RAW and SmackDown! tapings in jeopardy?
 

From F4Wonline.com:

The Raw crew is set to finish its tour tonight in Belfast and then fly back to New York for Raw at the Izod Center. Whether, due to most airports in Europe being grounded, that will be possible has become a big question. The Miz just twittered saying it isn't looking good. Belfast was considered the best place to get out of, based on wind activity in Northern Europe.

The plan was for the crew to charter a flight from Belfast after today's show, but the airports in Northern Ireland have been shut down.

The Smackdown crew is in even worse shape. They have been on a bus trying to get to a place in Europe to fly back home. Chris Jericho twittered that it has been 36 hours since any of them have seen a bed and with no end in sight, joking that these past few days have taken years off his career, and he's looking at doing his retirement match on Monday night against MacGruber. He said the bus was about to break down. They were en route to Spain, but the airport they were looking at taking off from is apparently closed.

No specific decison has been made regarding the taping of Monday and Tuesday's show (scheduled for the Mohegan Sun Casino) at this point.

Edit:
From PWInsider:

The Miz responded to a fan question asking whether he'd get back to the United States in time for Raw at the IZOD Center in New Jersey via his twitter account, commenting, "Not lookin good. Of everything to stop us a volcano really? time will tell.." Miz later responded that he thought he would be stranded in Europe.

The Associated Press featured an article on the volcanic activity in the area has caused problems for the entertainment industry with a WWE spokesperson commenting that they were planning to charter a plane back to the States if possible, as opposed to flying commercial, as they usually do while traveling. Dave Scherer reported that earlier today.

lol Jericho

Now I guess, if they can't make it back for RAW, they'll either have to move the tapings to somewhere in Europe or do some kind of a recap show.

If it's the latter, TNA had better thank the Volcanic Gods and put on a hell of a show.

From PWInsider:


The Miz responded to a fan question asking whether he'd get back to the United States in time for Raw at the IZOD Center in New Jersey via his twitter account, commenting, "Not lookin good. Of everything to stop us a volcano really? time will tell.." Miz later responded that he thought he would be stranded in Europe.

The Associated Press featured an article on the volcanic activity in the area has caused problems for the entertainment industry with a WWE spokesperson commenting that they were planning to charter a plane back to the States if possible, as opposed to flying commercial, as they usually do while traveling. Dave Scherer reported that earlier today.

Iceland is the sitcom buffoon of Europe

Raw will definately be on cos the roster is in Ireland and we have flights to America. All smackdown have to do is drive and ferry to Ireland so i dont see why they wont make it

<font color=goldenrod>I think it'd be interesting if they somehow COULDN'T get a flight back to the States in time for Raw or SD. I wonder if they'd hastily book a couple European arenas to shoot the shows, since it's the final week before a PPV.</font>

Vince better be looking for an open arena now...

:'( i usually shed a tear for retards

Lol, this'll be interesting.

Anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation.

Good old Iceland

This can be the workings of only one man.

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now it makes sense

Dude, I have never seen NOR heard of the "Yetay" as Schiavone called it... Who the F*** is that and he gave it to Hogan from behind... I laughed my ass off... And when was that?? Towards the end of WCW? That looked like a sad Russo stunt...

No, that's back in the good old days of WCW.

Dammit... Funny though... Wonder if Jericho cried like he did in his dungeon days...

Yeah I got that... Who was the Yeti? :y:

Nevermind, he was nobody... Ron Reis.. Never heard of him...

i guess raw will do belfast becouse flights will be canceled for a week.

In related news, thousands of WWE fans rage about volcanoes, as they have with Congress, the WWF, and toothpaste.

What does it say about WWE fans when I have to ask if the toothpaste is sarcastic or not?

John Cena will fight a volcano on Raw.

Well, they can always take the long way home. By long I mean flying across Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, and across the U.S.

Stupid? Yes, but it's an idea. We'll find out during the weekend to see how this is gonna play out. I'm here in CT and they haven't announced anything about the MoSu show.

And win :lol:

Do you have tickets for the show, ClockShot?

Negative. I do have to run up there tuesday (my only day off). I may do an impulse buy if there's any left.

Fixed.

Do they have Bingo in Europe?

It's probably called something else. Like Mongo.

Update from PWInsider:

Ben Kerin sent word that the latest on the UK flying situation is that there won't be any restrictions lifted under Sunday at 1 PM locally.

With the majority of the Raw crew (and the Smackdown crew, for that matter) in Europe while creative, the announcers and the production crew are stateside, it appears this is going to get very much down to the wire.

Well, at least Big Dick Johnson can entertain us.

<font color=goldenrod>This would be awesome. Raw would essentially look like a house show...and since it'd be taped during local time they could always add commentary later.</font>

From PWInsider:

Mickie James tweeted that the Smackdown crew has arrived at the airport in Madrid, Spain, after a 20 hour ride. I checked online using Flights Status & Ticket Agencies sites and planes are flying out of Madrid to JFK. Also planes from Madrid are able to go to Portugal and then to Newark & LGA. Also from Portugal to Chicago then to NYC.

To add to the above, WWE is obviously aware of the situation that they are dealing with right now with the Raw talent. They have told the building in East Rutherford, NJ that they are still planning to have Raw there on Monday. It's very possible that Smackdown talents will be in the building to perform at the show if the Raw workers can't get there. I was also told that if the Raw workers can't get out of Northern Ireland that we should expect video, or maybe even satellite appearances, with the wrestlers to be interspersed into Monday's go home show.

I was actually riffing on WWE always talking down about the ECW arena.

And I was riffing on Europeans having different words for things.

Like French Fries ("Chips").

Bingo is called saucerbie squares and is played only as a blood sport in the UK.