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So now it's Zach Ryder's fault?  He is waaaay to over, I'm calling BS!

Dave Meltzer stated on the Dec 27 edition of Wrestling Observer Radio that Zack Ryder being placed in a romance storyline with Eve Torres and away from the main event scene stems from the staggeringly low quarter hour rating for last week's Raw SuperShow main event, which saw Long Island Iced-Z, CM Punk and Daniel Bryan stand tall against The Miz, Alberto Del Rio and Dolph Ziggler.

The main event garnered a 2.67 cable rating (2.55 for the first half of the bout), which was the lowest-rated main event on Raw in 2011 and possibly the lowest since Dec 8, 1997 for a non-holiday show in its regular time slot. The overrun gained 59,000 viewers, which is considered terrible.

I'd argue the rating was so low because, it was a flipping 6 Man Tag.  Nothing on the line.  Just some regular match, I had little interest in it and I really like Punk, Ryder and Ziggler.  The booking of it was wrong, not the people who were involved.  (Well Miz and Del Rio do send me to sleep these days but still....)