Batista is coming to grips with the fact that his days are numbered as a full-time, active WWE wrestler.

While he plans to make a full recovery from his recent biceps injury, the talk is that Batista knows he will not be able to continue for much longer. Though most wrestlers end up going far longer than Mother Nature would recommend, the feeling is that Batista has accepted that his body is aging--he might not opt to make more returns if he again succumbs to injury after returning from this ailment.

WWE still places Batista's expected return timeframe at 4-6 months, although there is some optimism that he will try to get back in the ring by the end of the summer.

-Source

Dark Match:

* Drew McIntyre b. Jimmy Wang Yang
- The crowd is behind Jimmy Wang. Before the match, Drew comes out and cuts a promo shooting on the crowd.

SmackDown: (Airing Friday)

* SmackDown opens with CM Punk & Jeff Hardy cutting a promo on The Bash. Jeff says he will win his title back. Punk says he earned the title fair and square.

* Jeff Hardy b. Chris Jericho via countout.
- Hardy got the win with help from Rey Mysterio.

* The Great Khali b. Dolph Ziggler via disqualification
- Ziggler got himself disqualified with a chair.

* Melina b. Alicia Fox
- After the match Michelle McCool attacked Melina and said that she will be the first diva to hold both the Women’s and Diva’s Championship.

* Edge b. John Morrison
- Edge gets the win via pinfall after connecting with a spear.

* Cryme Tyme and R-Truth b. The World’s Greatest Tag Team( Hass and Shelton) and Ricky Ortiz
- R-Truth got the win via pinfall on Shelton Benjamin.

* CM Punk b. Rey Mysterio
- Chris Jericho is on commentary. He interferes during the match and Punk gets the win over Mysterio with Go To Sleep. This ends this week’s edition of SmackDown.

Dark Match:
* Jeff Hardy & Rey Mysterio b. Edge & Chris Jericho in a Steel Cage Match.

Match # 1 : David Hart Smith w/ Tyson Kidd & Natalya vs. Christian.

Winner: David Hart Smith after the distraction caused by Natalya.

After the match Tyson gets into the ring to help DH go after Christian. Before they can set up for the Hart Attack however, Finlay comes out to make the save! Finlay has returned and has cleared the ring of the Hart Dynasty. Finlay goes over to help up Christian – but no! He turns and whacks Christian with the Irish Foreign Object. Finlay smugly walks out of the ring..

Match #2 : Evan Bourne v. Mark Henry w/ Tony Atlas

Winner via World’s Strongest Slam: Mark Henry. Mark dominates the whole match.
After the match Mark dilivers another slam to Even.

Match #3 Jack Swagger vs. ECW Champion Tommy Dreamer .

Winner via roll-up: Jack Swagger. Good match indeed.

After the match Finlay comes down to the ring and takes out Dreamer. Christian limps out and attempts to make the save, but Finlay hits him and sends him out of the ring. Swagger is back in the ring now – but Finlay hits him too. We go to credits.

Kennedy's blogs says:

Just some food for thought and maybe some questions you can ask yourselves.

If I take a sledgehammer and SMASH you in the side of the head and you get hurt very badly, does that make you "injury prone"?

If I cut off your arm with a samurai sword, and you have to have it reattached (causing you to miss several months of work) are you also then to be considered..."injury prone"?

Well let's say that you're in a match in Italy standing on the apron during a ten man tag match, and a guy is supposed to come over and give you a little forearm which will cause you to drop to the floor, but INSTEAD, he decides to drop kick your ass into the 20th row, he virtually leg presses you off the apron, and you have a "Matrix" like moment in your head where you see yourself flying backwards through the air. You clear the mats that line the floor outside the ring and because you're trying to protect your head from smashing into the guardrail, you stretch your right arm over your head. At the moment you make IMPACT with the concrete floor, your arm stretched out over your head and the sudden stop causes the tendon in your latissimus dorsi (or that big back muscle that you see on bodybuilders, ya know the ones that look like wings...) to SNAP in two and it coils up down your side to the point that's in line with your belly button. Let's say.....hypothetically.......that this happened to you. Would you call yourself...."injury prone"?

Let's throw another "hypothetical situation" out there. Let's say that you're having a match with a guy who's just supposed to give you a lil' old schoolboy to end the match. Just a nice and easy rollup for the finish. In fact the night before he hit you with his finish and the crowd didn't really react as strongly as you would have liked it to, so the agent (or producer) who's in charge of your match that night has told your opponent specifically NOT to hit his finish. Now keep in mind that having said this, your opponent's finisher is probably the furthest thing from your mind. So as you're waiting for this nice little easy rollup for the finish, the guy leaps into the air, hooks your head tight, causing your right arm to get caught between your two bodies, and drives you chest first into the mat. You go from standing to laying on your stomach with your arm stretched across your chest and your shoulder pops out of it's socket, tearing that muscle about 60% away from the bone. Now again, would an event such as this make you......"injury prone"?

Now if something like this HAD ever happened to me (again, these are strictly hypothetical situations), I probably wouldn't say anything about it to anyone. I for one would never want to bury another talent, whine or cry about it, I'd probably just chalk it up to poor judgement, and being in the wrong place at the wrong time, rather than accusing someone of being a stiff in the ring. Let's face it, accidents happen in the wrestling business which is why there are countless videos of "wrestling screw-ups" on YouTube. Every once in awhile if you're in the wrestling business, you're gonna get a BOO-BOO.