Zack Ryder Reportedly Demoted Due To Low Rating

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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.

The Ryder/Torres storyline is slated to continue for at least a few weeks.

I don't see how Ryder has ever been considered a main eventer, by anybody? One main event match doesn't make you one either and surely even WWE don't make judgements on a guy's ME potential on the basis of ratings for one match, especially one in which the bad ratings could be attributed to one of/a combination of 5 other guys.

Even if this report is true, any storyline for Ryder is better than what he's had for the past 4 years.