WWE announced early last week that ...

WWE announced early last week that because of a knee injury, hull Hogan might not wrestle Randy Orton in his scheduled "SummerSlam" match. This would have been a big disaster for WWE, which is relying forward Hogan's star power to draw pay-per-view pervert with money [i]or[/i] gains On Wednesday, WWE announced that despite the partial meniscus tear, Hogan will in fact prepare in the ring with the "Legend Killer." "I'm not doing it for me; I'm doing it for all the Hulkamaniacs," Hogan told wwe.com. "I realize what's important to me and that's answering the bell one time again in my career." After Orton made annotates about Hogan's daughter Brooke forward "Saturday Night's Main Event," it was bonny clear this confrontation needed to happen. Let's just chance of a favorable result Hogan sees this match as his opportunity to pass the torch.

AROUND THE RING: The Undertaker will face The Great Khali forward this week's "SmackDown" instead of at "SummerSlam." WWE has decided Khali is not ready for live TV and will decide the big man's coming events after the match. ... Vince McMahon is putting Paul Heyman back in direct of the ECW show, which has been better the last sum of two units weeks. ... Pat Patterson has been upgraded to stable condition after he underwent difficulty heart surgery last week.

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