Wrestling Sunday / March 10
WWF hype leading to Wrestlemania X-8 includes these television appearances this week: Tonight : The Weakest Link on NBC... Mon : WWF Raw... Tues : Wrestlemania's Greatest on TNN... Wed : Sex on The Beach, featuring the WWF Divas, on UPN ... Thu : WWF Smackdown... HHH visits with Conan on NBC... Fri : a feature on Regis and Kelly.
- The Jerry Jarrett family of Tenn is in the final stages of announcing plans for a new national promotion. Representatives will meet in LA to finalize paperwork to begin running 2-hour ppvs once a week starting in May or June. Several indie wrestlers have been approached about joining the group, which would include the WWA's Jeff Jarrett.Wrestlers are being asked to commit to an initial 26 dates per year. At this point, no free television is planned, with the cable systems and satellite providers being the sole distributors. ( Credit Pro Wrestling Torch ).
- Dan Severn has regained the NWA Title from Shinya Hashimoto in Tokyo.
- Sixteen year-old Alexis Andrade is in a coma after taking a fall on her head during her third training session with the Omaha Wrestling Association.
- Dream Machine Troy Graham, a star in the Memphis territory in the 70's and 80's, was found dead on Thu.
- Wrestle Force America comes to Taylorsville, NC on Sat Mar 16 with Lodi, CW Anderson, Ricky Morton, Otto Schwantz and Madd Maxx.
- The next international tour for the WWF is in May, when the group goes to Germany, Scotland and England.
- WWF Live in Sarnia, Ont Fri night: Crash d Christian... Jazz d Trish... Test d Farooq... Storm d Bradshaw... X-Pac d Spike... Rikishi d Perfect... Val Venis d Kurt Angle.
- GLOOW and Women's Extreme Wrestling host a ppv taping on Sat Apr 6 in Philly.
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