Ratings, Rock, Summerslam, Vince, TNA Jul 22 - 11:25 pm EDT

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

There are lots of off air notes including notes on the Mullets taping before the show. 1wrestling has a few backstage notes from RAW on Jonathan Coachman and Arn Anderson, as well as a picture of Stacy Keibler from RAW. Smackdown is being taped in Fresno, CA tonight, so spoilers should be out late.

RAW scored a 4.2 (4.0/4.4) rating last night, with the brief overrun scoring a 5.2, up from last week's 3.8. Smackdown finished at #68 in the ratings last week and was the highest rated show on UPN. John Cena and Big Show are the scheduled guests for Byte This! Thursday.

WWE held a press conference this morning in Los Angeles, CA to announce the Summerslam main event of Goldberg vs. Triple H. Hitman was kind enough to post a scan of the Summerslam poster featuring Sable. Vince McMahon cut a few special promos for TSN to promote upcoming Canadian house shows, and in one he mentions the Hart family.

You can vote in WWE's Diva Search to narrow down the field from 16 to 8. The trailer for The Rock's next movie "The Rundown" is available online. The Torch has a fan review of a test screening of the movie, too. Rock managed to rank #200 in VH1's "200 Greatest Cultural Icons" list. 1wrestling has an update on WWE's handling of former WCW and ECW trademarks.

WWE.com has Day 3 of the Kuwait Tour posted, as well as Bradshaw's personal commentary on the trip. Edge posted his latest commentary on Tietam Brown and his favorite opponents, plus Vengeance predictions. Matt Hardy also posted his latest Mattitude commentary on the Smackdown tour of Asia. Scott Williams continued his interview with Mick Foley from last week about Tietam Brown and his impact on the fans.

Jim Cornette wrote an editorial criticizing Ian Rotten's IWA in the Louisville Eccentric Observer. SLAM! has an article on the death of Ontario native Bullwhip Danny Johnson on Sunday at age 49. Spike TV will attempt to launch again, this time on Monday, August 11.

Tomorrow night's NWA TNA will feature D'Lo Brown challenging AJ Styles for the NWA Title in a 2 out of 3 falls match, Raven/CM Punk/Julio Dinero vs. Shane Douglas/New Church, America's Most Wanted vs. Diamond/Swinger, and part 4 of the Sting interview. Elix Skipper will have an open challenge, Legend and Jeff Jarrett will appear, and both Harley Race and Larry Zbyszko will be on hand.

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