Impact, Bradshaw, Rico, Lesnar, Hart, Raven Jun 18 - 11:47 pm EDT

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

Quick TNA Impact Results: The Naturals over Sonjay Dutt/Sabu, Abyss over D-Ray 3000, AJ Styles over Mr. Aguila, Ron Killings over Eric Young.

Smackdown scored a 3.0 rating last night, down from 3.1 last week, but it was high enough to keep UPN in fourth place ahead of FOX and WB. Next week's Smackdown in Canada on The Score will be delayed until 10pm because of the NBA draft. The RAW crew is in Spartanburg, SC tonight, and tomorrow they're in North Charleston, SC.

Bradshaw appeared on the Howard Stern show this morning to defend his actions in Germany and blame his firing on the internet. With Shawn Michaels' "injury" WWE updated their Madison Square Garden card for next weekend with Triple H vs. Chris Benoit and Randy Orton vs. Edge. Rico suffered a hamstring injury during the tag team title match on Smackdown, although the severity isn't yet known. Miss Jackie's latest column covers the life of a wrestler, living on the road, and their recent international travel.

Ric Flair will be a guest on TSN's Off The Record on July 21. WWE will introduce RAW Enegery Fuel Cell, an energy drink, to Canada on June 23. Cineplex Ideon theaters in Canada will be the exclusive home of Great American Bash and the October RAW PPV, and they'll also be carrying other WWE PPVs for the rest of the year alongside Famous Players. WWE will hold a Summerslam brunch on August 15 at Planet Hollywood in Toronto to benefit Variety: The Children's Charity.

TNA Impact will begin airing Saturday nights at midnight in the Baltimore, MD / Washington, DC area Comcast Sports Net starting on July 3. NWA TNA is taking pre-orders for the Phenomenal: Best of AJ Styles two disc DVD set. TNA's recruited more than 800 people to their street team in the past few days.

The ESPN Sportscenter feature on Brock Lesnar is scheduled for the 9:30m Sunday edition of the show. The Washington Post has an article on Brock Lesnar's NFL chances with his agent saying he's "very confident" Lesnar will be picked up by an NFL team. Brock Lesnar was also quoted in USA Today defending his NFL tryout with the Minnesota Vikings. Goldberg has been added to the The Winning Way - A Day Of Champions event on July 11 in Anaheim, CA, which will also include Hulk Hogan and Steve Austin.

Raven reinjured his rib on Wednesday's PPV causing him to pull out of his match at tomorrow's USA Pro Wrestling's show. Christopher Daniels and AJ Styles will both debut at H2Wrestling's August 28 show, and Mike Modest will appear on the July 31 show. Bret Hart will be at the August 14 Ballpark Brawl in Buffalo, NY which will also feature AJ Styles wrestling. Alan Wojcik interviewed Teddy Hart about his family, AJ Styles, H2Wrestling, NWA TNA and more.

The no compete stipulation in the split between Ring of Honor and RF Video has reportedly been dropped and RF Video will likely run their own shows in the future. Rob Feinstein has been calling people in the wrestling industry in an unofficial capacity to ensure relationships with RF Video, and RF Video has asked their mailing list subscribers to notify them if anyone else, such as Ring of Honor, sends them mail.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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