The final Raw before Insurrextion in the UK

[Guest NoSelfWorth]

Borrowing a page from some of the most disorganized promotions in history, the WWE's final television show aired earlier today, the day before the Insurrextion PPV in Newcastle, England.

 

On the TV, they didn't announce one match for the show. While the live event has been sold out for weeks, to take the audience that much for granted with a PPV is almost mind-boggling in this day and age.

 

It is believed the main event will be Scott Steiner & Kevin Nash vs. HHH & Chris Jericho. There may be a belief that with Steiner & Nash on top, it is better off for business to not announce the line-up.

 

Credit - WrestlingObserver.com

 

Unless they provide a kickass show and/or Goldberg in some form, a lot of people are going to be pissed.

[Guest bravesfan]

How is this different from other UK PPV's?

 

The WWE has never, to my knowledge, announced matches ahead of time going into a UK PPV.

 

Global Warning (Australia) headlined by Rock/Brock/HHH

Rebellion 2002: Brock v. Edge

Insurrextion 2002: HHH v. Taker

Rebellion 2001: Austin v. Rock

Insurrextion 2001: ???

 

Did we ever hear any of these matches announced on their TV shows pre-PPV?

[Guest wwF1587]

yeah im pretty sure bravesfan is right.. i think they use to announce during a match or something they were heading to blah bah blah for Insurrection or whatever... maybe they did and i missed it...

[Guest Dangerous A]

More signs WWE has lost it. And not their minds, their ability to properly promote a wrestling show.

 

They have lost all assemblence of how to run a wrestling promotion.

 

They have fucked up 2 fundamentals of wrestling.

 

1) booking to maximize box office, not appease locker room egos. (they have been fucking this up since 2001)

 

2) send fans home happy. How happy are those English fans going to be going home with Steiner and Nash in the main event?

[Guest JMA]

I hate how World Wrestling Entertainment caters to North American fans so much. Have they forgotten that "World" is part of their name? It doesn't help when they have nationalistic idiots like Steiner and Layfield on the roster either.

[Guest subliminal_animal]

Yeah, they need to be fired because they are patriotic on TV. No one from other countries can be expected to handle that.

[Guest JMA]

Yeah, they need to be fired because they are patriotic on TV. No one from other countries can be expected to handle that.

Patriotism is fine. It's the nationalism I have a problem with.

[Guest bob_barron]

Why are you calling Steiner a nationalistic idiot? For all we know WWE told him to say that stuff

[Guest JMA]

Why are you calling Steiner a nationalistic idiot? For all we know WWE told him to say that stuff

That is possible. I wouldn't put it past them.

[King Cucaracha 0]

How is this different from other UK PPV's?

 

The WWE has never, to my knowledge, announced matches ahead of time going into a UK PPV.

 

Global Warning (Australia) headlined by Rock/Brock/HHH

Rebellion 2002: Brock v. Edge

Insurrextion 2002: HHH v. Taker

Rebellion 2001: Austin v. Rock

Insurrextion 2001: ???

 

Did we ever hear any of these matches announced on their TV shows pre-PPV?

They actually announced all of the matches for the Insurextion 2001 PPV. And then, on the night of the show they changed EVERY match apart from the main event, which was Taker vs Austin and HHH.

 

So to say Vince doesn't really give a damn about these PPV's is an understatement. But usually, they are announced somewhere. Just not on U.S.A shows, so they don't confuse all the American fans into thinking there's (another) PPV they forgot about.

[Guest OnlyMe]

It's not like it's a huge effort to get Jim Ross or Michael Cole into a studio for 10 minutes to announce some matches, and putting that on Raw / SD- they manage it whenever they want you to buy an English PPV, or regular PPV on Sky Box Office.

[Guest Damn You Helmsley]

Surely on the WWE update on Smackdown they could have just had Josh Matthews annouce a few matches.