"The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase will be this week's special guest host of Raw.

The following is scheduled for tonight's WWE Monday Night Raw:

- WWE Unified Tag Team Champions Edge & Chris Jericho vs. The Colons (Carlito & Primo).(non title)

- WWE Divas Champion Maryse & Alicia Fox vs. Mickie James & Gail Kim

- Mark Henry vs. Cody Rhodes.

- Randy Orton vs. Ted DiBiase Jr.(non title)

- MVP's VIP Lounge with special guest Jack Swagger.

- WWE U.S. Champion Kofi Kingston vs. Evan Bourne.(non title)

- Triple H vs. John Cena.(Finals of the "Night of Champions" Tournament)

The Undertaker was spotted with former WWE Superstar Chuck Polumbo at the local McDonald's in Cape Girardeau, MO. He signed autographs for customers and employees. He was in the area for a motorcycle rally known as the "Patriot Guard Riders."

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In a recent interview with TheAge.com John Cena revealed that he still expects to be doing full-time wrestling and full-time acting ten years from now.

"If you asked me where I'd be in 10 years, I'd say promoting another film and looking forward to the next Wrestlemania." Cena told the Australian newspaper to promote WWE's live event tour this week.

Cena also downplayed his “feud” against Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson when he was asked if he recently challenged The Rock to a match.

"I didn't lay down a challenge as such. I just felt that he could give something back to the WWE fans," Cena says."I thought The Rock was great. I'd love to see him back in the ring just like every other WWE fan would."

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~The word going around as to why WWE put the Unified Tag Team Titles on Edge and Chris Jericho was so Edge's in-ring involvement could be limited in tag matches. Edge had been working hurt before getting injured this past Friday night. There's still no word yet on what WWE plans on doing with the titles now that Edge is injured.

Edge did an interview last week to promote the WWE tapings in California and had this to say about his match with Jeff Hardy at Extreme Rules:

"That one really took it out of me. Ten years ago if we did that match you know maybe in a few days we would have felt a lot better. We were 10 years younger though. Now, it took me almost a full week before I could walk upright. It took a while to recuperate from that one."

The Wrestling Observer Newsletter is reporting that During HHH's recent tour of Japan, He reportedly pushed the names of Evan Bourne and Jack Swagger as some of the company's best new talent. It comes as no surprise that only weeks later both were pushed from the ECW brand over to Raw.

According to ProWrestling dot com, With definitive word starting to break regarding Edge's Achilles tendon tear, focus has turned to how WWE will address the injury. Television is already taped for next week (and was scripted on the basis that Edge and Chris Jericho were the Unified Tag Champions), so it is unclear if WWE will make any official announcement of Edge's injury and the status of the belts until those shows air.

Edge will most likely undergo surgery and be out of action until early 2010.

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PWInsider is reporting that the official diagnosis for Edge's ankle injury is indeed a torn Achilles tendon and could potentially keep him out of the ring until January 2010 depending on the severity.

We reported earlier that Edge suffered the injury at last night's WWE Smackdown/ECW event in San Diego, CA around five minutes into a match with Jeff Hardy. WWE officials and EMTs rushed to his aid at ringside and Edge later apologized on the mic to the fans in attendance. The match itself really never got going as Edge and Hardy were taunting at each other in front of the crowd when the injury took place. Live reports from the show indicate that Edge may have planted his foot wrong as he came down causing the injury.

The rest of WWE's Smackdown/ECW crew left first thing today for a flight to Honolulu, Hawaii in a tour that will continue on into this coming week in Japan and the Philippines. This injury obviously puts a dent in Edge as a Unified Tag Team Champion with Chris Jericho and plans are already said to be in play to get the belts off them. The company is also looking at footage from tapings this past week in Bakersfield, CA set to air for next week's edition of Friday Night Smackdown involving Edge to explain an injury.

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All indications are that Jeff Hardy still remains contractually uncommitted to a future in WWE.

While no one anticipates Hardy leaving for a rival group, it remains interesting that the wrestler WWE officials reportedly view, according to the Wrestling Observer, as the "most popular" babyface in the company is main-eventing WWE pay-per-views without a long-term commitment to the company.

According to wrestling gossip website The Sun, Hardy told Spain's Cuatro Network that he is hesitant to seal his long-term fate even while knowing he has as much as a decade left in the ring.

Hardy said."I don't know - I am 31 years old now and I don't like making plans for the future. I can wrestle until I am 40 but I don't want to make plans, I don't like thinking about what could happen between now and the next five years,"

The expectation from most industry sources is that Hardy will ultimately sign, presumably contingent on some sort of hiatus at the end of the summer.

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WWE's pay-per-view performance is not what it once was, and the company is determined to boost buys even in the currently lukewarm economy.

Peter Clifford, WWE's senior vice president of distribution and affiliate marketing, told Multichannel News that despite lowering buyrate expectations to account for the less-than-ideal economic situation, WWE is committed to recovering its reputation of pay-per-view dominance.

One idea for pay-per-view turnaround is the greater utilization of on-demand services to promote its events. Clifford confirmed that WWE will create content for affiliates' on-demand offerings in order to hype its August Summerslam event. WWE will also begin offering prize incentives to customers who order consecutive events.

The new strategy also explains WWE's recent decision to change some of its pay-per-view titles, which included switching Unforgiven to Breaking Point, No Mercy to Hell in a Cell and Cyber Sunday to Annihilation.


“We’ve been doing these PPVs for a few years and we felt that some of the PPVs were a little flat in terms of what we wanted the titles to project, so we looked to see which ones we can rename,” said Clifford.

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It appears Edge may have injured his leg during his match with Jeff Hardy at tonight’s house show. After four or five minutes of drawing audience participation, including Edge pretending to slip off the ropes the two performers finally engaged in a collar and elbow tie up. Shortly after Edge charged Hardy into a corner of ring where Edge went down. It’s unclear why he went down or what part of his leg was injured, but the match immediately stopped without any further interaction from the two wrestlers. Referee Charles Robinson threw up the “X” arm signal and the bell rang, awarding Jeff the victory due to Edge not being able to continue. There was a thought that this was a horribly booked work, but Edge even grabbed the mic and apologized to the crowd saying, “Sorry.” Apologizing, of course is not typical of a major heel. The match ended with almost no action what so ever and Edge needed assistance back to the locker room.

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Chris Jericho recently took part in an interview with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin to promote Sunday's house show in Hawaii.

“It's a lot more fun to be a bad guy than a good guy.” When asked what he prefers working as Jericho said. “It really is an art form to become a heel that stays hated by the fans. As long as people are reacting and getting their money's worth, it doesn't really matter to me.”

Jericho went on to speak about his match with WWE Hall of Fame member Ricky Steamboat on Sunday in Hawaii. “I'm looking forward to it. I don't really look at Steamboat as a legend. He's just a great performer and one of the best of all time.

It'd be like playing hockey against Wayne Gretzky -- even though he retired years ago, he's still better than half the people on the ice nowadays. Steamboat, at 55 years old, is still better than 80 percent of our roster ... (and) being from Hawaii, it's a huge deal.

It's going to be very sentimental for him and the fans, and of course I plan to spoil it and stick it in his face and all of the fans when I end the party and annihilate him in front of everyone.”

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