Smackdown, TNA, H2W, Foley, New Jack Jun 17 - 11:57 pm EDT

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

Quick Smackdown Results: Dudley Boys over Rico/Charlie Haas to win the WWE Tag Team Titles, Eddy Guerrero over Doug Basham, Kenzo Suzuki over Spike Dudley, Rey Mysterio Jr. over Chavo Classic to win the Cruiserweight Title, Luther Reigns over Funaki, and Rob Van Dam/John Cena vs. Booker T/Rene Dupree was a no contest.

The RAW crew is in Spartanburg, SC tomorrow night. Last week's two hours of RAW ranked #6 and #13, behind Ronald Reagan specials, the MTV Movie Awards, Low and Order, and Zenon: Z3. WWE launched their Vengeance website featuring Randy Orton.

PWInsider has an in-depth review of Ric Flair's autobiography with some quotes from the book. Steven Richards, Earl Hebner and Harvey Whippleman were all guests on Byte This! this afternoon with Whippleman discussing some of the people he's managed, his work with WWE, and being Women's Champion, while Earl Hebner discussed his disappearance, his twin brother, and his son, and Stevie Richards talked about Stevie Night Heat, Right to Censor, and Victoria. The country of Bhutan is still concerned about the impact of WWE and other violent television on their culture, so much so that some would like to see it banned. A Philadelphia, PA comedy group is claiming WWE stole their Eugene character which they'd pitched to Spike TV in December as part of a TV show that was declined.

There are TNA Impact! spoilers from tonight's taping in Orlando, FL. NWA TNA's Impact's debut two weeks ago scored a .32 rating which was above expectations. Chad Collyer wasn't offered an NWA TNA contract last night as he and others had reportedly expected.

H2Wrestling moved the site of their debut June 26 show to Somerville Theatre in Somerville, MA, just outside Boston, MA, after concerns about the original location being in Boston, MA during the Democratic National Convention. On last night's Between The Ropes show, Jack Victory announced WORLD-1's Florida tour has been postponed until August, moving from July 16-18 to August 13-15, and the Chicago shows will be moved from August until September. With the move from Maryland to Pennsylvania, Ring Of Honor is changing the name of their June 24 show from the Shane Shamrock Cup to Survival of the Fittest. The show will no longer have the Maryland Championship Wrestling Memorial Battle Royal, but will feature the return of Ricky Steamboat after being "injured" by CM Punk in May. The delay in the official Ring of Honor / RF Video split is largely due to Rob Feinstein's unwillingness to sign a no compete clause unless he's offered more money.

The fourth and final part of Flynn Files' interview with Warrior is now online, covering his life outside of wrestling, his bodybuilding routines, being a conservative, and name responses. Raven's website has the details on how he broke his rib at last week's TNA Impact taping. Goldberg was at the Florida Marlins baseball game last night and was interviewed by Fox Sports Net's Craig Minervini (aka WWE commentator Craig DeGeorge). US Magazine is reporting that Brooke Bollea is dating Aaron Carter, with a few comments on the situation from her father.

Get In The Ring radio interviewed Mick Foley about Honkey Tonk Man, coming out of retirement, Vince McMahon and more. IGN Sports interviewed New Jack about his addition to Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood, his start in wrestling, and hardcore wrestling. Ken Shamrock was a guest on Pro Wrestling Radio on Saturday and discussed injuries, UFC, WWE and more. Court Bauer was also a guest on Pro Wrestling Radio and he discussed H2 Wrestling, Teddy Hart, MLW and more.

Ultimo Dragon will wrestle American Dragon at New Japan Pro Wrestling's first TV taping on June 26 in Santa Monica, CA. USA Pro Wrestling returns to Long Island, NY on Saturday without Raven (injury) or Teddy Hart ("no-showing"), but with Al Snow vs. D'Lo Brown and Sabu vs. Homicide. The August Free Press has an article on the Night of the Superstars on October 30 to benefit University of Virginia Children's Medical Center.

Florida wrestling promoter Michael "Bobby Rogers" Rapuano was indicted by a federal grand jury and is "accused of defrauding a national communications company and several credit card firms out of thousands of dollars." He's currently in prison on unrelated charges involving bad checks and violating probation. Netjack has a review of Total Extreme Warfare giving it an 8.4 score overall. Monster Garagage's announcer The Big Schwag got his nickname and job working as a professional wrestler in UPW and being spotted in a documentary.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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