Austin, Rock, Jericho, Urlacher, Haggerty Jan 30 - 11:56 pm EST

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

Last night's Smackdown scored a 4.8 overnight rating, higher than its usual level, which kept UPN in fourth place for the night ahead of FOX and WB. The RAW crew is in Dayton, OH tomorrow night. The Altoona Mirror has a brief mention of WWE's RAW at the Bryce Jordan Center on Monday.

The Sun's Lilsboys hosted an online chat with Steve Austin in which he answered questions on returning to the ring, his role as sheriff, Bischoff, and the potential of wrestling Hulk Hogan or Goldberg. PWInsider has a recap of yesterday's Byte This with Paul London, Trish Stratus and The Miz.

WWE's No Way Out website is now up with the Brock Lesnar vs. Eddy Guerrero match already listed. WWE.com officially released information on Wrestlemania XX weekend activities including the Hall of Fame reception and induction ceremony, and the Bacon, Bagels and Biceps Brunch, with tickets going on sale February 7 at 10am via WWE Shopzone.

Matt Hardy's latest commentary explains the origin of "Version One," travel on ice, the Super Bowl and Pearl Jam. Silvervision's website has details on John Cena's upcoming DVD including the extras list.

Chris Jericho was again on VH1's Best Week Ever, which willl be replayed throughout the weekend. Jericho will also appear on VH1's Slasher episode of Super Secret Movie Rules which begains airing tomorrow night at 10pm. Sable, Goldberg and Triple H made AmIAnnoying.com's top 100 most annoying list for 2003, while Molly Holly was WWE's only entrant on the least annoying list at #19.

1wrestling has a note on a possible storyline for Kidman and Paul London. Buck Woodward looked at some possible Wrestlemania scenarios for the top/title matches. Some WWE employees are beginning to think Reading, PA is cursed due to the number of injuries wrestlers have suffered there.

MTV's Rock and Jock Super Bowl XXXVIII special with The Rock and Warren Sapp coaching airs tomorrow at 2pm EST. The Rock was so busy making national media rounds around the Super Bowl, he didn't have time to talk to an Indianapolis Star reporter. One of The Rock's friends, Carolina Panthers defensive tackle Brentson Buckner, said he's not interested in a professional wrestling career because "it's a lot tougher than football." The Panther's Mike Rucker said there's no way they can get bigger than Ric Flair and that it's sad Ric will miss being at the Super Bowl due to working a house show.

NWA TNA is pleased with the Brian Urlacher coverage they've received, primarily in the Chicago area. The Bears' defensive coordinator Ron Rivera expressed his concerns over Urlacher wrestling, and it's possible it's a violation of his contract, which usually prohibit players from taking part in dangerous activities. Jay Mariotti at the Chicago Sun-Times wrote an article about Brian Urlacher's TNA involvement and says he should get his priorities straight. Jonnny Fairplay's NWA TNA role was mentioned on Good Day Live by Survivor host Jeff Probst regarding his absence on Survivor All-Stars.

Jeremy Borash posted a new From The Inside column. He discusses ICP and Jonny Fairplay, who paid for a limo for Sharkboy's birthday. He's in charge of the upcoming Girls of TNA DVD which will go into production on Sunday. TNA may get a WCW Live-like program with the former hosts. Borash also hypes the America's X Cup, Xplosion and next week's show.

SLAM has a piece on the career of Hard Boiled Haggerty, who passed away Tuesday. Funeral services for Haggerty take place on Tuesday in Los Angeles, CA.

Ring of Honor was in Glen Burnie, MD last night with the Jim Cornette managed Briscoes over Samoa Joe/Jerry Lynn. World Pacific Championship Wrestling began a four day tour of Hawaii yesterday with wrestlers including Sabu, AJ Styles, Buff Bagwell, Saturn and Jimmy Snuka. UK's The Wrestling Channel on Sky Digital will resume test broadcasts on Monday on channel 268 from 8-9pm.

The Mid-Atlantic Legends Convention takes place this weekend in Charlotte, NC. Mike Johnson has a review of Martha Hart's book Broken Harts: The Life and Death of Owen Hart which he recommends to anyone who loved Owen Hart as a worker. Dusty Rhodes' NWA World Title is up for auction on Ebay with a high bid currently of more than $2800.

Jimmy Kimmel Live had 20/20's John Stossel as a guest last night and aired footage of him being slapped "Dr. D" David Shultz, which led to lawsuit against WWE for damage he suffered. CommercialAppeal.com has an article on movies about Mars including "Santo vs. the Martians." Wade Keller reminds websites not to steal their news.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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