Penn State football players are no longer the big men on campus, at least for the day -- World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is in town.

The meanest and toughest WWE superstars will be battling it out as WWE RAW will once again broadcast live on Spike TV at 9 tonight from the Bryce Jordan Center (BJC). The event starts at 7:45.

WWE superstar Dave Batista, who is involved in the main storyline on RAW, said RAW is the company's most popular of its many programs because it is broadcast live, which requires the superstars to perform under pressure.

"I'm still not used to [performing for live TV]," Batista said. "You just learn to love that pressure, and use it to enhance your performance. It's not really something you can ever get used to, because there is so much that could go wrong."

Batista said "fake" is a four-letter word he never uses to describe his profession, because, he said, you cannot fake the kind of athleticism it takes to be in the WWE. He said he likes to call professional wrestling pre-determined, instead.

"People like to refer to what we do as a soap opera for men, and I think that is pretty accurate," Batista said. "We have the stories and the drama, and then we go settle our differences in the ring. I think that if people suspend their disbelief and just sit back and enjoy the show and don't over analyze it, they would really enjoy what we do."

Penn State professional wrestling club Vice President Shannon Kentis said tonight's RAW will be her first live WWE event.

She agrees with Batista -- her favorite superstar: The WWE is definitely like a soap opera, but more entertaining.

"There is the same kind of ridiculous acting, but they just have matches instead of crying," Kentis said.

Batista said he is more of a "jeans and T-shirt" kind of guy in reality, the complete opposite of the slick, suave, butt-kicking playboy he plays in the WWE.

He said that despite each performer's television persona, most of the guys who would seem like killers that could snap you in half are, in reality, some of the nicest guys he has ever met.

One superstar who has been very important to him on a personal level is wrestling legend and Batista's frequent tag-team partner, Ric Flair.

"I can't even begin to put into words how much Ric has helped me, whether it be in the ring, or with the business aspects of what we do," Batista said.

"He has been all around the world and has seen and done it all. It's such an honor to be able to work with him," Bastista added.

Batista said RAW is a diverse program that contains lots of different entertainment such as backstage altercations, interview segments and, of course, wrestling matches.