“I’ve filmed three movies now with not sacrificing my WWE schedule at all. I have a system that makes it work,” Cena said. “The first movie I filmed was in Australia. And I still flew back and forth and made all of my WWE commitments. So, if I can be that far from home, and still not miss anything, I know it can be done.”

While some naysayers of Cena’s might welcome his departure, wrestling fans will be relieved that Cena will continue to balance both of his career ambitions.

However, on Monday Night Raw, the storyline developed as the night was dedicated to Team WWE facing Team Nexus individually. The good news is that many veteran WWE stars jobbed to Nexus to help the newbie heel division regain their heat.

That is, until the main event, where Cena bested Darren Young, pinning him solidly and sending him on his way with a nice Branson vacation package. So it appears WWE wants to slowly focus in on Cena as the one man Team Nexus will struggle to beat.

Can’t say that does much for me in terms of making Chris Jericho, Randy Orton and the like remain credible, but hey, at least a lot of young blood performers are being featured prominently and given a chance to rise to the occasion and prove themselves worthy of being next-generation WWE superstars.

McMahon received approximately 49 percent of the vote, while Rob Simmons got 28 percent and Peter Schiff 23 percent. The national Democratic machine was quick to attack McMahon along all the predictable lines of attack for a former CEO of a company like WWE. Whether voters in Connecticut will respond to such fear-mongering or vote on the issues remains to be seen.

McMahon might be more resilient to criticism if she had run a medical assistant school rather than WWE; yet her company’s product has certainly kept her in touch with blue-collar voters.

It now appears that Reaction is the “big surprise” Dixie Carter mentioned on her Twitter account about a month ago; if so, Reaction is potentially interesting if they can incorporate the content into a compelling overall TNA product. Unfortunately, that’s been the ongoing problem with TNA; they have some interesting pieces, but too often fit them like cell phone batteries into a laptop computer.

While the WWE are wholesale distributors of wrestling talent worldwide, they often have too few spots available to really nurture young performers into the business. While the Nexus angle has helped, for every Randy Orton that has worked out well for WWE, there are several Shelton Benjamins who fizzle.

It’s the nature of the biz, but to beat it, they need to develop more developmental promotions and widen the talent base.

One doesn’t need new vga cables to see that most WWE mysteries like this are usually resolved in a much more disappointing way than the speculation that surrounds them surmises; just like when “Who Is the Higher Power” mystery was revealed to be… Vinnie Mac himself, which everyone pretty much guessed would be the safe route to go.

Oh well… it’s probably Steph this time…

Sure, he’ll probably never withdraw completely as long as he draws breath, and that’s fine. But it’s nice to hear McMahon talking about “developing new, young faces” who can become the future of the company.

Of course, behind the scenes we all know that Stephanie McMahon Levesque is the future of the company, a point made ever more clear at the start of 2010 when her brother Shane left his duties in WWE to go off and do his own thing. That has turned out, so far, to be an investment in International Sports Management (ISM), a small sports agency that manages some cricket and golf stars in Europe.

For some perspective, the last time Raw’s ratings were this high for both hours were last spring, just following WrestleMania, when Shawn Michaels had his farewell episode. Sure, we all know the Heartbreak Kid will return at some point… but what’s notable about this week’s show and the last month of ratings is that this is happening with no big debuts or departures; it’s just generally strong ratings leading into the last big WWE PPV of the summer, SummerSlam.

Could business be picking up? Let’s hope!

So what’s next for the guy who needs no Lipozene? It appears Lesnar’s next title defense is now set for UFC 121 in October; his opponent? Cain Velasquez.

Should be intriguing.

RVD made the cover then for the win.

It was classic booking designed to keep up the four-way feud, although it’s sad that in TNA, their main event consists of three WWE castoffs and only one home-grown star in the person of Abyss.

People critique WWE all the time for over-relying on establishes stars, but TNA is worse, if you ask me. Or at least just as bad.

Following UFC 116, Heyman announced that while he’s considered going to TNA, he has strict conditions on such a move; otherwise, he has no interest at all.

The upshot is this: if he could come in and have Vince McMahon-like control over the roster, the TV product, and everything else, then he’d consider it… so long as the deal included stock options and an IPO within five years.

Heyman, who at this point in his life seems to genuinely value being a father to his children, said the only thing that would make a return to the wrestling business attractive to him is the chance to set his children up for life.

Heyman had little respect for TNA’s current product and seemed confident in his ability to turn it around, if a bit disinterested in doing so.

And, as a WWE-watcher, I was pleased to see Big Show Paul Wight on last week’s episode of Royal Pains. The good news is that his acting was a couple steps up from wooden – though only a couple. And he made for an interesting foil for Hank Lawson, Ph.D., in terms of his medical case.

Hopefully, Big Show won’t let this exposure go to his head; he could easily be a wrestler of Andre the Giant’s stature; but he doesn’t work as hard as Andre did. Big Show’s been a hidden comedy gem ever since a memorable co-guest-hosting job on Saturday Night Live a few Wrestlemanias ago.

Nice to see Show scratching that itch again. Let’s just hope he stays primarily in the ring before he ends up hocking iPhone accessories on eBay or something…