**Tonight "Raw" takes place in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The show will air on Sci-Fi in the U.S tonight due to the U.S Open airing on the USA Network and will air in its normal slot in Canada on The Score tonight. Here are the matches announced for the show thus far:

*CM Punk Vs JBL

*Kane Vs Batista

*Santino Marella Vs Kofi Kingston for the Intercontinental Title

*Beth Phoenix Vs Kelly Kelly

*Plus a live appearance by Shawn Michaels, so they will likely set up the "Unforgiven" match tonight

**Tomorrow night's ECW will be taped prior to "Raw" and then they will tape next week's show in Pittsburgh tomorrow night.

**The LAW is down at O'Grady's Tap and Grill in downtown Toronto tonight at 171 College at McCaul for "Raw" on the big screen with trivia and lots of wrestling prizes to hand out at the end of the night. Plus the return of one of the LAW members tonight.

**Last night's edition of The LAW is available for DOWNLOAD and also in the radio player to your right. Last night's show featured Loretta Hunt discussing her book "Becoming the Natural" on the life of Randy Couture, a great interview with former WCW creative team member and musician Bob Mould as well as Dave Meltzer, your calls, Live Audio Xtra and how I would book JBL right now.

**Tonight the TNA "Impact" tapings for this Thursday's show take place in Orlando, Florida - here are the matches already announced for the tapings tonight:

*Kurt Angle Vs Kevin Nash (Winner gets a spot in the TNA Title Match at "No Surrender")

*Taylor Wilde & Roxxi Vs The Beautiful People

*Petey Williams & Sheik Abdul Bashir Vs Consequences Creed & Black Machismo

*Jimmy Rave Vs Curry Man

*Sting will also be at the tapings and cutting a promo

**Mike Johnson of PWInsider.com is reporting that John Cena is working through neck problems right now and limited his involvement in the main event tag match on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. He is planning to work through the pain and will be undergoing tests on his neck.

**Becky Bayless, who has wrestled for Ring of Honor and appeared on TNA "Impact" a few months ago during the Awesome Kong Fan Challenge segments, was arrested last Thursday for DUI with a blood / alcohol level of 0.20 (which is above the Florida limit of 0.08).

**Independent wrestler Jon Cutler, out of Winnipeg has told SLAM! Wrestling that he signed a WWE developmental contract and will be moving down to Tampa to work at the Florida Championship Wrestling territory. Cutler worked a match on "Raw" back in May at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto that did air on TV.  

**Ring of Honor owner Cary Silken and Larry Sweeney attended the WWE "Raw" house show at Madison Square Garden on Saturday and were hugged by CM Punk as he came to the ring.

**Speaking of the WWE show at MSG, it was a legitimate sellout on Saturday.

**The Democratic National Convention gets underway in Denver, Colorado today and Batista and Candice Michelle will be appearing at the convention tomorrow.

**WWE "Smackdown" did a 2.3 on the fast nationals Friday night.

LAW MMA UPDATE

**Loretta Hunt of Sherdog.com broke the story today that Kimbo Slice will take on Ken Shamrock in the main event of the Elite XC "Saturday Night Fights" card on October 4th in Sunrise, Florida. Elite XC will officially be making the announcement tomorrow but here is how the main card is shaping up for the CBS show:

*Kimbo Slice Vs Ken Shamrock

*Jake Shields Vs Paul Daley for the Elite XC Welterweight Title

*Gina Carano Vs Kelly Cobalt Gavin

*Murilo ‘Ninja' Rua Vs Benji Radach

**Strike Force has added a non title bout between Lightweight Champion Josh ‘The Punk' Thomson and Ashe Bowman for the September 20th show at the Playboy Mansion.

**UFC fighter Dan Henderson will join Fight Network Radio tomorrow at 3pm EST with Mauro Ranallo on Sirius 98 Hardcore Sports Radio. Henderson will be fighting Rousimar Palhares on September 6th at UFC 88 in Atlanta.