Fox Wins Dark Match, Matches Taped for WWE Main Event and SMS

- WWE taped the following matches last night in Knoxville, TN to air on tonight’s Main Event:

* 11 man battle royal to determine a #1 contender for the Intercontinental Title: Justin Gabriel, The Great Khali, Alex Riley, Santino Marella, Drew McIntyre, The Usos, Jinder Mahal, Heath Slater, Primo and Yoshi Tatsu.

* Wade Barrett will defend against the battle royal winner

- WWE taped the following matches for Saturday Morning Slam:

* Jey Uso vs. Darren Young

* The Usos vs. Darren Young and Titus O’Neil

- The dark match before last night’s tapings saw Alicia Fox defeat Aksana.

CM Punk on Meeting Dana White, Divas Division, WM29 Attire & More

As noted earlier, CM Punk appeared on The MMA Hour. Here are some highlights.

If WWE is dropping the ball with women’s wrestling: “Are they looking at it like that [as a money maker]? Probably not. Should they be? Yeah probably, maybe. There’s a big difference between what I do and what the fighters do, I have had this discussion many many times, also there’s a lot of similarities. But yeah, the women are red hot right now. You’d think on the pro wrestling side to try and capitalize on that.”

If there was heat for him attending last Saturday’s UFC event: “No. Nobody really talks to me. [laughter] No, I don’t think it’s an issue. I just think that before it was hey let’s do this it’ll be fun it’s in Chicago and for whatever reason he couldn’t stop to it.”

What he discussed with UFC President Dana White: “Just the fights and he was happy that, we always discuss how I can never come out to one of these things [fights]. We just discussed that. He said he was happy that I was finally there and I said you might not be able to get rid of me now.”

If he’s getting paid to wear the Gracie sweatshirt he wore at Wrestlemania: “I just don’t have any other clean clothes. No, I just think people need to know I represent the family and jiu jitsu because I love it and people ask me all the time if I roll or that awful question: do you train bro? Yeah, this is what I do. I guess it’s just me and what I do and I’ve done it before with other friends, my friends that are in bands. I rep the T shirts, I rep them on TV. There’s a lot of eyes on Monday Night RAW every Monday or whatever. I like to expose people to maybe something I feel that they don’t have in their lives that they need in their lives.”

Spoilers: WWE SmackDown Tapings – 4/19/2013

- Thanks to Brianne and Lex for the following WWE SmackDown spoilers from tonight’s tapings in Knoxville, Tennessee:

* Michael Cole and JBL are out for commentary.

* Fandango’s set is lowered and out he comes to a big pop from the crowd, who tried to sing his theme song. Fandango danced and flirted with Lilian Garcia but she wasn’t having it.

* Santino Marella comes out and mocks Fandango. Fandango defeats Santino by pinfall.

* WWE United States Champion Kofi Kingston defeated WWE Intercontinental Champion Wade Barrett.

* Sheamus attacks Mark Henry backstage and then walks off.

* Alberto Del Rio beat Jack Swagger by pinfall.

* The Shield appears on the big screen and cuts a promo on The Undertaker. They say he’s undefeated at WrestleMania but they have never been defeated at all.

* Hornswoggle, Natalya and The Great Khali defeated Primo, Epico and Rosa Mendes in mixed tag team action.

* Big Show and Mark Henry beat Randy Orton and Sheamus in the main event.

Taker Has Surgery Before WM 29, Another Big Movie Date for The Rock

- Entertainment websites are reporting that Fast and Furious 7 will be released on July 11th, 2014. There is some speculation that The Rock will have problems filming the movie due to his obligations with Hercules.

- The Undertaker reportedly underwent minor knee surgery just a few weeks before his WrestleMania 29 match against CM Punk. The operation was described as a simple cleanup.

WWE RAW Ratings: Down Nearly Half A Million Viewers From Last Week

- Monday’s live 3-hour episode of WWE RAW drew a 3.08 rating with 4,149,000 viewers.

Here’s the hourly viewership data:

Hour 1: 4,185,000
Hour 2: 4,236,000
Hour 3: 4,026,000

This week’s RAW was way down from last week’s post-WrestleMania 29 show, which did a 3.45 and nearly half a million more viewers.

Update on Match Confirmed for WWE Extreme Rules, Photo of Triple H Getting His MRI, Mick Foley

- Mick Foley tweeted the following about appearing at next week’s SmackDown in London:L

“#OneWeekFromToday I will be at #Smackdown in London, before hitting 18 UK cities in 19 days on my ‘Tales From Wrestling Past’ UK Tour.”

- Here is a photo of Triple H getting his MRI on Monday:

- WWE has confirmed that Jack Swagger vs. Alberto Del Rio vs. Dolph Ziggler for the World Heavyweight Title will take place at Extreme Rules. No stipulation has been announced for the match and it will likely just be a Triple Threat.

Why Flair Was at Raw, HHH Undergoes MRI, CM Punk Q&A Panel

- CM Punk will be doing a signing and photo session, followed by a Q&A panel at the June 28th Wizard World NYC Experience in New York City.

- Ric Flair was only backstage at Raw this past Monday to visit friends as he wanted to be around the boys.

- Triple H underwent an MRI to rule out a scaphoid fracture of his wrist, which is normally caused when someone falls on their hand with all their weight landing on it.