- Company sources say that Vince McMahon has admitted in private that the company is running too many pay-per-views. The expectation is they will cut back from 15 to 14 in 2008, although which PPV that gets dropped has not been decided on. The most likely candidates are One Night Stand, Cyber Sunday or New Year's Revolution.
- Early estimates pegged WrestleMania 23 at doing 1,200,000 buys, an all-time record for the company on pay-per-view. It is now figured at having done 1,175,000 buys and 750,000 domestic buys, so we're looking at 1,925,000 buys alltogether, nearly 2 million.
Partial source: Wrestling Observer
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Billy Krotchsen called in the following SmackDown taping results from Philadelphia, PA to our pals over at PWInsider.com:
Dark Match:
*Shantelle Taylor, wearing a green mask, defeated Jillian Hall.
Smackdown:
*The entire Smackdown roster assembled for a ten bell salute to Mr. McMahon. The live crowd booed the entire proceedings. (lol)
*WWE Tag Team champions Deuce & Domino defeated Paul London & Brian Kendrick.
*Announced for later tonight: WWE United States champion MVP vs. Batista and WWE World champion Edge vs. Ric Flair.
*Matt Hardy pinned William Regal.
*Batista defeated WWE United States champion MVP in a non-title match.
*Ric Flair defeated WWE World champion Edge, DQ when MVP got involved. Batista hit the ring for the save but was taken down by Edge.
Dark Match:
*WWE Cruiserweight champion Chavo Guerrero defeated Funaki.
*Chris Masters defeated JD Michaels.
- Early estimates pegged WrestleMania 23 at doing 1,200,000 buys, an all-time record for the company on pay-per-view. It is now figured at having done 1,175,000 buys and 750,000 domestic buys, so we're looking at 1,925,000 buys alltogether, nearly 2 million.
Partial source: Wrestling Observer
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Billy Krotchsen called in the following SmackDown taping results from Philadelphia, PA to our pals over at PWInsider.com:
Dark Match:
*Shantelle Taylor, wearing a green mask, defeated Jillian Hall.
Smackdown:
*The entire Smackdown roster assembled for a ten bell salute to Mr. McMahon. The live crowd booed the entire proceedings. (lol)
*WWE Tag Team champions Deuce & Domino defeated Paul London & Brian Kendrick.
*Announced for later tonight: WWE United States champion MVP vs. Batista and WWE World champion Edge vs. Ric Flair.
*Matt Hardy pinned William Regal.
*Batista defeated WWE United States champion MVP in a non-title match.
*Ric Flair defeated WWE World champion Edge, DQ when MVP got involved. Batista hit the ring for the save but was taken down by Edge.
Dark Match:
*WWE Cruiserweight champion Chavo Guerrero defeated Funaki.
*Chris Masters defeated JD Michaels.