- '12 Rounds' with John Cena did $5.3 million in the weekend box office from
2,331 theaters, landing in the seventh spot on the box office chart for this
week. Cena's previous movie, 'The Marine', had a more successful opening
weekend with $7,138,774 from 2,545 theaters. While Cena challenged The Rock
for WrestleMania, The Rock won the battle on the box office chart as his
movie 'Race to Witch Mountain' in its fourth week still edged out Cena's new
movie getting $5,637,000 for the weekend sending the total gross revenue for
the movie to $53,295,000 according to BoxOfficeMojo. com.
- WWE's four most powerful women - CEO Linda McMahon, EVP of Marketing
Michelle Wilson, COO Donna Goldsmith and EVP of Creative Development &
Operations Stephanie McMahon Levesque - rang the opening bell at the New
York Stock Exchange on Friday March 27 to celebrate the release of '12
Rounds' and the twenty fifth anniversary of WrestleMania. The WWE and
WrestleMania logo were displayed on the screens as the fantastic four were
joined by NYSE Executive Vice President Larry Leibowitz to kick off the
trading day.
- 3/28 Smackdown house show results from Amarillo, TX: R-Truth over Chavo Guerrero; The Great Kahli
over Brian Kendrick; Kozlov over Jimmy Wang Yang; MVP over Shelton Benjamin; Gail Kim over Michelle
McCool; Big Show over Jeff Hardy (Matt Hardy run in); The Undertaker & Triple H over Randy Orton, Ted
DiBiase & Cody Rhodes.
- 3/28 Raw house show results from Laredo, TX: Kofi Kingston beat Dolph Ziggler, Melina beat Beth Phoenix
(with Santino), Evan Bourne beat Mike Knox, Mark Henry beat CM Punk, Primo Colon, Carlito, and Bella Twin A
defeated Miz, Morrison, and Bella Twin B, ECW champion Jack Swagger beat Christian, Rey Mysterio beat Kane,
and Edge beat Shawn Michaels.
- 3/28 TNA house show results from Spencer, IA: X-division champion Suicide over Sheik Abdul Bashir with DOA in non-title match,
The Latin American Xchange over Team NO Limits (Yujiro and Tetsuya Naito), ODB over Sojo Bolt in a comedic match that saw ODB hit
the Thesz Press off the middle turnbuckle for the win, Team 3D over TNA World Tag Team champion Beer Money, Inc.in Tag Team Tables
Match, James Storm was 3D through the Table... AJ Styles over Chris Sabin with the Pele followed by the Styles Clash, and Jeff Jarrett
over Kurt Angle with a guitar Shot.
- On this day in wrestling history:
* 1939 - Steve Casey defeated Gus Sonnenberg for the AWA Heavyweight
title
* 1987 - Ricky Steamboat defeated Randy Savage for the WWF IC title
* 1993 - The Moondogs defeated Brian Christopher & Scotty Flamingo for
the USWA tag titles
* 1994 - Men on a Mission defeated the Quebecers for the WWF tag titles
* 1998 - Steve Austin defeated Shawn Michaels for the WWF title
* 1999 - Goldust defeated the Road Dogg for the WWF IC title
* 2001 - Rolando Vera died at 86
