The European tour is over, and tonight, WWE was in Montreal.

They were at the Bell Center on the eve of Saturday night's main event with as quiet a

crowd, as quiet a Canadian crowd as I have ever seen.

Not that they were given a whole lot to be excited about.

They weren't.

I don't blame the crowd.

I love my fans up in Canada.

The best wrestling fans, a lot of the best wrestling fans, you will find them in Canada.

But tonight, they really didn't have a whole lot to get excited about.

You know, we are heading into the Royal Rumble, which is not tomorrow, but it is a week from tomorrow.

This is, and I can sit here and say this. I mean, I go back in my brain and try to figure out

a different answer to this. This is the worst and weakest build to a Royal Rumble since the early ones, really since the first two, I would say.

This is the worst Royal Rumble build in decades.

And it pains me to say that because the Royal Rumble is my favorite show of the year.

More than WrestleMania, more than Summer Slam, more than any of the other ones. So the build to

the Royal Rumble has not been good. Before we get to the Royal Rumble, though, we have Saturday

night's main event. We have four matches. We had three. Now we have four. On the card for

tomorrow. And that will be on Peacock.

Outside the U.S., I guess it would be on Netflix, I believe. But here in the States, it'll be on

the cock. And so tonight, that really is what the show was primarily geared towards, you know, keying up the key matches for

Saturday Night's main event tomorrow. But I've been very complimentary of Smackdown over the last

few weeks. In fact, since they moved back to three hours, I would say that for the last few weeks,

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