The Miami Herald has a new article up looking at the business side of WWE's WrestleMania. They noted that to win WrestleMania this year, the committee in Miami-Dade County sent a box of stone-crab claws from the famous Joe's to WWE headquarters and a pledge of up to $2 million in cash, free venue space throughout the county and other donated services.
The Herald also noted that tickets for the charity WrestleMania Premiere party at Star Island on Saturday night run $300 while the cost for a team of three people to join a WWE star in the pro-am WrestleMania golf tournament is $2,500.
A representative from StubHub reported to The Herald that one WWE fan has paid $7,400 for a third row seat to the big event.
March 26, 2012
How Miami Landed WrestleMania XXVIII
This Day in Wrestling History - The Last WCW Nitro
Vince McMahon simulcasts on RAW and Nitro to announce the purchase of WCW. Sting defeated Ric Flair in the last WCW Nitro match.
March 26, 2001
March 25, 2012
Rumor Mill - WrestleMania 29 Main Event
According to a report by Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer, WWE reportedly has interest in announcing next year's Wrestlemania 29 main event in the next few weeks. One belief has the company doing it the night after Wrestlemania 28 in Miami, much like they did the year prior in announcing Rock vs. Cena.
This Day in Wrestling History
The WWF(E) held their first draft on RAW, where they split their roster into two separate brands.
March 25, 2002
March 24, 2012
JR Comments on The Undertaker, Triple H & Shawn Michaels at WM28
"In my professional lifetime, I can't think of three men that I have more respect for than the men who will be locked inside Hell in a Cell at WM28. It is highly unlikely that any of us will ever see the three of them even remotely close to being in this environment ever again."
source: jrsbarbq.com
When it comes to Undertaker, don't bring up this subject around Vince McMahon
On a recent interview with Wade Keller on the PWTorch Livecast, former WWE Creative Team member Andrew Goldstein revealed one subject he learned quickly you are not to bring up around Vince McMahon when it comes to the Undertaker. Here's an excerpt of the interview where he talks about learning one of many of the unwritten rules of Vince McMahon and WWE:
"It's a machine," he explained. "You just have no perception of how much of a well-oiled machine it is and when you step in there it doesn't stop for you. It's a freight train. It keeps going. You come in there on your first day. It's not, 'Alright, welcome. Let's get to know this new guy. Let's get him up to speed.'
"It's a freight train and you're just running along side it and you jump in the side car and you're just along for the ride and you gotta catch up to speed on your own. They're not stopping to catch you up on, well, when you have a meeting with Vince don't bring up Undertaker when he was the American Badass because Vince hates that. Nobody tells you that thing, those picky things that Vince or Stephanie and Michael Hayes [don't like]. There's no guidebook. Reality was 100 percent different than I thought it was going to be.
"It's so funny. I brought it up. I was just like, 'Oh, I love the American Badass gimmick. I loved hearing Undertaker cut actual promos and come down on the motorcycle and come down with contemporary music and be sort of human.' Bruce Prichard shot me a death look that said don't ever bring that up in front of Vince because Vince is so protective of Undertaker's character and mystique. And rightly so, its money. As Triple H has been saying, there's equity in the mysterious mystique of Undertaker."
Wrestling Legend Arn Anderson and The Four Horsemen Get Their Due Honors
It happens to Arn Anderson all the time. He isn’t “The Enforcer” any more, and he’s only known as “Double A” to his pals in the wrestling business. But it still happens. He is still greeted wherever he goes with that familiar sign — four fingers, right in your face. It’s the sign of The Four Horsemen, the wrestling stable of all wrestling stables that paved the way for all the rest. That group — originally including Anderson, “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair, Tully Blanchard and Ole Anderson — was a revolution in the wrestling business...More?
source: trentonian.com
Kevin Nash Reveals What Was Planned for Texting Angle and Why It Was Derailed Mid-Stream
Kevin Nash revealed for the first time the full story on why his match with CM Punk was derailed after Summerslam last year in an interview with pwtorch.com.
What? You mean Triple H didn't hijack the storyline for himself? No haters...keep reading...
"I'll tell you what nobody knows about this entire thing," Nash said. "I never went into it and WWE never went into it because of the privacy issue. What happened was, because of the wellness program, because my dad died of a heart attack at 36 years old, they do beyond a thorough physical. Well, my heart and everything else was fine, but I'm on Plavix and Plavix is a blood platelet agulator; they call it a blood thinner. It's not, it stops your platelets from sticking together so you don't get cardiovascular disease and blockages in your arteries and have a heart attack. it's also for stroke. It's very common to take with a statin drug if you have anybody in your heredity who died before 50 let alone having a father who died of a massive coronary at age 36.
"So I was on Plavix. So this comes through. When the doctor sees I'm on Plavix, I can't wrestle. So now I'm supposed to wrestle CM Punk. I can't. They won't medically clear me. Triple H has to take my spot. It screws up the entire angle. That's how all that came about. WWE would never - because that's the class of the program - let that come out, but I need to make sure people realize it wasn't Creative's [fault], it was that a 52 year old guy was on Plavix and I had to go off it. I had to be off it for a certain amount of time before I could go back to work. It just so happened that I was finishing the Soderbergh film "Magic Mike" at the time, and I had to go shoot that, so it coincided with me going away for a while. I took the shot with the sledgehammer in Buffalo at Night of Champions and that got me away until I could be clear, and then I came back and we went into the match with Paul [Triple H] and I. At that point, Phil [CM Punk] and I sort of missed our opportunity to have that match. That's the true untold story that I give only Wade Keller (laughs)."
He said as a result, the entire storyline was scrambled and rewritten on the fly.
Another Set Back for Evan Bourne
From Evan Bourne's Twitter:
I hate throw out bad news but I must. I was in an accident Monday and mangled my foot. Sorry to delay the comeback, I'm down but not out!
Broken in 4 spots, dislocated in 5! Ouch! I wish I was back in the ring already.
Triple H Mentioned in the WWE Annual Report
CREATING SUPERSTARS
Supporting the expansion of our content, we maintained a heightened focus on the development of new talent. We centralized and expanded our recruiting, training and character development efforts under the leadership of Paul Levesque (also known as “Triple H”). Over the year, we held tryouts in Japan, Mexico, Australia and Europe, where we recruited new talent into our program. Our system brought promising talent to WWE, and formulated new characters, shaping our talent’s style and presence in a manner that significantly elevated their popular appeal. As we have indicated in the past, developing our talent adeptly enables us to introduce new products, take the fullest advantage of our distribution strengths, and exploit emerging markets.
Oderint Dum Metuant: Let Them Hate As Long As They Fear
