- Top 10 chart for the best selling recreational sports DVD's for 2/21: 1 WWE: Starrcade: The Essential Collection; 2 UFC: 88: Breakthrough;
3 WWE: Armageddon 2008; 4 WWE: Edge: A Decade Of Decadence; 5 WWE: WrestleMania XXIV; 6 WWE: Hell In A Cell; 7 UFC: Ultimate Knockouts 6;
8 WWE: Legends Of Wrestling Collection; 9 The Rock: The Most Electrifying Man In Sports Entertainment; and 10 WWE: The Legacy Of Stone Cold Steve Austin.
- WWE today announced the regular quarterly dividend of $0.36 per share on
its Class A shares of common stock. Members of the McMahon family have
waived $0.12 per share of the dividends. As a result, all Class A and Class
B shares owned by the McMahon family will instead receive dividends in the
amount of $0.24 per share. The record date for the dividend will be March
13, 2009, and the payment date will be March 25, 2009.
- TNA Impact on 2/12 scored a 1.22 cable rating, with an average audience of 1.7 million viewers.
- 2/12 Impact TV results from Orlando, FL: Team 3D over Sting and Kurt Angle; Scott Steiner over Petey Williams in a Headdress on a Pole match; Sounourner Bolt a gauntlet for a Knockouts title shot; Lethal Consequences over The Motor City Machine Guns; and Beer Money Inc. over Abyss & Rhino.
- On this day in wrestling history:
* 1959 - Dory Dixon defeated Al Kashey for the EMLL NWA Light Heavyweight title
* 1962 - Bob Geigel & Stan Kowalski defeated Larry Hennig & Duke Hoffman for the AWA Tag titles
* 1971 - Stan Sierra was born
* 1989 - Clash of the Champions V from Cleveland drew a 4.6 rating on TBS.
* 1994 - Tony Anthony defeated Brian Lee for the Smokey Mountain title
* 1997 - Rocky Maivia defeated Hunter Hearst Helmsley for the WWF Intercontinental title
* 1997 - Shawn Michaels surrendered the WWF title due to knee injury
* 1999 - Quicksilver defeated The Sensational One for the Combat Zone World Light-Heavyweight Title
* 2000 - Big Vito & Johnny the Bull defeated Don & Ron Harris for the WCW Tag titles
