RAW scored a 3.7 rating (3.4 / 4.0 / 6 Share) with a 4.5 overrun, up from last week's 3.6 rating (3.5 / 3.8 / 5.4 Share) but actually down a bit in audience share.
There international Heat results from RAW, as well as a recap of the post-RAW celebration of Moolah's 80th birthday by the wrestlers and fans.
The Smackdown crew was in Greenville, NC last night with Eddy Guerrero over John Cena, Chris Benoit and Rhyno.
Brock Lesnar was expected to be fine for tonight's taping of his Iron Man match against Kurt Angle.
There are early Smackdown results from the tapings in Raleigh, NC.
There was reportedly an altercation between Shane Helms and Rodney Mack backstage at Saturday's house show in Knoxville, TN.
Matt Hardy took over Edge's column this week with some memories about their first meeting, big matches they've shared, and an attempt to embarrass him.
Chris Jericho has returned to the internet, and he addresses the reasons he left in the first place.
IGN reviewed RAW 2 for Xbox, giving it a 9.1.
Triple H has managed to snag two movie roles. One is WWE Films' first production called "Jornada del Muerte" (Journey of Death) and it was actually written with Triple H in mind. His other movie role is the next Blade sequel, "Blade: Trinity," as a villain (vampire?).
So far, none of UPN's new shows are challenging Smackdown for the top ratings spot on the network.
Rotten Tomatoes is starting to gather reviews of Rock's movie The Rundown, and the first one is pretty positive.
The Rock is also on the cover of the latest GQ magazine.
1wrestling is accepting questions for Randy Savage for an interview they'll conduct tomorrow.
Randy Savage will be performing songs from his upcoming CD at "Mr. B's" in Tampa, FL tomorrow night.
Filmjerk has a review of documentary "The Backyard".
Tomorrow night's NWA TNA PPV will include Raven vs. Shane Douglas in a hair vs. hair match, AJ Styles vs. Jerry Lynn for the NWA Title, D'Lo Brown vs. Sonny Siaki in a casket match, America's Most Wanted vs. 3 Live Kru vs. Kid Kash/Abyss vs. New Church to determine the #1 tag contenders, Juventud Guerrera/Frankie Kazarian/"Showtime" Eric Young vs. Michael Shane/Chris Sabin/Nosawa, plus Roddy Piper returns and more.
SLAM has a profile of one of the new generation of Freebirds, Extreme Freebird Ray Gordy, the son of Fabulous Freebird Terry "Bam Bam" Gordy.
Jack Brisco's autobiography "Brisco: The Life and Times of National Collegiate and World Heavyweight Champion" will be released next month.
wrestleBREAKdown interviewed Sandman, and he discussed ECW, chess, a fight between Tazz and RVD, and a little word association.
The Hollister, CA Free Lance has an article on former indy wrestler Ken Crowe and his transition to promoter after an accident halted his career.
The Athens Review interviewed indy wrestler Bryan Justice about training to become a wrestler and working the indy circuit.
The Norwich, England city council has pulled the plug on World Association of Wrestling's October 4 show feature Jake "The Snake" Roberts due to licensing issues.
That's it for today. Thanks for reading.
Triple H, Rock, Moolah, Jericho, TNA Sep 16 - 11:54 pm EDT
Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp
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- 05:23 pm LAW: Second Tuesday Update: Raw rating, Locker Room Fight, Triple H to star in 2 movies, Antonio Inoki out of retirement?, News on Jack Brisco book and more!
- 05:15 pm TNA: Ask The Professor
- 04:59 pm PWT: THE LOUNGE: Miller's Menagerie: Downfall Of Tag Team Wrestling, Unforgiven Thoughts
- 04:20 pm SLAM: Raw: Goldberg down but not out by NICK TYLWALK -- SLAM! Wrestling
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- 03:45 pm PWT: THE LOUNGE: Office Politics: Top Draft Picks, Who To Blame for Goldberg, Bischoff, Hunter
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- 03:25 pm PWT: TV Reports: 9/15 Major League Wrestling TV review: Punk vs. Raven, Horsemen, Sandman
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- 03:15 pm PWT: Torch Today: 9/16 Afternoon Update: Rock Review, Hardy-Edge, Flair, Bischoff, Bret
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- 02:23 pm WO: Headline: Jerry Lawler interview
- 02:22 pm WO: Headline: Major League Wrestling TV report
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