks before making our way to the M.E.N sound good...?

Hopefully I should be at either show (if not both) and I'll probably have a bit of a match in the ring way before the fans are allowed into the arena. Would so love to appear in a dark match instead though.

I'm definetly considering it, but you know....uni and everything, especially if I'm just starting then

If you can make it, feel free to come to the meet up...:y:

Yeah i'm totally in, sure Dave and Ian will be as well :love:

Like i was saying Hardkore UK earlier, doesn't it feel weird/awesome to be saying 'I'm going to RAW/Smackdown!'?

Cos like :cool: this is going to be awesome.

[/Marking out] (for now).

I'd really like to, but the problem lies with which Uni I end up at.

If I do well in my exams and get to the course I wanna go on, I start back on the 11th of October, if I do badly then I start in September, so its a tough line, and by the time I know, I wont be able to buy tickets

:(

Can a n00b come?

It won't be live on Sky.

I wonder if they will use any UK workers in any dark matches

Yeah, anyone from the boards is welcome....:y:

Doubtful... it'd be good if they did (considering how I'll get a bit of a chance in the ring beforehand anyway), but it's unlikely. Apparently the WWE aren't even interested in seeing UK wrestlers performing American pro-wrestling anyway but instead wants them to perform British Wrestling moves, so any UK workers that do attend either show probably won't impress!

OK, you can stop telling us that now....

LOL

Actually it's quite likely. They also tape Heat and Velocity so they might need job guys.

Well I suppose the idea can't be ruled out considering they'd probably just want the British guys to just bump their arses off... but the point I wanted to get across is that they'll never impress the WWE road agents enough by copying American moves.

American moves? Never knew they had origins.

I know for a fact that WWE have looked at two British guys with a view of signing them. I dunno if either will get a match though.

Well it's the idea that Americans perform certain moves e.g. dropkicks, which they don't want British wrestlers to use - they wanna see more basic groundwork performed by them instead. However when shows are booked in the UK, the promoters want the workers to use the moves used in the WWE to get a good reaction from the crowd, so wrestlers who do get an opportunity to show their talent can't necessarily use their moveset because it won't impress them as much. The WWE do look at British talent, but from what I've seen and know of at the moment, they don't seem to be that impressed.

Who Rob, Who?

Williams?

:love::love:

:D

Funny enough no.

Stop making me jealous. I'm stuck with crummy Live and Loaded. :'(