ECW, WWE Corporate, Nash Jun 13 - 11:07 pm EDT

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

Quick ECW Results: The Sandman over The Zombie, Kurt Angle over Justin Credible, and Sabu won the battle royal.

There are live notes from tonight's ECW and Smackdown taping in Trenton, NJ. WWE decided to air tonight's ECW show on a tape delay, taping before Smackdown, to make sure it came off well and more importantly because Sci-Fi was nervous after crowd chants at Sunday's PPV. WWE trademarked A New Breed Unleashed for ECW. WWE called up several developmental wrestlers for the ECW launch.

There are live notes and WWE Unlimited notes from RAW last night in State College, PA. USA regained its #1 cable network status last week due to the return of The 4400 and the WWE vs. ECW special. WWE added Randy Orton vs. Kurt Angle to Vengeance at today's press conference. WWE setup a new Degeneration X site. Ric Flair is expected to be among the guests of Mike Campbell, a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, as primary results come in.

WWE held their earnings conference call today with Linda McMahon discussing growth plans, Jakks Pacific, ECW and more. WWE announced their fourth quarter results with revnues of $114.3 million, down from $118.3 million last year, and an operating income of $15.1 million, down from $22.5 million last year. WWE's profit drop was largely due to a drop in cable television advertising. WWE saw PPV revenues rise slightly over last year, but they had four PPVs in the quarter this year as opposed to three last year. WWE declared a 24 cent per share quarterly dividend payable on July 10.

TNA and Spike TV held a conference call with Kevin Nash today with Nash discussing his time in TNA, Scott Hall, DX, nWo and more. Kevin Nash and Jeff Jarrett will be all over the radio on Friday morning. TNA published a fan's guide to Slammiversary. Christy Hemme and Gail Kim will be part of a Spike TV special on the hottest women on (Spike TV) television.

The family of murder victims Lynn and Fred Gilbank are still waiting to find out why charges against Johnny "K-9" Croitoru were dropped. SLAM has an article on David "Goldie Rogers" Sherwin's induction into the Canadian Wrestling Hall of Fame. Monsters and Critics has a brief review of Brooke Hogan's new single About Us. Nacho Libre's Jack Black's wife Tanya Haden gave birth to a baby boy.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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