LIVE AUDIO WRESTLING: THURSDAY UPDATE
*Here are the matches for "Impact" tonight at 11pm EST on Spike TV:
*Team 3-D & Brother Runt Vs Jeff Jarrett & America's Most Wanted
*A.J Styles & Ron Killings & Rhino Vs The Diamonds in the Rough
*Team Canada Vs Team U.S.A
*Here is the lineup for "Smackdown" tonight on The Score in Canada, taped Monday night in St. Louis:
*Booker T Vs Matt Hardy in the "King of the Ring" tournament
*Joey Matthews Vs Paul London
*Chris Benoit & Bobby Lashley Vs Finlay & Orlando Jordan
*Paul Birchill & William Regal Vs The Gymini
*The Great Khali Vs Funaki
*On "Unleashed" tonight on Spike TV, it is a special Royce Gracie edition featuring some of his most famous fights from the UFC. That airs at 9pm EST.
*Palmer Cannon has left the WWE European tour and flown himself back to his home state of Georgia. It is believed that Cannon has given his notice to the company.
*The WWE announced today that Shane McMahon will take on Shawn Michaels & "God" this Monday on "Raw", which will be a taped show from London, England. A change was quickly made and WWE.com is now listing Shane McMahon Vs Shawn Michaels in a 1 on 1 match.
*"Raw" airs at midnight next Monday night on TSN in Southern Ontario due to the NHL playoffs. (Thanks to Adam Lebow)
*"Southland Tales" starring The Rock has been selected as 1 of 18 films to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival. Rock, being billed as Dwayne Johnson in this film plays Boxer Santaros, who is a schizophrenic that can predict the future. The film also features Mandy Moore and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
*In more movie news, "Variety" reported today that Lion's Gate Films will distribute the WWE Film project "The Condemned" starring Steve Austin.
*WWE.com has an interview with Tommy Dreamer discussing the upcoming ECW PPV on June 10th in New York. There is also an interview with Charlie Haas on his return to the company and comments he made after being let go by the WWE.
*Here is a great video of our favorite, Lex Luger! Happy 4/20.
*A new promotion being put on by the Klitchko brothers of boxing fame, called K2 will have their inaugural show on June 23rd. The main event on the show will be Butterbean taking on Tank Abbott in a match with special rules in that you will only be able to stay on the ground for 15 seconds with your opponent.
*There is a small piece in the Calgary Sun today on UFC Heavyweight Champion Tim Sylvia and his thoughts on "Ultimate Fighter".
*Here are the "Raw" house show results from yesterday in Milan:
*Goldust & Gene Snitsky over Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch
*Umaga over Eugene
*Matt Striker over Viscera
*Shelton Benjamin over Rob Van Dam to keep the IC Title
*Carlito over Chris Masters
*Kane & Big Show (Huh??) over The Spirit Squad by DQ
*Ric Flair over Edge
*Mickie James won a Battle Royal over the other diva's
*John Cena over Triple H to keep the WWE Title
*Here are the "Smackdown" house show results from Bologna yesterday:
*MNM over Paul London & Brian Kendrick to keep the Tag Titles
*Funaki over Palmer Cannon
*Finlay over Tatanka
*William Regal & Paul Birchill over Animal & Orlando Jordan
*Gregory Helms over Nunzio to keep the Cruiserweight Title
*Bobby Lashley over Booker T
*Great Khali over Matt Hardy
*JBL over Chris Benoit to keep the U.S Title
*Rey Mysterio over Kurt Angle and Mark Henry to keep the World Title
*The WWE stock closed at $17.23 on Thursday.
By: John Pollock
LIVE AUDIO WRESTLING
POSTED -- 04/20/06
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