TNA, Sammartino, Moolah, Barr, WXW May 19 - 11:53 pm EDT

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

Quick NWA TNA Results: Jerry Lynn over Bobby Rude, D-Ray 3000 over David Young, Team Mexico (Mr. Aguila/Abismo Negro/Heavy Metal) over Team Japan (Nosawa/Ryuji Hijikata/Mitsu Hirai Jr.), Amazing Red over Sonjay Dutt, Dusty Rhodes/James Storm over Kid Kash/Dallas, and Ron Killings over AJ Styles and Chris Harris and Raven to win the NWA Heavyweight title.

There are Smackdown spoilers from last night, plus a few non-spoiler notes, in Las Vegas, NV. Bruce Prichard is reportedly responsible for Smackdown's more 80's style booking as he's suggesting the ideas they've ended up using. Dean Malenko and Arn Anderson will be guests on tomorrow's Byte This!

WWE.com has an article on Shawn Michaels and Triple H's long rivalry leading to another match at Bad Blood. Konnan may be attempting to get an announcing job with WWE. Yesterday's Edmonton Journal had an article on Chris Benoit meeting Edmonton Oilers dressing-room attendant Joey Moss, a huge fan who also has Down’s Syndrome, and he'll even be sending him a replica title belt.

The Motley Fool has a piece on WWE's latest financial numbers and what they all mean. The Seattle Times has an article on WWE running smaller markets such as their Sunday show in Everett, WA.

Rikishi will be working a match for World Xtreme Wrestling against Mean Gene Snisky on May 28. WXW will also hold an open tryout on May 23 in Allentown, PA.

Bruno Sammartino was honored by the Pittsburgh, PA city council with a special ceremony yesterday to celebrate the 41st anniversary of his first world title win. Moolah and Mae Young are scheduled for the Tonight Show on May 24. SLAM has an article titled Art Barr: What could have been with comments from friend and tag partner Eddy Guerrero, Dave Meltzer, Norman Smiley and others about what his career may have been like had he not died.

Steve Corino posted a new commentary about WORLD-1, Maxim's list of beautiful women, and lots more. Indy film "The Scam Artist" with Kimberly and Diamond Dallas Page in the lead roles will be released on DVD on July 6. The Buffalo News has an article on the awarding of the Ilio DiPaolo Wrestling Scholarship to Joe Calderon. The scholarship is named in honor of professional wrestler Ilio DiPaolo who was killed in a 1995 car accident.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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