Happy Birthday to The Undertaker (Mark Calaway)
March 24, 1965
Hulk Hogan defeated Sgt. Slaughter for the WWF(E) Heavyweight title.
March 24, 1991
Goldberg signs with the WWE. Goldberg had been inactive in wrestling after WCW went out of business.
March 24, 2003
March 24, 2010
This Day in Wrestling History
March 23, 2010
WWE NXT Results: A-List, A-Game
The impressive Heath Slater continued his hot streak this week, upping his perfect record to 4-0 after a tag team victory with fellow Rookie Justin Gabriel. Pros Christian and William Regal looked on from ringside during a very physical match between Slater & Gabriel against Rookies Skip Sheffield & Wade Barrett. While Sheffield was more aggressive than usual, he failed to impress his Pro, Regal. When Barrett distracted Slater, the bareknuckle brawler ended up kicking his own partner in the chest, allowing the One-man Rock Band to get the pin. As Christian celebrated with his Rookie and Gabriel, whose record is now 3-1, Regal was disgusted by Sheffield’s loss and new record of 0-3. Full results.
source: wwe.com
Money in the Bank Ladder Match
With his victory over Carlito on the Feb. 22 edition of Raw, new Raw Superstar Christian became the first man to qualify for this year's Money in the Bank Ladder Match.
On the Feb. 26 edition of SmackDown, Dolph Ziggler, Kane and Shelton Benjamin all qualified to join Christian on The Grandest Stage of Them All.
On the Mar. 1 edition of Raw, Jack Swagger and MVP qualified for the bout.
Matt Hardy will return to WrestleMania’s Money in the Bank Ladder Match for the third time, thanks to his qualification on the Mar. 5 edition of SmackDown.
Earning the eighth spot, Evan Bourne defeated William Regal on the Mar. 8 edition of Raw.
On the Mar. 12 edition of SmackDown, McIntyre finally qualified for The Grandest Stage of Them All by defeating a local athlete, who The Chairman himself hand-picked.
Lastly, just six days before WrestleMania XXVI, Kofi Kingston won a hard-fought battle against Vladimir Kozlov to earn the tenth and final spot in the Money in the Bank Ladder Match...More?
source: wwe.com
RAW/iMPACT! March 22th Ratings
Raw last night did hours of 3.04 and 3.44 for a 3.24 cable rating. The show averaged 4.5 million viewers, which is down over one million viewers or 20 percent from last week's rating.
TNA scored a 0.9 cable rating rounded up from an 0.86 with 1.2 million viewers for last night's live Impact show on Spike TV. That is up very slightly from last week's number. It is an increase of about two percent.
"Lucha Libre" Coming to MTV2
Launching in May, "Lucha Libre" will be a featured part of MTV2's daytime "Rock N Jock" Saturdays. Using the same inspiration as Jack Black pic "Nacho Libre," "Lucha" will produce similar crazy acrobatic stunts, with a programming sensibility tailored for the MTV2 audience...More?
source: variety.com
March 22, 2010
WWE's Pay-Per-View Biz Is Up 5% For The Year
World Wrestling Entertainment, which will produce 13 pay-per-view specials this year, including this weekend's WrestleMania, its biggest event, had been hit hard by consumers opting to seek out free entertainment rather than spend $45 for a three-hour show.
But that's reversed over the past three months, with WWE's pay-per-view biz up 5% for the year. It had already enjoyed a significant increase in sales during the fourth quarter, when three shows sold 85,000 more buys than the previous year. A fourth, "Survivor Series," fell off by 84,000, however.
Still that's encouraging news for WWE, which generates 18% of its annual business from PPV sales, and earned $11 million less from PPV sales in 2009 than in '08. WWE usually ranks behind HBO and UFC in PPV buys. What's helped is not only the economy, but a change in its lineup of PPV specials, WWE executives told Daily Variety.
It retooled many of its events and created themes that aimed to help them stand out and appeal to WWE's changing audience, which includes more women (around 36%) and kids (20% are under 18 years old) now that its weekly TV shows are PG. Its PPVS are also offered by more carriers overseas, including five in Mexico, increasing international audiences, who preferred more high-concept events...More?
source: variety.com
John Cena Comments on WWE Wellness Policy: "Move That Didn't Need To Be Made"
"It's nothing but a positive. I'll be quite honest with you, it's a company move that didn't need to be made. This is the entertainment industry, we're not organised athletics. But the WWE made a positive effort to look after its athletes and I'm very, very happy. It was the right move."...More?
source: skysports.com
Oderint Dum Metuant: Let Them Hate As Long As They Fear
