WWE News: Zack Ryder/Eve Segment on Monday's Raw Draws Historically Low Rating

This week’s episode of Monday Night Raw was one big disappointment.

I could breakdown everything I hated about the WWE’s effort on Monday all night, but here’s the basic gist of what I didn’t like: Kane and John Cena taking over the show, CM Punk being a complete afterthought, no focus on the 30-Man Royal Rumble match whatsoever and that ridiculous segment with Eve and Zack Ryder when Ryder was trying to change the tire.

As it turns out, I’m not the only fan who hated that last segment, either.

From F4Wonline.com (via SEScoops.com):

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On Monday’s Raw, Eve made her way to the ring ready to battle Divas Champion Beth Phoenix, but instead of The Glamazon’s entrance theme playing, the arena went red and Kane’s music played. United States Champion Zack Ryder ran to the ring to try and help her escape to his car, which suspiciously had a flat tire. The segment lost 544,000 viewers to score a 2.39 cable rating. F4WOnline.com adds that it marks as the lowest-rated quarter hour for a non-holiday episode of Raw “in perhaps a decade.”

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It really, really shouldn’t be that surprising that this segment bombed because it looked like a scene straight out of a bad 1980s horror flick: Stupid plotline, horrendous acting and just an incredibly cheesy segment overall.

I’m sure the only fans who didn’t change the channel were the ones who were too busy laughing at what WWE officials apparently think is good TV.

To be blunt, that segment sucked, and it appears as if this could be the nail in Ryder’s coffin.

He already participated in that low-rated segment on the Raw after WWE TLC, and now, here he is as one of the main figures in yet another segment that performed historically bad in the ratings department

To be honest, I don’t think this is Ryder’s fault because the writing and booking for this segment was probably the worst I’ve seen since Kane’s feud with Edge in late 2010—remember that kidnapping crap with Paul Bearer?—and no single superstar could have saved this from being a colossal failure.

I’m sure the creative team will put much of the blame on Ryder, though, despite the fact that he was just doing what he was told to do.

That sucks for “Long Island Iced Z” almost as much as it sucked for the millions of fans who had to sit through that crap.

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