- Jeff Hardy has been on a roll ever since returning to the WWE however his
successful run is going to stop for at least 60 days as WWE announced that
the former Intercontinental champion has been suspended for the second time
for failing another Wellness Program drug test. One more strike for Hardy
and he will be history. Hardy returned to WWE in August of 2006 and many
have praised him for cleaning up and finally putting his mind into
wrestling. In 2003, Hardy was fired for his drug use and refusing to go to
rehab along with the fact that he was always late for shows. Jeff dropped
his IC title to Chris Jericho yesterday on RAW and is now out of the Money
in the Bank ladder match at WrestleMania. During the past few months Hardy
was enjoying a nice run in the main events and his popularity was stronger
than ever.
- Monday night's confrontation between The Big Show and Floyd Mayweather did
good on some of the bad stuff that the angle has brought us over the past
few weeks thanks to taped interviews portrayed as live on television. While
the original idea had Mayweather being the face, no one can really say what
the fans will do and since Mayweather is certainly not a big favorite among
fans, the WBC champ got booed from the very first second he appeared on WWE
television. The angle yesterday took a twist with Mayweather portrayed as
the heel and the fans responded well to Big Show's 'surprise', where he
introduced the WWE roster as his back ups. While Mayweather sold an elbow
injury after being gorilla pressed and thrown off, Mayweather is in perfect
condition and the selling of his arm was just part of the storyline. Things
got heated up during the brawl between the WWE roster and Mayweather's posse
afterwards as some individuals forgot that everything was part of a
storyline. Shane McMahon got pushed pretty hard down the ramp in an
unplanned moment and McMahon was visibly upset after being helped up by some
of the WWE Superstars.
- Poll results: Do you like the McMahon-Hornswoggle-Finlay story line?
Yes - 42%
No - 58%
- Poll results: If Smackdown moves to Thursday nights, what will you watch?
- The 3/7 edition of WWE Friday Night Smackdown scored a final 2.6 broadcast rating, the same number the show drew on Leap Day.
- Raw on 2/25 drew 198,000 Canadian viewers (or about a 2.1 rating). Smackdown did 2/22 did 180,000 viewers and ECW on 2/22 drew 164,000 Canadian viewers.
