- Impact on 2/26 scored a 1.29 cable rating, with an average audience of 1.7 million viewers.
- The lawsuit against WWE which was started by Chris Kanyon, Mike Sanders and Raven has been dismissed by
Senior U.S. District Judge Peter Dorsey. The lawsuit implied that while WWE classifies all their wrestlers
are independent contractors they were tied contractually as actual employees, barring them from working
other shows, dress and look how the company told them etc. The lawsuit raised a lot of debates including
a long blog by Eric Bischoff which outlined the exact U.S. laws on what employees are supposed to do versus
an independent contractor.
- The father John Graziano, the crash victim involved in Nick Bollea's car crash in August of 2007,
apparently wanted the hired hit man to kill his wife in a car accident which is kind of ironic considering
the tragedy hit the family some one and a half years ago. The hit man dealing with Graziano ended up being
an undercover cop and authorities took him out yesterday just before noon. The Graziano husband and wife
are in the middle of an expensive divorce and his wife's death was seen as an easy way out financially. In
the past, both Hulk Hogan and his estranged wife Linda said that the Graziano family wasn't one big happy
family as they tried to paint themselves and their son John would often be at the Hogan residence to escape
the trouble. At the time the family and their legal team dismissed the issues saying that it was just a way
for the Hogans to put sympathy on them trying to get their son Nick a deal to escape a jail term.
- The WWE stock closed today down $0.20, at $9.70.
- On this day in wrestling history:
* 2000 - Kurt Angle defeated Chris Jericho for the WWF Intercontinental
title
* 2000 - The Dudley Boyz defeated the New Age Outlaws for the WWF tag
titles
* 2001 - Jerry Lawler quit the WWF over the firing of his wife, Stacey
(The Cat) Carter
* 2001 - Rico Constantino defeated Nick Dinsmore for the OVW title
