More Off-Air RAW Notes: Attendance, Ryder, Punk & More

– As noted last night, the dark match after RAW went off the air was a 41 man battle royal with the winner going on to face WWE Champion CM Punk for the title immediately after. Dolph Ziggler won the match after throwing Zack Ryder over the top. Ryder had eliminated Jack Swagger and Cody Rhodes and thought he had won the match, only for Ziggler (who was outside the ring but never eliminated) to make his way back in and eliminate Ryder.

– Ziggler went on to lose to Punk in what was said to be a good match. Most of the audience stayed until after Punk left.

– About half of the hard camera side was either empty or tarped off. The entire third level was empty as well.

– CM Punk and Zack Ryder got the biggest reactions last night.