WWE Superstars Arrive Late, Trish Stratus, Low Morale; More

[Joe Kerr]

At the Vancouver show on Friday Garrison Cade tweaked his knee. However he was okay to work last night in a tag match, though he was still in pain. There was also word at the show that Trish Stratus suffered a hand injury and was off of this weekend's tour for that reason.

Speaking of the Vancouver show, the crowd was less than 2,000 people in the building Friday night, which as you can guess didn't sit well with the talent. Saskatoon did much worse, with only a little over 1,000 paid at the show. Last night's Smackdown show in North Bay, Ontario drew horribly, with less than 1,300 paid in the building a really low gate.

Both Raw and Smackdown! have very tough travel schedules this week. When you add in that it's a holiday weekend and that the gates have been terrible, morale is not really high right now on either brand.

D-Von Dudley, Kenzo Suzuki and Akio were late getting to last night's show. They flew into Toronto and made a wrong turn driving to the show. There was no heat on them since they called and told the agents what happened. They arrived to the building at around 9 o'clock.