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posted on 04-20-2002 @ 1:14 PM      
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I just found this info on Wrestlezone. Looks like a major PPV is coming back to our area.

quote:

Last night at the RAW house show from the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, Long Island, New York, Ric Flair came out half way through the show with a major announcement.

Flair announced that WWF Summerslam 2002 would take place from the Nassau Coliseum. Soon after the announcement, William Regal came out to interrupt Flair's speech.

This will be the first ever WWF PPV event held at the Coliseum since it opened. During Flair's in ring segment, he stated that bringing the PPV to the arena was "16 years in the making."

New York City has hosted Summerslams in the past at Madison Square Garden in 1988 (Randy Savage & Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant and Ted DiBiase with Jesse Ventura as special referee headlining), 1991 (Randy Savage's "wedding" to Elizabeth), and 1998 (WWF champion Steve Austin vs. The Undertaker as the main event).



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posted on 04-21-2002 @ 10:42 AM      
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Registered: Feb. 01
quote:

This will be the first ever WWF PPV event held at the Coliseum since it opened.



BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. Wrong. Try again, dumbasses (at Wrestlezone.com). Did they forget it was one of the three locations for Wrestlemania 2? Or was that not a PPV and on closed circuit like the first one, therefore making them right on a technicality? Eh, who gives shit.

BTW, having a PPV at the Colisseum SUCKS. I don't know if there is a worse, more comatose crowd that just sits on it's hands than the Nassau Colisseum crowd. Everytime they have a Raw there, the crowd is dead, and now Long Island is going to bring it's boringness in terms of wrestling fandom to the #2 (or 3, depends on what you think of the Rumble) PPV of the year? AWFUL. Why don't they just go to the Garden? Those crowds are great and hell, it's not like they'll be using it for anything til hockey season starts in October, so they could start setting up the ring now.

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posted on 04-21-2002 @ 11:05 AM      
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quote:

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. Wrong. Try again, dumbasses (at Wrestlezone.com). Did they forget it was one of the three locations for Wrestlemania 2?

Very nice Diamond Dust! I completely forgot about the Coliseum being one of the three for that PPV.

Once again a wrestling web site gets their facts wrong. Yeah, like that's anything new.


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posted on 04-21-2002 @ 11:47 AM      
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quote:

Once again a wrestling web site gets their facts wrong. Yeah, like that's anything new.




Nope they are not wrong. As said above they are technically correct as Wrestlemania 2 was not a Pay Per View. It was on Closed Circuit TV.

I remember actually going to the Nassau Coliseum for Wrestlemania 3 to watch it on the screens. It was pretty cool. I remember the big pop in the building when Steamboat pinned Savage.



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posted on 04-21-2002 @ 11:57 AM      
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quote:

Nope they are not wrong. As said above they are technically correct as Wrestlemania 2 was not a Pay Per View. It was on Closed Circuit TV.

Sorry, but I do have to disagree here.

I remember the original Wrestlemania was on Closed Circuit and I missed that one, but I do recall watching WM2 on TV either at my house or my cousin's so it had to be on PPV.

***EDIT*** Got this directly from Wrestlemania.com

quote:

WrestleMania 2 was the first WrestleMania which was actually held on Pay-Per-View television. The first WrestleMania was shown on closed-circuit TV at thousands of theatres and arenas across the country.



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Francine Banger
posted on 04-21-2002 @ 5:10 PM      
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alright well then they did it both, because WM 2 and 3 were both on closed circuit as well.

This will be the First Pay Per View to be held at the Nassau Coliseum, where the entire event will take place at the Nassau Coliseum.

Ok now things are clear.

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posted on 04-22-2002 @ 12:02 PM      
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well, at least i know i can get tickets, because they never sell out nassau...probably even decent seats!



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posted on 04-22-2002 @ 12:30 PM      
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Registered: Oct. 00
quote:

BTW, having a PPV at the Colisseum SUCKS. I don't know if there is a worse, more comatose crowd that just sits on it's hands than the Nassau Colisseum crowd. Everytime they have a Raw there, the crowd is dead, and now Long Island is going to bring it's boringness in terms of wrestling fandom



Do you really think the crowd is that different at the coliseum? True, its a shitty building, but I'd be willing to bet that 90% of the people that would go to the Garden for it would be able to make the trip to the Coliseum.




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posted on 04-22-2002 @ 12:45 PM      
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well, at least i know i can get tickets, because they never sell out nassau...probably even decent seats!



Good you keep thinking that. That will be 1 less person to compete with trying to get tickets. Because this will sell out the day it goes on sale.

And all televised events at Nassau sell out with the possible exception of the seats behind the Titantron on the side.

And yeah the crowd at the Coliseum is essentialy the same crowd at the Garden, another misguided comment.

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posted on 04-22-2002 @ 6:47 PM      
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Registered: Feb. 01
I know the Colisseum crowd in theory should be the same people, but have you EVER compared an event at the Colisseum to an event at the Garden and compare the crowd noise? I swear, the Nassau Colisseum crowds are TOTALLY dead. I don't know if it's because the Nassau Colisseum isn't properly miked like the Garden or what, but if you compared it, you would really notice the difference. The Colisseum shows come off REAL bad on TV cuz you hear no crowd noise. That doesn't mean it's not there, but you sure as hell don't hear it, on TV anyway.

And, I mean, c'mon, let's face it, how much of the same crowd could it be? How many people blow their wad on both arenas when the WWF comes in for a tour around the Metro area? Especially with all the WWF fans in the area, I'd imagine there are quite a few who only go to one, and the ones who go to the Colisseum might just be a more family oriented crowd being in the suburbs and all, which is gonna be a hell of a lot less rabid. Ever think of that?

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