– Rosa Mendes announced on her Twitter account that the WWE Tag Team Championships will be defended on next week’s 1000th episode of WWE RAW noting, “The #Raw1000 episode will equal victory for us!!!!! The tag team titles belong on us!!! And they will be ours!”
– Todd Grisham announced on his Twitter account that he won’t be appearing at RAW 1000, as he’s heading to Canada this weekend to work for ESPN covering the UFC 149: Barao vs. Faber pay-per-view event.
– WWE will be releasing new D-Generation X t-shirts for next week’s 1000th episode.
– WWE Champion CM Punk announced that he plans on attending the August 11th Wizard World Comic-Con in Chicago and making it something special. He also noted that he had an advanced screening of his DVD for a select few family members and he was so proud of it and that he is working on a lot of cool things for its release. Speaking of the WWE Championship and WWE World Heavyweight Championship, a new directive from Triple H is to see the champions holding their titles for longer than they had done in the past and would bring back some value to each title, instead of changing champions on a bi-monthly basis.
– Evan Bourne announced on his Twitter account that his comeback to the WWE has been pushed back by a month, due to another month of physical therapy that has been scheduled. “Another follow up appt with my surgeon today. The foot is healing properly and I’m scheduled for another month of PT at 3 sessions a week. With that good news in mind, I’m still very disappointed I can’t be in St. Louis for #raw1000 But I’ll keep working until I’m back on RAW!”
– WWE Diva Eve Torres, who is the girlfriend of Rener Gracie and at last note, a blue belt in Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, will be hosting a free self-defense seminar for women with the Gracie Academy this Saturday from 4:30 – 6:30pm local time in Torrance, California at 3515 Artesia Blvd. More information on how you can attend the event is available by calling 310-353-4100.
– The official theme song for WWE’s SummerSlam pay-per-view is “Don’t Look Down” by Kevin Rudolf.
– Halle Berry was rushed to the hospital last night after falling and hitting her head on concrete while filming for WWE Studios’ upcoming movie “The Hive”.
– In birthday news, Joey Mercury turns 33 years old today, Al Snow turns 49 and Carlos Colon, the father of Carlito and Primo and uncle of Epico turns 64.