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Submitted by Calvin Martin on Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at 4:32 PM EST
Raw did a 5.3 composite rating. Hour 1 did a 5.2. Hour 2 did a 5.4. Last week's Raw did a 4.5 rating. Steve Austin is expected to be back at Raw this Monday from State College, Pennsylvania. Hulk Hogan will be featured on Entertainment Tonight this evening. Credit: WrestlingObserver.com Backstage at WrestleMania when the Hall and Austin match was being laid out, Austin was not very open to compromise of how things should have went. Austin was intent on having a very quick match to "get it over with". Because Austin did not go with the planned finish (he was supposed to lose due to nWo and Vince McMahon interference) the split that was planned for Raw did not go down. If Vince would have done something wrong (interfering in Austin's Wrestlemania match) it would have gave Linda the reason to split the roster on Raw. Seeing as how everything was changed, Linda had to totally ignore the "Vince has complete control through Wrestlemania" storyline. Linda's announcement that Flair and Vince could no co-exist and that there would be a roster split next Monday was without justification. Management is kinda downplaying the issue. They hope Austin's absence this week will get fans wondering where he is and how he will be involved in the draft, to make his return next Monday seem more important and anticipated. Undertaker was backstage at Raw but was not used. Many people backstage were not happy with how last night's Raw main event ended. Hogan, Rock, Hall, and Nash were all against having a countout finish. The finish was apparently a last minute decision. They had another finish planned but because of the crowd reaction that Hogan and Rock received earlier in the show, plans were changed at the last minute. Because Raw was packed with so many interviews, announcements, and suprisingly progressing storylines, many of the things that were planned for Raw will be shot tonight at the Smackdown tapings. The official Wrestlemania attendance was 61,069 paying $6,138,222. Merchandise came in at $1,063,131 at $15 per head. Raw in Montreal drew 15,500 paying $567,440. Merchandise came in at $119,316. Credit: ProWrestlingTorch.com *NEW GALLERY* Hot Shots of WWE's Other Milena, Milena Roucka! WOW!
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