WWE, McMahons, Kennedy, TNA, DiBiase Aug 06 - 10:52 pm EDT

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

Last night's ECW scored a 1.5 rating. There are Smackdown spoilers from last night in Atlanta, GA. Ken Kennedy reportedly dislocated his shoulder on Monday's house show, while Umaga is also injured.

Vince McMahon is a 2008 Hall of Fame inductee and WWE is nominated for several awards in the CableFax Program Awards. Smackdown's ratings are doing well among English speaking Hispanic viewers and among sports programs on broadcast TV. PWInsider has a match listing for WWE's upcoming Hell in a Cell DVD set.

WWE.com posted the schedule for Saturday's Wrestlefest in Venice Beach, CA. WWE will hold a block party on Friday in Wildwood, NJ prior to their house show. Batista, Rob Van Dam and Sabu will appear at the Grindhouse Film Festival this week.

Jim Ross' latest BBQ blog entry discusses Ric Flair's WWE departure, new announcers, Brock Lesnar and more. Jerry Lawler illustrated the cover for comic book miniseries Headlocked: The Tryout due out in October. A WWE Encyclopedia will be released around the time of Wrestlemania.

TNA launched their new mobile game on Verizon Wireless. IGN interviewed Rhino about TNA, video games, Ultimate X and more. IGN interview the Motor City Machineguns about RPGs, Nintendo, wrestling video games and more. TNA posted an update on their nearly complete TNAtv production facility that will allow them to move into HD in the future. Kurt Angle will throw out the first pitch at tomorrow's Philadelphia Phillies game.

Media in Canada has an article on Trish Stratus' travel series Stratusphere. Torrie Wilson is now taking bookings. The Peoria, IL Journal Star has an interview with Ted DiBiase Jr. about his new book, injuries, his son and more. SLAM has an article on Pierre Carl Ouellet and his hope for another WWE run.

There's a chance Amazing Red may return to the ring on August 31 at the Pro Wrestling Syndicate show in Long Island, NY. The Carver Reporter has an article on last Thursday's EPW show with Jerry Lawler and Scotty 2 Hotty. The Springfield, IL News-Sun has an article on 91 year old wrestling fan Dorothy "Grandma" Brown who almost had to the miss the Champaign County Big Time Wrestling show due to injury.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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