- Raw on 3/2 scored hours of 3.64 and 3.99 for a two hour average of a 3.82 cable rating.
- WWE results from the RAW broadcast at the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston, MA, on March 2: Kane over
Mike Knox and Rey Mysterio, Jr., in a three-way qualifier for the Money-in-the-Bank match at WrestleMania;
Mickie James & Kelly Kelly over Beth Phoenix & Jillian, with Santino Marella & Rosa Mendes; Shawn Michaels
over Vladimir Kozlov; and John Cena over WWE World Heavyweight Champion Edge by disqualification. Bill Watts
was officially announced as an inductee for the Hall of Fame, to be inducted by Jim Ross.
- Raw finished in first and third place among the Top 20 cable shows for the week ending 3/1. TNT's "The Closer" finished in second place for the week.
- Smackdown on 2/27 scored a 2.3 broadcast rating.
- The 2/28 edition of AM Raw did a 0.8 cable rating.
- Poll results: - Poll results: Could Victoria be successful in MMA?
Yes - 59%
No - 41%
- Mr T. who has been in the UK promoting Snickers said he turned down a spot in the WWE Hall of Fame. He
said in an interview that he felt "insulted" by the presence of Pete Rose in the celebrity wing: "WWE asked
me to be in the Hall of Fame and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall
of Fame. This guy can't even get into his own Hall of Fame... After they put Rose in they came and asked
me and I said "You don't insult me! You don't put Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame before me! I ain’t going
to be a part of that... They put him in and he only did one WrestleMania, and he didn't even wrestle."
- In the Philippine Daily Mirror, Batista said with the right conditioning he could come back in
a month's time and was hoping to be part of Wrestlemania. He talked about hating the word fake to describe
wrestling because there are "people getting paralyzed and killed." He also talked about his Philippino
heritage and thinks that Ricky Hatton doesn't have a chance in his upcoming fight with Manny Pacquiao: "I’m
a Ricky Hatton fan but I’m sorry, Manny is in a league of his own. Nobody can stop him."
- Today in wrestling history:
* 1922 - Ed Strangler Lewis defeated Stanislaus Zbyszko for the World's
Heavyweight title
* 1945 - George Mack, Jack Ross, Kid Chapman, Hal Sabath, Garius Young,
and Ben Reuben died in a plane crash
* 1970 - Bob Orton defeated The Missouri Mauler for the NWA Southern
Heavyweight title
* 1976 - Rocky Johnson & Jose Lothario defeat Killer Tim Brooks & Stan
Hansen for the NWA Texas tag titles
* 1985 - Magnum T.A. defeated Wahoo McDaniel for the NWA U.S. title
* 1997 - Flash Flanagan & Billy Joe Travis defeated PG-13 for the USWA
tag titles
