Vince McMahon

So it's been awhile since I have posted. My bad. I have been really busy with finals, summer hangovers, and a new job. But I'm back now and what a better way to kick off my first summer post with a "sport" blog about the WWE?

Here's the problem: The Pepsi Center originally booked a World Wrestling Entertainment "Monday Night Raw" event for Memorial Day, but with the Nuggets in the Western Conference finals, the Denver arena had to bump the wrestlers. The Nuggets and Lakers will play Game 4 of their series that night.

"I’m up the creek and I don’t have a paddle, either. I really don’t know what to do, " Vince McMahon said (chairman of WWE Entertainment). "We can’t reschedule the event. We can’t get out there as often as we would like for a television event, because we’re the second-largest traveling show in the world to Ringling Brothers. The amount of equipment we have is extraordinary." Wait. Hold on. Did he just say the Ringling Brothers?!? I honestly still didn't think they were around. I knew there were popular in the the 1920's when Charlie Chapman was headlining their shows but 2009?? Weird.

Here's McMahon's take on the whole situation.



A good business man can pronounce the name of the client his is doing business with...

A good business man settles disputes in a professional manner and doesn’t call out his business partner on live television while maucking his team...

A good business man doesn’t allow his employees to die on the job because he didn’t regulate what his employees were injecting into their bodies....

Kroenke screwed up. His fault but honestly, when you have a sold out show asking to play in your arena even though there is a chance that your basketball team might play on the same night - you take that risk! If the Lakers didn’t win or if they just didn’t take 7 games to beat the Rockets than Kroenke is looking at two back to back, sold out, national televised events at the Pepsi Center. Cha Ching! And hey, even though Kroenke messed up, McMahon said himself there will be two events that night so I guess Kroenke wins again. Plus, Kroenke owns the building and in Colorado anyone can dismiss anyone from a venue at any time (see tool, redrocks and Metallica, Fiddelers).

A good business man knows when to take calculated risks even though there is a chance of failure.....