- For those of you in the UK, Randy Orton will be on Sky Sports News at 5.30pm this afternoon to promote Summerslam.

- ECW on Sci-Fi this past Tuesday night did a 1.5 rating.

- WWE has announced the matches that will take place at the SummerFest event in Venice Beach, California on August 9 as Chavo Guerrero vs. Funaki, Tommy Dreamer & Stevie Richards vs. The Miz & John Morrison (that could be really good) and Carlito & Maryse vs. Jimmy Wang Yang & Eve.

- Jim Ross has posted his latest blog which you can read in full at this link. On Ric Flair’s departure from WWE, Ross wrote: “The announcement a few days ago that Ric Flair and the WWE had mutually agreed to part ways surprised me. When I last spoke to Ric in person we were in Charlotte for Smackdown and I spent several hours with ‘Naitch’ that lasted well into the middle of the evening/early morning. He had several family members with him and Ric seemed really to be having fun.

“Ric’s schedule with the WWE had been somewhat ambitious in Ric’s view as Ric was one the road as much or more than he had been with his wrestling schedule in his later career. Nonetheless Ric said he was having a great time as a ‘Good Will Ambassador’ for the WWE when we spoke. I do know that Ric had apparently received several offers to do numerous outside projects that were beyond the parameters of the WWE and that he seemed keenly interested in doing…”

- Ross also commented on the new ECW announce team (at least for one week), writing: “Yours truly had a chance Tuesday afternoon to sit down with Todd Grisham and Matt Striker and offer them some advice and a few dos and don’ts as it relates to wrestling broadcasting. Michael Cole, Tazz, and Joey Styles also contributed to the team effort. Striker is a natural fit at the announce desk or as a wrestling manager and considering that wrestling managers don’t seem to be in vogue at this time then Striker’s skills are best utilized as we saw Tuesday Night on ECW.

“The former NYC school teacher sat in for Tazz who in turn sat in for a healing Mick Foley on Friday Night Smackdown. With Foley’s status as it is, I would not be surprised to see both Striker and Tazz back in the same, fill-in roles that they fulfilled this week on next week’s ECW and Friday Night Smackdown broadcasts. I also thought that Todd Grisham did a really nice job in his second week on ECW after replacing Mike Adamle who is the new, Raw G.M.”

- We’ll post a second news update later today.