Smackdown, Rock/Rundown, Jericho Sep 25 - 11:41 pm EDT

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

Quick Smackdown Results: Los Guerreros over Matt Hardy/Shannon Moore, Tajiri over Rey Mysterio Jr. to win the Cruiserweight Championship, Jamie Noble/Bradshaw over Basham Brothers via DQ, and Eddy Guerrero over Charlie Haas.

The RAW crew is in Fargo, ND tomorrow night. Last week's two hours of RAW finished #3 and #5 in the cable ratings, behind the NFL and SpongeBob SquarePants. The LAW points out that it was three years ago today that RAW moved from USA to TNN. Clarence Page at The Baltimore Sun looks at Hip Hop Action Summit Network and WWE's chances of success in their voter registration drive.

Jim Ross hosted Byte This! today, with guest Steve Austin. Chris Jericho's wife gave birth to their son Ash Edward yesterday. Bradshaw threw out a ceremonial first pitch at last night's Milwaukee Brewers/St. Louis Cardinals game.

Wade Keller rated The Rock's appearance on David Letterman last night at ***1/2. The Rock also appeared on Live with Regis and Kelly, as well as the Today Show yesterday. The Rock commented on his favorite action films, including Rock, Predator and Empire Strikes Back. CHUD.com has an interview with The Rock about The Rundown, plus his future projects Walking Tall and Spy Hunter. Peter Berg, director of The Rundown, held a screening of the movie in Odessa, TX, the setting of one of his upcoming films.

Box office projections for The Rundown have it finishing first with about a $30 million gross this weekend. The Chicago Sun-Times has an article on The Rock covering his family life and rise to fame, and FloridaToday.com has a more local look at The Rock. There are other reviews of The Rundown at The New York Times, the Denver Post, Bowling Green Kentucky Daily News, Zap2it, and the Akron Beacon Journal. 1wrestling has a few wrestler related movie release dates, with Walking Tall (starring The Rock) opening on April 9, 2004, The Punisher (with Kevin Nash and Hulk Hogan) on April 16, 2004, and Blade: Trinity (with Triple H) on August 13, 2004.

There are live notes and Xplosion spoilers from last night's NWA TNA PPV. Dutch Mantel introduced himself to everyone at last night's NWA TNA.

The Toronto Star has an article on October 3rd's visit by wrestlers Ted DiBiase, Road Warriors, Buff Bagwell, and Greg Valentine to Oshawa's Community Pentecostal Church. Jesse Ventura's show on MSNBC will debut on October 4. Brian Adams, Randy Savage and Big Show appear on Sammy Hagar's DVD "The Long Road to Cabo." FAN SLAM added The Missing Link to their December 6 convention in Totowa, NJ. BoxingInsider.com interviewed Ken Shamrock about UFC 44 and about a rematch with Tito Ortiz.

Don't forget, the Wrestlemania ticket presale is tomorrow. That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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