TNA rating blows...again.

[He who knows more than Nation]

Last night’s episode of TNA iMPACT! was one of the lowest rated shows of all time. The show drew a final rating of 0.84 (about 1.07 million viewers), which has been rounded down in the internet chatter to an incorrect 0.8. The first hour drew a horrible 0.8 rating while the second hour brought in a 0.88 rating.

Oh, and like always the Knockouts were the highest rated part of the show with The Beautiful People bringing in a 0.96. In all honesty, this segment also had Hulk Hogan calling out Sting and Rob Van Dam exacting some degree of revenge for last week’s beat down. Last night’s lowest rated segment was the final segment of the night, which clocked in at a 0.72 rating. This was the segment that featured AJ Styles vs. Jeff Hardy.

For comparison’s sake, last night’s episode of Monday Night RAW drew a 3.71 rating (about 5.6 million viewers), which is almost four and a half times the audience that TNA had last night.

-TNAstars.com

And last night's show wasn't as much garbage as the week before, but I only saw the second half of the show, so I don't know or care what I missed. But I also saw the second half of Raw also and it smoked the shit out of TNA fo' sho. But as I stated before, atleast half of that 25% of people who tuned out last week wouldn't be tuning back in. TNA is just throwing dirt on themselves and they should seriously rethink their strategy before they find away to hit past rock bottom.

 

[the408kid]

Possibly TNA could think about starting the show an hour earlier then raw. The first hour can have some teases about what's coming up in the show especially with some backstage promos, showcase some x-division matches and the Knockout Division if that was the highest rated segment, and most importantly get some better storylines. This Hogan Abyss thing is a joke, The Pope who was over like rover is being buried, yeah they had Hardy vs. Styles which I didn't see ( I didn't see the whole show last night actually) but again raw was on and most people tune into that on Monday nights anyways.

 

[Kizza]

Can't polish a turd. Last two shows have been pretty bad.

 

[TheAnswer]

Well I have barely watched WWE for the past year and a half but I have seen every TNA episode since Hogan/Bishoff. But I watched a lot of Raw over TNA on Monday. Simply because Raw had a very good lineup. Stone Cold was the host, the Mania rewind matches and McMahon/Bret Hart.

I DVR'd both shows so I will watch each of them in their entirety tonight or tommorow, but I think TNA is just lacking an overall direction. Its just two many story lines are all over the place.

I mean Bishoff is feuding with Foley/ Jarrett. But than we get teased that Bishoff and Hogan will begin feuding.

Samoa Joe is abducted.

AJ Styles/Abyss---- While Dinero is the #1 Contender.

Dinero/Wolf

Jeff Hardy/ Styles

Sting/ Hogan----- RVD is feuding with Sting.

Hogan/Flair.

TNA clusterfucked themselves. They need to clear up who is rivals with who. No more cross feuding, either give us all of RVD vs Sting, or all of Hogan vs Sting, etc. To many stars are aligned and it would have worked good had this been the main event for Destination X:

Abyss/RVD/Dinero vs Styles/Sting/Wolf but by giving us Abyss vs Styles it discredits the whole 8 card stud tournament.

Hopefully TNA can get it together because it feels unorganized. WWE always fizzles a little bit in the summer anyway with guys getting breaks to recover from injuries so we will see what happens.

 

[the408kid]

Well I have barely watched WWE for the past year and a half but I have seen every TNA episode since Hogan/Bishoff. But I watched a lot of Raw over TNA on Monday. Simply because Raw had a very good lineup. Stone Cold was the host, the Mania rewind matches and McMahon/Bret Hart.

I DVR'd both shows so I will watch each of them in their entirety tonight or tommorow, but I think TNA is just lacking an overall direction. Its just two many story lines are all over the place.

I mean Bishoff is feuding with Foley/ Jarrett. But than we get teased that Bishoff and Hogan will begin feuding.

Samoa Joe is abducted.

AJ Styles/Abyss---- While Dinero is the #1 Contender.

Dinero/Wolf

Jeff Hardy/ Styles

Sting/ Hogan----- RVD is feuding with Sting.

Hogan/Flair.

TNA clusterfucked themselves. They need to clear up who is rivals with who. No more cross feuding, either give us all of RVD vs Sting, or all of Hogan vs Sting, etc. To many stars are aligned and it would have worked good had this been the main event for Destination X:

Abyss/RVD/Dinero vs Styles/Sting/Wolf but by giving us Abyss vs Styles it discredits the whole 8 card stud tournament.

Hopefully TNA can get it together because it feels unorganized. WWE always fizzles a little bit in the summer anyway with guys getting breaks to recover from injuries so we will see what happens.

Good points! TNA is acting like the 8-card stud tournament never happened. I guess their making Abyss/Hogan the new Mega-Powers. Bad move imo!

 

[the408kid]

Oh god now I'm watching the TNA show from last night and this hint of a Bischoff/Hogan feud means one thing. HOGAN WILL WRESTLE AGAIN!! YEAH THATS WHAT TNA NEEDS. GOOD GOD GIMME A BREAK!

 

[missmondaynight]

tna so jumped the shark on this I mean the thursday night rating were not that great when they had the time to its self why make the fans chose when room is open for both

 

[Moonlight Drive]

TNA management really are Blue, thinking they'd somehow steal fans away from WWE two weeks out from Wrestlemania.

 

[phantomgerald]

They need to go back to the basics. It's proven Hogan, Bischoff and the veterans cannot pull in the ratings. What they need to do is put the focus on the Knockouts and the X division and I'm sure that it'll pull in a bettter rating.

 

[missmondaynight]

damn maybe out of pitty one week show nxg and superstars so tna can have a slim chance lol

 

[JurassicBonez]

Uh, didn't Raw have Austin return? Didn't they hype 3 WM rematches? People are really stupid actually thinking TNA would beat Raw in the ratings or even match at this stage. IT'S BEEN 2 FUCKING WEEKS!!

 

[chessarmy]

I said it once, I'll say it again, going 9-11 on Monday nights is the dumbest move anyone can make. RAW is going to continue to absolutely destroy TNA in the ratings week after week unless they change to 8-10.

RAW was > iMPACT! anyways, so TNA deserved this rating

 

[The Rated R CMStar]

Uh, didn't Raw have Austin return? Didn't they hype 3 WM rematches? People are really stupid actually thinking TNA would beat Raw in the ratings or even match at this stage. IT'S BEEN 2 FUCKING WEEKS!!

Like someone said before, if TNA isn't being patient and they were acting like they were already going to beat the living hell out of WWE in the ratings, why should I be patient.

You can look it as you want it, matter of fact is TNA wasnt even able to keep its 1.1 fanbase, not even with the so called Jeff Hardy vs AJ dream match.

 

[Montana]

This is why TNA should have wait till AFTER WM, and started at 8pm.

I still think TNA is putting on a more entertaining show...but right now it's for nothing, if no one is watching. I BET TNA on Thursday will score a 1.0 or better.

 

[JurassicBonez]

Like someone said before, if TNA isn't being patient and they were acting like they were already going to beat the living hell out of WWE in the ratings, why should I be patient.

You can look it as you want it, matter of fact is TNA wasnt even able to keep its 1.1 fanbase, not even with the so called Jeff Hardy vs AJ dream match.

How are they acting like they were already going to beat Raw. Besides Hogan (who's opinion on anything wrestling related lost credibility a long time ago) all the higher ups know they aren't going to beat Raw right now. They've done countless interviews on the ratings topic. They say it's going to take time to get up higher. Be real, they were getting 1.1 - 1.3 on thrusday. They are going up against the top wrestling promotion in the US now. How the fuck were they going to beat them right away going against competion?

As I said before Raw had Austin coming back, 3 Mania main event rematches, and the Vince/Bret thing advertised. All TNA had was Styles/Hardy advertised. Think reasonably, which show are more people to watch?