— The official website of Madison Square Garden has posted the line-up for the Raw/ECW house show scheduled for Saturday, August 23rd. A huge 10-man battle royal for a shot at Kane’s ECW Championship later in the evening is scheduled. Also, all of the current champions on Raw are scheduled to defend their respective titles as well. Of course with next week’s draft and whatever storyline twists incur between now and then, most of the card will likely change come August 23. Nonetheless, here is what they have scheduled at the moment: Fatal Four Way Match for the WWE Championship – John Cena vs. Triple H vs. Umaga vs. JBL; ECW Championship Match – Kane vs. TBD; Intercontinental Championship Match – Shawn Michaels vs. Chris Jericho; World Tag Team Championship Match – Hardcore Holly & Cody Rhodes vs. Brian Kendrick & Paul London; Women’s Championship Match – Mickie James vs. Beth Phoenix; Jeff Hardy vs. Snitsky; Mr. Kennedy vs. Lance Cade; 10 Man Battle Royal, with the winner to face Kane for the ECW Championship – CM Punk, John Morrison, The Miz, Shelton Benjamin, Kofi Kingston, Chavo Guerrero, Bam Neely, Tommy Dreamer, Matt Striker, Stevie Richards; Live Event Host – Maria.
— TMZ.com has an article noting that police from Clearwater, Florida are investigating threats made against Hulk Hogan and his family. According to TMZ, the threats allegedly came from member(s) of the family of John Graziano. Police have listened to the threatening voicemails and there’s currently an “open investigation” regarding the matter. Furthermore, prowrestling.NET is reporting that a source close to radio personality Bubba The Love Sponge is saying he has plans to exclusively broadcast the threatening phone messages left on the Hogan family answering machine on his radio show tomorrow. You can listen to the FM stream at www.theboneonline.com, which airs at 6:00 A.M. ET in Tampa and Jacksonville, Florida. The show also airs nationwide on Sirius at 3:00 p.m. on Howard 101. Due to strong language, the FM broadcast will be heavily edited whereas while the Sirius broadcast will not. If you can’t catch it, TMZ will likely post the audio tomorrow.
— Former WWE Women’s Champion Trish Stratus‘ Travel Channel series is scheduled to debut in September, reports PWInsider.com. The show has Stratus touring the globe. On another note, she recently filmed an episode of the Canadian TV series Family Business, playing a wrestling champion.
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