Stevie Richards has replaced Matt Striker in the WWE.com battle royale.
WWE.com has posted an exclusive interview with The Rock.
There’s a story on John Cena’s new movie, with quite the complement about Cena’s future, here.
PWTorch.com is reporting that planning for the Big Show/Mayweather bout isn’t going too smoothly, and HHH has been assigned to help out with the planning.
Dave Meltzer at WrestlingObserver.com is saying that as of early in the week, the Raw title match was scheduled to close the show, but there’s been “a lot of emotion to change that.” Personally, I think the show should end with Flair. What do you think? Vote in the poll on the right side of the PulseWrestling.com home page.
Speaking of Meltzer, the Observer is doing a WrestleMania Day subscription special worth checking out here.
Alfonso Castillo at Newsday.com has been blogging from Orlando. The latest entry is about the Bacon, Bagels & Biceps brunch, where Matt Hardy answered a fan question about coming back by saying “tonight’s a good night.” He also posted some notes from the Hall of Fame, saying that Flair’s (unedited for TV of course) speech went over an hour itself; Billy Kidman and Test were in the audience; and The Rock was on stage for almost two hours, with fans chanting “one more match” as he teased another with Austin, then “three more matches” after he said the three wrestlers in the audience he wishes he would have faced were Cena, Michaels and Mysterio. He also wrote that Kevin Nash told him he’s been hanging out with WWE buddies and TNA President Dixie Carter’s fine with it.
Seth Mates, at the same blog, posts that he’d like Vince to pony up the money to make Rock vs. Cena happen at Mania 25.
WWE developmental wrestler Matt Sydal was backstage at a Ring of Honor show this weekend, according to Castillo.
The Miami Herald has an article on the Raw vs. Smackdown 2009 game.
WWE has released some photos and video from the Hall of Fame. I watched the televised hour last night and it was worth it just for Rock and Flair’s speeches. Truly two of the best ever on the mic that WWE’s young wrestlers should study closely.
The Orlando Sentinel has a story up on the Hall of Fame, and PWInsider.com reported that USA Network gave WWE an extra 15 minutes of TV time to fit in more of Flair’s speech.
PWInsider reports that WWE is sending people around with talent to keep them in character, has set up a BARGE in the lake behind the Citrus Bowl to launch pyro from, that there’s currently a 50% chance of rain tonight in Orlando, and that Rhocka Khan of TNA was sitting in the audience with the WWE developmental workers, Pete Gas was there as well, as was Molly Holly who sat in the audience with Charles Robinson. Update: PWInsider also reports that Test, Kevin Nash and Steve Austin (NOTE: Mike Johnson later corrected that Austin was indeed not at Mania) are backstage but The Rock is not. He was reportedly back filming his next movie.
