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Quick Smackdown Results: Dudley Boyz over Rob Van Dam/Rey Mysterio Jr., Booker T over Scotty 2 Hotty, Spike Dudley/Torrie Wilson over Jamie Noble/Dawn Marie, Chavo Classic over Akio, and John Cena over Rene Dupree.

The RAW crew was in Dublin, Ireland again today with Chris Benoit over Triple H. Tomorrow, the RAW crew will be in Manchester, England. Stephanie McMahon's appearance at the Dublin, Ireland house show is probably not indicative of a return to WWE television in the near future. Several NWA Florida stars, including Norman Smiley and Scoot Andrews, will wrestle WWE dark matches at the June 21 RAW in Miami, FL and the June 22 Smackdown in Orlando, FL.

Smackdown was pre-empted in Washington, DC tonight, and will air Sunday at 7pm. The Eddy Guerrero special did a 1.1 rating (2 share) and finished in 6th place last night. If you missed the Eddy Guerrero UPN special, there are recaps of the show available. Last week's two hours of RAW finished #4 and #8 behind NBA playoffs, Read World/Road Rules Inferno, Fairly OddParents and SpongeBob SquarePants.

Chris Benoit has been added to Tuesday's WWE press conference in Toronto, ON to officially announce Summerslam. Christopher Nowinski, Rob Van Dam and Chavo Classic were all guests on Byte This! this afternoon with Nowinski discussing his injury, Rob Van Dam discussing his move to Smackdown, and Chavo Classic talking about his family and career. Lance Storm discussed his new job in OVW in his latest commentary. WNYC's Survival Kit had Mick Foley as a guest and they posted his list of things he'd include in his own survival kit.

The Torch has a detailed recap of The Rock's appearance on the Academy of Country Music Awards last night where he presented Entertainer of the Year to Toby Keith. PWInsider has a fan report from a Jerry Lawler autograph signing in Davenport, IA. PWInsider has a complete list of extras for the WWE Hall of Fame 2004 DVD. SLAM's Jon Waldman reviewed the Wrestlemania XX DVD set and calls it a must have.

Former WCW announcer Pamela Paulshock gave birth to a baby boy named Peyton last week. Former WWE and WCW writer Ed "Oklahoma" Ferrara is teach a Writing for Television class at Columbia College in Chicago.

The St. Petersburg Times has an article on Brooke Hogan's performance at the Tampa Bay Lightning game on Tuesday, and news that her CD will be released on June 8. Hulk Hogan was on FAN 590 in Toronto, ON yesterday hyping the Tampa Bay/Calgary game in full Hulkster mode. Bobby Heenan will make an appearance in Marion, OH as one of the masters of ceremony at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's Night of 1,000 Stars fund-raiser on June 3. He will also do a book signing, and receive a city proclamation for Bobby Heenan Day.

Alex Marvez' latest column is about "Irish" Pat Kenney covering his name change from Simon Diamond, his relationship with Dawn Marie, TNA's Impact! and baseball. Between the Ropes interviewed Teddy Hart about his controversial history, H2Wrestling, Vince McMahon and the Hart family. Lodi posted a commentary update with more thoughts on his apartment fire.

TNA On Demand will be offering a free match of the week each week during the month of June. Next week's NWA TNA PPV will feature a new gimmick match type for the NWA Heavyweight title, and many wrestlers are reportedly nervous about TNA's Fox Sports Net TV deal.

NWA Florida released a full schedule for the 2nd Annual Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup two night tournament on June 4 in Brandon, FL and June 5 in St. Petersburg, FL. USA Pro Wrestling will run a show in Franklin Square, NY on June 19 with Raven vs. ?, and Teddy Hart vs. Sabu. H2Wrestling will allow fans to vote on the main event of their June 26 debut show in Boston, MA.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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