WWE’s 4th Quarter & Full Year 2008 Financial Results, Kizarny, More

World Wrestling Entertainment issued a press release this morning detailing their for the financial results for the fourth quarter and entire year of 2008. Visit Corporate.WWE.com to read the entire press release. The main points: WWE® Reports 2008 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results STAMFORD, Conn., February 24, 2009 – World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:WWE) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2008. Revenues totaled $125.4 million as compared to $132.6 million in the prior year quarter while operating income was $23.3 million as compared to $24.7 million in the prior year quarter. Net income was $13.6 million, or $0.18 per share (diluted), as compared to $21.5 million, or $0.30 per share (diluted), in the prior year quarter.

Infrequently seen SmackDown Superstar Kizarny has posted his first blog on the WWE Universe site. According to a note on the blog, WWE.com editors attempted to translate the blog into English for easier reading.

Matt Hardy has posted another in-character blog warning his brother Jeff as the two are scheduled to wrestle on this week’s edition of SmackDown. “If Jeff Hardy has any courage, if he is truly a man-he will step into the ring with me on Smackdown and we can settle this once and for all,” Hardy wrote. “Let me prove to everyone what they have known all along, even if they refused to admit it.. When it comes down to Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy, I am the superior performer and wrestler. Period.”

Filter-Mag.com has an interview up with Darren Aronofsky, the director of The Wrestler.

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