The 26 year old Maryse returned to WWE television Monday on RAW attacking
Melina after an absence of four months. She last appeared on WWE TV at the
Night of Champions pay-per-view in July where she lost the Divas
championship to Mickie James. After the pay-per-view she underwent knee
surgery to correct a dislocated kneecap she suffered at the end of last
year. Dr Jeffrey Dugas at the Alabama Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center
performed the successful surgery.

The first two matches for the TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs pay-per-view
have been announced. The WWE Championship will be on the line as John Cena
defends the gold against the number one contender Sheamus in a Tables match.
The Unified Tag Team titles are also up for grabs with reigning champs Chris
Jericho and The Big Show taking on DX in a TLC match.

 MBC and WWE issued a press release yesterday announcing the annual Tribute
to the Troops show which will be taped from a location in Iraq in the
beginning of December. The show will air on NBC on Saturday, December 19 at
9PM EST and just like last year it will only be an hour-long show. In the
past a whole two hour broadcast was taped which aired instead of RAW and
Smackdown but since moving it to NBC only a one hour show is being produced.
This is the seventh Tribute show with six of them being taped in Iraq and
one in Afghanistan. The first one was held in 2003. The exact date and
location of tapings will not be revealed due to security issues and the WWE
Superstars and Divas will be visiting several Forward Operating Bases during
their tour to spread some holiday cheer. The trip is completely voluntary
and no one on the roster is forced to make it to the war-thorn countries
they visit. The crew who will go over to Iraq will leave right after RAW on
November 30.

Lauren Mayhew, the ring announcer hired originally to take Lilian Garcia's
place has already been released by World Wrestling Entertainment. Mayhew
made her debut on October 6 during the ECW television tapings. Initially she
was supposed to start on Smackdown and make her way up to RAW but it was
decided she better get going from ECW. The 23 year old from Tampa posted the
announcement of leaving WWE yesterday on her Twitter account. "No longer
ring announcing on WWE for the time being bc I will b focusin on my actin
and music in the new year! I will mis my new friends," she wrote.

Usually it's Shawn Michaels and Triple H who steal the show after cameras
stop rolling after television tapings but this week it was one half of the
undisputed tag team champions, Chris Jericho, who took the spotlight after
Smackdown finished taping on Tuesday. Jericho started insulting the fans and
then decided to get out of the ring and go in a war of words with an elderly
guy who was taunting him at ringside. "You want to hit me old man? I eat
guys like you for breakfast," Jericho said as fans burst out laughing even
more. Jericho then told security to escort the old guy out of the arena for
using profanity and told him that he should be ashamed of himself as he's
supposed to set an example for the generation of fans who were in the arena.
Y2J was super here and you can see the three minute video of this at
bit.ly/8LLtC2