mobanmarket– Kevin Eck of the Baltimore Sun conducted a telephone interview with JBL talking about tonight’s Tribute to the Troops show. Eck has posted a transcript from the interview in his latest blog on The Sun’s web site. JBL talks about coming up with the idea for the show by saying, “I was over there one summer right after the invasion of Iraq. It was a miserably hot summer, as all of them are over there. It was 137 degrees one day. I was sitting there talking to Ron Simmons and I thought, “This would be great if we could come over here at Christmas and do something like the Bob Hope-type USO Christmas Special. So when we got back, I approached Mr. [Vince] McMahon and [WWE executive producer] Kevin Dunn and told them what I thought would be a good idea and what I thought we could do, and they took it from there. Within a few weeks, the thing was done and we’ve been going over there ever since. This is our fifth year to be going over there.” Click here for the full interview.
– The following matches were taped earlier this month in Iraq for tonight’s WWE Tribute to the Troops show that will air in place of WWE RAW on the USA Network:
*WWE Champion Randy Orton vs. Chris Jericho
*WWE Intercontinental Champion Jeff Hardy vs. Carlito
*Rey Mysterio vs. Mark Henry
*DX vs. Ken Kennedy & Umaga
*Layla & Kelly Kelly vs. Maria & Mickie James
*WWE Tag Team Champion Hardcore Holly vs. Ron Simmons
– Rob Van Dam talks about his recent one night return to WWE at the 15th Anniversary RAW show as well as the controversy in baseball following the Mitchell Report in his latest blog. You can check it out at www.robvandam.com/blog.
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