- Mr. Kennedy is set to have shoulder surgery this Friday and could be out of action for fourt to six months, according to PWInsider.com. As reportedly earlier in the month, Kennedy injured his shoulder earlier this month during a house show match with Shelton Benjamin.

Kennedy requires surgery for his torn right labrum (shoulder muscle) and rotator cuff damage to the shoulder. It was initially hoped that Kennedy could avoid surgery.

Dr. James Andrews is expected to perform the procedure.

- John Cena was backstage at last night’s Smackdown tapings visiting after his surgery earlier in the day. As noted yesterday, Cena could return in time for November’s Survivor Series PPV.

- Just a quick note regarding this website. At some point over the next week or so we’re going to be moving house and merging with the MMAPreview.com site. Although both sites are owned by the same company and people, there are a few reasons behind the move - the primary one being that we feel things will work better housed together. We’ll have an update on things in the next few days.

- Talking of MMAPreview.com, we’ve got an exclusive interview with Johnathan Ivey online at this link.

- Smackdown spoilers for this Friday’s show are online at this link.

- ECW spoilers for next Tuesday’s show on Sci-Fi are online at this link.

- UK ratings for the week ending August 17 courtesy of Ian Hamilton: Raw from August 11 drew 38,000 for the live show (down 4,000 on the previous week), 50,000 on the Thursday August 14 replay (up 9,000) and 31,000 for a Friday August 15 morning replay.

Smackdown from August 15 drew 58,000 on its first airing (down 4,000) and 31,000 on Saturday morning’s replay.

An edited version of the Triple H DVD (as a build-up for SummerSlam) drew 53,000 on Thursday Agust 14 while Afterburn drew 33,000 on Sunday August 17.

- The Sun have a really good interview online with Finlay at this link.