Impact, Victoria, Rock, West, H2Wrestling Jun 04 - 11:55 pm EDT

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

Quick TNA Impact Results: Amazing Red/Hector Garza/Sonjay Dutt over Team Canada, Abyss over Shark Boy, America's Most Wanted over Kid Kash/Dallas to win the NWA Tag Team titles, and AJ Styles over Elix Skipper and Chris Sabin and Michael Shane.

The Smackdown crew was in Milan, Italy yesterday with Eddy Guerrero over Bradshaw. The Smackdown crew was in Pesaro, Italy tonight, and tomorrow they're in Munich, Germany. The RAW crew is in Boston, MA tomorrow night. WWE cancelled the October 9 house show in Cologne, Germany.

Smackdown scored a 3.3 (6 Share) rating last night, up from a 2.9 last week. In the overnight ratings, UPN finished fourth ahead of ABC and the WB. Victoria spoke to Capital News 9 in Albany, NY to promote Monday's RAW and discussed her start in wrestling.

MTV ran a news story on Brooke Hogan, her famous father, and her upcoming CD release. There's a rumor that Dirty Harry may be remade and that The Rock is up for the role. Jason Black Bear, a 16 year old with muscular dystrophy who is facing death, says he has only one more wish, and that's to meet Shawn Michaels.

Mike Johnson has many notes on the Impact taping on crowd reactions, contracts, dark matches, and people running things backstage. Jerry Jarrett attended Wednesday's PPV but not the Impact taping as he continues to recover from heart surgery. Panda Energy's Bob Carter attended the taping, and seemed pleased with things. There were a few minor production mistakes at the Impact taping, which caused at least one do-over.

Dave Meltzer had a few thoughts on the report of a fan being told to turn off his phone at last night's Impact taping. PWInsider notes that it doesn't seem to be a TNA management policy, but probably an overzealous staffer.

CM Punk says he's open to discussion with TNA about a return. SLAM has a profile of NWA TNA's Dallas with his thoughts on Impact!, moving up to TNA from the indies, and his wrestling influences. The Tennessean has an article on NWA TNA announcer Don West and his multiple jobs in radio and wrestling.

Prior to the start of H2Wrestling, Court Bauer talked to Billy Corgan about investing in a promotion. Gary Hart will reveal his latest discovery "Mr. X" at the debut show on June 26. Sheldon Goldberg's New England Championship Wrestling will hold an H2Wrestling Spotlight match on their June 17 show. H2Wrestling, through former MLW connections, secured the rights to a lot of music for use on TV.

Get In The Ring interviewed Alan Funk about his injury in Finland, Sonny Siaki, Hulk Hogan and more. Get In The Ring also interviewed Kanyon about WCW, his time in WWE, his shoulder injury and DDP. Vader returns to an American ring for tomorrow's JAPW show in Rahway, NJ in a match with Mike Awesome against Danny Maff and Samoa Joe. PWInsider has a Female Facts profile of Foxxy Dreams with pictures, information on her career, and some of her thoughts on wrestling.

WrestlingClassics InDemand PPV Brawlin Beauties 2 will air throughout June, featuring Fabulous Moolah, Mildred Burke, June Byers and other female wrestlers. The Columbus Ledger Equirer has an article on the end of weekly wrestling shows and the chances of a return to older territorial promotions. Cape Town, South Africa's All-African Wrestling Federation show on Thursday night was so hot, the roof caught on fire, however no one was injured.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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