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Vince McMahon & WWE takes on the Denver Nuggets
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Where are they sitting?
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you know that has to hurt cena, i'm sure he's diehard celtic
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Camera side, lakers half
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whoops, I mean TV side, across from nuggets bench
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That's Kroenke? He looks like an idiot....get him Vince!
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ORLANDO - MAY 14: WWE professional wrestler John Cena watches play between
the Boston Celtics and the Orlando Magic in Game Six of the Eastern Conference Semifinals
during the 2009 NBA Playoffs at Amway Arena on May 14, 2009 in Orlando, Florida.
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whose jersey is he wearing?Originally Posted by you big dummy
ORLANDO - MAY 14: WWE professional wrestler John Cena watches play between
the Boston Celtics and the Orlando Magic in Game Six of the Eastern Conference Semifinals
during the 2009 NBA Playoffs at Amway Arena on May 14, 2009 in Orlando, Florida.
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Looks like a custom.Originally Posted by Fundamental21Ticket
whose jersey is he wearing?Originally Posted by you big dummy
ORLANDO - MAY 14: WWE professional wrestler John Cena watches play between
the Boston Celtics and the Orlando Magic in Game Six of the Eastern Conference Semifinals
during the 2009 NBA Playoffs at Amway Arena on May 14, 2009 in Orlando, Florida.
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I just seen Cena in the game thread with a Lakers jersey on
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Horace Grant 54?
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Horace Grant?Originally Posted by therenegade23
Looks like a custom.Originally Posted by Fundamental21Ticket
whose jersey is he wearing?Originally Posted by you big dummy
ORLANDO - MAY 14: WWE professional wrestler John Cena watches play between
the Boston Celtics and the Orlando Magic in Game Six of the Eastern Conference Semifinals
during the 2009 NBA Playoffs at Amway Arena on May 14, 2009 in Orlando, Florida.
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No, John Cena.
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Vince is going HARD...
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Hysterical
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At the Denver @ Lakers game.
Vince McMahon claims he's being thrown out. His opponent insists McMahon is the double-crosser.
It'd make a good story line for a wrestling feud _ but it won't take place in Denver.
World Wrestling Entertainment is moving its Monday night show to Los Angeles because of a conflict with the Pepsi Center in Denver, which had booked two events for the same night.
The Nuggets are scheduled to host the Lakers on Monday in Game 4 of the Western Conference finals, but WWE had previously secured the arena for an episode of Monday Night Raw.
The WWE chairman criticized Kroenke Sports, which owns the Nuggets and Pepsi Center, for not being more helpful when the conflict arose over the weekend.
"They bumped us right out of the building, hardly an apology," McMahon said Wednesday. "They didn't do anything for us at all, and the media was talking about someone has to write a check. They didn't want to write anything and they wanted to give us a Sunday night. And the name of the show is Monday Night Raw."
However, Kroenke Sports claims McMahon had previously agreed to a deal to shift the event to Sunday.
"We negotiated in good faith with Vince and believed we had a deal in principal as of Tuesday," Kroenke Sports executive vice president Paul Andrews said. "In fact, it was so clear to us that we did that we asked Vince to do a joint press release. He said, 'Paul, I have no problem with a joint press release.' Then, he asked us if he could get five tickets to the Denver Nuggets' game on Monday night so he could apologize to Mr. Kroenke in person.
"That was Tuesday. We find out by a press announcement today by Vince, who I believe is the master of propaganda, that he's moving the event to the Staples Center. He didn't even contact us to tell us he hadn't accepted the deal we negotiated the night before, so we're quite shocked, frankly."
WWE executive vice president Shane McMahon, at a press conference at Staples Center, said the Kroenke offer came too late.
"They tried to be amicable but we're really at such a loss of words because we were expecting a capacity crowd. Had sold 11,000 as of last week," he said. "We've been on sale since August so everyone knew we were coming. We built everything around it. That's what we do. We promote and build the event."
Vince McMahon said Staples Center called and offered use of its building and that his organization will return to Denver for an event at the Coliseum on Aug. 7. McMahon said many arenas, including Madison Square Garden, called and offered to host Raw. He chose Staples Center, which also was available Tuesday night for its second night of programming.
McMahon said it was important to have Raw be shown live on its normal Monday night slot on USA Network _ where it will go head-to-head against the Nuggets-Lakers game on ESPN. He previously vowed he would hold the event in a parking lot if need be.
McMahon added the Monday show would include a 5-on-5 match pitting "Lakers" against "Nuggets" and his character would likely confront a character of Stan Kroenke, who owns Kroenke Enterprises, in the ring.
But while he said that's entertainment for the fans, he remains angry at Kroenke and the terms he said were requested in the press release to complete an agreement.
"They would not even talk about making a deal other than paying our expenses basically unless we signed some sort of joint press release," McMahon said. "You would not believe what these people were attempting to make us do. I guess maybe running over us and throwing us out unceremoniously on our ear was not good enough. They want to trample us."
WWE said it secured the Pepsi Center last Aug. 15 and had already sold more than 10,000 tickets for the event. The organization said arena officials confirmed the wrestlers were still coming and sent a signed contract on April 15, the last night of the regular season.
Then the double booking was set Sunday, when the Lakers beat Houston in Game 7 to reach the conference finals. Had the Lakers lost, Denver would have had home-court advantage against the Rockets, making the Pepsi Center available for wrestling on Monday.
The conflict has provided some great press for WWE, but McMahon said his preference was to do his show as planned.
"I didn't want this publicity," he said. "They threw me out and so what are we going to do? We have to garner some degree of publicity."
Kroenke Sports said WWE preferred the publicity to a compromise.
"They haven't returned any of our calls for over a 24-hour period since we had what we believed to be an agreement Tuesday night," Andrews said. "We've reached out to them all day for feedback and then we get an announcement they're going to L.A.
"The sensationalism and media attention were more important than the fans of Denver."
That's the funniest part of the article for me.
We all know damn well Vince would've had some of his goons sitting courtside ready to make a spectacle of themselves.
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i thought Cena was from Massachusetts? going against the celtics wowow
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Yesterday on AOH, Plashke said that the next RAW, the Staples Center is going to be empty because everyone in LA will be watching the game...LOL....
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It is a definite possibility. Im sure it wont be empty, but they have less than a week to sell tickets and the game is on people not gonna wannabe at Raw. But they will prolly get a good turn out of people who like wrestling but dont like basketball. But who are we kidding Cena prolly wanna be at thegame more than he wanna do Raw so yea it could backfire on Vince a little.
But he prolly doesnt care about the hit he will take because he will go after the Denver owners for above and beyond any profits he may have lost by thembacking out of a contract.
O and I think they said on ATH that Yani got bumped from the Staples center for game 5 or something like that. But Yani obviously isnt the WWE so its not gonnabe big news cuz hes not gonna start puttin out Youtube videos dunkin on a Kobe lifesize cutout with a Melo jersey on.
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yehh i think so...but theres still a big wrestling fanbase
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I can't stop laughing at that gif
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That's the same thing I said last week. I figured it would be kinda dead. I expected tix to be cheaper since it was such a short notice and the lakers areplaying too, but they're still regular price
