Benjamin, Hirohito, Bad Blood, TNA, Valiant May 04 - 11:59 pm EDT

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

There are Heat spoilers and off air notes from RAW. Smackdown is being taped in Tucson, AZ tonight, so spoilers should be out late. Smackdown will be preempted in Seattle, WA, Sacremento, CA, Chico, CA, and Reno, NV. WWE managed to announce five matches for next week's RAW.

Smackdown was once again the #1 show on UPN last week, finishing at #87 overall. PWInsider has a spoiler for a Bad Blood match partially based on events that happened on RAW last night. Tickets for June's RAW PPV Bad Blood in Columbus, OH go on sale this Saturday.

WWE announced a new date for Wrestlemania 21 of April 3, 2005. WWE trademarked several new nicknames as well as Kamala Films as a name for a motion picture company. Earl Hebner required shoulder surgery two weeks ago stemming from an injury suffered last November, and he'll require four months of rehabilitation before returning to the ring. Steve Keim was backstage at television tapings this week because he's being considered for a backstage position.

Matt Hardy and Lita played True or False, mostly agreeing on topics including Stone Cold, Team Extreme, and intergender matches. Droz's latest commentary covers his Backlash predictions, RAW and Smackdown developments, and Mother's Day.

IGN interviewed Shelton Benjamin about video games, his own game character, Evolution, Brock Lesnar, and Sting. THQ unveiled their 2004 lineup at the Electronic Entertainment Expo including WWE Day of Reckoning.

WWE may be rethinking a strong push for Hirohito due to their business in Japan. WWE reportedly Hiroki Suzuki, the wife of Kenzo "Hirohito" Suzuki, and she's expected to debut with him. Tough Enough 3's Matt Cappotelli was expected to move up to Smackdown, but it's been delayed due to a concussion he suffered working with Bob Holly.

Tomorrow night's NWA TNA PPV will feature AJ Styles defending the NWA title against Raven, Sonjay Dutt vs. Amazing Red in the first match of a best two out of three series, Team NWA vs. Team Canada, Trinity vs. Desire, Michael Shane vs. Shane Douglas, and Erik Watts vs. Abyss. NWA TNA is reportedly going to make subject wrestlers to a 15% booking fee for non-TNA shows, as well as require promoters to pay 50% of the total booking fee up front. Wrestlers will also now all be paid by check, not cash, and will be forced to report their income. NWA TNA's Sinn will appear on National Geographic's Taboo series as part of the Carnival Diablo.

Alan Wojcik interviewed Dan Maff about his training, Da' Hit Squad, the Haas brothers, Ring of Honor and more. Derek Burgan reviewed Ring of Honor's Final Battle 2003 with Great Muta/Arashi vs. The Prophecy in the main event. Mike Johsnon has a bunch of CZW notes on their Friday night house shows, Rockin' Rebel, and the third annual Tournament of Death.

Jimmy "The Boogie Woogie Man" Valiant is wrestling his farewell tour at age 61 after 40 years in the business. Scott Campione will wrestle Demolition Ax on May as part of events surrounding the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame 2004 induction ceremony in Schenectady, NY. Eric Gargiulo will be the announcer for H2 Pro Wrestling.

The Goldberg episode of Monster Garage will re-air this Friday on the Discovery Channel. Lillian Garcia sang the National Anthem for Dodgers/Expos game on Saturday. Buff Bagwell's race car driver Michael Perkins was 13th at Southside Speedway in Virginia.

Variety and SLAM both have reviews of documentary Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling. The Wrestling Channel has opened an online store.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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