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The immediate creative reaction to Edge suffering a torn Achilles tendon at the live event this past Friday was to figure out a way to get the belts on Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase. Over the weekend, those plans changed as they were looking to have Edge make one final appearance on television by giving his Unified WWE Tag Team Championship belt to Dolph Ziggler, and proceed from there. However, it was noted that given how things work in the company, that plan would likely change a dozen times between now and this Monday’s television taping in Orlando, when the final decision would likely be announced. At this point, they no longer have plans to make Ziggler Jericho’s tag team partner.

At one point over the weekend, there was talk about keeping the Colons together, editing out Carlito’s turn on Primo on this past Monday’s taped airing of Raw. However, that idea is off the board because they ended up airing the turn on Raw.

Creative was looking at footage of the SmackDown show taped on 7/1 in Bakersfield, California to see if there was a spot they could point to on this week’s episode they could use for the injury. The hope was to find a spot during Edge’s run-in during the Chris Jericho vs. Rey Mysterio match, since that would be his last physical appearance. It would appear that they found nothing because on Tuesday, the WWE website acknowledged the injury and the surgery, and listed it as happening in his match with Jeff Hardy match from a leapfrog spot as opposed to trying to create a storyline reason for it.

Edge had been working hurt even before his ladder match with Hardy at last month’s Extreme Rules pay-per-view. He noted during a recent radio interview promoting the television taping in Fresno that when he was younger, he was able to recover quickly from those type of matches quickly. He then said he was hurting just walking for a week after the match.

At this week’s ECW & SmackDown tapings in sunny Philadelphia, several huge matches were announced for this year’s WWE SummerSlam.

Here is the current CONFIRMED card for SUMMERSLAM! Now we’re going to say again, SPOILERS ahead. If you’re wanting to keep this a surprise for some reason, then move on to the next story, but if you’re like us, hit the jump!

WWE Championship Match
Triple H vs. The Great Khali

ECW Championship Match
Mark Henry vs. Matt Hardy

Hell In A Cell Match
The Undertaker vs. Edge

That’s Right! Hell in A Cell Match with The Undertaker! At this week’s WWE SmackDown tapings, Vickie Guererro announced the Undertaker has been reinstated and that he will face the man that speared her at the Great American Bash, EDGE.

This will be the Dead Man’s official return from hiatus.

According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, We know when to expect the return of The Undertaker!

As we thought, The Undertaker did take some time off to heal some old injuries, but there was also a feeling that his program with Edge needed to be put on the shelf, at least for a little while. They do want to continue it, but it was going to run out of steam without a new angle.

As it turns out the creative team at the WWE wasn’t told about Undertaker’s leave of absence until just a week ahead of time.

Ok, and for the news you’re all waiting for, The Undertaker is slated to return in late July. The storyline will lead to a SummerSlam showdown with Edge.

First, let me put out this Spoiler Warning: The following post contains some extra gooey information that most likely will spoil this week’s edition of SmackDown for you. If you are not interested in being spoiled, please stop reading now.

So, on to the good stuff. Edge won a one night tournament last night that will reportedly air on this week’s edition of SmackDown. This means that he will be put up against The Undertaker for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at Judgment Day.

As the storyline continues, the World Heavyweight Championship is currently vacant, but SmackDown’s General Manager Vickie Guerrero gave The Undertaker the opportunity to win it back against the winner of the tournament on SmackDown. Edge was victorious in the tournament and will face The Undertaker at Judgment Day for the title.