Backstage RAW News: ‘Taker & Bret Hart, Creative Plans, Dark Match, More

Tonight’s RAW will take place from the Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, TN with The Undertaker and Bret Hart scheduled to make appearances. Tonight’s guest hosts will be actors Don Johnson and Jon ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ Heder. Sheamus vs. John Cena for the WWE Title is being advertised locally.

As noted earlier, WWE creative has been writing this week’s RAW and SmackDown! to heavily push the Royal Rumble pay-per-view, which is less than two weeks away. The plan was to add one more match to the card at this week’s TV tapings and announce 15 of the Royal Rumble match participants by the end of the week.

Despite previous reports, there are rumors going around that Bret Hart will not be appearing on tonight’s RAW from Knoxville but will make his return on next week’s show from Columbus. However, this isn’t confirmed as the last we heard he was scheduled for tonight. We’ll have more later this afternoon for sure.

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