Saturday night, we had Saturday night's main event.

One week before the Royal Rumble, we had Gunther, retaining his World Heavyweight

championship over Jay Uso.

We had Ria Ripley retaining her world heavyweight championship over Naya Jax.

We had Brom Breaker, retaining the intercontinental title over Seamus.

So the question now was, would there be any big additions to the Royal

Rumble coming up this Saturday? Would there be any big developments heading into really what is

one of the top two biggest WWE shows of the entire year? And for me personally, my favorite event

every year is the Royal R Round. I always look forward

to the Royal Rumble. Even in those years where they don't do a very good job of hyping the event up.

But I think they've done a pretty good job, especially when it comes to the men's Royal Rumble in

particular this year, of getting me hyped up for what should be a great match this weekend.

As far as Raw tonight, this was not a great show. This was a very middle of the road show.

It was one of those nights where if you missed it, you really didn't miss much. It's not like you

have to go back and, oh, there was a big title change,

or oh, there was a big turn, or oh, there was a big development. It wasn't anything like that.

Uh, but it was the final raw before the Royal Rumble. It was the go home show, the go home

raw before we get to Indianapolis on Saturday. And the goal of the go-home show should be to leave you at least as excited, but preferably

more excited than you were coming into the show tonight by the time it's over.

And that's the question that you really have to ask yourself.

And so as I sit here now asking myself, am I more excited about this Royal Rumble now than I was three hours ago? The answer is yes.

And the only reason I say that has nothing to do with anything but the final closing segment

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