Not Blowing as Hard This Week

[MizMasta3000]

Last night’s episode of iMPACT! returned to form with a solid 0.87 rating (rounded up from a 0.866). The first hour of the show ran unopposed by WWE at the 8pm hour and came in at a solid 0.91 rating. The second hour of the show scored a 082 rating and competed with Monday Night RAW for the entire 9pm to 10pm hour as well as the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship game from 9:20pm until 10pm.
In a bit of good, if not expected, news – the Knockouts were once again the shining light of the show. The overrun featuring the payoff of the Lockbox Showdown drew a 0.97 rating while the show’s opening segment which featured the Knockouts and a Rob Terry/Homicide promo drew a show-high 0.98 rating.

Overall, it is being reporting that iMPACT! drew in an average of 1,195,000 viewers throughout the night. Not too bad for a promotion that most people buried after last week’s disastrous showing. Monday Night RAW drew a 3.17 overall rating for the night, averaging over 4.6 million viewers for the night. It also happened to be RAW’s lowest rated show of 2010, which probably has something to do with the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship game between Duke and Butler drawing some 20 million viewers.

Obviously TNA's best move was moving it to 8-10. However, TNA had 2 PPV style gimmick matches and WWE had none. I wonder how TNA would fair if they didn't treat every show as a PPV. Like why am I supposed to be interested in Angle/Anderson cage match when you had a sweet ladder match on free tv?

 

[Charismatic Edge]

TNA is still trying to reel in hard core WWE fans and maybe casual fans. Having Angle and Anderson in a ladder match is just another battle in their feud. The cage match should be the blow off and might be bloody. Having it right before 9pm was outstanding and I hope they continue being smart and keeping the show at 8.

 

[CMS]

Having Kurt Angle practically murder himself in any type of match, but on TV nonetheless just for the sake of ratings is idiotic.

 

[Kizza]

They wasted Angle/Anderson. The match was probably the best match from TNA this year, and I would say the best of Anderson's career. I was watching it like How the fuck is this on free TV? Over a cage key as well is ludicrous.

Knockouts division was made to look like an absolute joke. I still think they have struck gold with Rob Terry. As much as I didn't like the unprotected chair shot, the blood seeping out from the top of the head was a great effect.

 

[xtremebadass]

I was scratching my head why the Knockouts were put on last. I understand why they put their best match on right when Raw was starting, but give us a decent main event to make the show worth sitting through.

I am not arguing, Lacey Von Erich is hot as hell, but it just seemed like a stupid move by TNA not to have a worht while main event close out the show. I didn't see it all but was AJ even on last night? I know Pope fought Wolfe, not sure if AJ ran in or not. He could have main evented, but no TNA wants to do their stupid shit with boxes, keys, bitches, and Borash.

 

[Kizza]

Because they obviously know the Knockouts draw more than a decent wrestling match.

 

[...god...]

They wasted Angle/Anderson. The match was probably the best match from TNA this year, and I would say the best of Anderson's career. I was watching it like How the fuck is this on free TV? Over a cage key as well is ludicrous.

Knockouts division was made to look like an absolute joke. I still think they have struck gold with Rob Terry. As much as I didn't like the unprotected chair shot, the blood seeping out from the top of the head was a great effect.

Seriously, that match was fucking amazing and PERFECT ending. Seriously, so much story there, that should have been their fucking PPV match. It all tied in perfectly to the time slot as well, having it run right when Raw was starting.

I kinda liked the key concept, but it coulda been more of a blow-off thing, Idk. And yes, AJ was on the show, he attacked Pope.

Yeah, that was pretty bad ass with Rob Terry.

 

[TDamien]

Hogan had very little to do with last night's show except the introduction on the teams in Lockdown... which lead to a great RVD/Storm opening match. Great match, great ending!

I liked the ending of the show. I thought the Love/Tara fight was cool... only I would have liked to see Daffney show more skin.

 

[JurassicBonez]

Having Kurt Angle practically murder himself in any type of match, but on TV nonetheless just for the sake of ratings is idiotic.

Of course, because Kurt feel like that purpace to strike some oh's and ah's. That would make people turn to watch.


























I'm being sarcastic btw. The match was actually pretty good. That fall Kurt toke was pretty scary, but besides that, it was great. That gaze Anderson gave to the camera after he won on the floor was golden.

 

[TDamien]

I'd bet money that they'll get over 1.0 next week.

And unless they do something extremely stupid, they'll continue to grow.

 

[MizMasta3000]

^Jinx!