- Originally scheduled to be on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, John Cena
was bumped by President Obama but still managed to make his way onto another
show, on ABC with Jimmy Kimmel. The host touched the rumors of a rivalry
between Cena and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson but Cena dismissed the claims
saying that Rock is a nice guy and all that but he just makes his life a bit
tougher. When asked why, Cena talked about how Rock claims that he loves the
wrestling business but still left to do movies and now people are asking him
when he's going to leave and follow The Rock's footsteps in Hollywood. "If
you win an Oscar, would you still continue to wrestle?" asked Kimmel.
"Absolutely, " replied Cena.
- WWE filmed John Cena racing around the Texas Motor Speedway on
Wednesday. He was also given a key to the city by Roanoke Mayor Holly
McPherson.
- The Top 10 Recreational Sports DVD's, according to Billboard Magazine
this week are: 1. NFL: Super Bowl XLIII Champions: Pittsburgh Steelers;
2. WWE: The Best Of Saturday Night's Main Event; 3. WWE: Royal Rumble
2009; 4. UFC 90: Silva vs. Cote; 5. WWE: Starrcade: The Essential
Collection; 6. WWE: WrestleMania XXIV; 7. UFC 89: Bisping vs. Leben; 8.
WWE: Hell In A Cell; 9. WWE: The Rock: The Most Electrifying Man In
Sports Entertainment; and 10. WWE: The Best Of Raw: 15th Anniversary
1993-2008.
- Impact on 3/19 scored a 1.34 cable rating, with an average audience of 1.8 million viewers.
- 3/19 Impact results from Orlando, FL: Team No Limit over The Motor City
Machineguns; Taylor Wilde & ODB over Awesome Kong & Raisha Saied; Sheik
Abdul Bashir vs. Samoa Joe was a no contest; The Governor over Madison
Rayne; and Mick Foley & Jeff Jarrett over Sting & Kurt Angle.
- 3/18 American Rampage Wrestling results from Paris, France: Scotty
Taylor, Marty Jannetty & Suicide Machine over Chris Masters, Delicious
Dunky D. & Justin Shape; Mascarita Sagrada over Bracito de Plata &
Pentagoncito in a three-way midget match; Gangrel over Heidenreich in a
Casket match; René Duprée over Paul Tracey; Portia Perez over Serena
Deeb; and in the main event Rob Van Dam beat Shawn Maxer & Sabu in an
Elimination match. The show was taped and is going to air in France next
week on the W9 cable channel.
- On this day in wrestling history:
* 1944 - Ronnie Garvin was born
* 1959 - Sting was born
* 1983 - Killer Brooks defeated Paul Orndorff for the Georgia
Heavyweight title, but sold the title to Larry Zbyzsko
* 1983 - Larry Zbyszko stripped of the Georgia Heavyweight title
* 1994 - Bret Hart defeated Yokozuna for the WWF Heavyweight title
* 1995 - Big John Studd died of Hodgkin's disease at 46
* 1996 - Shinjiro Otani defeated Chris Benoit in a tournament final for
the WCW Cruiserweight title
* 2003 - Sailor Art Thomas died of cancer at 79
