Piper's WWE Return, Matt Hardy Update, ECW News & Notes; More

Matt Hardy will be signing autographs at 7/16 in Woodbridge, CT, as well as in Dayton and Chicago during the Midwest Doubleshot in August.

In the ECW One Night Stand section of WWE.com (located at wwe.com/shows/ecw), information regarding an ECW VIP-only autograph session on June 12 has been posted. It will only be made available to those who purchased the $400 seats for the event. Scheduled to appear so far includes Rob Van Dam, Tazz, Spike Dudley, Dawn Marie, Balls Mahoney, Axl Rotten and many more.

Final interviews for the "Forever Hardcore" DVD documentary that focuses on ECW were conducted yesterday with Francine, Jerry Lynn, Kid Kash, The Sandman and Sabu. All discussed their memories of working for ECW and joined others who comment as well in the documentary including Shane Douglas, Tod Gordon, Raven, Gary Wolfe, New Jack, Terry Funk and others. The documentary will be available for purchase on June 10 at the Hardcore Homecoming event and online as well.

Brett Armstrong sent in the following... On the west coast this weekend we ve got 2 house shows, May 28th in Vancouver at the PNE and May 29th in Victoria at the SaveOn Foods Memorial center. To boost what I suspect to be struggling attendance (the house shows in Vancouver don t get too much excitement anymore) a special appearance at both events has been added, none other than 2005 HoF inductee, Rowdy Roddy Piper. No word on what he s doing, the info was just passed along during a WWE Canadian update.

(Note from Ryan: Piper will be joining Chris Jericho at ringside at all RAW brand events this weekend)