Angle, Rock, Fairplay, Dusty, Hogan Jan 20 - 11:48 pm EST

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

There are off air notes and international Heat spoilers from last night in Green Bay, WI. The Smackdown crew was in Duluth, MN last night with Big Show (w/ Brock Lesnar) over Chris Benoit (w/ Hardcore Holly). Tonight's Smackdown in being taped in Minneapolis, MN.

Lillian Garcia will be on ESPN2's Cold Pizza on Thursday morning. John Cena will be the guest on this Thursday's Byte This! Mick Foley will visit the Farmingdale Public Library in New York on March 4 to discuss the value of reading and writing.

Mark Madden interviewed Kurt Angle on his radio show about amateur wrestling, his trip to Iraq, and his neck injury. Chris Jericho and Shawn Michaels are the latest two wrestlers to play True or False on subject including the Bible, Christian and Canada. Fans can send Maven get well wishes as he recovers from radial head fracture elbow injury.

After speaking to his grandmother who lives in a Somoan village, The Rock wrote a $10,000 check to purchase food for the Somoan relief effort as they recover from Cyclone Heta which hit earlier this month. Edge was shown in attendance at last night's Lightning/Avalanche hockey game in Tampa, FL.

UPN's recent renewal of Smackdown is a multi-year deal. TSN has added a third RAW airing on early Wednesday mornings, and ESPN Classics Canada seems to have dropped their scheduled RAW replay in favor of Slamfest/USWA Challenge.

Tomorrow night's NWA TNA PPV will include Jeff Jarrett vs. El Leon in a TNA Street Fight, America's Most Wanted vs. Redshirt Security in a number one contender's match, Sandman/Balls Mahoney vs. CM Punk/Julio Dinero, Simon Diamond/Johnny Swinger vs. Glenn Gilberti/David Young, and Shane Douglas/Michael Shane vs. Fallen Angel/Elix Skipper.

1wrestling has a possible spoiler for NWA TNA that's been making the rounds for a little while. Jon "Jonny Fairplay" Dalton will be on the Mancow morning show tomorrow at 7:40 am to promote his NWA TNA debut. Fairplay also has an audio message for fans.

Get In The Ring radio interviewed Dusty Rhodes about his book, his son Dustin, Ric Flair's DVD, and his favorite wrestlers of today. Hulk Hogan appeared at the Superbowl of Motorsports in Tampa, FL on Saturday debuting the truck he co-owns with radio personality Bubba The Love Sponge, and his daughter Brooke Hogan sang the national anthem. Now you can see why Chyna is making worst dressed lists. Howard Dean's speech in Iowa last night has picked up a few WWE promo comparisons.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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