Below is the announced card for Sunday's WWE TLC pay-per-view:

Triple Threat TLC Match for the WWE Title
The Miz vs. Alberto Del Rio vs. CM Punk

Chairs Match for the World Heavyweight Title
Big Show vs. Mark Henry

Sledgehammer Ladder Match
Kevin Nash vs. Triple H

United States Title Match
Zack Ryder vs. Dolph Ziggler

Intercontinental Title Match
Booker T vs. Cody Rhodes

Tables Match

Labels: 2011 TLC, Alberto Del Rio, cm punk, mark henry, the big show

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The WWE RAW brand is headed to Puerto Rico for a min-tour. Officials are hoping that WWE Champion Alberto Del Rio will have his visa issues worked out in Mexico and be able to join them on this week’s events.

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WWE is now advertising CM Punk for upcoming live events and pay-per-views, including SummerSlam. Punk is being billed as "Sports Entertainment's most controversial Superstar."

Punk vs. John Cena and Punk vs. Cena vs. Alberto Del Rio are some of the live event matches Punk is booked for. The three-way is advertised for the RAW show on September 3rd in Trenton, New Jersey.

Cena vs. Punk vs. Del Rio vs. The Miz in a Fatal Four Way is advertised for the WWE Supershow on September 17th in Youngstown, Ohio.

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WWE Title Match
R-Truth vs. John Cena

While I love the character of R-Truth and the push he has gotten, I can't see them putting the belt on him. About the only way is if it's a one month reign, and then Cena wins it back in time to face off with Alberto Del Rio at SummmerSlam in Los Angeles.

World Heavyweight Title Match
Christian vs. Randy Orton

Orton had a legit concussion that they worked in the storyline, and if they want to give him time off, they can put the belt on Christian tonight and keep that angle hot. SmackDown needed a top heel, and it was a good decision to take Christian in that direction. With that, I think they keep the strap on Orton with possibly a cage match between these two next month.

Intercontinental Title Match
Ezekiel Jackson vs. Wade Barrett

While I like Jackson, Barrett is the up and coming star, and unless they are going to push him into the semi-main angle with say a Big Show or Orton, I can't see them giving the belt to Jackson. Getting Barrett's old partners involved may be a way to have him lose if they go in that direction.

WWE United States Title Match
Dolph Ziggler vs. Kofi Kingston

Like the direction Ziggler has been heading in, and while Kofi's act is always a crowd pleaser, I hope they give Ziggler the strap, as he's been working hard and they can keep this angle fresh and have other faces go after the US Belt.

The Miz vs. Alex Riley

This could be the most heated match on the card, and I for one am looking forward to this one. Riley has been red hot since going face, and I think he and Miz will have an excellent match. I'll go Miz here, with Riley getting over at the PPV next month.

Alberto Del Rio vs. Big Show

Show has this new aggression thing going, which is cool, but not sure how it's going to work as I think they need to keep Del Rio hot, and keep him winning. They could allow Show to get his revenge and lose via DQ, which is very possible, and then next month go over clean in getting ready for Cena at SummerSlam.

CM Punk vs. Rey Mysterio

Throw away match to probably go on 2nd or 3rd. No real angle built up, and just a way to get these two mid-card guys on the show. With the future of Punk very much in question, I think they let Mysterio go over here.

Labels: 2011 Capitol Punishment, Alberto Del Rio, alex riley, john cena, the big show

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Below are what the WWE rosters look like after this week's Draft. It's interesting to note that Ricardo Rodriguez is still on the SmackDown roster and not the RAW roster with Alberto Del Rio.

Also, no announcers were drafted this year.

RAW:

Rey Mysterio
Alberto Del Rio
John Cena
Big Show
Jack Swagger
Kelly Kelly
Chris Masters
JTG
Drew McIntyre
Curt Hawkins
Kofi Kingston
Tyler Reks
Beth Phoenix

Brie Bella
Nikki Bella
CM Punk
David Hart Smith
David Otunga
Dolph Ziggler
Evan Bourne
Eve Torres
Gail Kim
Goldust
Husky Harris
Jerry Lawler
John Morrison
Maryse
Mason Ryan
Melina
Michael McGillicutty
Justin Roberts
Michael Cole
Michael Tarver
Primo
R-Truth
Santino Marella
Scott Stanford
Skip Sheffield
The Miz
Triple H
Vickie Guerrero
Vladimir Kozlov
Zack Ryder
Mr. McMahon

SmackDown

Daniel Bryan
Randy Orton
Mark Henry
Sin Cara
The Great Khali
Ranjin Singh
Jimmy Uso
Alicia Fox
William Regal
Yoshi Tatsu
Natalya
Jey Uso
Ted DiBiase
Tyson Kidd
Tamina
Alex Riley
Sheamus

Booker T
Brodus Clay
Chavo Guerrero
Christian
Cody Rhodes
Ezekiel Jackson
Heath Slater
Hornswoggle
Jack Korpela
Josh Matthews
Justin Gabriel
Kaitlyn
Kane
Layla
Matt Striker
Michelle McCool
Ricardo Rodriguez
Rosa Mendes
Teddy Long
Todd Grisham
Tony Chimel
Trent Baretta
The Undertaker
Wade Barrett

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Alberto Del Rio vs. John Cena is currently planned for SummerSlam, with either the World Heavyweight Title or the WWE Title on the line.

When WWE first booked Extreme Rules, they weren’t planning on having the Draft first. Alberto Del Rio has been planned to win the World Title at the pay-per-view, and then he would have moved to RAW in the June Draft with The Miz keeping the WWE Title at Extreme Rules and taking the belt to SmackDown in June.

With the Draft being held early, there is a strong possibility now that Christian will win the World Title at Extreme Rules. If Christian wins, this would be the third pay-per-view since the Royal Rumble where Del Rio was scheduled to win the title but didn’t.

With Vince McMahon changing things and bringing the Draft sooner in hope of locking in the SummerSlam main events early, plans will be changing.

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The web address of Alberto Del Rio's profile page on WWE.com denoted the WWE Superstar as a member of the Raw roster today.

Under the "All" bracket on the WWE Superstars page on WWE.com, his picture linked to the web address www.wwe.com/superstars/raw/albertodelrio. The error has since corrected as the URL now redirects to his original SmackDown based page.

It should be noted that if the page was not legitimate, an error page would be displayed (www.wwe.com/404-not-found). No error page is displayed for www.wwe.com/superstars/raw/albertodelrio.

Similarly, SmackDown Diva Beth Phoenix was denoted as a member of the Raw roster over the weekend. The miscue was corrected this morning.

WWE officials have discussed moving Del Rio to Raw during tonight's WWE Draft as he is currently scheduled to headline SummerSlam against John Cena. It has also been broached for Del Rio move to the brand as World Heavyweight Champion, with The Miz, as WWE Champion, heading to SmackDown.

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Edge will hand over the World Heavyweight Title at tonight's WWE SmackDown tapings. WWE has removed the World Title Ladder Match from their Extreme Rules line-up.

One idea discussed for tonight's SmackDown tapings has Edge hand-picking Christian to take his place against Alberto Del Rio in the Ladder Match, which would be for the vacant World Heavyweight Title belt.

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WWE has now confirmed that Brodus Clay will be in Alberto Del Rio’s corner and Christian will be in World Heavyweight Champion Edge’s corner for their big match at tomorrow’s WrestleMania 27 pay-per-view.

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WWE is pushing Edge’s submission hold going into the match with Alberto Del Rio at WrestleMania 27, to go against Del Rio’s armbar finisher.

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When Sin Cara (Mistico) was introduced at WWE’s press conference in Mexico yesterday, he came out in a Mistico style mask before taking it off to reveal his new WWE mask. Sin Cara reportedly means “Faceless.”

WWE has setup a Facebook page for him at facebook.com/WWESinCara and a Twitter account is being setup. WWE will begin airing clips from the press conference on this week’s TV and Monday’s RAW. Mistico’s signing with WWE is being covered my all the media in Mexico as it’s considered a big deal.

Sin spoke at the press conference and said he doesn’t know which brand he will end up on but said he is ready when called and proud to be working for the greatest promotion in the world. Most Sports Betting WWE fans have him going to Smackdown. Lucha Libre journalist Kris Zellner expects Cara to end up on the SmackDown brand with Rey Mysterio and Alberto Del Rio.

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Jim Ross is back with another blog on jrsbarbq.com with his thoughts on last night's WWE Elimination Chamber pay-per-view. Here are some highlights:

Alberto Del Rio:
Alberto Del Rio is evolving nicely. Love his cross arm breaker finisher. Del Rio gets into his finishing maneuver very cleverly. I'm buying Alberto Del Rio and feel that he will have a successful outing at WM27.

The SmackDown Chamber and Christian's return:
The Smackdown Elimination Chamber match was big league. One of the best PPV bouts I've seen in a long time especially one involving multiple participants. It earned a FULL bottle of sauce rating.
Nice to see Christian return as he's been on the injured list for months. 'Captain Charisma' is due to have a big 2011. Very skilled, underrated talent.

Trish Stratus' return:
Another Canadian import made her return as well as Trish Stratus had an enhanced , surprise cameo on the PPV. The brunette Trish is just as lovely as the blond Trish. Good to hear that she's going to be a Tough Enough trainer. I'm watching.

Michael Cole:
The Voice of WWE, or so he says, Michael Cole really had an impassioned rant in the post match of the WWE Title bout where it was almost as if Cole was channeling a classic verbal barrage from Mr. McMahon or Jesse 'the Body' Ventura when both were having 'bad days.' Very 'I want to slap this guy' type of delivery and verbiage.

It will be interesting to see how Cole's rant is addressed Monday night on Raw as it relates to sitting next to King at their announce table.

John Cena and The Rock:
If you had Fruity Pebbles is the answer as to how John Cena responded to the Rock's Cena fueled in ring promo Monday night on Raw then you win. However, one has to know that a more serious retort is coming at some point from the #1 contender to the WWE Title.

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Right now the Alberto Del Rio vs. Kofi Kingston match at WWE's Elimination Chamber pay-per-view is a non-title match with Kofi's Intercontinental Title not on the line. The match may be changed because at one point there was discussion of having World Heavyweight Champion Edge vs. Intercontinental Champion Alberto Del Rio at WrestleMania 27.

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WWE.com announced today that Intercontinental Champion Kofi Kingston will face Alberto Del Rio this Sunday at Elimination Chamber.

The bout is a non-title re-match from last Friday's episode of SmackDown, which saw Del Rio defeat Kingston via submission.

The announced card is as follows:

WWE Championship Match
The Miz (c) vs. Jerry Lawler

Raw Elimination Chamber Match
John Cena vs. John Morrison vs. R-Truth vs. Randy Orton vs. Sheamus vs. CM Punk

SmackDown Elimination Chamber Match
Edge vs. Dolph Ziggler vs. Kane vs. Drew McIntyre vs. Rey Mysterio vs. Wade Barrett

Intercontinental Champion Kofi Kingston vs. Alberto Del Rio

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If Alberto Del Rio wins the World Heavyweight Title at WrestleMania 27, he will be only the second heel to have won the Royal Rumble and then followed it up with a title win at WrestleMania. Yokozuna was the first, winning the 1993 Royal Rumble and the WWE Title from Bret Hart, only to lose the belt to Hulk Hogan seconds later.

Del Rio is expected to win the belt at WrestleMania. The original plan called for him to win it at the Royal Rumble but it was pushed back.

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The following 21 WWE Superstars have been announced by WWE.com as competitors in the first-ever 40-Man Royal Rumble Match, which takes place January 30 in Boston.

(1) Alberto Del Rio, (2) CM Punk, (3) Cody Rhodes, (4) Daniel Bryan, (5) Darren Young, (6) David Hart Smith, (7) David Otunga, (8) Husky Harris, (9) John Cena, (10) John Morrison, (11) Mark Henry, (12) Michael McGillicutty, (13) Primo, (14) R-Truth, (15) Rey Mysterio, (16) Sheamus, (17) Ted DiBiase, (18) Tyson Kidd, (19) William Regal, (20) Yoshi Tatsu, (21) Zack Ryder

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