thescottishchamp87 Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 7 minutes ago, Kaz Hayashi said: Which venue in Newcastle is it? What’s the capacity? Its in the Metro Radio Arena Capacity is 11,000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Kaz Hayashi Posted January 31, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted January 31, 2018 Cranks WWE can’t sell the fucker out. Both ICW and NXT ran at the academy about a 10 min walk away, which is 2000, and neither sold out. Edit - see below. Well that’s a head fuck as I’ve been to all of the shows I mentioned above and was positive. Ah well, I stand corrected. Point still stands though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
METAL ON METAL Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 NXT has never been to the Academy, they only did one show at the Arena on the first UK tour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescottishchamp87 Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 2 hours ago, Kaz Hayashi said: Cranks WWE can’t sell the fucker out. Both ICW and NXT ran at the academy about a 10 min walk away, which is 2000, and neither sold out. wwe held Insurrection 2003 at the Metro Arena when it was formally known as the Telewest Arena and had 10,000 there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 That was WWE in 2003 and had Big Sexy on the card, of course that would sell well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Kaz Hayashi Posted January 31, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted January 31, 2018 Not really the same though, is it @thescottishchamp87 04/20/16: Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle, Tyne And Wear, England, UK -- WWE Live WrestleMania Revenge Tour = 8099 11/06/16: Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle, Tyne And Wear, England, UK -- WWE Live = 7,000 Those are wrestling observer newsletter numbers. Oh, and NXT at the arena on Dec 10th 2015 drew 3300. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted January 31, 2018 Awards Moderator Share Posted January 31, 2018 I was at the Arena for SmackDown last April and managed to get tickets a couple of days before. It was fairly full but nothing like the house shows there in 2004 and 2016. We got cheap tickets for the NXT show and got upgraded because they were attempting to make it look at least half full. I cannot imagine a non-WWE show getting even near NXT numbers, let alone WWE proper. Or World Wrestling Allstars for that matter. They didn’t have Geordie Shore to piggy back off but they got Bret Hart on Live & Kicking ... or was it SMTV ... anyway, bring back WWA. What was my point? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 1 hour ago, thescottishchamp87 said: it was formally known as the Telewest Arena And Big Tel informally to his mates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Kaz Hayashi Posted January 31, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted January 31, 2018 56 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said: And Big Tel informally to his mates. One of his mates being the legendary Chas Chandler (Animals bass player and manager of Hendrix). If it wasn’t for him there’s a good chance Big Tel wouldn’t have been born. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescottishchamp87 Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 This is make or break tonight for 5 star wrestling If they can pull it off tonight then brilliant but if not then they will get the backlash from the viewers and people in attendance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dart Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Other than using the larger venues, which isn't necessary, but no big deal if it's within the budget, my main 2 questions are - why live and why 3 hours. 1 hour should be the max per week on TV, but also with it being live each week are they flying in Rey Mysterio and then flying him in again next week as well and the week after that, plus all the others each week. Some may be doing a few other shows and then staying the extra days but even then it's not going to be every week. Surely doing a 3 week tour on consecutive days and recording 6 months worth of TV shows would have made much more sense. I have no issue with the amount of imports being used like others seem to. Who cares. Wrestlers are wrestlers, no matter where they come from. It's the 3 hour thing I question the most though. Even if tonight is brilliant there's no chance I'm watching it for 3 hours every week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members chokeout Posted February 1, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted February 1, 2018 2 minutes ago, The Dart said: Other than using the larger venues, which isn't necessary, but no big deal if it's within the budget, my main 2 questions are - why live and why 3 hours. 1 hour should be the max per week on TV, but also with it being live each week are they flying in Rey Mysterio and then flying him in again next week as well and the week after that, plus all the others each week. Some may be doing a few other shows and then staying the extra days but even then it's not going to be every week. Surely doing a 3 week tour on consecutive days and recording 6 months worth of TV shows would have made much more sense. It's the 3 hour thing I question the most though. Even if tonight is brilliant there's no chance I'm watching it for 3 hours every week. Because that's what WWE do! If they are intent on doing it live then they should do one live 1 hour episode and film the next 2 to save money on production / talents / flights / sandwiches for all the unpaid videographers and designers they have. Or they could have done blocks of studio tapings in Manchester/Birmingham/London/Norwich for a fraction of the cost and had a full series filmed ready to go. Basically you can start a touring company or you can start a tv show. If you try and do both from scratch you're setting yourself up for a fall. However you look at it they are not running it like a business looking to make money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescottishchamp87 Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 A green screen for photo with RVD and Rey Mysterio just seen it on twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members chokeout Posted February 1, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted February 1, 2018 23 minutes ago, thescottishchamp87 said: A green screen for photo with RVD and Rey Mysterio just seen it on twitter <Alan partridge.gif>Â Really don't see the point in adding work and using Green Screen for photos because they never look great (The HBK meet and greet ones the other week had some shockers).But From the look of it its Tony Knox doing the photos so they'll be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BigJag Posted February 1, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted February 1, 2018 This is starting at 1900, correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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