WWE SmackDown coming back to Sprint Center

Add another World Wrestling Entertainment event to the Sprint Center’s 2010 schedule. WWE announced yesterday a TV taping of SmackDown and ECW on Tuesday, February 16.

This episode of SmackDown will be the final show leading into the February 21 “Elimination Chamber” pay-per-view in St. Louis.

Scheduled for KC are World Heavyweight Champion The Undertaker and rivals Batista and Rey Mysterio as well as pyromaniac Kane, the smug Chris Jericho and drug-free CM Punk.

Tickets officially go on sale Saturday, January 9, at 10 a.m. but a special Internet only pre-sale started yesterday and ends Friday night at midnight. For tickets, go to Ticketmaster and enter the code KCSDTV.

Tickets start at $15.

Also slated for Kansas City in 2010 is a yet-to-be-named WWE pay-per-view event on July 18.