Headlines for Tuesday, February 3, 2009


- Raw on 2/2 scored a 3.59 cable rating, with an average audience of 5.3 million viewers.


- 2/2 Smackdown house show results from Tupelo, MO: Kizarny over Eric Escobar, Carlito & Primo defeated The Brian Kendrick & Ezekial Jackson, Eve Torres over Natalya, Umaga over Jimmy Wang Yang, Vladimir Kozlov over Chavo Guerrero, Shelton Benjamin over MVP, and Edge over The Great Khali.


- As previously reported AC/DC were contacted by WWE to perform at Wrestlemania 25. It was confirmed today that the band won't be performing due to to a clash of dates with their European tour. The official theme songs for Mania will be AC/DC's "Shoot to Thrill" and "War Machine". Apparently Vince is huge fan after getting his first exposure to the band back in 2000 when they were performing on Saturday Night Live.


- Academy Award nominee Mickey Rourke was presented this year's American Riviera Award at the 24th Santa Barbara International Film Festival this past Saturday with director Francis Ford Coppola presenting the award.


- On this day in wrestling history:

*1959 - Meng aka Haku was born
*1960 - Kerry Von Erich was born
*1962 - Marty Jannetty was born
*1990 - Rex King & Steve Doll defeated Robert Fuller & Brian Lee for the USWA Tag Team title
*1996 - The Eliminators defeated Mikey Whipwreck & Cactus Jack for the ECW Tag Team title
*2000 - Vince McMahon announced the XFL (eXtreme Football League)
*2001 - XFL debuts with 10.3 rating on NBC
*2001 - K-Quik defeated Raven for the WWF Hardcore title
*2001 - Crash Holly defeated K-Quik for the WWF Hardcore title
*2001 - Raven defeated Crash Holly for the WWF Hardcore title (all same show)




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