Ratings, Undertaker, Rhyno, Doring, TNA Aug 22 - 11:57 pm EDT

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

Smackdown scored a 3.3 (6 Share) last week, which is down from last week's 3.5 (but Nielsen isn't counting blackout ratings). UPN finished in fifth place in the overnight ratings between 8-10pm. Last week's two hours of RAW ranked 4th and 5th in the cable ratings.

The WWE Diva Search ends tomorrow night with a live webcast from Phoenix at 10 PM PDT (MST actually)/1 AM EDT. Tomorrow night's Confidential will include a look back at "Big Cat" Ernie Ladd, the Dudley Boys 3D, Sable's visit to a spa, and Big Show "Outside the Ropes." The Zach Gowen/Matt Hardy match is off the Summerslam card to help sell Zach's injury.

The Undertaker was on the Jimmy Kimmel show last night to promote this weekend's Summerslam, featuring Undertaker in both a pillow and food fight. Between the Ropes did a brief interview with Rhyno about his Summerslam 4 way match, plus his neck injury and his friends Edge and Christian. Get In the Ring radio is doing a special pre-Summerslam show from 4:30-5:30pm on Sunday available at WLIE.com.

Dory Funk Jr's column at 1wrestling has a photo of new WWE developmental wrestler Alexis Laree. WO has a Danny Doring interview conducted by Alan Wojcik, about his wrestling training and working in ECW.

Tomorrow is the Fan Slam convention in Totowa, NJ with appearances by Bobby Heenan, Ricky Steamboat, Kevin Von Erich, Paul Orndorff and many more. Documentary "The Backyard" and mockumentary "Wrestlemaniac" will be screening in Staten Island at the Muddy Cup Coffee House, with the directors of each on hand to answer questions.

TNA has already issued a preview for next week's PPV with AJ Styles vs. Raven for the NWA Title, Dusty Rhodes vs. Glenn Gilberti in a bullrope match, America's Most Wanted vs. Simon/Diamon/Johnny Swinger for the NWA Tag Team Titles, Michael Shane vs. Jerry Lynn for the X Title, D'Lo Brown vs. Sonny Siaki, Sandman vs. Abyss, and 3 Live Krew vs. Shane Douglas/New Church. NWA TNA did their first round of wrestler Q&A with answers from Ron Killings, BG James, Frankie Kazarian and Abyss. Jeremy Borash posted his latest From the Inside column. He starts off with positive quotes from a number of websites about TNA's latest show, and he calls the Ultimate X match the most inventive of the decade. Borash also praises the wrestlers involved in the match and the folks that came up with the concept. Borash shares a humorous story about referee Rudy Charles and Pat Benetar. Many TNA stars will be in Buffalo, NY Sunday for "Ballpark Brawl." Teddy Hart will debut September 3rd, and Cheex was left off the PWI Top 500 list. Borash finishes by hyping the upcoming one cent PPV, and the alternate PPV DirecTV viewers will see on September 10.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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