WWF cancels house show, TSN screws up Raw
    Submitted by William Martinez on Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at 12:28 AM EST

    Jason Plotkin sent in the following:

    Due to the lack of opening day ticket sales, the World Wrestling Federation has cancelled their event scheduled for April 15 at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. The plan for refunding tickets will be announced Wednesday (March 27).

    The reasoning for the bad ticket sales seems to be the fact there is a RAW the same night in College Station and a Smackdown the following night in Houston. Huntsville is about an hour away from both cities. This would have been the WWF's first trip to Huntsville.



    Vikram Sangar of www.lordsofpain.co.uk sent in the following:

    Just watching RAW on TSN- and they've completely f****d everything up!! The showed picks 5-8 before 3 and 4 had even been announced!! I was fortunate enough to see the first hour on America's TNN but had to watch the rest on Canadian TSN- so I tuned in to watch it from the beginning.

    TSN however on their delayed coverage first of all beeped out The Rock calling Vince an "Asshole" although they allowed the crowd chants.

    Instead of showing the segments where the nWo confronted Flair, Vince picking Hogan and Flair picking Kane as their 3rd picks- they showed the segments where Vince charged into Flair's room and confronted him over his first 5 picks! Hell we didn't know that Hogan and Rock had already fought and the likes of RVD and Billy and Chuck had been picked. We then watched Jeff Hardy Vs Billy where JR announced Angle would fight RVD later!! What the hell was going on?

    However- after the next ad break, they continued as if it had aired in the correct order and showed draft picks 4 and 5 and Vince made the RVD and Angle match!

    In another strange turn of events- the misplaced segment began to air in its correct position later in the show- however it was soon fast forwarded on TV and they cut to an ad break! It then continued as normal afterwards!



    Samir Nurmohamed sent in the following:

    I am watching the delayed version of RAW right now in Canada, and I must say TSN has completely messed up the draft. For whatever reason, they got the segments mixed up, so in Canada we saw the Flair/McMahon & Gunn/Hardy match before we saw RVD, Kane drafted, and the nWo match. The Flair/McMahon & Gunn/Hardy match repeated after the nWo match again, so it's become a bit weird, as we saw guys like RVD drafted without even seeing the segment.



    Chris Fothergill-Brown sent in the following:

    TSN did NOT have any problems here on the East Coast live feed. My guess is the person who was watching the edition of RAW where the picks aired in the wrong order was watching either a late feed, or the replay.

    Note - it appears the only mistakes were shown to the Ontario market.

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