Former WWE superstar Edge will have a new look when he gets inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame this weekend. Check out these pictures of Edge with short hair:

– The Rock spoke to PalmBeachPost.com and said that WWE’s decision to hold WrestleMania 28 at the Sun Life Stadium is what convinced him to return this year:

“It sealed the deal for me. It’s going to be a fun night, an electric night, but also a very emotional night, considering South Florida has been my home for over 20 years.”

– The Twitter meeting held last Monday by WWE officials has become a running joke among the WWE locker room, according to multiple sources.

– Despite his  recent health problems, Barry Windham is expected to attend Saturday night’s WWE Hall of Fame ceremony in Miami. Windham is being inducted with the Four Horsemen.

– WWE Hall of Famer “Stone Cold” Steve Austin posted his latest video Q&A on BrokenSkullRanch.com and spoke about the possibility of wrestling WWE Champion CM Punk:

This week’s WWE Inbox show features WWE superstars addressing the following questions sent in by fans on Twitter:

“What Is The Worst Persona In WWE History”

“What Does Your 3:16 Say?”

Submit your questions now to @wweinbox. Here’s the video:

As we’ve been reporting in recent weeks, former WWE superstar Matt Bloom (Albert, Giant Bernard) will be returning to the company as Lord Tensai.

Bloom posted the following message on Twitter today – indicating that his run with New Japan Pro Wrestling has come to an end:

“Want to wish all my @NJPW1972 family a successful NJPW Cup. Wish I could be there but something came up.”

He also wished good luck to his former tag team partner, Karl Anderson:

“@Machinegunka get it done!”

Bloom is expected to return to WWE television in the coming weeks and is rumored to be feuding with either John Cena or Randy Orton.

– Production crews have already started setting up for the The Rock’s next movie, Pain & Gain. The Rock and Mark Wahlberg will star in the film, which will be directed by Michael Bay (Transformers). Filming begins in Miami on Tuesday, April 6th.

– As we reported earlier in the week, WWE held a meeting backstage at RAW on Monday to discuss talent’s use of Twitter. According to a source who was at the meeting, Vince McMahon came across at the meeting as being obsessed with being able to call WrestleMania the “Social Media Event of the Year.” Talent was instructed to use WWE-related hastags during WrestleMania weeekend.

– WWE has hired a three-time All American volleyball player and volleyball executive Canyon Ceman as the new Senior Director of Talent Relations. This is the job previously held by Ty Bailey, who was released last month.

Ceman is Triple H’s first big executive hire for developmental. Several people in FCW have questioned if Ceman will be able to scout talents, while other WWE officials feel his sports management knowledge will help him succeed.

(Partial source: f4wonline.com)

– SmackDown superstar Sheamus spoke to the Baltimore Sun this week to hype Sunday’s WrestleMania 28 pay-per-view and his World Heavyweight title match against Daniel Bryan. Sheamus had this to say about reports of backstage resentment towards The Rock:

“There’s a lot of rumors going around, people with animosity for The Rock. That’s not the case with me at all. The Rock has come back; he’s been cool with me and I have nothing against him at all. He’s achieved everything in WWE, and of course, he’s achieved everything in Hollywood. It’s a huge success story.”

He also commented on how it feels to be fighting for the World Heavyweight title this year after he and Daniel Bryan’s match was bumped from the card last year:

“I didn’t make Mania last year; I was little bit humbled about that. I realized I’ve got to start again. What I was currently doing wasn’t working, so I changed up things about my style. I became more aggressive, more dedicated, more intense — taking it match by match, night by night — to literally crawl and scratch my way back to the top.”

– The Miz will be returning to MTV this week, the network that gave him his first dose of national television exposure. The Miz will be hosting MTV’s The Challenge Battle of the Exes Reunion on April 4th at 10PM ET.

– WWE.com has published an article officially announcing Randy Orton’s starring role in The Marine: Homefront, the third installment of WWE Studios’ Marine franchise. Fans will be able to get a first look at production of the film during this weekend’s WrestleMania Axxess in Miami, where fans can audition for a small role in the screenplay.

Production for the straight-to-video release begins June 11 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Orton plays a Marine who must rescue his kidnapped daughter.

– Lilian Garcia held a concert on Wednesday night in Miami at the Gibson Miami Showroom. Numerous WWE personalities were on hand, including the Bella Twins, Vickie Guerrero, Ezekiel Jackson, Heath Slater, Jey Uso, Jimmy Uso, Jinder Mahal, Justin Gabriel, Maxine, Titus O’Neil, Aksana and John Laurinaitis.

TMZ has picked up the story we posted earlier today regarding Kurt Angle’s 80-year old mother getting scammed. According to Angle, his mother recently received a call from someone based out of the Dominican Republic who claimed her grandson was in a local jail and needed $4,000 right away, or that he would suffer severe consequences.

Angle’s mother wired the money to the people, and then received a call the next day, demanding another $4,000. When she couldn’t afford the second payment, she called her son Kurt. Kurt felt that something was wrong, and contacted the family member in question, who was not only fine, but had not been to the Dominican Republic in over a year.

Realizing his mother was the victim of a wire fraud scam and had been robbed of $4,000, Angle got the local authorities involved. According to the FBI, Angle’s mother is one of many victims being targeted by international scammers who prey on the elderly.

Angle believes the thieves have an accomplice near his mother’s home in Pittsburgh, because they knew about his family and somehow got access to his mother’s unlisted number.

WWE has issued the following press release announcing the WrestleMania Community Outreach events that will be taking place in Miami. Aside from WrestleMania 28, the Hall of Fame Ceremony and the AXXESS fan fest, WWE goes above and beyond to make a positive impact in the community of the WrestleMania host city.

WRESTLEMANIA READING CHALLENGE

More than 2,000 libraries and 50,000 children from across the United States and Canada participated in this year’s WrestleMania Reading Challenge through the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association. As guests of WWE, 20 finalists will compete this Saturday and three winners from grades 5-6, 7-8, and 9-12 will be named World Champions.

“BE A STAR” ANTI-BULLYING RALLIES

WWE’s anti-bullying alliance co-founded with The Creative Coalition, “be a STAR (Show Tolerance And Respect),” will be conducting two rallies with the Miami-Dade County Public Schools on Thursday, March 29, at the Hialeah Gardens Middle School and the John F. Kennedy Middle School. Rock musician and former American Idol contestant James Durbin will be joined by WWE Superstars and Divas to deliver anti-bullying messages to more than 1,000 sixth-grade students.

WWE PREMIERE PARTY FOR ALEX’S PLACE

On Thursday, March 29, WWE, Grammy Award-winning artist Timbaland and Miami philanthropist Stuart Miller will host a VIP party, including a charity auction to benefit Alex’s Place at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center/UMHC in Miami, a pediatric hematology-oncology clinic.

MAKE-A-WISH PIZZA PARTY

WWE Superstar John Cena will host this year’s annual Make-A-Wish pizza party for over 40 wish kids and their families from the United States, Canada and Ireland. This year’s party takes place on Saturday, March 31 at Jungle Island. As part of its 30-year partnership with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, WWE is also hosting the wish kids and their families at WrestleMania.

VISITS TO AREA CHILDREN’S HOSPITALS

WWE Superstars and Divas will be visiting two children’s hospitals in the Miami area — Holtz Children’s Hospital on Wednesday, March 28 and Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital on Thursday, March 29. During the visits, more than 150 children will meet many of their favorite WWE Superstars and Divas.

* EXCLUSIVE Pictures & VIDEO From Yesterday’s WM28 Press Conference (We Were There)

During a recent interview with the UK Sun, former WWE & TNA star Kevin Nash spoke in-depth about Sunday’s WrestleMania 28 pay-per-view. Nash, who has wrestled both men and is a longtime student of the business, says Triple H ending the streak is bad for business – and the Undertaker should retire with the streak in tact:

“End of an Era…I’ve been thinking about the “speaking in code” that Shawn Michaels alluded to last week…If the WWE did have HHH end the Streak, what’s the bragging point since it took him three tries? There’s no bragging point, and it doesn’t do anything for business…It wouldn’t be good for business at all. It’d be like, yeah HHH ended it, but it took him three tries…Big deal. How does that impact the business to the good side?

“Most people would automatically point to the fact that he’s married to Stephanie, and didn’t do it because he deserved it…They could see through the facade WWE [would] have to build for it. I could already hear the bullshit chants from the more seasoned fans if they did that.

“In all honesty, at this point in time, the only one that deserves to end the Streak, is Taker himself by hanging it up when he chooses…In other words, he retires undefeated at Mania.”

Comment Below – What do you think – should the Undertaker retire undefeated at WrestleMania?

– The majority of WWE’s superstars and divas are staying at the Intercontinental Hotel in Miami, Florida this week. The hotel has a ton of security in place and fans have already been tweeting that The Rock, John Cena, the Undertaker and The Miz have been spotted at the hotel this week.

– After Wednesday’s WrestleMania Press conference in Miami, John Cena and The Miz answered questions sent in from fans on Twitter:

TNA star Kurt Angle says his 80 year old mother was robbed this week by a few criminal lowlifes from the Dominican Republic. Here’s what Angle posted on Twitter regarding the situation:

My Mother Who is 80 Yrs Old was robbed from Criminals from Dom Republic. They Said My Nephew Was in jail and Needed $5,000 to Bail Him Out

These Criminals Need to be Arrested @ their ass kicked!Taking Advantage of an 80 year old Woman With Little $.Watch out for these Criminals

This Scam Happens A lot. If I Ever Come Across these Criminals, and I Will find U, I Will Make You Pay, with Pain! Trust Me

One Name is Otto Ramirez. I Will fly to Dominican Republic and Find You. I Also Know U Have a Contact in My Hometown for this Scam

I Will Find You All! You Are Scum!

my Mother Doesn’t Have A lot of Money and I try 2 Help Her,but Lowlifes Robbing an 80 year old Woman need their Ass Kicked

SEScoops.com was at the WrestleMania 28 press conference in Miami, Florida on Wednesday from the Eden Roc Hotel. Check out this video of The Rock and John Cena having a face-to-face confrontation and exclusive pictures from the event:

WWE sources have confirmed that Christian was pulled from the WrestleMania 28 Team Laurinaitis vs. Team Long match because of issues with his ankle. There was hope that he’d be able to compete with the injury, but the decision to pull Christian from the card was made on Monday.

As for why Alberto Del Rio is not booked for the show, he was originally booked to be a member of Team Laurinaitis, but WWE officials felt the match was “below him” and not fitting for a former WWE champion in line for a big push in the coming months. That said, it’s  worth noting that former champions Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger and The Miz are all in the match.

WWE is planning a dramatic return for Alberto Del Rio after WrestleMania and Randy Orton has been discussed as his next big feud.

Despite being pulled from the 12-man match, both Del Rio and Christian will be in attendance this Sunday and will likely appear on camera.

(Source: PWInsider.com)

WWE issued the following on Wednesday, touting WrestleMania 28 as the “Social Media Event of the Year.”

Earlier this morning, social media blog Mashable.com posted a feature article on WWE going into social media overdrive this weekend.

Here’s the press release:

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. : Social Media Event of the Year WrestleMania®

WWE® (NYSE:WWE) today announced the first ever “WrestleMania Pre-Show,” simulcast live on YouTube, Facebook and WWE.com this Sunday, April 1 at 6:30 p.m. ET, as the centerpiece of its record-level digital and social media activities for WrestleMania Week in Miami. WrestleMania XXVIII broadcasts live on pay-per-view this Sunday, April 1 at 7:00 p.m. ET. “The Social Media Event of the Year” also includes:

WRESTLEMANIA INTERACTIVE PRESS CONFERENCE
To kick off WrestleMania Week, the WrestleMania press conference at the Eden Roc Hotel will live stream on YouTube, Facebook and WWE.com tomorrow, Wednesday, March 28, at 2:30 p.m. ET. The press conference will take live fan questions via Twitter, allowing online participants to get the scoop from the WWE Superstars in attendance.

PEREZHILTON.COM RED CARPET COVERAGE
WWE Divas will bring fans along for all the WrestleMania festivities as they happen, providing exclusive coverage for PerezHilton.com, including tweets and photos from the WrestleMania VIP Party on Thursday, March 29 and the WWE Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Saturday, March 31.

MIKE TYSON: WWE SOCIAL MEDIA AMBASSADOR
This year’s celebrity WWE Hall of Fame honoree, Mike Tyson (@MikeTyson), will be tweeting live from key events, including the WWE Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, WrestleMania Axxess and WrestleMania XXVIII. Exclusive videos, photos and articles of Tyson participating in WrestleMania events will be uploaded to YouTube and WWE.com.

TWITTER FACE-OFF: THE ROCK® VS. JOHN CENA®
WWE will also involve fans, celebrities and WWE Legends in a Twitter hashtag battle over who will win the WrestleMania main event featuring The Rock vs. John Cena, utilizing the respective hashtags: #TeamBringIt vs. #Cenation. WWE Superstars will also be tweeting throughout WrestleMania, letting fans in on all the action backstage.

EXCLUSIVE YOUTUBE VIDEOS
On Friday, March 30, WWE will post exclusive WrestleMania videos on YouTube’s home page. The series will feature WWE Superstars The Rock, John Cena, Triple H®, Undertaker®, CM Punk® and Chris Jericho®. WWE Superstar Santino Marella® will also film his popular YouTube show, Santino’s Foreign Exchange, at WrestleMania Axxess.

TEXT TO WIN WRESTLEMANIA TRIP TO NYC
Fans have the chance to win one of 100 pairs of tickets and an all-expenses paid trip to New York City for next year’s WrestleMania at MetLife Stadium on Sunday, April 7, 2013 by texting from their phones or entering online at WWE.com during WrestleMania.

WRESTLEMANIA WEEK TWITTER HASHTAGS
#WrestleMania
#Axxess – WrestleMania Axxess
#WWEHOF – WWE Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
#WMParty – WrestleMania Premiere Party: A Celebration of Miami Art & Fashion

Text to Win Sweepstakes/Contest Rules
Sweepstakes ends Sunday, April 15. No purchase necessary to enter or win. Open to U.S. and Canada residents only (excluding Quebec), 18 and older. See wwe.com/winmania for Official Rules.

UK Sun interview with JBL
Host: Rob McNichol

John Layfield on the on the genesis of the JBL character: “Shane McMahon saw me walking to Madison Square Garden one time in a suit, cowboy hat and boots. He said ‘That’s the character.’ He liked the look. It took a year or two after that. I mentioned something about doing this character. I thought in my mind about the character J.R. Ewing from the TV show “Dallas.” That was my idea. Vince McMahon will tell you it has nothing to do with J.R. Ewing. In his mind it was a blow up of my life, an embellishment of some of the things I was doing.

“For many years they didn’t really want me to be a bad guy, because I was doing so much with the troops. But a lot of things happened at once. Big Show got hurt, Brock Lesnar had left the company, Undertaker was out, Kurt Angle was hurt, and they needed somebody to wrestle Eddie Guerrero, and so they said ‘Hey, let’s create this character of JBL.’ That’s when the thing started.

“Vince McMahon always thought (the character) could be a World Champion, but other than one or two people, nobody thought it could be. I didn’t know. I had no idea if it could be or not. We had it as a scheduled main event against Eddie and after about two weeks it was falling horribly flat. I really wondered if it was going to work. They needed me for that main event in Los Angeles where the Pay Per View was. We had about six weeks lead up time, which was good. They were going to push at least that Pay Per View. Thank goodness it was Eddie Guerrero.

“Eddie was just fantastic. If it had been anyone else it may have been a one-shot deal. Eddie took a lot of interest in helping me with that character, and the match worked. That’s why the character got extended and ended up becoming a main event character for quite a while. But it was never a sure thing. Fortunately I had the right guy to wrestle, and I had the right circumstance happen around it.”

On Justin ‘Hawk’ Bradshaw: “I thought it was great! But it didn’t work. I was friends with Stan Hansen, and when I came in they told me ‘wrestle like Stan Hansen’. I knew that style well. I wrestled with Stan in Japan, I was a big fan of his. I pretty much had that style anyway. After three months the character was going nowhere and they said, ‘John, what are you doing? If we want Stan Hansen, we’ll bring in Stan Hansen.’

“I said ‘OK, how do you want me to wrestle?’ They said ‘Wrestle like Barry Windham.’ Three months later they bring in Barry Windham! I learned a lot from Barry. I learned a lot about wrestling, about how to carry yourself, a lot of different things I learned from Barry. That really helped me.”

On the backstage APA skits: “Those things were so loosely scripted. They would literally give us kind of an idea and roll the cameras. It was so much fun. Ron was so great to play off of. He has such a great presence. That thing worked phenomenally. Vince came up to me one day and said ‘I want to put that on tape’. I said, ‘What?’ and he said, ‘You and Ron, drinking beer and telling stories.’

“That day they created the APA office. They were building it, and Ron walked in and saw just the door and said ‘Leave it like that.’ They said, ‘What do you mean? There are no walls.’ He said, ‘that’s perfect.’ It was just stupid. I love doing fun stuff like that. It was so silly. It was a lot of fun.”

On whether there was tension between WCW and WWF workers during the Invasion: “Any time you have two separate entities merge together, there is going to be, inherently, some personality conflict. It’s been a long time since I thought about it, but I don’t remember too many problems with guys coming in. A lot of it was storyline, and a lot of it was perpetuated backstage. Rumors were allowed to grow, because we wanted it to seem like it was really happening.

“I never had a problem with any of those guys. People were trying to make everything look like a shoot. Some rumors got out – ‘Hey, these guys really hate each other’ – but that really wasn’t the case.”

You can listen to this podcast interview at Podbean.com.

— Randy Orton has signed on to star in the upcoming WWE Studios production, The Marine 3. According to Variety.com, Orton will star as a Marine who takes on a radical militia group that kidnap his rebellious daughter, while also planning a devastating terrorist attack. The Marine: Homefront begins shooting in June.

— Monday’s RAW drew a 3.04 rating, down from the previous week’s 3.04. WWE’s final live broadcast before WrestleMania 28 averaged 4.4 million viewers.

— The 1-hour “Once in a Lifetime” special The Rock and John Cena drew a 1.60 rating with 2.1 million viewers. The show will replay many times over the next week on virtually all of NBC Universal’s cable networks.

– Brock Lesnar is rumored to be interested in wrestling at next year’s WrestleMania 29 against either The Undertaker or Steve Austin.

• CM Punk & Steve Austin Teasing WrestleMania 29 Match

– Shawn Michaels and Triple H made a special appearance in front of the live crowd prior to Monday’s RAW from Atlanta. DX came out and interrupted a Jinder Mahal promo. They joked around with him before before laying him out with Sweet Chin Music and a Pedigree.

– Former WWE Diva Torrie Wilson and her boyfriend, New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez will be ringside at Sunday’s WrestleMania 28 from Miami. Torrie says she’ll be live blogging the event on her social media accounts.

– Kevin Nash and Sean Waltman’s WrestleMania party this Friday night at Oceans Ten in Miami will feature the following guests: Diamond Dallas Page, Sunny, Rikishi, The Headbangers, David Hart Smith, Rob Terry and Robbie E.

– WWE Studios’ latest release, Bending the Rules, starring Edge and Jamie Kennedy, hits stores today on Blu-Ray & DVD.

(Partial source: f4wonline.com)

WWE Champion CM Punk spoke to Luis Gomez of the Chicago Tribune this week to hype Sunday’s WrestleMania 28 pay-per-view. Here are some highlights of what Punk said about:

Vince McMahon: “(We) have a lot more one-on-one conversations. I wont say he takes the time to talk to me now, because he always did, but I think he views me differently now. He used to view me as maybe talking to a boy. Now he thinks he’s talking to a man after I stood up and did everything I did over the summer. I always thought I was a main event player. The difference is now he knows I’m a main event player.”

Wrestling websites: “I think you have to (read them). Anybody who dismisses it — that’s (crap). You have to have your fingers on the pulse of everything. You have to read it.”

The Rock: “I don’t think I have a realtionship with The Rock. Over the past few weeks, it’s been better. Probably because I’ve been outspoken (about him) in the media. Of course, everything gets sensationalized and twisted. I don’t hate The Rock or fault him for coming back. I just think heaping credit on The Rock for ratings, buyrates – that’s where I get offended. It’s a team effort 365 days a year. Me and the entire locker room bust our (butts) and all our super stoked. Give credit where credit is due. Wrestlemania had a huge buyrate last year, not because of one guy. The numbers out there prove he hasn’t done much else, like the Survivor Series buyrate.”

Check out these video highlights from Monday’s RAW Supershow from Atlanta, the final stop on the road to WRESTLEMANIA this weekend!

– After Monday’s RAW Supershow from Atlanta, GA went off the air, John Cena left the ring. The Miz came out and demanded an apology from The Rock for stealing his spotlight after last year’s WrestleMania. Rock told the audience to take out their camera phones and tweet. Rock shook The Miz’s hand and then gave him a Rock Bottom to end the show.

– As of Tuesday morning the weather forecast for Miami this Sunday (WrestleMania) calls for for partly cloudy skies with a high of 84 degrees and a low of 71. There is a 20% chance of rain.

– Several interesting phrases trended worldwide on Twitter during Monday’s RAW. “Chris Masters” trended for the 2nd consecutive week on Raw when David Otunga made his entrance. Fans noting the similarities between Masters and Otunga. “Oddities” trended worldwide after Michael Cole referred to Team Teddy as the Oddities. “Civil War Pie” trended after The Rock referenced Betty White hitting on him in his main event promo on Raw.

Full list of WWE-related worldwide Twitter trends:

Last Raw, Randy Orton, #RAW, Michael Cole, Team Johnny, Vickie Guerrero, Chris Masters, David Otunga, Team Teddy, John Laurinaitis, The Miz, CM Punk vs Christian, Kelly Kelly, Beth Phoenix, Eve Torres, Captain Charisma, CM Punk’s, CM Punk, Brodus Clay, #SomebodyCallMyMama, Curt Hawkins, Big Show, Rosa Mendes, Drew McIntyre, A-Train, Zack Ryder, The Great Khali, Oddities, Booker T, Civil War Pie, Boots 2 Asses, #CivilWarPie and Rock and Cena.

– FCW star Dean Ambrose wrote the following on Twitter today, taking a shot at how The Rock applies a Sharpshooter:

“#WWE Fun Facts @NatbyNature uses a perfectly applied sharpshooter, @TheRock uses a kind of ugly ankle twisty thing he calls a sharpshooter”

• Picture Of The Rock’s Sharpshooter & Bret Hart’s Critique

– The Hall of Fame inductions for Edge, the Four Horsemen and Mike Tyson will be spotlighted on the one-hour special next Monday before RAW next Monday night. This year’s Hall of Fame ceremony will not air (live or on tape delay) on Saturday night, when the event takes place.

– WWE ran another promo during Monday’s RAW for the new Lord Tensai character, who will be played by Matt “Albert” Bloom. This week’s video showed another person with Tensai, played by developmental wrestler Sakamoto. Sakamodo, who currently wrestles at FCW, was trained by former WWE superstar Taka Michinoku

The WWE has website posted the following translations of the Japanese phrases that were shown during the vignette:

“It was said he would find himself in a faraway land.”

“Lord Tensai will strike.”

“Lord Tensai draws near.”

“Lord Tensai approaches. Beware!”

Here’s the second Lord Tensai vignette:

WrestleMania 29 Main Event ?

WrestleMania 28 is just days away – but it appears a blockbuster dream match is already taking shape for next year’s big event.

WWE Champion CM Punk sent a tweet to “Stone Cold” Steve Austin on Monday night that simply stated, “29, son” – presumably an indication that Punk is looking to wrestle Austin at WrestleMania 29.

Austin, not one to back down from a challenge, responded with:

“Just worry about 28. If the stars all line up I always have a big can of Whoop Ass ready to take to NYC. #rogerthat“

Austin and Punk have exchanged messages on Twitter for months, both expressing interest in a match with one another. Austin has stated in multiple interviews that he has one more match left in him – and if he could wrestle anybody, it would likely be CM Punk.

— On Monday’s RAW, WWE ran an angle where CM Punk finally snapped as a result of Chris Jericho’s taunting and delivered a devastating beatdown on Christian. It was announced during RAW that Christian was injured and “was medically ruled out” of the Team Laurinaitis vs. Team Long match at WrestleMania 28. WWE.com is reporting that Christian re-aggravated his neck injury and cannot compete this Sunday.

No word yet on whether Christian is legitimately injured, but the fact that he’s been pulled from WrestleMania just days before the show is an indication he is indeed injured.

Drew McIntyre will replace Christian on Team Laurinaitis.

— Vince McMahon is said to be “fired up” as WrestleMania 28 approaches this weekend.

McMahon apparently made several revisions to the RAW script on Monday and has not been indecisive at all. One source backstage described him as “energetic.”

Vince also apparently struck up several random meetings with talent backstage to talk about their storylines, which is unlike him.

* First Picture Of WWE Setting Up For WRESTLEMANIA

(Partial source: f4wonline.com)

SEScoops Will Be At WrestleMania 28 - Tons Of Pictures & Videos Coming Monday!

The wait is almost over – and WrestleMania 28 weekend is finally upon us. The staff of SEScoops.com will be attending the WWE Hall of Fame Ceremony on Saturday night and WrestleMania 28 on Sunday. Aside from our usual LIVE COVERAGE of WrestleMania 28 on Sunday night, we’ll be posting live recaps, pictures and videos from the Hall of Fame Ceremony and WrestleMania. Keep it locked to SEScoops.com and the SEScoops.com Facebook Page this weekend for tons of exclusive content from Miami.

Here is the final card for Sunday’s WrestleMania 28 pay-per-view from the Sun Life Stadium in Miami, Florida:

The Rock vs. John Cena
* Rappers Flo Rida & Machine Gun Kelly performing

WWE Championship Match
CM Punk (c) vs. Chris Jericho

World Heavyweight Title Match
Daniel Bryan (c) vs. Sheamus

Hell In a Cell
Triple H vs. The Undertaker
* Special Referee: Shawn Michaels

Team Laurinaitis vs. Team Long
Captain Santino Marella, Zack Ryder, R-Truth, Kofi Kingston, The Great Khali and Booker T vs. Captain David Otunga, Drew McIntyre, Mark Henry, The Miz, Jack Swagger and Dolph Ziggler

Intercontinental Championship Match
Cody Rhodes (c) vs. Big Show

Randy Orton vs. Kane

Kelly Kelly and Maria Menounos vs. Beth Phoenix and Eve Torres

— TNA star Rob Van Dam has written a blog titled, “The Rise and Fall of The Medical Kush Beach Club” for Paul Heyman’s website, which you can check out at HeymanHustle.com. RV announces a new documentary called The Boardwalk Hempire he’s Executive Producing with Tommy Chong about the rise and fall of the Medical Kush Beach medical marijuana dispensary.

— Chris Jericho’s representatives have negotiated an extension on his current WWE deal, which was originally for six months. The challenger for CM Punk’s WWE Championship at WrestleMania has extended his contract for several months, and will be “full time” in WWE through the summer.

It is not known what happens to the Fozzy concert tour that was originally scheduled for the summer, but Jericho’s tenure in WWE for what he has been jokingly calling “this tour of duty” has been confirmed as “extended,” which means he will either continue feuding with CM Punk or be a major part of the WWE draft to help the Smackdown brand after WrestleMania.