During this time, Miz often had his lackey Alex Riley alongside him. In segments with Alex Riley that didn't include the Miz, Riley averaged -25,000 viewers (including disasterous segments such as a tag match with John Morrison against Ziggler/Swagger on 9/12/11 Raw which lost 715,000 viewrs).
Ryback: +105,000
Nexus' Skip Sheffield rebranded as Ryback in 2012, he struggled at first to be a rating juggernaut. Between October and November 2012, he began to evolve into a rating mover when he was alongside CM Punk and John Cena. But it was uneven: his JTG squash on 10/29/12 lost 432,000 viewers while his squash of Brad Maddox a few weeks later on 11/12/12 gained 755,000 viewers. In 2013, wrestling John Cena in a table match (7/29/13, +769k viewers), getting some Paul Heyman magic while feuding with Punk (9/23/13, +1.03 million viewers) or attacking during the John Cena/Mark Henry match (4/8/13, +887k viewers) Ryback continued to show signs that he could more.
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During this time, Miz often had his lackey Alex Riley alongside him. In segments with Alex Riley that didn't include the Miz, Riley averaged -25,000 viewers (including disasterous segments such as a tag match with John Morrison against Ziggler/Swagger on 9/12/11 Raw which lost 715,000 viewrs). 