"Superstars from both Monday Night Raw and SmackDown LIVE will compete at Barclays Center, while the event at Manhattan Center, the site of the first Raw episode, will feature both WWE Superstars competing, as well as special appearances by WWE Legends such as Undertaker, Shawn Michaels, and Kevin Nash, among others." Barclays Center is an indoor arena in Brooklyn, New York, that has been the home court for the NBA's Brooklyn Nets since its opening in 2012. It is the largest arena in New York City and one of the largest in the United States. The facility can seat up to 19,099 people for basketball games. The original idea for Monday Night Raw came when WWF President Jack Tunney proposed the concept to his boss, Vince McMahon. In April 1994, just over a year after it started broadcasting in the United States, Raw premiered on NBC with Steve Austin defeating Bob Backlund for the WWF Championship in what would become one of the most famous matches in wrestling history. The show was so successful that it has never looked back, even after NBC dropped the program in December 1995. In January 1996, WWF Chairman Vince McMahon announced that because of the show's success, he had ordered another season of Raw.