Smackdown, TNA, Bearer, ROH, H2W Jun 24 - 11:56 pm EDT

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

Quick Smackdown Results: Chavo Guerrero Jr. won the 10 man cruiserweight battle royal by eliminating Billy Kidman, Billy Gunn over Kenzo Suzuki via DQ, Eddy Guerrero over Luther Reigns, Rene Dupree over Rob Van Dam, and Undertaker over John Cena.

The RAW crew is in Buffalo, NY tomorrow night. WWE released a complete card for Saturday's RAW house show at Madison Square Garden in New York City, NY. ESP Magazine has a preview of Monday's Smackdown house show in Winston Salem, NC with a look back at some of WWE's history. WWE will partner with the Ohio Valley Greyhounds to give anyone who purchases a WWE ticket on Saturday a $2 discount on any $10 seat at the Greyhounds game that night.

WWE's two hours of RAW ranked #4 and #7 last week behind Salem's Lot, Monk, Law & Order and Sex and the City. There were a few minor injuries and pains for Matt Hardy, Victoria and Trish Stratus during last weekend's house shows. WWE agents have been mixing up planned matches at house shows in an effort to make wrestlers rely less on planned spots and instead call matches on the fly. Gail Kim and Nidia generated different reactions to their visits from the Smackdown locker room on Tuesday.

WWE reportedly loves the Diva Search, and was pleased with the Jericho/Batista angle on RAW. Dominic Pagliaro quit the Smackdown creative team reportedly after he didn't get a pay raise he expected for a new job at MTV, however many wrestlers don't seem upset to see him go. Les Thatcher used his latest column to give an insider's view of the WWE developmental process amid some recent allegations of mistreatment by Bobbi Billard. At a recent Smackdown house show, John Cena was so impressed with one fan nicknamed Johnny Light-show, he invited him into the ring.

Eddy Guerrero, John Cena and Dawn Marie were the guests on Byte This! this afternoon, with Dawn Marie discussing charity work, being a WWE Diva, and Simon Diamond, John Cena talking about becoming a WWE superstar, Method Man, and Randy Orton, and Eddy Guerrero discussing Judgment Day, his TV special, and being WWE Champion. John Pollock offered a review of Ric Flair's book in the latest LAW update. Chris Jericho will be a guest on the radio show Friday Night Rocks tomorrow night, and on America Saturday Nights on XM channel 41 on Saturday night. The Northern Ireland Make-A-Wish foundation granted Rhabdomyosarcoma sufferer Ryan Laverty's wish last week to meet Rey Mysterio Jr. in Florida.

Paul Bearer may be done with WWE after this weekend's PPV, possibly even being killed off. Thirty-seven USO's have taken WWE up on their offer of a free showing of Great American Bash on Sunday for the troops. The October 19 RAW PPV will likely be called Halloween Havoc.

There are live notes and Xplosion spoilers from last night's TNA's 2nd anniversary PPV and aftershow party. There are also TNA Impact spoilers from tonight's taping in Orlando, FL. There's one spoiler from tonight's TNA Impact about an upcoming wrestler's return. Dave Scherer looked at what Jeff Hardy's appearance in TNA might mean for his rumored WWE return. TNA announced they granted Toy Biz an exclusive license to make TNA-based toys.

The latest impasse in the Ring of Honor / RF Video split is due to Ring of Honor's desire to sell videos of other promotions in direct competition with RF Video. The venue for H2 Wrestling's now cancelled debut show was telling callers H2 Wrestling never booked it, however H2 Wrestling provided some proof to PWInsider that they did indeed book it. Masakazu Kusama has replaced Tatsumi Fujinami as New Japan's president.

The Lowell Sun has an article on Walter "Killer" Kowalski and his work training students at the Chaotic Training Center. South Florida's Sun Sentinel has an article on wrestling training and the long road to success for the trainees. The UK edition of Big Brother has a Jonny Fairplay style contestant named Victor who uses wrestling catchphrases.

shaunomac made his wrestlingDB debut with his column The Strip Down, so check that out. That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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