TNA, Lita, Flair, Rock, Hardy, Bigelow, DDP Jun 30 - 11:59 pm EDT

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

Quick TNA Results: Sabu/Sonjay Dutt over Bobby Roode/Petey Williams, Monty Brown vs. D'Lo Brown was a double CO, Irish Pat Kenny/Sonny Siaki over Glenn Gilberti/Johnny Swinger, Abyss over Erik Watts, The Naturals over America's Most Wanted, and AJ Styles over Kazarian and Michael Shane and Chris Sabin and Christopher Daniels and Amazing Red.

There are Smackdown spoilers from last night in Fayeteville, NC. Tickets for next week's RAW and Smackdown have sold very well.

Lita's pregnancy may last the full 9 months meaning it'd be born shortly before Wrestlemania. Jacqueline has been released by WWE, but Rikishi is still under contract while undergoing rehab for injuries. InDemand has the Summerslam poster in their preview of the PPV.

MTV.com has an article on Fozzy's next album and their desire to be taken seriously. Ric Flair will be doing a number of book signings around the country. Sports Illustrated's Josh Elliot wrote about Brock Lesnar's NFL dream saying it's a bad idea while getting a few facts wrong. Peoria, IL's WHOI did some tests on library web filtering software noting one wrestling news site was filtered while WWE.com was not, despite it having "pictures of nearly naked women."

Ric Flair and Sgt. Slaughter will be on Byte This! tomorrow afternoon. Kurt Angle's Rove Live appearance next week in Australia is on the radio show, not the TV show. The Rock will be a guest on Live with Regis and Kelly on Friday morning.

With the split from RF Video official, Ring of Honor have opened discussions with TNA about the return of some of their contracted wrestlers in the future. Ring of Honor is hoping for a faster turnaround in DVD and video releases of their shows as they'll be working directly with a Florida production company.

Jeff Hardy and TNA are reportedly close to a one a year contract deal which may include some promotion of his band Peroxwhy?gen. TNA contracted wrestlers won't appear at the Ward Family Entertainment show to benefit the University of Virginia Children's Medical Center on October 30 in Waynesboro, VA, but it will still feature Buff Bagwell vs. Kanyon, Jim Duggan vs. Big Boss Man, and nWo Sting vs. David Flair.

Les Thatcher's latest column is about watching young talent grow, specifically his former student Nigel McGuinness. SLAM has an article on East Coast Professional Wrestling owner Gino Caruso covering his own in ring career and his successful wrestling.

Bloody-Disgusting.com has a photo from Rob Zombie's movie The Devil's Rejects which includes Diamond Dallas Page. Bam Bam Bigelow is opening an ice cream shop in Hamlin, PA. The Big Texan Steakhouse in Amarillo and their 72 ounce steak challenge were featured on Food Network last night with them noting Klondike Bill holding the record for eating 144 ounces in one hour.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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