WWE's Denver Debacle

In WWE news, the show scheduled for next week here in Denver is in jeapordy. The WWE booked the show for Monday May 25 and have had a reservation for the venue (the Pepsi Center) since August 2008. But, on that same night, the Nuggets have been scheduled for their playoff game. The WWE event is sold out, and many other venues have offered to take up the show, including Madison Square Gardin in New York, and the Lakers' own STAPLES Center. It's interesting, because, though he promised the 25th to the WWE, the owner of the Pepsi Center Stan Kroenke (owner of both the Pepsi Center and the Nuggets) seems to be giving the Nuggs precedence, because, well, they're basketball... or something. 

Let's nevermind for a few seconds that I'm a devoted WWE fan and generall detest professional basketball. Got that out of the way? Good. Now, when you have promised something to somebody, particularly when that party paid for that promise, you are expected to see that promise through. Stan obviously didn't have enough faith in the Nuggets to think that they would make it this far in the playoffs, so he sold the Pepsi Center reservation to the WWE. Now that the Nuggets are magically a good team, he wants to renig on his promise. My particular sports preferences aside, screw that. It's bad business.

I was not able to purchase tickets to this event, though WWE Raw on Memorial Day is something of a tradition around here. How ridiculous would it be if all the folks who purchased tickets and have been waiting to see this live are screwed because the owner of the Pepsi Center is a dumbass? Not to mention, it's highly unlikely that the WWE will ever do business wth Stan again, which pretty much precludes the idea of WWE coming back to Colorado (especially considering how pissed off Vince McMahon is right now). Being the devoted WWE fan that I am, I love to see it live whenever possible, and if I am unable to do so again because of this, I will find a way to make my disdain known. 

Stan can kiss my ass as far as this is concerned. That appears to be the consensus amongst the general public as well. Polls through various online and television sports outlets show people are siding with the WWE on this one. Basketball be damned. More to the point, Kroenke be damned.