ECW, Ratings, Styles, Flair, Eaton Apr 15 - 11:59 pm EDT

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

Quick ECW Results: CM Punk/Kofi Kingston/Shannon Moore/Jimmy Wang Yang over Shelton Benjamin/Elijah Burke/Deuce/Domino, Mike Knox over Colin Delaney, and Undertaker/Kane over Miz/Morrison.

Last night's RAW scored a 3.2 (3.1 / 3.3) rating. There are off air notes from RAW last night in London, England. Many London, England fans were upset John Cena didn't appear on RAW due to his movie filming schedule. icWales has an article on last night's house show in Cardiff, Wales.

There are Smackdown spoilers from today in London, England. The Smackdown/ECW crew was in Cardiff, Wales yesterday with Undertaker/Big Show/Batista over Edge/Mark Henry/Great Khali. The Smackdown/ECW crew is in Birmingham, England tomorrow night. The RAW crew was in Linz, Austria today, and tomorrow they're in Vienna, Austria.

WWE replaced Joey Styles with Mike Adamle as ECW announcer, and Styles may take a role with WWE.com. WWE changed their mind on King of the Ring participants, and now they aren't known yet. John Byrne commented on WWE's WWE Kids change in direction regarding comics. WWE's decision to drop comic strips was reportedly due to focus group testing which indicated they wouldn't help sell the magazine.

Photographers are no longer allowed at ringside during televised WWE events. Judge Janie S. Mayeron ordered Dale Gagner to pay WWE $3000 in court costs after he failed to respond to WWE lawyers in their discovery process as part of WWE's ongoing lawsuit over the use of the AWA trademarks. The Hollywood Reporter spoke to CW Entertainment President Dawn Ostroff about what will replace Smackdown among other subjects. SLAM has a positive review of WWE's new Triple H: King of Kings DVD.

Rep. Sue Myrick honored Ric Flair with a speech on the House of Representatives floor today. The Bristol Press interviewed Jerry Lawler about WrestleFest XII, independent wrestling, Andy Kaufman and more. James Guttman interviewed Jesse Ventura about his book, the presidential election, a wrestling union and more.

There are Impact spoilers from tonight's taping for Thursday. Bobby Eaton is currently hospitalized in the ICU due to a recurrence of some heart issues. PWInsider has a list of upcoming JAKKS Pacific Classic Superstar figures. Mike Johnson has Ring of Honor notes on Jonny Fairplay, NOAH and upcoming shows.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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