- Click here for this day in Wrestling History, February 23rd.
- 2/22 Raw/ECW house show from Asheville, NC: Melina & Mickie James over Beth Phoenix & Jillian Hall; Tommy Dreamer over Paul Burchill; Ted Dibiase Jr. & Cody Rhodes over Cryme Tyme; C.M. Punk over Kane; Jack Swagger over Christian; Chris Jericho over Kofi Kingston; and John Cena over Randy Orton.
- 2/22 Smackdown house show results from Santiago, Chile: Jeff Hardy & Triple H over Big Show & Edge; Vladimir Kozlov over Kung Fu Naki; Michelle McCool over Nikki Bella; Primo & Carlito over The Brian Kendrick & Ezekiel; The Great Khali over Eric Escobar; Shelton Benjamin over MVP; and The Undertaker over Umaga.
- Yesterday's Calgary Sun had a double page feature on Martha Hart talking about how she has moved on with her life almost 10 years after the death of Owen. She settled out of court for $18 million in her wrongful death lawsuit against the WWE in 2000. She opened the Owen Hart Foundation with $2 million of the settlement and has so far given away $800,000 for kids who have special needs. She has spent the last few years living in England doing a PhD in Social and Developmental Psychology at Cambridge University. She said she hasn't remarried since Owen's death and if he were alive today she believes he wouldn't be wrestling. She talked about him having a love for crafts and speculated that he would have his own small workshop. On her children; Oje and Athena, Oje is considering going to the University of Boston to study Law or Journalism, while Athena is also attending school and has a passion for horseback riding. Martha said she would continue her charity work as Owen's legacy.
- NWA Mid-Atlantic drew over 1,700 fans yesterday in Cheraw, SC, helped in large part to a Ric Flair appearance. Flair managed his son David and Ricky Morton over Buff Bagwell and Rickey Nelson. Morton was brought in as a sub for the injured Reid Flair.
- Congrats to Indy wrestlers and newlyweds Allison Danger and Ares who welcomed Kendall Grace into the world over the weekend. The baby girl weighed in at 9 lbs 3 oz. and was 21 inches long. Mother and baby are doing fine.
- Mickey Rourke's storybook ending for his Hollywood comeback wasn't meant
to be as he lost out to Sean Penn yesterday at the Academy Awards. Rourke
won most of the other awards leading up to the Oscars including one on
Saturday night however his "hunch" of not getting the golden statue proved
to be correct. "I don't know. It's voted for by people from the movie
business and in the past I've hacked them all off. I was good at that. It
came easy to me," Rourke said last week in an interview regarding his
chances of winning the Oscar. His co-star Marisa Tomei also failed to win in
the best actress in a supporting role category. A recent poll showed that a
majority of the people wanted Rourke to get the win.
- "The Wrestler" earned another $1.8 million over the weekend bringing its total gross to $21.5 million.
- On this day in wrestling history:
* 1939 - Lou Thesz defeated Everett Marshall for the NWA Heavyweight
title
* 1964 - Crusher & Dick the Bruiser defeated Verne Gagne & Moose Evans
for the AWA tag titles
* 1986 - Dick Slater defeated Jake Roberts for the Mid-South North
American title
* 1997 - Hollywood Hogan defeated Roddy Piper to retain the WCW title at
SuperBrawl VII
* 1999 - The Renegade, Richard Wilson died of a suicide shooting at 33
* 2003 - Matt Hardy defeated Billy Kidman for the WWE Cruiserweight
title
