ECW, Ratings, Stratus, Jericho, Edge Aug 29 - 11:01 pm EDT

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

Quick ECW Results: Bob Holly over Rob Van Dam via DQ, CM Punk over Stevie Richards, and Paul Heyman over Sabu.

The ECW crew was in Poughkeepsi, NY last night with Rob Van Dam over Bob Holly. Smackdown and ECW were in Reading, PA tonight, and live spoilers from Smackdown are already available.

RAW scored a 3.4 rating (3.3 / 3.4 / 5.1 Share) last night on Sci-Fi, with another 0.6 rating (0.7 / 0.5 / 2.5 Share) for the later airing on USA. USA ended up delaying RAW until after 12:30 AM last night due to the US Open. Vince McMahon decided to beef up tonight's ECW main event due to fewer viewers watching RAW last night. WWE issued a press release on drawing young adult male viewers in an effort to attract more advertisers.

WWE will hold their Unforgiven press conference on September 12 at noon in Toronto, ON. WWE wrestlers will be involved in several Toronto area activities to promote Unforgiven. WWE.com spoke to Edge about his chances at Unforgiven.

WWE's jet made five different flights within 24 hours to make several ECW and WWE shows. WWE applied for several new trademarks, likely related to OVW's Neighborhoodies. The lease was okayed for Vince McMahon's $2.3 million tennis center in his mother's community of Ebensburg, PA.

Trish Stratus confirmed her decision to retire with WWE.com. WWE Magazine interviewed Triple H in this month's magazine about topics including his backstage power. WWE.com has a new feature on Matt Hardy's Mailbag. WWE.com has an article on Hell in a Cell as DX prepares for the first tag-team Hell in a Cell match.

The Philadelphia Daily News has a Q&A with John Cena about the Marine, acting vs. wrestling, rapping and more. The Pittsburgh Channel ran an article on Kurt Angle's WWE release. Lita and Virgil are scheduled for this weekend's Atlanta, GA DragonCon.

Media Life has an article on the new CW network and its mix of old UPN and CW shows. Broadcasting and Cable cited WWE and Monk as reasons for USA's ratings success. ECW will be moving from Sunday to Thursday in the UK.

Illinois Republican gubernatorial nominee Judy Baar Topinka will introduce the Rock prior to the screening of Gridiron Gang. Stacy Keibler is a part-owner of a ABA minor league basketball team, the Hollywood Fame. Chris Jericho was the first celebrity eliminated from Celebrity Duets. Entertainment Weekly spoke to Chris Jericho about the series Celebrity Duets. Nacho Libre's been a big hit in Mexico.

Jeff Jarrett will replace Jerry Lawler at the September 22 Wrestle Birmingham event. Dory Funk Jr.'s latest column for TNA looks at Jeff Jarrett and wrestling history.

An MTV story on VMA parties references Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth at Wrestlemania IV. James Laurinaitis, son of Animal, was quoted in an Associated Press tory on his team the Ohio State Buckeyes. A new book on women's wrestling in the 1950's titled The Revenge of Hatpin Mary: Women, Professional Wrestling And Fan Culture in the 1950s by Chad Dell, an Associate Professor of Communication at Monmouth University, has been released.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

Today's News Headlines

Daily Rapp Up Archives

 Jul August 2006 Sep 
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
  12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
Get Firefox