Rock, Lesnar, Simmons, Flair, ROH, THQ Mar 19 - 11:52 pm EST

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

The Smackdown crew was in Newcastle, England last night with Eddy Guerrero over Big Show. The Smackdown crew as in Sheffield, England tonight with Eddy Guerrero over Big Show. Tomorrow night, the Smackdown crew is in Glasgow, Scotland.

Smackdown scored a 3.6 rating, up from last week's 3.1 rating. Last night's two hours of Smackdown kept UPN in fourth place ahead of FOX and WB. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has an article on Jeremy Dotson and Joey Stanley, the Atlanta area winners of Spike TV's "10 Things Every Guy Should Experience."

The Rock visited Macdill Air Force Base yesterday to show Walking Tall and see the troops. Trish Stratus will sign autographs at the Coquitlam Centre Future Shop on March 25 in Coquitlam, BC.

Brock Lesnar's been spotted in local WWE ads taped before his decision to leave. There are a few more details on Ron Simmons' release. Beyond the Mat has a new website to promote their Ringside Special Edition coming out on March 23.

Ric Flair said he expects WWE to release a Hall of Fame DVD as well as a Four Horsemen DVD, and he hopes to take part in the Mid Atlantic Legends Convention Thanksgiving Fanfest from November 26-28 in Charlotte, NC. Another Mid-Atlantic Legends Convention has also been announced for Fayetteville, NC on August 14-15. David Flair spoke to SLAM about his indy wrestling career, his father, WCW, and WWE.

Ricky Steamboat has been added to Ring of Honor's May 15 and May 22 shows as a guest referee. SLAM's Jason Clevett reviewed last weekend's Ring of Honor show, the first since Feinstein left the promotion. Derek Burgan reviewed WrestleCrap as well as Ring of Honor's The Era of Honor Begins DVD and he liked both quite a bit.

GamePro has an interview with Nicholas Wlodyka, the produce of THQ's WWE Day of Reckoning for the Gamecube. Sherdog has an interview with Bruce Buffer in which he discusses announcing for MMA and wrestling.

Jeremy Borash posted his latest From the Inside column. There's no update on Sabin's injury, and Borash says ICP were nothing but complete professionals. Borash has been cast as a ring announcer in the Sting movie, and Goldylocks has a new CD out. Borash compliments AJ Styles, Monte Brown, Jeff Jarrett, Chris Harris and several other wrestlers for their work on Wednesday. NWA TNA released the tournament bracket for the NWA Tag Team Title.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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