In fact, just let him be the One Man Scottish Bagpipe Band.

WWE Raw on Monday, October 15 scored a 2.79 rating, which was essentially flat with a 2.78 rating last week. The standard two-hour rating was a 2.78 rating, reflecting another poor third hour performance.

- Raw averaged just under four million viewers with an average of 3.99 million viewers for all three hours, which was down three percent from last week. Again, the third hour trailed off, reflecting shifting viewing habits to 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. EST, with a drop-off during the 10:00 to 11:00 hour + over-run.

Hourly Break Down: 4.07 million first hour viewers, 4.01 million second hour viewers, and 3.89 million third hour viewers. The third hour included the big "decision" on C.M. Punk's WWE Title opponent at Hell in a Cell preceded by filler segments.

Raw did not show any gains despite ESPN's Monday Night Football game down nine percent to the lowest viewership since Week 1 of the NFL season.

- On cable TV Monday night, Raw ranked #3 in overall viewers behind the NFL and "Major Crimes" on TNT, which continues to win the Monday Night Battle against Raw. In key male demos, Raw ranked #2 behind football.

In the week-to-week demos, Raw was essentially even with last week's show, except for males 18-34, which creeped up to a three-week high. Within the actual Raw show, males 18-49 remained steady throughout without a third-hour drop-off, which is encouraging news.

Vince and Ryback are killing Raw quickly.

Yes, WWE is dying like it has an advanced flesh-eating bacterial infection. They are only the #3 show in all of cable television. I don't know if they can make it to January at this rate.

Because THIS \/:
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Ever since Rock announced a title match on RAW 1000 and Punk attacking him later that night, it's pretty well-known that barring injury to Punk or Rock or some major change in booking between now and late Jan. (which I don't see either happening), we're getting Punk v. Rock at RR '13.

And @ the 2nd part: I dunno, maybe some sort of crazy finish involving the guys somehow busting the Cell or they fight to the top and somebody crashes and burns through the cell roof or something. Just throwing pasta at the ceiling, so to speak. See if anything sticks.

Friggen CM Punk is gonna send this company to the poor house. THE RYBACK is our only hope.

I think Punkk's reign has proven that Indie wrestling blows and those guys should pick to their fast food jobs.

Kinda covered that in the part you didn't highlight. lol

Can't see Punk losing because they've planted the seeds for Rock/Punk at the Rumble.

Ryback vs. Punk is a good draw to get PPV buys, but holy fuck is it a bad idea booking wise, Ryback can't lose clean, nor can he win the title so soon without having ONE proper match on TV go longer than a minute, and a DQ finish is out because it's in a HIAC!

I hope they can write their way out of blowing their load on Ryback so soon. At least they could have fed him the IC title and the rest of the midcard first.

lol @ WWE 'Are You Serious' video on Youtube today:

Josh Matthews: "And you can all go back to writing your Ryback fan fiction" :D

That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you all along. Evidently to no avail.

... You've been trying to tell me what I already said before you ever tried to tell me anything huh?

... Read all of this repeatedly until you figure out what you're trying to tell me. lol

I dunno. Seems more like ratings have started to plummet since ryback started getting pushed.

You ask me they need more workrate in the main event.

Just saying I agreed with your assessment and that the only way I see this not happening is in the highly unlikely event either becomes injured before.