Randy Savage and Lanny Poffo asked WWE for statements regarding their father, Angelo Poffo, to be read at his funeral last week. TNA complied with the request while WWE ignored it, inciting Savage. Savage also was livid with his webmaster when a video tribute created in Angelo's memory for Savage's website referred to him as Randy Savage instead of Randy Poffo.
Earl Hebner claims to have been contacted about working in the Bret Hart/Vince McMahon match at Wrestlemania. He says he was told that if he cannot sart working now they would like him back in November. No word on what Hebner's current contractual status with TNA are or if he is open to the idea of a WWE return. Earl and his twin brother Dave were realized from the company a few years back for selling WWE merchandise without permission.
Gorgeous George, Stu Hart, and Bob Uecker are the final inductees into this year's class of the WWE Hall of Fame. George's 96 year old widow will be present for his induction. At this time it is unknown wether or not she will be inducting George or if she will be accepting the award in his honor. Stu will be inducted by Natalya Neidhart and David Hart Smith and Bret Hart will be accepting the award. Bob Uecker will be a celebrity inductee and he will be presented the award by former head of NBC Sports and co-creator of Saturday Night's Main Event Dick Ebersol.
At this point in time the Money in the Bank match will open Wrestlemania and Batista/John Cena will close the show.
Goldberg has been contacted about headlining the WWE Hall of Fame next year when Wrestlemania is held in Atlanta's Georgia Dome.
Jeff Hardy's drug trial has again been pushed back so that the defense can continue to gather evidence. Due to this Hardy has agreed to more dates with TNA.
Jim Ross has stated that he will be at Wrestlemania but does not know at this point wether or not he will have any announcing duties.
Tammy "Sunny" Sytch has stated that she is working on a book about her time in the wrestling business.
AJ Styles defending the TNA World title against D'Angelo Dinero is still scheduled to headline April's Lockdown pay-per-view which will be held in Kansas City, MO.
WWE has banned chair shots and any other severe blows to the head as part of their concussion control policy. I don't know how they plan on continuing No Holds Barred matches and the Extreme Rules and T.L.C. pay-per-views with this rule in effect.
Taz and Brother Ray have suggested that Paul Heyman and Tommy Dreamer be brought into TNA.
Dixie Carter commented on Twitter that she would like to see the recently released Awesome Kong back in TNA at some point.
John Cena will be appearing on Jimmy Fallon and Mike Mizanin will be appearing on Lopez Tonight this week to help promote Wrestlemania.
This month's WWE Magazine has 26 different covers to celebrate Wrestlemania.
TNA's Brutus Magnus will now be known simply as Magnus.
Mickie James' debut country music album and Steve Austin's new dvd film Damage will both be released tommorow. Mickie is still healing from a recent surgery related to her contracting MRSA.
Japanese legend the Great Muta recently underwent surgery.
Ric Flair was heavily scolded at the last TNA taping for slinging blood into the crowd.
Triple H and Randy Orton will take on Sheamus, Ted Dibiase Jr., and Cody Rhodes in a handicap match on tonight's Raw, which will be guest hosted by WWE celebrity hall of famer Pete Rose. Expect Kane to be involved with Rose in some manner as a continuation of their long running Wrestlemania gimmick. Both TNA and Raw will be live tonight, with TNA taping next week's Impact tommorow night.
Shooting is scheduled to start soon in New Orleans for Randy Orton's debut film Big Red.
Expect some type of stipulation to be added to the Mistirio/Punk Wrestlemania match this week.
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