RAW, Violence, Patterson, Divas, ROH Aug 07 - 11:05 pm EDT

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

Quick RAW Results: Kane over Shelton Benjamin, John Cena over Viscera, Edge/Lita over Carlito/Trish Stratus, Randy Orton over Jerry Lawler, and Umaga over Triple H.

The ECW crew was in Jackson, TN last night with Big Show over Sabu. The Smackdown crew was in Jackson, MS last night. The Smackdown crew was in Tupelo, MS tonight, and tomorrow Smackdown and ECW are in Nashville, TN.

A study published today claims a link between violence and professional wrestling viewership in teen males, a finding WWE and Vince McMahon dispute calling it junk science. Tomorrow's ECW will be headlined by Kurt Angle vs. Sabu for a shot at Big Show. WWE made several edits to this weeks' ECW show before it aired in the UK.

Pat Patterson underwent emergency heart surgery on Sunday and now remains in critical but stable conditions. Paul Bearer appeared at Saturday's Mobile, AL Smackdown show. The Oshkosh Wisconsin Northwestern has an article on Dylan "Little Bastard" Postl and his quick WWE success.

Torrie Wilson will appear on Thursday's Best Damn Sports Show Period. The WWE Divas give advice on various subjects in the new issue of WWE Magazine. Singapore's Electric New Paper has an article on Kane and his role in See No Evil.

Ring of Honor's August 12 show in Liverpool, England will feature a title unificiation match between Ring of Honor Champion Bryan Danielson and Ring of Honor Pure Champion Nigel McGuinness under Pure Wrestling rules. TNA published the line-up for Sunday's Hard Justice PPV. Scott Steiner vs. Samoe Joe will headline this weekend's TNA/UWF show in Columbia, SC.

Inside Pulse interviewed Austin Aries about his name, WWE and TNA, being vegetarian and more. Jim Cornette was the guest on last night's Wrestling Observer Live discussing the Hall of Fame. Ken Patera was mentioned in today's Wall Street Journal for comments about drug use in the Olympics in the 1970s.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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