RAW, Tunney, Cena, Morgan, 1W Jan 26 - 11:59 pm EST

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

Quick RAW Results: Ric Flair/Batista/Randy Orton over Chris Jericho/Rob Van Dam, Victoria/Lita over Molly Holly/Jazz, Bubba Dudley over Kane via DQ, Rico over Rob Conway, and Goldberg over Coach.

The Smackdown crew was in Reading, PA tonight, and tomorrow night they'll tape Smackdown in Washington, DC. Matt Morgan was reportedly injured at tonight's Smackdown house show and taken from the ring with a stretcher. There are international Heat results since North America got the pre-PPV show. There are already early Heat spoilers from tonight's RAW as well.

Former figurehead President of WWE Jack Tunney passed away on Saturday at age 68. In addition to his on air role, Tunney worked with WWE's Canada division promoting events in Toronto and other areas of Canada. Maven will have both his knee and elbow scoped tomorrow with a 4-6 week recovery period, leaving him hopeful he'll make it back in time for Wrestlemania. WWE launched Trish Stratus' new 2003 Babe of the Year site with photos and videos.

John Cena twisted his knee last night exiting the Rumble, but is said to be fine and not injured. 1wrestling has several off air Royal Rumble notes including some of the crowd reactions. Buck Woodward's Rumble match timing makes Chris Benoit the new record holder for the longest time in the match with a 61:34 time, beating Bob Backlund's 1993 time of 61:10.

Bradshaw's latest commentary covers the Royal Rumble and Super Bowl, and answers a few fans' questions as well. Hillbilly Jim updated his Road to Wrestlemania journal with information on his recent stop in Phoenix, AZ. Jonathan Coachman's record as McPherson College's all-time leading basketball scorer was recently broken by Kenny Romero. In addition to the WWE Cage match DVD, Netflix has also offered Rock and Austin DVD's throughout the past year.

Get in the Ring Radio interviewed Dustin Rhodes and discussed his recent WWE release, Howard Stern, and his upcoming plans to team with his father. Jerry Lynn signed a long term contract with NWA TNA today. Fan Slam announced schedule revisions for their pre-Wrestlemania Convention on March 13 in Totowa, NJ.

Dale "KISS Demon" Torborg has been hired by the Chicago White Sox. The Calgary Sun issued a correction for erroneously stating Ted DiBiase was dead last week. After agreeing to a new plea deal for the murder of 6-year-old Tiffany Eunick, which they claimed was caused by immitating wrestling, Lionel Tate is expected to be released from jail with 10 years of probation.

With Bob Ryder's recent sale of controlling interest of 1wrestling.com to Joey Styles, it looks like some of the current staff will be leaving to form PWInsider.com, which officially launches on February 1.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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