WWE returns to the UK with Raw and Smackdown shows in November,
WWE Raw
Cardiff International Arena FRI 05/11/2010
LG Arena, The NEC Birmingham SAT 06/11/2010
Trent FM Arena Nottingham SUN 07/11/2010
Manchester Evening News Arena MON 08/11/2010
The O2 arena London TUE 09/11/2010
WWE Smackdown
Odyssey Arena, Belfast on Thu 04/11/2010
Liverpool Echo Arena Liverpool SAT 06/11/2010
Braehead Arena Glasgow SUN 07/11/2010
Newcastle Metro Radio Arena MON 08/11/2010
Manchester Evening News Arena TUE 09/11/2010
Tickets onsale from Ticketmaster, Seetickets, Ticketline
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Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 05:01
This is a joke how much they tour, absolute waste of time.
Worse than Paul Weller!
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 08:53
Waste of time for who?
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 08:58
NLB you obviously don’t know what you are talking about.
Twice a year, longest running television program in history, the sport which started and revolutionised pay per view events. A billion dollar revenue stream from these supposed “waste of time Paul Weller like gigs”.
Get your facts right before you spurt utter nonsense.
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 09:03
Longer than Coronation Street?
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 09:14
Cable television program in history but hey
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 09:14
It is not a sport
Boxing and basketball started PPV
Blue Peter has been going at least 40 years!
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 09:20
weekly episodic television series….every monday night for the past 15+ years. They have never failed to produce a show every monday in that time.
ps. sports entertainment
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 09:22
Pay Per View, an invention to rival the wheel.
Coronation Street is a good comparison, except the slaps look slightly more convincing
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 09:31
Not just the slap, but I would bet Norris and Rita could take any of those WWE clowns no probs.
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 09:38
Cable television prog. - blue peter and coronation street aren’t.
re: “its not a sport” nonsense. It isn’t in the sense that the matches are prearranged. Yes totally agree.
But the competitiveness in the industry to perform to a very high standard so as to be GIVEN the opportunities to shine and be booked into the best matches and given wins are just a competitive as any other sport. These guys are incredibly athletic, conditioned and have great endurance all year around unlike most sports where there is a huge off season, these guys are on the road 330 days a year in tip top shape. I can’t think of any other sport which puts such big demands on the body.
And that’s despite the injuries and all that they work through day in day out. Granted there are a few fatties but you’ll notice in todays age of wrestling they are far and between.
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 09:39
Ultimately comparing these athletes to Paul Weller is a near ultimate insult.
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 09:44
I was referring to the fact they tour too much, like Paul Weller!
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 09:50
Use to be quite fun about 10 years ago, taken my little bro to a couple of shows.
One was a “house” show at Liverpool, where it isn’t filmed etc and he was really disappointed. They didn’t have the big stage, didn’t have any screens etc so you couldn’t see anything if the wrestlers went out the ring/when they entered and you couldn’t really see anything. It was also full of nonsense like the honey monster coming out giving prizes out. It was an insult to have paid 50 quid to watch it really and even the lad didn’t enjoy it
Then we went to the TV one at the MEN and even I enjoyed it which I didn’t expect, huge production, really well put on show. Loads of things around the actual filming of it which were funny and they really got the crowd going. even for someone who hasn’t watched it for 10 years it was actually really really good.
Worth going to see the diva’s if nothing else!
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 10:01
I agree Sean. House shows are very poor compared to the live televised events. If you haven’t got a good seat forget it.
NLB point taken re: tour too much.
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 10:04
Dreamer - I can think of ‘other’ sporting activities that work harder than these i.e UFC and MMA fighters as that is actually real. Along with the fact that most of the WWE/WWF wrestlers are on steroids so can’t really be compare to other sports!
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 10:47
You’ll find many WWE fighters go to MMA/UFC anyway (Brock Lesnar, Ken Shamrock & Bobby Lashley for example).
Also John, UFC and MMA fighters do not fight every night, or even once a week. They fight like once every 3 months. Far less hectic schedule. Meaning they can laze about every so many days missing workouts and training days and no-one is the wiser whilst they stay in bed with hangovers eating cakes and biscuits.
If a WWE wrestlers showed up a week later at a televised show with his abs less visible people start talking and say he is getting lazy. I’d rather to MMA/UFC full time than WWE full time, my personal preference.
Anyway they are both admirable athletes and I respect the hell out of them both. Just my opinion. The steroids issue is debatable, its far less prevalent now than it was 10-20 years ago.
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 10:54
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHg2z9ZgdEc
great
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 11:05
Disagree - My opinion!
I know MMA fighters as I go to an MMA gym myself. Some of the guys who do it full time train up to 6 hours a day, most days not just a week before a fight. These guys don’t just train when it suits.
It makes me laugh if anyone mentions ‘fight’ and ‘WWE/WWF’ in the same sentence, they are glorified stuntmen!, it’s all about the ‘hype’ and the ’show’ more than anything else. I’m sure they don’t exert even 1/50th of stress on their body than you do in MMA or Boxing, that’s why they take less fight’s as the body needs to recover properly inbetween.
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 11:50
People who diss wrestling are inevitably always folk who know nothing about it. I don’t consider myself a fan - but have studied and written plenty upon the subject such is the nature of my job.
To refer to performers as glorified stuntmen is a total insult. Think of as an extreme ballet - it takes years of training. Making it look easy is the key.
And to the guy above who believes it puts no stress on the body… I’d ask you to Google a list of pro wrestlers that have died prematurely in recent years - over 50 in the last decade. The stress on the body is insane, and as someone else above mentioned, these performers literally take no time off ever - they tour and perform for over 300 days a year, and so painkiller and soma addiction is a common occurrence.
The wellness policy has been installed since the death of Eddie Guerrero to help curb the drug problem - but the fact of the matter is, when a performer isn’t on the road, not only are they not making money but they’re also losing their place on the “popularity” card, so they have little choice but to carry on performing whilst carrying injuries. There are no unions in this industry and thus It really is a vicious business.
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 12:35
Another fine mass debate on Get To The Front!
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 12:41
All your opinions are futile until SB has spoken.
SB?
SB???
SB?????
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 12:42
Not interested.
I’m too busy building another papier mache chair
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 12:52
Has gone downhill in the past 2-3 years. They never ever sell out in the UK anymore - even the live Raw show.
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 13:30
I am not ‘dissing’ WWF/WWE but was merely pointing out a comparison to other contact sports in that the stress levels are not as much as in other disciplines, I didn’t say it has no stress on your body doing WWE/WWF.
I think the death’s in the sport are another issue TBH as they ineviatably would increase when using steroids or OD’ing on painkillers.
I would like to see Extreme Ballet though that would be a good seller!
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 13:48
to sum it all up…
Televised shows are the ones to go to if you get close seats.
House shows first 10 rows or you’ve wasted your money.
Good entertainment all round!
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 14:07
I totally agree with Rose. And wanted to and still am considering becoming a pro wrestler. I have done martial arts and boxing and think wrestling is as if not more taxing on the body. There are no time outs, resting, recouperating months in wrestling. It’s next night no matter what injuries, go out and perform. None of this 3 months holiday and 3 month prep for next fight. Bearing in mind many of the top performers will be doing this whilst maintaining incredible bodybuilder physiques - thus a strict bodybuilding diet all year around is important. I can’t see many MMA fighters having these credentials.
If you take time off for injuries be prepared to be sidelined potentially for the rest of the your career and be suggested to be injury prone.
I agree it has gone downhill a bit. I think it doesn’t sell out simply because o2 is too big an arena to make it worth while if you have bad seats.
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 14:29
The main reason for the quality of the product diving downhill in recent times is only really apparent to adults… Vince McMahon has rightly identified that the rising popularity of UFC and other MMA promotions are taking away huge portions of his wrestling audience (presumably intrigued by the premise of a genuine contest. The wrestling industry has been openly outspoken about the predetermined nature of the spectacle for many years now)… and thus he has focussed the glare of his empire specifically on pre-teen and family audiences.
John Cena is indeed annoying, stale and obnoxious to most adults (not to mention his limited in-ring ability only serves to highlight the fictional nature of it all)… BUT the kids love him (and I mean LOVE him) and he sells literally millions of dollars worth of merchandise for McMahon every year. The WWE is first and foremost a business - entertaining its audience is only a secondary consideration, sadly.
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 14:51
Are you talking about wrestling or WWE? as professional wrestling is different to the glammed up world of WWE. I agree that professional wrestling (not WWE) is very demanding on the body as is BJJ (Brazillian Ju Jitsu), Kickboxing etc.
Where you are wrong is that “you can’t see MMA fighters having these credentials” as you obviously don’t know if they do or don’t, therefore cannot judge both sides of the argument. Check out the likes of Georges St Pierre, Anderson Silva, Thiago Alves to see what kind of work that goes into MMA and the shape that these guys have to be in.
Good luck in your Wrestling career Dreamer, are you looking to be a wrestler or an ‘entertainment’ wresler?
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 14:51
I agree Rose with your (28) post 100%. A business looking to exploit.
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 14:54
Rose we must hook up and have this chat in a bar one time.
And John I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to be in the “entertainment” division one day. Though as Rose said, appealing to kiddies is no longer as appealing as wrestling was in 1996-2002.
I’d have to train a proper wrestlers first, entertainment wrestler 2nd ;hence my previous martial arts background. Ironically i’m an amateur bodybuilder by nature, and wanted to do something with my physique so looked into wrestling and fighting.
You are right though John, just because these guys don’t have physiques like John Cena etc., doesn’t mean they are not training every day. Some of them are hard as nails yet you can’t tell by looking at them. Take Bob Sapp & Tank Abbott
(ex wrestlers too by the way).
Good debate - better than SB and Swagger fighting me thinks
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 15:07
Cool, just be careful about how you mention ‘appealing to kiddies’ as some people may take it the wrong way, then your career would take a downturn!
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 15:15
Sorry Tank Abbott was a terrible example haha
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 15:15
Even I must say this was a decent thread to read for once!
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 15:41
Agreed SB!
Hug?
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 15:41
Could someone explain to the girl how you can tell the difference between a house or a tv show when they go on sale?
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 16:44
LOL…ok
I’ll offer the papier mache chair as a good will gesture!
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 16:56
Anon:
MONDAY NIGHT Raw.
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 17:05
so does the “monday night” signify its for tv? Sorry I’m confused, my son has just got into wrestling and I thought i’d get him tickets for his birthday but dont want to get these ‘house’ ones by mistake as I wont be buying the top dollar ones. The tour thats about to go on sale is that a good one (in the scale of things that is - dont want to get into the debate above)
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 17:24
The Raw show on Monday and the Smackdown show on Tuesday (both at Manchester) are the best as they are those which you see on Sky. Fireworks storylines etc - good fun. All others are house events which have less glitz and ust wreslting matches (low production values as not filmed). House events are OK but the Smakcodwn and Raw events filmed for TV are a excellent
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 17:39
I love the way they plug their live shows as the “best value” in entertainment. The adverts for the shows probably come up 5/6 times per each television show and it’s all they go on about.
For me to take my little bro and his mate to the live show, and sit in a half good seat, it will cost around about £200 for the 3 tickets!
To take them to the footy (Premiership) it costs me about £36 quid and they get in for a tenner for being under 16. The Cricket costs about 30 quid altogether, and the concerts he’s been to around the 35 quid mark a ticket for even an expensive one.
Really not sure why they peddle that line all the time and it annoys me, because taking them to the wrestling is about the most expensive night out I can imagine. He’s slowly growing out of it which will make my life a bit cheaper at least
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 17:44
Take him to the nearest High Court to watch a trial. It’s free and it’s a great laugh!
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 17:56
or the election debate tonight!
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 19:12
Sean I guess compared to US live sports WWE is good value. Have you seen the prices of basketball/NFL/boxing/UFC tickets?!? WOW.
They make WWE look super cheap!
So in that respect they are great value. Relative to UK stuff, not so good.
Posted on April 15th, 2010 at 19:15
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Posted on April 16th, 2010 at 18:51
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