Lesnar, WWE, Goldberg, Japan, Spiderbaby Jan 04 - 11:50 pm EST

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

The Smackdown crew was in Glendale, AZ last night with Big Show over John Cena. The Smackdown crew was in Alberquerque, NM this afternoon, and tomorrow they're Nashville, TN. The RAW crew was in Jackson, MS last night with Kane over Chris Jericho. The RAW crew was in Tupelo, MS this afternoon, and tomorrow RAW is live from Memphis, TN. RAW on TSN in some parts of Ontario will be delayed until 10pm EST due to hockey.

The new issue of Flex magazine features a cover story on Brock Lesnar. In his January 9 Off The Record appearance, Chris Jericho will switch roles with host Michael Lansberg and interview him and other guests. WWE chief cameraman Chris Tafuri discussed WWE's trip to Iraq, and the planning that went into it. WWE has signed sports anchor Todd Grisham of Tucson, AZ's News 13 to a two year deal.

Great Britain's Wrestling Channel will launch on March 15 on Sky Digital, with further test programming before the launch likely. NWA's latest Wildside show saw Caprice Coleman defeat Rainman to win the NWA World TV title, which was announced as NWA Board of Directors sanctioned, and New Jack announced he'd retire at Wildside's Chrismas Chaos '04. Midwest Pro Wrestling's Tommy "The SpiderBaby" Saturday, the "first" openly gay professional wrestler, will be featured in the February issue of Out magazine. ECWA announced their 2004 Super 8 Tournmanet will take place on April 3 in Wilmington, DE.

ZERO-ONE held their HUSTLE-1 event at the Saitama Super Arena with Bill Goldberg over Naoya Ogawa. Goldberg may wrestle Shinya Hashimoto at the HUSTLE-2 event on March 7 at the Yokohama Arena if it doesn't conflict too much with his Wrestlemania schedule. New Japan Pro Wrestling held their Tokyo Dome show yesterday with Keiji Muto/Bob Sapp defeating Masahiro Chono/Hiroyoshi Tenzan. NWA Mid-Atlantic Championship wrestling held their third and final show of their Chinese tour in Guangzhou, China, with the next tour planned for March.

That's it for today. I'll be traveling tomorrow, so I may be a bit late. Thanks for reading.

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