RAW, Wrestlemania, USA, Hogan, Foley Apr 04 - 11:56 pm EDT

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

Quick RAW Results: Shelton Benjamin over Chris Jericho and Christian, Chris Benoit over Edge, and Batista over Randy Orton.

There are early Heat spoilers from tonight's RAW in Los Angeles, CA. Smackdown will be taped in San Diego, CA tomorrow night.

WWE and USA officially announced WWE's return to the cable network in October as part of a new three year deal. The deal, which includes specials on NBC and WWE themed amusement park rides, is only for RAW and Heat, which most likely means the end of Velocity. USA will be handling ad sales which also means less guaranteed money to WWE for their programming. WWE may have had the deal with USA done a month ago with plans to save the announcement until today until Spike TV disrupted their plans with their announcement about ending negotiations.

Wrestlemania 21 was the highest grossing WWE event ever at the Staples Center bringing in over $2.1 million in ticket sales from a crowd of 20,913 people. The McMahons and Triple H were interviewed on CNN's Headline News about Wrestlemania and their new TV deal. SLAM has an article looking at why Wrestlemania and Hollywood were a great fit. The Los Angeles Daily News has an article on Wrestlemania with comments from some fans.

Batista hugged Triple H's father at ringside following his title win. Booker T won the interpromotional Wrestlemania battle royal between about 30 wrestlers which will be made available as a Wrestlemania 21 DVD extra. WireImage has a few photos of Motorhead's performance at Wrestlemania 21 last night.

The Rock attended the WWE post-Wrestlemania party last night along with most other wrestlers and a few celebrities. Randy Orton will be out of the ring for 4-6 months for shoulder surgery. Some PPV previews are already listing Wrestlemania main event rematches for the next individual brand shows.

There are several live reports from Wrestlemania last night. People within WWE were reportedly happy with Wrestlemania. Several Pro Wrestling Guerilla wrestlers reportedly left during JBL vs. John Cena because of how disappointing it was.

The Associated Press ran a photo of Vince McMahon, Hulk Hogan and Sylvester Stallone from the Hall of Fame ceremony. The Associated Press also ran another article on Hulk Hogan's Hall of Fame induction. The Torch has another live report from the Hall of Fame ceremony on Saturday.

WWE named Jim Brown as Director of Operations, WWE Enterprises, and he'll have an initial focus on WWE 24/7's rollout. WWE filed a new trademark for WCW but it may simply relate to using their footage. PWInsider has a recap of Chris Jericho's XM radio show which ran last night opposite Wrestlemania.

Terry Funk and Mick Foley appeared at Harley Race's WLW show on Saturday night. The Torch has some Ring of Honor notes on AJ Styles, Austin Aries and upcoming shows. Lipstick & Dynamite was a part of the Wisconsin Film Festival this past weekend. The Torch made a 20 minute audio preview of their Ultimate Insiders DVD available.

Goldberg can be seen hosting the Discovery Channel's Biker Build-Up. ESPN Classic Canada is running a tribute to Curt Hennig on April 24 with old TNA matches. Sean Radican reviewed Dave Meltzer's Tributes II and calls it "interesting and informative" while being "difficult to read for long periods of time." The UK's News of the World has an article on the new reality series Celebrity Wrestling.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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