• ON THIS DAY IN WCW HISTORY (April 8, 1999) – WCW Thunder
On this day in 1999, Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling aired an episode of their weekly TV show ‘WCW Thunder’.
This episode was pre-taped at the Richmond Coliseum in Richmond, Virginia and featured matches & storyline segments on the road to the ‘WCW Spring Stampede 1999’ PPV.
The card of the show can be found here:
1. WCW Cruiserweight Title: Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Evan Karagias
2. Wrath vs. Damien
3. Hak vs. Mikey Whipwreck
4. Blitzkrieg vs. Super Calo
5. Raven vs. Chris Benoit
6. WCW TV Title: Booker T vs. Chris Jericho
• WrestleMania 36 Shatters More Records
WWE announced the following:
“The historic WrestleMania 36 continues to set records as new viewership and consumption milestones were surpassed at The Show of Shows.
In addition to WrestleMania becoming the most social event in WWE history, WWE set WrestleMania Week viewership records with more than 967 million video views across the company’s digital and social platforms including WWE Network, WWE.com, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat, an increase of 20 percent year-over-year.
Additionally, a record 46 million hours of content was consumed during WrestleMania Week, an increase of 28 percent year-over-year.
As previously announced, WrestleMania was the most social event in WWE history with more than 13.8 million total social media interactions on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, a 57 percent increase over last year’s WrestleMania, according to Nielsen Social.”
WATCH: Mandy Rose Kisses Otis At WrestleMania 36:
