diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/ChannelHandler.java b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/ChannelHandler.java
index 25fdab1b90..83c6248807 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/ChannelHandler.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jboss/netty/channel/ChannelHandler.java
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
 package org.jboss.netty.channel;
 
 /**
- * Handles or intercepts a {@link ChannelEvent}, and fires a new, modified, or
- * existing {@link ChannelEvent} to the next handler in a {@link ChannelPipeline}.
+ * Handles or intercepts a {@link ChannelEvent}, and fires a
+ * {@link ChannelEvent} to the next handler in a {@link ChannelPipeline}.
  * <p>
  * This is a tag interface.  There are two sub-interfaces which processes
  * a received event actually, one for upstream events and the other for