— As noted earlier, Vince McMahon will be returning to WWE on next week’s three-hour RAW. McMahon will be there “to evaluate John Laurinaitis’ job performance”. This will be confirmed and hyped up on tonight’s WWE RAW broadcast.
— Last week’s edition of WWE SmackDown drew a 1.73 (1.7) cable rating, with 2,557,000.
— Ric Flair is not currently backstage at RAW despite being spotted in the area last night.
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