RAW, Angle, Steiner, Backlash, ROH Feb 09 - 11:54 pm EST

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

Quick RAW Results: Chris Jericho/Trish Stratus over Matt Hardy/Molly Holly, Chris Benoit over Ric Flair, Kane over Hurricane, Randy Orton over Booker T and Rob Van Dam.

The Smackdown crew was in Saskatoon, SK yesterday with Brock Lesnar over Eddy Guerrero. The Smackdown crew is in Vancouver, BC tonight, and they tape Smackdown tomorrow in Tacoma, WA. The Scottish Evening Express has an article on WWE's return to their country at the end of March.

The Seattle Times did an article on Kurt Angle, in which Angle talked about visiting a patient at Children's Hospital and mentioned WWE's business downturn. Scott Steiner did an autograph signing yesterday for fans in Lincoln City, OR. Nasty Savage's frontman Ronnie Galetti discussed Chris Jericho's guest appearance on their new album Psycho Psycho.

WWE is asking fans to pick Undertaker's next shirt design, each of which contains elements of the "old school" Undertaker. TSN's wrestling site has promos for Backlash, including one which may indicated who will be champion when it happens.

WWE will hold their third quarter earnings conference call on February 18 at 1pm EST. WWE is scheduled to participate in the Los Angeles Hip-Hop Summit voter registration drive, although which wrestlers will appear is unknown.

SLAM's TJ Madigan looked at Benoit's push and what it may mean for Canadian fans. 1wrestling looked at some internal second guessing within WWE about the strength of their Wrestlemania lineup. There are rumors that Guns'n'Roses will perform at Wrestlemania.

Mike Johnson interviewed Gabe Sapolsky about Ring of Honor, the Pure Wrestling division, and their video products. Christopher Daniels is off the March 13 Ring of Honor show due to his decision to tour with New Japan instead. Low Ki will make a return to Ring of Honor this Saturday wrestling in the main event against Samoa Joe, Dan Maff and BJ Whitmer for the ROH Heavyweight title. CM Punk has also been added to the February 14 show, but doesn't have an announced match yet.

SLAM's Steven Johnson covered this past weekend's Wrestlecon in Arlington, TX with guests Mick Foley, Al Snow, Kerry Von Erich, Kamala, and more. NWA TNA posted preview photos for Wednesday's America's X Cup tournament. BG James, Adrian Street, Steve Armstrong and several other wrestlers will reunite for the Sweet Home Alabama - Continental Reunion Tour 2004 on March 20 in Dothan, AL.

WORLD-1 held their final debut weekend show last night in Falls River, MA, to benefit Christopher James, a local child with cancer. "American Dragon" Bryan Danielson is returning to Japan for INOKI DOJO and NJPW. The UK's Bishop's Stortford Citizen and Waltham Forest Guardian are giving away tickets to the Revolution British Wrestling show on March 6 in Chingford.

MLW announced that their video library will be available online starting on February 20, with shows only costing $2 each. CZW signed a national DVD distribution deal with six unspecified titles planned. A new version of Mozilla Firefox, formerly Mozilla Firebird, (a great browser, try it if you haven't) was released today, and in addressing the name change and answering the question "Won't this confuse people?" they respond "Yes, but if the WWF can pull it off, so can we."

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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