There was nothing of interest with the exception of one news item to report yesterday, so I skipped on an update. That means I’ll be pulling double duty today, so here we go!
The big story of yesterday was the RAW rating. The show scored a rather high rating of 4.1, above its average of 3.8, and more importantly managed to break the 4.0 barrier. This number is off of hours of 4.1 and 4.0, which isn’t good news, as fans tuned out, but it’s certainly still good news overall!
This could have also helped this week’s edition of Ultimate Fighter. The UFC show on SpikeTV did a 1.6 rating up by 0.2 from the score it did for the first two showings. This was also the show that featured the first real fight in the octagon, and the struggles MMA fighters go through with weight-loss before matches.
Speaking of UFC, all you MMA and UFC fans might be interested to know that Tito Ortiz has been offered a fight with Ken Shamrock at the 4/9 UFC huge special on SpikeTV.
Dr. James Andrews performed surgery on Vince McMahon yesterday in Birmingham. As it turns out, Vince’s injury was a quad problem, as Dr. Andrews reparied some torn tendons. Vince was said to be “pissed” backstage at the Rumble, as well as afterwards, due to the silly way all this happened.
The Minnesota Vikings have given up on Brock Lesnar, as a project, and have no intentions of sending him over to NFL Europe. I think this is when Brock realizes he made a huge mistake when he chose to leave WWE. I’m also sure we’ll see him back sooner, rather later.
In another note on Lesnar, he’s said to be out of shape right now, and has put on a few pounds since his appearance at the Inoki show in Japan. As several sources have put it, he’s “not in WWE shape.”
From the Where Are They Now files, Rico replaced D-Lo Brown earlier today at an All Japan event, and ended up winning the tag team titles with Bull Buchanan.
Triple H has a press conference scheduled for tomorrow at the Tokyo Dome Hotel, where he will promote Blade: Trinity, as well as the WWE TV Tapings there.
For those of you who liked the WrestleMania 21 commercial with Eugene, look out for a new one with Triple H and Ric Flair which is to air soon on TV. In it, the duo spoofs Braveheart and Shrek. The commercial is supposed to be really funny.
Make sure to catch The Best Damn Sports Show period this Friday, as Monty Brown and Jeff Jarrett have been booked for the program.
The cast of Surreal Life is doing The View on February 10. Joanie Laurer should be there, but a possibility of her missing the show exists as of this writing.
Thanks for reading,
Eddie
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