ECW, WWE, TNA, Danielson, Benoit, Hogan Aug 28 - 11:40 pm EDT

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

Quick ECW Results: Kevin Thorn over Stevie Richards, Elijah Burke over Balls Mahoney, and CM Punk over Big Daddy V and Miz and Boogeyman.

There are off air notes from last night's RAW in Boston, MA. WWE.com posted an update on John Cena's father following last night's RAW. RAW will be taped on Sunday this week in Columbus, OH. RAW will be in Mr. Kennedy's hometown of Green Bay, WI in a couple weeks when Vince McMahon plans to accuse the woman suing him.

There are live Smackdown spoilers from tonight's taping in Albany, NY. Mike Knox was at tonight's Smackdown taping. WWE was mentioned by the Wall Street Journal in an article on websites targeting mobile web viewers.

WWE launched their Unforgiven 2007 site. The Diva Search winner is expected to be announced at Cyber Sunday on October 28. WWE issued a press release on their one millionth fan in attendance at the Continental Airlines Arena Sunday for Summerslam. WWE has several European tours planned over the next few months.

Steve Austin will be signing copies of The Condemned in New York City on September 21. Publisher's Weekly had positive things to say about Chris Jericho's autobiography A Lion's Tale. Bret Hart's autobiography may be released in Canada first in October, then in the United States next year. VH-1's Scott Baio is 45 and Single, executive produced by Eric Bischoff, has been picked up for a second season.

There are Impact spoilers and notes from last night's taping in Orlando, FL. In addition to Samoa Joe, TNA pulled Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin and Low Ki from the Ted Petty Invitational due to Ian Rotten owing the promotion money. Jimmy Rave may wrestle for TNA at No Surrender and the following Impact taping next month.

Due to his detached retina surgery, Bryan Danielson's been replaced in the NWA Championship tournament on Saturday in Bayamon, PR. Mike Johnson has Ring of Honor notes on injuries, Misawa, upcoming shows and more. SLAM has an article on last week's Ballpark Brawl which had to be pushed back due to a rain delay. SLAM also has a report on the Ottawa SuperEx show with plenty of wrestlers from the 80's.

Dr. Phil Astin's lawyer Manny Arrora filed a motion yesterday asking for additional time, until September 21, to go over an extra 81 pages of materials in the criminal case against Astin. The UK's Sun spoke to Marc Mero to get his response to recent comments by Ken Kennedy about steroid and drug use in wrestling. Police say Nick Hogan's car accident was due to excessive speed. TMZ posted more documentation on Nick Hogan's previous run-ins with the law for speeding.

Brian Blair settled his lawsuit against Carrabba's Italian Grill which he claimed was responsible for the end of his wrestling career. Bruno Sammartino wrestled his final match 20 years ago tomorrow tagging with Hulk Hogan for the only time against King Kong Bundy and One Man Gang. The Gloucester County Times has an interview with Larry "Pretty Boy" Sharp about his interest in golf, the Monster Factory, and more.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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