RAW, NYR, Injuries, Behrens, Laurer Jan 10 - 11:56 pm EST

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

Quick RAW Results: Shelton Benjamin over Maven, Muhammad Hassan over Hurricane, Edge over Rhyno, Chris Benoit/Chris Jericho over Christian/Tyson Tomko, Christy over Maria, and Randy Orton over Batista.

The Smackdown crew was in Orlando, FL last night with Undertaker over Kurt Angle. The Smackdown crew was in Jacksonville, FL tonight, and tomorrow night they tape Smackdown in Tampa, FL. WWE's Japanese RAW and Smackdown taping tickets sold well over the weekend so they should have sellouts by the time of the events. The Army National Guard, along with Mattel, will sponsor WWE's The Road To Wrestlemania 21 tour which starts on January 21 with 11 stops before Wrestlemania.

WWE.com interviewed Triple H about regaining his title, his tenth reign, and Randy Orton. WWE.com spoke to Lita about injuring her knee and losing the title. Eugene suffered a ruptured patella in his match last night, while Lita suffered a torn ACL which will require surgery. Maven's match against Shelton Benjamin was short reportedly due to management concerns about his in-ring ability. There are some off air notes from last night at New Year's Revolution in San Juan, PR.

New Jack was backstage at RAW tonight possibly to see if WWE can use him. Rob Van Dam is suffering from a knee injury which may require surgery. Super Crazy had hand surgery at the end of last month which is delaying any WWE entry.

Fox Sports's "Totally Football" covered Brock Lesnar's current status noting his desire to return to wrestling after not making the NFL. Fozzy's music video will debut on the February 12 airing of Headbanger's ball to be taped on February 9. Amy Weber's movie Starforce will be released to video tomorrow. Booker T and Sharmell "Paisley" Sullivan are getting married next month in Houston, TX. The XFL and the Mark Henry/Mae Young pregnancy angle both made the list in the book "What Were They Thinking? The 100 Dumbest Events in Television History"

TNA dropped Scott Hall vs. Hector Garza from their Final Resolution PPV, and have added Sonjay Dutt vs. Elix Skipper. Bill Behrens was dropped by TNA reportedly due to the expense of flying him in, although one wonders if his meeting with WWE last week about NWA Wildside becoming a developmental territory had anything to do with it. Kevin Nash will appear on Mancow's radio show tomorrow morning to promote Final Resolution. Jeff Jarrett was seen talking to RF Video's Rob Feinstein at the CyberSpace Wrestling Federation show over the weekend. Bill Banks posted a new Bank Shot column with a jab at WWE, news on Final Resolution, TNA commercials, DVDs and more.

NWA No Limit and IWA Mid South were in Muscatine, IA on Saturday with Jimmy Jacobs over Ryan Boz to win the NWA Iowa Heavyweight title. Mike Johnson has some Ring of Honor notes on Saturday's show in Cambridge, MA, James Gibson, John Walters, and more. 3PW returns to Philadelphia, PA on Saturday with Joey Matthews vs. Chris Sabin in a loser leaves 3PW match. Pro Wrestling Unplugged will run live events again starting on February 25 in Philadelphia, PA.

Derek Burgan reviewed RF Video's Sabu shoot video and says he "was honestly shocked at how well spoken Sabu comes across as in this DVD as well as his insights into the business." If you missed Joanie "Chyna" Laurer on the debut of Surreal Life 4 last night, VH1 will replay it throughout the week. Opie and Anthony trashed 1 Night in China saying it was the worst porno ever.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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