TNA, WWE Flight Lawsuit, Benjamin, Rock Mar 31 - 11:59 pm EST

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

Quick NWA TNA Results: Christopher Daniels/Low Ki over The Naturals, Kid Kash/Dallas over Synn/Slash, Sabu vs. Monty Brown was a no contest, D'Lo Brown/Apolo over David Young/Glenn Gilberti and Shane Douglas/Michael Shane and Simon Diamond/Sonny Siaki, Frankie Kazarian over Amazing Red to win the vacant X Championship, Raven over AJ Styles and Abyss and Ron Killings.

There are Smackdown spoilers from last night in Columbus, OH. Torrie Wilson beat out Gail Kim for the cover of the WWE Divas magazine, due out on April 20.

The Smoking Gun posted the lawsuit papers filed by the flight attendants, which show that the lawyers think Ric Flair owns part of RAW/WWE, and that the allegations include not only sexual misconduct, but that wrestlers gave them needles to dispose of. The reason the flight attendants delayed filing a lawsuit against WWE, Flair, Hall and Runnels is according to their lawyer because they were afraid of losing their jobs. The April 12 issue of National Enquirer will have a 2/3 page article on Steve Austin which is said to portray him negatively.

WWE's debut in Mexico takes place on Saturday in Monterrey with a RAW show which will include a bonus match of Chavo Guerrero Jr. vs. Rey Mysterio Jr. for the Cruiserweight Championship. Newspaper El Norte previewed the show with pictures of HHH and Chris Benoit.

WWE.com has an article on the "World's Greatest Upset" that marked Shelton Benjamin's memorable debut. The Orangeburg Times and Democrat has an article on Shelton Benjamin's RAW debut and push, as well as his athletic history and relationship with Brock Lesnar.

Booker T will be the guest on Byte This tomorrow. Booker T is reportedly telling people he still plans to retire soon even with his recent push due to back problems.

Bradshaw will appear on FOX News Saturday during Cashin' In at 11:30 am EST. Not all of Bradshaw's fellow wrestlers are happy about his push.

The Rock was on Best Damn Sports Show Period last night playing a how much do groceries cost game and losing badly. The Rock will be on Howard Stern tomorrow morning to promote Walking Tall. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's William Arnold says The Rock's the real deal in an action hero starved Hollywood, and The Rock reveals he had to fight WWE for the name, so he's not giving it up anytime soon. The Rock's other, larger tattoo was also covered in Walking Tall, but then another tattoo for his character was placed on top. SciFi Wire has a story on The Rock's preparations for his Spy Hunter project, which is set for release in the Summer of 2005. Fametracker has a parody of the casting session for Walking Tall.

Ring of Honor's Gabe Sapolsky is in Nashville, TN today to meet with Jeff Jarrett to hopefully work out their promotions' differences. Vince Russo says he's sick of shock-based entertainment filled with nudity and profanity, and now he just wants to write creative stories. TNA has banned personal email and instant messaging in their office, and they plan to hand out new laminates in order to cut down on the number of people backstage at shows. TNA is making efforts to get fans to stay after the PPV for the matches they tape, and they're targetting WWE PPV buyers for TNA PPV ads.

NHRA has a preview of Kevin Nash unveiling the Punisher funny car, as well as a picture. DDP is telling people he has a part in Rob Zombie's next movie The Devil's Rejects, the followup to House of 1000 Corpses. 1940's and 50's women's pro wrestling documentary Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling will have be world premiered at the Hot Docs Film Festival on April 29 at Toronto, ON's Bloor Cinema.

TNA's Tracy Brooks updated her commentary on what she did over Wrestlemania weekend. Buff Bagwell competed in Richmond, VA's annual Chili Cookoff.

The UK's Total Wrestling Magazine is ceasing operation as of today, leaveing Senior Editor Bill Apter without a job. In recent weeks, Apter had been reportedly campaigning for a spot on NWA TNA PPVs to promote the magazine.

SLAM has an article on the upcoming Wild Samoans reunion at Friday's IWA show in Milton, FL. IGN has a brief article on the release of Total Extreme Warfare.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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