RAW, HoF, Foley, Escobar, Simmons, ROH Feb 08 - 11:50 pm EST

Daily Rapp Up by Bryan Rapp

Quick RAW Results: Sheamus over Christian, Miz/Big Show over Degeneration X and CM Punk/Luke Gallows to win the Unified Tag Team Championship, Gail Kim over Jillian Hall, Cody Rhodes over Randy Orton,

Smackdown and ECW will be taped in Baton Rouge, LA tomorrow. WWE announced The Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in March. Vancouver, BC is attempting to land Wrestlemania 29 in 2013 or 30 in 2014, likely at the BC Place Dome. Mattel issued a press release on Triple H's appearance at the New York Toy Fair to promote the new WWE action figure line.

The fate of the ECW title is currently unknown with the impeding end of the series. There are additional details on the upcoming NXT series with FCW wrestlers likely to be part of the roster. WWE's website was among several large site with ads for EA's Dante's Inferno game hidden in their HTML source code. Time listed WWF's name change to WWE among their top 10 worst corporate name changes.

Las Vegas, NV's CBS news interviewed Mick Foley about his Total Extreme Comedy Performance and TNA vs. WWE. Tara's Impact wardrobe malfunction aired unedited in the UK. There are TNA notes on Scott Steiner, Tara, Mick Foley and more.

Ron Simmons wrestled his retirement match last night in Cedartown, GA for Purks International Championship Wrestling. Eric Escobar is currently wrestling for World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico and cutting anti-WWE promos. Terry Funk will appear for Harley Race's WLW in early March. Samoa Joe, Hernandez, Sylvain Grenier and Viscera are scheduled for Top of the World's March 5 show in Montreal, QC. SLAM has an article on the new Maximum Pro Wrestling promotion formed from Border City Wrestling and BSE Pro Wrestling with comments from Scott D'Amore and Jason Brown.

Ring of Honor announced Roderick Strong has re-signed a contract with them. Ring of Honor will hold their Eighth Anniversary Show on Saturday in New York City, NY. Fanhouse interviewed Shane Douglas about WWE's handling of ECW, Vince McMahon, the original ECW and more.

The Shoot interviewed Honky Tonk Man about Bubba the Love Sponge, Eric Bischoff, lying about TNA's interest in him and more. SLAM has an article on Monday Night Mayhem's eighth anniversary and how they've survived while establishing legitimacy. Uso's Foundation and WXW C4 are holding a Wrestling to Rebuild cruise to help raise money for Samoa following last year's tsunami with Rob Van Dam, Al Snow, Sabu, Samu and Manu. BBC Radio Five interviewed Christopher Nowinski in the pre-Super Bowl coverage about the dangers of concussions and the NFL's handling of the injuries.

That's it for today. Thanks for reading.

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