Raw may be canceled next week.
 

World Wrestling Entertainment’s live, internationally televised broadcast, WWE Monday Night Raw(USA Network, 9:00 PM ET) to take place at the Pepsi Center in Denver next Monday, May 25 is in jeopardy of being cancelled by the Denver Nuggets. WWE and the Denver Nuggets are currently at an impasse in resolving a scheduling debacle by the team and the Pepsi Center. A sell-out crowd is expected to attend the WWE show at the same time the Denver Nuggets are slated to square off against the Los Angeles Lakers for Game 4 of the NBA Western Conference Finals. WWE has held the May 25 date with the Pepsi Center since Aug. 15, 2008.

“Even though the Denver Nuggets had a strong team this year and were projected to make the playoffs, obviously Nuggets and Pepsi Center owner Stan Kroenke did not have enough faith in his own team to hold the May 25 date for a potential playoff game,” said WWE Chairman Vince McMahon.

Fuck it, I know a place that will be empty for Basketball on a Monday.

IT'S LIVE NBA PLAYOFF ACTION FROM THE IMPACT ZONE!! WITH 4 BASKETS AND A MAGIC JOHNSON RUN-IN!!

WWE should do it from the parking lot. That would be hilarious. They could do skits with wrestlers trying to get into the building, a lot of shots at the NBA, etc.

The opening would be Vince being pissed from earlier in the day and saying "Fuck it, we'll do it outside!"

I was gonna say Raw would have to be rescheduled to be taped over the weekend or something, but the WWE have live events scheduled all weekend, and there's a Lakers/Nuggets game on there Saturday as well. Bit of a mess :lol: They may have to take the smaller venue they were offered.

Or just use one of the house shows as RAW.

Lakers win by forfeit

They'd need it to be in an arena big enough for their set. I guess Salt Lake City on Saturday night would work, that's the only one I can recognize that do regular TV tapings.

Or Boise, Idaho on Friday night.

i was gonna go to this show too dammittt :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

shut up, taker707

Just do em both at the same time

If WWE has the building booked, and tickets have been sold, then sorry NBA fans, but blame the owners for not having faith in the team.

Go Cows!!!

Go banana!

I'm sure it wont be hard to find a new stadium there hast to be a college around there somewhere willing to host it.

thier are only two other arenas able to hold a wwe event the budweiser event center . which is holding a houseshow sunday and the denver collisium botth are not big enough to hold the 10,000 seats already sold and both cant hold the wwe stage .

UPDATE ::


The following was posted on ESPN.com earlier today:

Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers are scheduled to be at the Pepsi Center in Denver next Monday night.

Problem is, so are John Cena and a bunch of wrestlers — and they called it first.

World Wrestling Entertainment said it is booked at the arena for an episode of Monday Night Raw, the same night the Nuggets are slated to host the Lakers in Game 4 of the Western Conference finals.

WWE chairman Vince McMahon told The Associated Press he doesn’t believe there was “any malice, just ineptness,” on the part of Kroenke Sports, which owns the team and the building, but can’t tolerate the company “just simply throwing us out on our ear.”

Without a quick resolution, McMahon plans to send his trucks to Denver.

“That’s what we intend to do,” he said. “We’re going to show up.”

Pepsi Center officials told the ABC television affiliate in Denver that the Nuggets game will be played as scheduled and that they are working with the WWE to reschedule or move its event.

WWE spokesman Robert Zimmerman said the organization secured the Pepsi Center last Aug. 15 and has already sold more than 10,000 tickets for the event. He says the organization expects a sellout, with tickets ranging from $20 to $70.

McMahon blamed Kroenke for not believing his team was good enough to still be playing in mid-May.

“The fans in Denver had a lot more faith in making the playoffs than the owner,” he said in a phone interview from Louisville, where Raw was taking place later Monday night.

Denver is usually done with basketball by now. The Nuggets had lost in the first round five straight years, but as the No. 2 seed in the West are in the conference finals for the first time since 1985.

The Nuggets referred comment to the NBA, which handles scheduling during the playoffs. Kroenke Sports also had no comment.

However, the league is leaving it up to the team and the WWE to figure things out.

“The Nuggets and the WWE understand that the date of Game 4 of the Western Conference finals cannot be changed,” NBA senior vice president Mike Bass said. “We are confident that the Pepsi Center and the WWE will resolve their scheduling conflict.”

Zimmerman said the Pepsi Center confirmed in March with the WWE that the organization wanted to keep the May 25 date, and sent a contract on April 15 — the final night of the regular season — which WWE signed and returned. Tickets went on sale April 11.

The conflict didn’t arise until Sunday, when the Lakers beat the Houston Rockets in Game 7 of the Western Conference semifinals. Had the Rockets won, Denver would have had home-court advantage in the next round, hosting Games 1 and 2 and putting the May 25 game in Houston.

As of Monday afternoon, the schedule on the Pepsi Center’s Web site listed WWE for 6:30 p.m. local time and Western Conference finals Game 4 at 7 p.m. Tickets for the wrestling event could still be purchased online.

McMahon said he couldn’t guess how much he would make from the show, but that canceling wasn’t easy because of how much is involved in moving his equipment, plus filling its obligated time slot on USA Network. Litigation is likely — but he plans to be putting on a card.

“When you do have a date, you plan everything around it,” he said, adding, “we may be holding an event in a parking lot somewhere.”

“When you do have a date, you plan everything around it,” he said, adding, “we may be holding an event in a parking lot somewhere.”

YES!

Raw stinks anyway, so who cares if it isn't on.

that parking lot statement made me think of bam bam bigalow in a parking lot challangeng goldberg, back in the good ole days of wcw.

From PWInsider:

Vince McMahon will be calling into ESPN for an interview to discuss the issue with The Denver Nuggets and The Pepsi Arena for next week's edition of Raw at 11:35 PM Eastern.

Raw in the parking lot would be tremendous.

Has to happen.

It won't though.

pepsicenter website lists it as TBD now

The Parking Lot Raw would have a legendary place in wrestling history. Period.

Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium should be available.

invesco field holds 70,000 wow it could work

Sig'd.

A parking lot Raw would be entertaining!

lol this is amazing.

I just watched the coverage on ESPN and Jonathan Coachman covered it. He interviewed Vince to make it even more ironic.

RRROOOFFLLLLL my ex girlfriend got tickets to that fuckin game, better not get cancelled over some bullshit wrestling

This is a publicity goldmine for the WWE and I fully expect Vince to be a complete and utter asshole to everyone involved with Kroenke Sports which he should be.

And the best part is, the NBA is dealing with so many accusations about game fixing and referee bias that people can't even use the fake sport argument against the WWE. They're both fake!

I already beat you to it

What about for, say... American Idol?

Just bought a ticket to Raw, so it better not be canceled because the the guy owns the nuggets didn't have the confidence to book the arena for his own fucking team!!!
(albeit there is no chance in hell I'll be able to make it to Denver on Monday, it's a cheap ticket, with the option of getting a refund if need be for any reason)

so you bought the ticket for the possibility of it getting refunded

what

FoFiddy - Making a stand for the common man.

What an amazing development this is. This makes Kroekne look like a real piece of shit all around it seems and Vince is exploiting the hell out of it. I will mark out so hard if there is a parking lot RAW.

Don't think for one minute that Vince hasn't got a 'plan B' locked away.

Vince will milk this for all it's worth and in the end come out the victor one way or another.