News Update

Not sure of the reason why Kofi Kingston was pulled from the MITB match at Wrestlemania and replaced with Evan Bourne. Two trains of thought are that he may be teaming with rival Randy Orton to take on Rhodes and Dibiase and the other has him winning the battle royal that will take before the pay-per-view.

House show advertisements for after Wrestlemania have Jack Swagger defending the MITB brief case against Kofi Kingston.

Triple H vs. Sheamus and Rey Mistirio vs. CM Punk are official for Wrestlemania. Not sure when or if the Mask vs. Hair stipulation will be added to the Mistirio/Punk bout.

Drew McIntyre has been added to the MITB match, I don't know if he will be replacing someone or if it will now be a 9 man match.

TNA's live Impact drew good ratings for Spike but they were nothing in comparison to the ratings of Raw. Look for this to get worse as next week TNA runs a taped show against a live Raw hosted by Stone Cold Steve Austin.

Next Monday's Impact will feature AJ Styles vs. Jeff Hardy in a non title bout with Abyss as the special enforcer.

Next Monday's Raw will feature three Wrestlemania rematches as John Cena takes on the Big Show, Triple H takes on Randy Orton, and Chris Jericho takes on Shawn Michaels. Stone Cold Steve Austin will be hostong the contract signing between Bret Hart and Vince McMahon. Look for him to me made the special referee of that match at some point during the telecast.

Not sure why there was no Hall of Fame announcement this week. It is possible that one may be spliced into the airing of Smackdown! as that has been done in the past.

Brother Runt AKA Spike Dudley has returned to TNA. Kenny Dykstra had a TNA Tryout at last night's taping. Dave Taylor and Al Snow are now working backstage as agents in TNA.

Awesome Kong is still part of TNA although she has demanded either a release from her contract or a raise. Hamada and Kong were stripped on the Knockout's Tag Titles and Velvet Sky and Madison Rayne won a match Monday to determine new champions.

David Hasselhoff will be an upcoming Raw guest host.

Ric Flair has made it known that he is not happy about competing in the ring again.

Steve Austin's new movie "Damage" will be released on DVD on March 23rd.

Jesse Ventura's new book, American Conspracies, was released this week.

The Ultimate Warrior has been added to the WWE's opening montage. Rob Van Dam has been removed from the alumni section of wwe.com.

The Undertaker-Shawn Michaels match at Wrestlemania will now be contested under No Holds Barred rules.