The RAW crew is in Philadelphia, PA tomorrow night.
RAW and Smackdown will be running simultaneous tours of Europe in October.
In the overnight ratings, Smackdown kept UPN in fifth place ahead of the WB.
WWE was mostly absent from the UPN Upfront presentation yesterday as they mostly focused on their attempts to lure young female viewers.
24 will move to Monday nights, opposite RAW's first hour in most of the country, starting in January 2005.
JBL's radio show debuts tomorrow morning on a few dozen stations.
Moolah and Mae Young will be on Monday's Tonight Show.
New York City's UPN9 News had a feature on the WWE Divas clothling line coming out in August.
Charlottesville, VA's WINA has a brief blurb on Chris Nowinski and Smackdown Your Vote's voter registration effort.
WWE announced that 6,144,908 shares of Class A stock in the public offering of the Vincent K. McMahon Irrevocable Trust would be priced at $11.50 for a total of more than $70 million.
WWE launched their Bad Blood website with Edge featured.
WWE will offer the Great American Bash PPV for free to domestic USO affiliates so they can host on-base events for troops to watch the PPV.
WWE is joining TNA is providing Spanish language updates.
Tomorrow's Ring of Honor show is said to be "the most unpredictable ROH show yet and the most important" according to booker Gabe Sapolsky.
Ring of Honor will announce a decision on Monday about the status of the Pure Wrestling Title.
1wrestling has a recap of Bobby Heenan's appearance on the Dennis Miller show this evening.
The TNA Academy at the Asylum will hold their next "Gut Check" on May 31/June 1.
Australian wrestling legend Mario Milano discussed some of his wrestling memories and the state of professional wrestling in that country.
That's it for today. Thanks for reading.
UPN, JBL, Divas, WWE, ROH, Heenan May 21 - 11:59 pm EDT
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- 01:10 am PWI: UPDATED LINEUP FOR RING OF HONOR'S GENERATION NEXT THIS SATURDAY IN PHILADELPHIA; BUS TRIP FROM NYC by Mike Johnson
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