Impact, Carlito, Puder, Foley, Lesnar, Fozzy Dec 10 - 11:53 pm EST

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

Quick Impact Results: Christopher Daniels over Mikey Batts, America's Most Wanted over Michael Shane/Kazarian, Monty Brown over Glenn Gilberti, and Hector Garza over AJ Styles.

The RAW crew was in Columbus, GA tonight, and tomorrow they're in Macon, GA. WWE sold about 6000 tickets for their Madison Square Garden show last Sunday. RAW in Canada on TSN will be delayed until midnight on December 20 due to the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship Tournament. The blonde girl on RAW was Lana Kinnear also known as Lana Starr, Women of Wrestling's champion.

Smackdown scored a 3.4 rating, the same as last week. Smackdown kept UPN in fifth place last night ahead of WB. Lita vs. Trish in RAW's main event didn't impact the ratings much, either negatively or positively. Media Life Magazine has an article on cable television ratings with more detailed stats on WWE's place in the ratings last week.

The Sun interviewed Carlito Carribean Cool about his Puerto Rican roots, his father, WWE, and spitting apples. Carlito was also a guest on talkSPORT Radio's "James Whale Show" and discussed, in character, his injury, RAW, staying cool, movies, and more. Alex Marvez interviewed Daniel Puder about Tough Enough, MMA, and his match with Kurt Angle. Daniel Puder posted an essay about himself in his own words which it turns out are not really his own words and instead from a sample college essay.

WWE has an unofficial Hall of Fame poll to see who fans would like to see inducted. Mick Foley took part in a holiday dinner for wounded troops, giving away copies of "Tales From Wrescal Lane" to children and revealing he'll be part of WWE's upcoming trip to the Middle East. Brock Lesnar is reportedly ready to make a comeback, although no one's specifically said to wrestling.

In the video game sales charts, Smackdown vs. RAW was #5 in the United States and #4 in Canada. IGN has a trick/bug for Smackdown vs. RAW to give your create-a-wrestler an unremoveable skull mask. Triple H's book signing in Northridge, CA drew about 300-400 people.

The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer interviewed Chris Jericho about Fozzy, his favorite Stryper song, dangers of being a wrestling singer, and their new record. The Macon Telegraph also has an article on Fozzy's show there tomorrow night. Wrestling figures, such as Undertaker, qualify as war toys in a Peace Toys for War Toys exchange, where kids give up the war toy for a new peace toy.

Ask Men has an interview with Goldberg about the NFL, wrestling, WCW vs. WWE, and more. Les Thatcher's latest column covers TNA's latest PPV and the importance of training with the basics. Steve Corino issued a statement on the status and future of ZERO-ONE, and says while the earlier promotion is dead, the brand name lives on. Australian wrestler Ron Miller released a two disc DVD set of World Championship Wrestling matches from Australia in the mid 1960s-1980s.

The UK's Wrestling Channel has confirmed some financial problems and they'll run repeats during most of December and January. Mike Johnson has Ring of Honor news and notes on the December 26 show, Alex Shelley, Bobby Heenan, and more. Joey Styles will be doing commentary for the Sabue tribute show DVD, with proceeds from that also going to help pay Sabu's medical expenses. FUSION's debut show is next Friday in Elizabeth, NJ with the SAT vs. Mitsuharu Misawa/Yoshinari Ogawa.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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