– London’s O2 Arena has announced that The Undertaker will be appearing at the April 23rd Smackdown taping. It’s being promoted as a “London Exclusive.”
– The Elimination Chamber preliminary buyrate released as part of WWE’s monthly business figures – and the show did approximately 221,000 buys, with 161,000 domestic buys and 51,000 international. This is way up from 178,000 buys in 2011 and 199,000 buys in 2011. The show featured the Rock vs. CM Punk rematch for the WWE Championship and Jack Swagger winning the SmackDown brand’s Elimination Chamber match to earn World Heavyweight title match against Alberto Del Rio at WrestleMania 29.
Also released in the business figures is an updated buyrate for January’s Royal Rumble – which came in at 498,000 buys total.
