- Impact on 3/26 scored a 1.26 cable rating with an average audience of 1.7 million viewers.
- 3/26 Impact TV results from Orlando, FL: Suicide over Kiyoshi to retain
the X title; Angelina Love & Velvet Sky over Awesome Kong & Raisha
Saeed; and Samoa Joe won the 20-man gauntlet and then pinned Kurt Angle
so it's Team Joe vs. Team Angle at Lockdown.
- TNA President Dixie Carter couldn't pass the opportunity to respond to
Vince McMahon's comments regarding TNA in an interview he did with The
Hollywood Reporter. McMahon called some of the stuff on TNA television
"reprehensible, " and blasted the company for carrying a TV-14 rating to
their shows when in fact WWE was just that until a couple of months ago.
"You will never see us use a baseball bat," McMahon added, forgetting that
Triple H runs around with a sledge hammer attacking people. "I think it's
wonderful that Vince watches TNA iMPACT," Carter said in comments to
SunSport in the UK. "And I agree with him that things such as the brutal
beating of a sixty-year-old man, a vicious home invasion and gratuitous
man-on-woman violence can be seen as reprehensible. ..and that's just the
last three Monday nights," she added, referring to the violence shown on RAW
over the past couple of weeks.
- 3/26 TNA house show results from Brookings, SD: Suicide over Chris
Sabin; ODB over Sojo Bolt; Team 3D over Team No Limit; AJ Styles over
Sheik Abdul Bashir; Beer Money, Inc. over LAX; and Jeff Jarrett over
Kurt Angle.
- WWE attendance at house shows was up 15% in December 2008 as compared to December 2007, with 10% of
shows drawing sell outs. Using the same time frame comparison, Raw's average rating was up 3% percent,
but ECW dropped almost 12% and Smackdown's rating was down over 23%.
- Poll results: How many PPV buys will Wrestlemania 25 do?
Less than 500 K - 12%
500 - 750 K - 25%
750 - 999,999 - 30%
Over 1 million - 33%
- The proposed Tim Sylvia vs. Ray Mercer boxing match slated for 5/30 in Atlantic City, NJ
won't be happening, at least not right now. The New Jersey State Athletic Control Board
refused to sanction the 47-year-old world champion with 20 years pro experience against Sylvia.
The former UFC heavyweight champion has never competed in a boxing match. Promoter Monte Cox is
hoping to move the match to another state.
- On this day in wrestling history:
* 1951 - Jumbo Tsuruta was born
* 1967 - Kenta Kobashi was born
* 1972 - Charlie Haas was born
* 1982 - Mr. Wrestling II defeated J.J. Dillan for the Florida
Heavyweight title
* 1988 - Lex Luger & Barry Windham defeated Arn Anderson & Tully
Blanchard for the NWA tag titles
* 1988 - Randy Savage defeated Ted DiBiase in a tournament final for the
WWF title
* 1988 - Demolition defeated Tito Santana & Rick Martel for the WWF tag
titles
