Mondays Raw tapping in jepordy

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Source: PWInsider.com


The Irish Times is reporting that "The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) has extended the closure of Irish airspace until 1pm tomorrow due to the deterioration in conditions caused by ash from an Icelandic volcano." They will reevaluate the situation again tomorrow.

The Raw roster is currently in Belfast, Northern Ireland for tonight's show in the city. As mentioned earlier WWE plans on booking a chartered plane to get the talent to New Jersey for Monday's Raw. With the volcanic ash getting worse, who knows if they will be able to make it or not.

It would probably be a good idea to tell all of the fans that come to today's show that if they can't get out tomorrow that they should come on back to the building on Monday for a Raw taping (as long as the building is not in use otherwise).

I think there will be a new Raw on Monday, it just might not be live and the guest host probably won't be on.

Guess that having RAW airing from Belfast on Monday, should they can't make it back to New Jersey in time is a good alternative.

I don't know how much of a logistic problem this could be for WWE and their networks but another option I could see exceptionnally for this week could be to simply switch Smackdown and RAW. Air Smackdown on MyNetworkTV with a Monday night show and tape RAW for USA to air as soon as their schedule permits it. As I said, I know that this could cause quite the headache to WWE and network executives but under the circumstances, I think it's something you have to think about.

It looks like they're definitely not going to be back, the flights are still grounded here. Not sure what they'll do about it, but I don't see them filming it from Belfast. I reckon we'll just get some rewind thing or w/e.

They should do some kind of RAW Rewind special this week.

It appears that Raw will be a combo of live and tapped segments. There will probably be a lot of SD stars on Raw and tapped promos.

That'd be a golden opportunity for the usually misused or unused talent on the roster to shine. With all the top guys stucked in the UK, of course, you're gonna give top priority to the Smackdown crew but for guys like Yoshi Tatsu or Primo, even Evan Bourne, guys who rarely wrestle on TV, this is a great opportunity. I would also assume that WWE will also use Smackdown talent like Goldust or Mike Knox, guys that don't work TV a whole lot as of late.

Still, this RAW will have a weird vibe tomorrow night, but it could be real fun.

^Evan is stuck in Belfast with the rest of them..

I just saw on LOP that the people left in the US are expected to fill the show, but there aren't many, so I'm guessing a few SD stars will join in as well.