More TNA Impact Ratings Details: Lowest Rated Impact Since '06, Quarter Hour Details
Posted by Ashish on 03.16.2010
More details on TNA's troubling rating...
More ratings notes:
* Monday's Impact rating of .84 is the lowest rating for Impact since November of 2006. Back then, Impact was airing in a late-night Thursday timeslot, not in prime-time.
* Not a single quarter hour segment of Impact reached the 1.0 mark. The highest rated segment was the fourth quarter hour (9:45PM ET-10PM ET) which featured the Beautiful People, Hulk Hogan calling out Sting, and RVD appearing. The segment drew a .96. It's probably worth noting that the Beautiful People were also in one of the highest rated segments of Impact last week.
* After the .96 in the fourth quarter hour, every segment dropped in the ratings all the way up to AJ Styles vs. Jeff Hardy doing a show-low .72. The overrun saw a slight increase up to a .74.
* TNA lost 15% of the audience they opened with, going from a .87 opening quarter hour to a .74 for the overrun.
Sorry TNA fans, not trying to be rude, but I gotta say: Hahahahahahahaha. Ahem. Again, sorry.
Posted By: Beeker (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:31 PM
EPIC FAIL!~
Posted By: Guest#3246 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:31 PM
thus ends the great TNA experiment.
Posted By: FEAR (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:34 PM
HA HA!! So much for the Hogan pull.
And TBP are nothing without Angelina Love.
Posted By: Guest#8189 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:34 PM
No spinning this one TNA fans. Brought in millions of dollars worth of talent to be right back to square one...?
Posted By: Truth (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:35 PM
Well, it came crashing down. And it hurts inside.
Posted By: Hulk Hogan (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:35 PM
lol TNA
Posted By: A true wrestling fan (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:36 PM
NEVER GIVE UP
Posted By: Guest#5883 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:36 PM
god lord, who is catching the blame for this mess? russo? hogan? styles?
Posted By: pro life (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:36 PM
Madison Rayne = Ratings
Posted By: CanadianCasanova (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:37 PM
Maybe TNA should have tried going against NXT?
Posted By: Nevermore (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:38 PM
loldead
Posted By: Foolio (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:39 PM
that should show tna up for using jeff druggie hardy even though he is facing a trial with 5 felonies against him.
bye bye jeff because you are going to jail freak boy.
Posted By: Guest#2031 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:40 PM
Hmmm, so when are Hogan and Bischoff going to oust Russo, blame it all on him, and then continue the downward spiral?
With all the talent in TNA, it really is a pity that it's all being wasted with rubbish storylines and boring angles about WWE jewelery...
Bring in Heyman as booker, and I might get interested. As it is I'm bored. Wasted RVD's debut, wasting Samoa Joe, wasting the MCMG, wasting Hernandez, wasting the X-Division, and pushing the Nasty Boyz...
Yawn, think I'll stick to UFC.
Posted By: Brian (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:41 PM
I wonder if Dixie is going to twitter about the ratings, she always does it when the ratings are very high.
Posted By: Guest#9077 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:42 PM
This is a not a surprise, the show is garbage, and no I am not a WWE fanboy. When I flip from WWE to TNA it's like I'm going from broadband to dialup. Everything in WWE looks bright and lit up like a real show, and TNA looks dark and dingy.
On top of that, TNA has stupid, stupid storylines. A Hulk Hogan power ring? A warrior medal? Good lord it's comically stupid. The backstage nonsense is just plain irritating. Vince McMahon is a prick on screen but you know he's a prick, he knows he's a prick, but when it's said and done he takes his lumps and puts the wrestlers over. In TNA Bischoff got a haircut, BFD, he still made Jarrett his bitch and ruined the f'n payoff when Hogan was gonna blast Sting with the bat. Let me make this clear - THE WHOLE FUCKING ARENA WANTS TO SEE IT SO FOR THE LOVE OF SHIT GIVE IT TO THEM.
Posted By: someguy (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:44 PM
Such a dream match that meant jackshit the next day....
Hate to compare, but Bret got hit by a car, what a month ago? Weeks later-we got the payoff on a great angle, as ratings rose and people CARED!
TNA-two huge names for a thrown away 2 hour hype, and ratings dropped.
Posted By: Russo Booking (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:44 PM
I can understand them losing ratings throughout the night. When you start watching Impact you think “maybe it will be this week that they get a clue, maybe this week they will turn over a new leaf”, but then you realise that its still just TNA being TNAish and you switch the channel.
Posted By: Guest#5685 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:45 PM
Dixie, it's gonna take a lot more than one stone and a .84 to beat Goliath
Posted By: KGNine (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:46 PM
This all serves Dixie Carter right. I usually don't like it when someone falls on their ass. But Dixie deserves this shit rating. TNA is in a rut and she's the one to blame. Thinking Hogan would be her huge fix. He'll be gone by the end of the year.
She wanted "to make history", even though her damn roster is filled with historical old relics still trying wrestle. And they're not even drawing flies.
Quite telling that they've scaled down on the Knockouts division, yet they're still drawing the better ratings.
Shit's on you Dixie.
Posted By: Tyra (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:46 PM
Ouch
Posted By: Alex (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:48 PM
"It's probably worth noting that the Beautiful People were also in one of the highest rated segments of Impact last week."
Yeah, but will Hogan see this as a sign that the fans really want Hogan-Sting instead of Hogan-Flair?
Posted By: Guest#6095 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:49 PM
Epic Fail!!!
Posted By: Absolutus (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:50 PM
I haven't checked the other thread... I assume that TNA's defenders are whining that a taped TNA had to go against a live Raw hosted by Steve Austin?
Sorry, folks. The fact is that the show started low and continued to sink - that means even the people that said "screw WWE and Austin, I'll watch TNA" also got frustrated with the shitty direction Hogan has taken the company.
Posted By: Scott B (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:52 PM
so basically it's TNfAil now right?
Posted By: LOL! (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:54 PM
Is the Olympics over yet? DAMN
Posted By: Bischoff (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:58 PM
the wwe is a billion dollar corporation with 5 shows, two world champions and tna is run out of theme park.
nuff said.
Posted By: rey (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:58 PM
Ouch, I feel bad for their talent.
Posted By: Ultimo Guest (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 08:58 PM
I've stated before, things were different 15 years ago when WCW decided t compete with WWF. RAW was an hour taped show, while Nitro was a live two hour show that started an hour earlier. WWF wasn't being vigilant with contracts and WCW was throwing money around recklessly. Plus, TNT was a more prominent network than SpikeTV.
I want TNA to succeed, but they're stupid to go on Monday nights.
Posted By: G-Walla (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:00 PM
That's really really bad. I wonder how many weeks before they go back to Thursday.
Posted By: EricG (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:00 PM
Well it was a misstake to go on mondays and now even the ratings are speaking volumes. Does anyone think TNA can do anything to turn the tide? Even if they focus on inring quality and homegrown talent it won't matter, if it was ROH would be big by now. Everyone will keep watching the WWE, no mather how bad it gets.
Posted By: Jason St. Claire (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:01 PM
Don't tell these guys that. Now us TNA fans gotta listen to the crap over it lol.
Posted By: Burnout (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:03 PM
major fail ....a ppv type main event styles vs hardy was the lowest segment watched ??? thats just bad
Posted By: nachoMAN (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:03 PM
Ok delusional TNA fans, let's see you try to spin this into "we won"
Posted By: Robin (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:04 PM
Wow.
Posted By: Guest#3489 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:06 PM
TNA needs to realize...there just not ready.....and I watched the show last night...but there are not ready for the WWE. No matter who they sign..they are not ready for the WWE.
Posted By: Trae316 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:06 PM
Is anyone surprised? I'm all for WWE getting some competition, but TNA just puts out a horrific product. TNA was MUCH better before Hogan and Bischoff were around. Just my opinion, but I am a wrestling fan and I don't want to see Flair, Hogan, Bischoff, Hall, 6-Pac, etc. anymore.
- Nasty Boys are an automatic channel changer.
- AJ Styles character sucks now.
- Jeff Hardy just isn't good in TNA
- Mick Foley just looks old a f*ck
Boo TNA. Go away.
Posted By: Jimbo Slice (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:09 PM
I think it was a mistake to do this right before Wrestlemania. Hopefully they can get the number up afterwards.
Posted By: Deathpool (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:10 PM
in charles barkley voice *turrible*
Posted By: twitter/robjhump (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:11 PM
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA
Posted By: gooched (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:13 PM
I have been a loyal TNA fan since before the FSN days, but I'm sooo close to being done. I've given them the benefit of the doubt on so many issues... I thought the Nasty Boys would have been bearable had they came in, feud with a YOUNG team, and put them over. What do I see? Jimmy fucking Hart scoring a pinfall.
They bring in Hall and Waltman, and I enjoyed the nostalgia and thought that there might be a Lethal Lockdown match with The Band taking on Jarrett and some TNA originals. Instead they feud with Nash and Eric Young, who was doing just fine with the World Elite.
I didn't mind Ric Flair coming in because let's face it, he can do a lot of good as a mentor, but instead he's bleeding all over the impact zone.
I get excited because Pope gets a big push, but then Wolfe, Daniels, and Joe do nothing. BUT THEY HAVE SOMETHING FOR ORLANDO FUCKING JORDAN!!
Look TNA, there's a difference between being a heel and being someone that your fans just DONT WANT TO SEE, PERIOD.
Posted By: Frustrated TNA fan (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:14 PM
Er...didn't they pull a 0.7 for the four-hour show at the end of last year?
Posted By: Donners (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:18 PM
needs to be live. WWE put their star power in that last segment and that, no matter what drew in a lot of fans versus the AJ/Hardy match. People wanted to see what Hart would do and see if Stone Cold will flip them off, throw a stunner, do something and even in doing nothing it took viewers away from TNA
Posted By: Guest#7263 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:22 PM
FACT IS all tna vs wwe bs aside. tna cant win no matter what they do b/c the fact of the matter is - the monday night wars was fighting over supremecy of wrestling show and i believe that in the end only one would have survived going head to head. tna will never reach the peak wwe has, b/c frankly its not the roster, its the the crazy booking its just the simple fact that wrestling fans(the ones that matter, the ones that need to be drawn in) arent interested in an alternate wrestling show. wwe provides them with more then what they need even if at times it doesnt deliver. the only people that tune into tna are extreme anti wwe people. if cena went to tna today tna still wouldnt do any better. its not the superstars that make the show anymore its the supers AND where they are at that does it. outside of wwe jeff hardy is nothing. inside wwe jeff hardy is one of the highest merchandise selling people. think about that
Posted By: rellik kram (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:25 PM
Nasty Boys = ratings?
Posted By: Phil (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:25 PM
Beautiful People = Ratings! They should start doing bra & panties matches and watch the ratings go up...amongst other things ;)
Posted By: Guest#3490 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:28 PM
*sigh* not lookin good TNA...
Posted By: Guest#2474 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:28 PM
Yeah I'm sure Stone Cold Steve Austin had a big part in the ratings. With that said I enjoy watching Impact and I think I speak for alot of people when I say I really don't give two squirts of piss about those who wish to bash TNA at every turn and quite frankly I don't give a shit about the ratings either. It cracks me up when I read these posts from all these teenagers shooting their mouths off about the ratings like they know something about it. They need to be concentrating on something beneficial to their lives like, oh I don't know, females.
Posted By: Big Joe (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:31 PM
Stone Cold you old bastard
Posted By: Guest#0556 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:32 PM
Lowest ratings since November 2006. Great work Hogan and Bishoff.
Posted By: The Observer (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:42 PM
loltna.
Posted By: Guest#4171 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:44 PM
Time to throw in the towel yet, TNA?
Posted By: Highscore Kid (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:44 PM
WWE fanbase should be in any minute to laugh and yell fail
Posted By: ApolloKaytor (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:45 PM
Cue someone cueing something.
Posted By: Fenris (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:45 PM
So, is it still a war when one side doesnt fight back?
Posted By: Guest#5343 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:48 PM
every segment dropped in the ratings all the way up to AJ Styles vs. Jeff Hardy doing a show-low .72
Highest rated segement was Hogan
So why in the fuck does AJ still have the title?
Posted By: Reagan (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:48 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Posted By: WWE (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:50 PM
And NEW NXT champion!!!!
Posted By: Tobias Funke (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:51 PM
But if you add all the quarter hours together and divide by 1.5 instead of 8 TNA wins.
Posted By: chumpstain (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:52 PM
hahahahaha
Posted By: Dingo (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:57 PM
The show was terrible. It didn't deserve a good rating.
Posted By: Guest#3099 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:57 PM
This is what happens when you don't have Mr. Bubba "The Love" Sponge on your show.
Posted By: Rein Engel (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:57 PM
TNa's dieing by the week! Too bad they never had much of a rise...
Posted By: Guest#4227 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:57 PM
FAIL!
Posted By: Guest#4420 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:58 PM
How long until they are back on Thursday nights?
Posted By: Guest#7256 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 10:04 PM
LOL.
Posted By: VKM (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 10:04 PM
IT'S OVER WWE!! WE WI no screw it we got whupped.
So Vince how much do you want for Styles?
Posted By: Dixie Carter (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 10:11 PM
Monday's Impact rating of .84 is the lowest rating for Impact since November of 2006. Back then, Impact was airing in a late-night Thursday timeslot, not in prime-time.
Excuses TNA fans? Anyone? Anyone?
Posted By: WWE>TNA (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 10:21 PM
I don't think things are going to get better for TNA anytime soon.
I've heard so many people writing the first few weeks off because it's Wrestlemania season, like they're going to just magically start hitting 2.0's when this has passed. The thing is, WWE always has something going on year round to keep viewers tuning in. The weeks immediately following WM normally do well. Then there's the draft to shake things up. The Rock is supposed to make appearances around June-July. Summertime will probably see the return of the big names who take a break after WM like Taker, HBK and possibly HHH and Rey. Then before you know it, we're already on the road to WM again. Simply put, there is never going to be an easy time for TNA to steal WWE viewers.
This is not going to be an easy ride for TNA at all. I don't think the Monday move will payoff, long term or short.
Posted By: Guest#3988 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 10:23 PM
ha! ha!
Posted By: j (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 10:26 PM
Huh! Beginner's Luck!
Posted By: TNA Magnet (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 10:29 PM
I'm not a TNA fan whatsoever, but I see them improving in the long-run. WWE is always stiff competition leading into WrestleMania, and especially with the return of Stone Cold Steve Austin, TNA should have waited until after Mania to move to Mondays.
Posted By: santino (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 10:32 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...I love it.
Posted By: Derp (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 10:33 PM
I've said it before, and I'll say it again; The show needs more Bubba!
Posted By: Bubba Army Vet (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 10:35 PM
I know Flair is old but those were the weakest/worst chair-shots I've ever seen.
I agree w/ FoF about RVD & Sting making no sense.
I think Hogan stays face for a while since Bischoff is heelish. Also a Nash heel turn would have too many heels at one time. I could be wrong now that RVD & Hardy are more involved.
Is Brooke Hogan going to become an on-air character? I hope not.
Who cares if Foley shaves Bischoff's hair?
Nigel Wolfe & Elijah Pope have been positioned well. Upper mid-carders & occasional viable main-eventers.
I weirdly find the Anderson & Angle feud watchable.
Who cares about Jeff Jarrett?
Why is TNA's best tag team only wrestling in handicap matches these past weeks?
Do I even have to say anything about the Nasties? Nice to see Runt Dudley though.
Shannon Moore? Really? Must be Jeff Hardy's stipulation that his buddy get's an immediate push. Doug Williams is borderline awesome.
Instead of storyline or character progession, let's just emphasize Ultimate-X is just a glorified spot-fest.
Get Angelina a partner other than for Tara. Even if all 3 can defend the belts, only let Velvet & Madison wrestle so Lacey can't make them look bad. I never really noticed that Daffney has some cuteness to her.
Like many have already commented, a Nash swerve in obvious. Regardless, I don't care about Hall, Nash, & Waltman. Eric Young should be a main-eventer (baseball slide was cool). I see Samoa Joe returning to help Young against N.W.Old.
TNA is trying but they are currently coming up short. If they want to compete, they should just do what the WWE rarely does... let the storylines write themselves. How many times have we thought or commented, "this is what should happen." Even if they can do something unpredictable, because of their current structure of storylines, it wouldn't be a surprise. TNA simply should look at WWE's mistakes/missed opportunities & use their 1 advantage: their entire (TNA) roster. If WWE executes NXT to result in anything above average, TNA will always be seen as no competition.
No Monday Night War in my opinion. I haven't taken one side or the other. I'm just a wrestling fan.
Wacky, I know.
Posted By: Moscow the Communist Bovine (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 10:38 PM
This does not bode well for TNA. They have to get better matches and more interesting storylines going soon.
Posted By: FrankBama (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 10:38 PM
Wow, I'm just shocked. You're telling me they actually pulled in viewers to watch this crap?
Posted By: Sink (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 10:48 PM
we'll put our shitty wrestling against their less shitty wrestling...we can't lose!
Posted By: A Horrible Idea (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 10:48 PM
i was a TNA supporter and i hope they can pull back. But this is sad. Like i said all along. They should have started the night after Wrestlemania. Not two weeks before it. And get Hogan and Flair off the air. The nasty boys, Hall and Nash off. Nobody wants to see those old guns. Brooke Hogan shouldn't even be on there. Oh and one more thing.
The beautiful people and Velvet Sky's ass =Ratings
Posted By: Guest#6527 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 10:49 PM
How can people watch that PG WWE horse shit?
Posted By: Guest#4071 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 10:53 PM
I find it funny that the Knockouts division has been the highest rated segement almost every week since its inception, and is never given the time it deserves.
Posted By: Randy M. (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 10:54 PM
now I hope WWE folds and they start showing nothing but 1980's wrestling
Posted By: ikeman (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 11:04 PM
Wow, I thought that TNA should have gone live on Thursdays first to work out the kinks, establish themselves and head on to Mondays. To be honest, I did think that Impact would hold on to the 1.0 - 1.3 ratings it was getting on Thursday nights.
It's really sad to see what Hogan and company have done to this company. TNA had a string of 3 or 4 PPVs that were really good before the "new" team came in. Time to face the facts Dixie. Nobody wants to see such has-beens like the Nasty Boys and the former NWO. I was surprised to see the Hardy and Styles match get such low ratings. But I guess most people thought that this match wouldn't be clean and would end up with Hogan being the hero.
Posted By: mogamer (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 11:10 PM
TNA, I love you guys. I even think Jarrett is awesome and totally underrated...I know I am in the minority...However...that being said, I must still say...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHHAA TAKE THAT!
Posted By: Guest#6226 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 11:11 PM
You guys are basing this on 2 episodes. Not only that, but Steve Austin is a HUGE draw. It's not surprising that it was a low rated show. WCW didn't beat WWF right away...all this Twitter generation BS has every expecting things immediately.
Posted By: Duh (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 11:11 PM
Let's be very clear: The ONLY WAY....and I do mean ONLY WAY TNA can ever compete with or beat WWE in the ratings is if they get Cena. That's it. There is no one else who could bring over enough fans right now to the win the ratings for them. Love him or hate him, Cena is current and has the largest fan following out there.
Posted By: Kevin (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 11:14 PM
it's good that the product is failing in its current form, it needs to be changed for the better
Posted By: EZMark (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 11:15 PM
TNA is going down.. WWE is way better than TNA.. WWE is better in quality wise and in ratings wise than TNA. WWE will Destroy TNA! TNA sucks, it has bad booking, bad storylines, not to mention scum bags like bubba sponge is in the show and you got the band and the nasty boys and hulk hogan and ric flair, ect, who are all WASHED UP HASBEENS and should all retire and never come back! TNA sucks! TNA = Retirement home wrestling! TNA WILL EPIC FAIL!
Posted By: TheSurge (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 11:24 PM
God damn I feel sorry for TNA putting in all this effort and only getting a .84, They tried to hype the crap out of their Monday Night timeslot by grabbing big stars and they get the lowest rating since 06, Holy crap.
But the product is just unbearable to watch, TNA does not know how to put on a good show, and the sad thing is they have a massive pile of talent to choose from, yet they give the spotlight to old and washed up wrestlers having crappy finishes, CONSTANT run-ins and barely and clean finishes, It just screws around with the audience too much hence the low ratings. And while WWE's product really isn't up to scratch as it used too, at least they have structure within the company unlike TNA who drops everything for the next acquisition they get.
TNA needs to stop trying to ride on the Nostalgia train because quite frankly it's just going to get stale, which it has been for a few years now.
Posted By: dead5ega (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 11:28 PM
Yeah I'm sure Stone Cold Steve Austin had a big part in the ratings. With that said I enjoy watching Impact and I think I speak for alot of people when I say I really don't give two squirts of piss about those who wish to bash TNA at every turn and quite frankly I don't give a shit about the ratings either. It cracks me up when I read these posts from all these teenagers shooting their mouths off about the ratings like they know something about it. They need to be concentrating on something beneficial to their lives like, oh I don't know, females.
Posted By: Big Joe (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:31 PM
That's all the argument that a TNA defender has on this one...there's nothing logical to use so you have to resort to this. Just admit the show was fucking bad; TNA was fine before Hogan et al
Posted By: Guest#0763 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 11:31 PM
i know this has nothing to do with the thread but, "Wrong Side of Town" with RVD is the WORST MOVIE EVER MADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!!!
Posted By: RVD (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 11:38 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHA, serves them right for bringing in Hogan, Bischoff, Hall, Nasty Boys, and a bunch of other washed up fuckheads who no-one gives a shit about anymore.
Oh, the Knockouts were the highest rated segment again? Too bad you fucking BURIED that division, dumbasses!
Posted By: Guy (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 11:40 PM
Saw a few minutes of Impact last night, and it stunk. Hogan and Bishoff stink up the joint bad. The show was much more interesting with both of them out of the picture. Plus, over on Raw it was STONE COLD, STONE COLD STONE COLD
Posted By: It's True (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 11:41 PM
It wasn't the Beautiful People that popped the rating, it was DAFFNEY! Give credit where it's due!
Posted By: Trashy (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 11:43 PM
TNA unfortunatly has the look and a lot of the roster of the last few days of WCW. Instead of being an upstart full of energy, it looks like its already on its last days.
It especially seems like the times when the NWO was th only storyline. hogan neeeds to let the produc breath. Flair and him can be there and even on screen for a segment but let the new guys who a lot of the new fans haven't scene yet BREATH. Let the young talent showcase themselves.
You can have flair be a manager and let hogan be gm but PLEASE dont get into the ring!
I have to say that believe it or not the WWE is developing there young talent the right way. Look at mania this year - HHH, HBK, Taker, Orton are all out of teh title picture and not in the main event. In the case of HHH and orton, these 2 guys main evented last year and this year are going to give the rub to 3 very young and promising guys. You have the Miz really leading his team against 2 other you superstars for a now meaning ful tag title. it was a great job by the wwe to make those titles relevant by havin DX, Jerishow, legacy and other singles stars join up and battle for them.
This is a transition Mania. it doesn't feel liek the same old crap like last years.
Posted By: Big Dirty (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 11:57 PM
TNA needs to get rid of the dead weight, push people that can be the future of the company AND wrestling as a whole (we all know who they are-- AJ, Joe, Dinero, X Division, et al), the Knockouts, and-- oh, here's an idea. Get ONE booker. ONE BOOKER. Heyman, Cornette, someone with some fuckin' sense, and let him and him ALONE make the decisions. And if there are wrestlers who don't like it, either lump it or GO. That's it.
TNA needs to get rid of Vince Russo. The man is, has, and will always be ANATHEMA to every single facet of professional wrestling, how it worked, what made it work, the logic, the drama-- EVERYTHING.
FUCK, TNA. I want to see these fuckers succeed so bad just because competition is good for pro wrestling/sports entertainment. But right now, after this complete SHIT rating, reflective of complete SHIT they've been putting on these broadcasts, I am *this* close to saying FUCK IT when it comes to TNA.
Dammit.
TNA just owned themselves AGAIN.
Posted By: ANNOYED at TNA (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 11:57 PM
Hey TNA and all the Tnaion,
SORRY ABOUT YOUR DAMN LUCK!
Posted By: Guest#0906 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 11:59 PM
sorry but I just feel bad for TNA. they just need to scrap everything and start from scratch. Fisrt off get rid of Hogan. As much as I like him he needs to stay in the back and they only show him once inawhile making matches. Bishoff can be the nut who runs out to the ring and does interfearance. secondly get rid of hogans buddies. They showed up, got a check now it's time to go. make this a show putting over who they have now so we care about them. and stop all the old 80's storylines their NOT working. but they won't, cause they still think they know what their doing is best and not listening to the fans at all. I mean, hell even their ring looks smaller than the one on the WWE and they still don't move around it that good. sorry guys, but I was hoping for better from you, but your just making it easier for the WWE to as (Stone Cold would say)stomp a mud hole in you and walk it dry.
Posted By: wolftoy (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 11:59 PM
TNA zombies: for the last time, WCW beat Raw in the debut episode of Nitro, and they were neck and neck until the nWo exploded. Comparing WCW to TNA is an inherently flawed argument.
The question I'm surprised hasn't been asked is this: Why did no one, from Dixie to HogOff to the Spike tv execs, think it was a good idea to air from 8-10? Why not give yourself an unopposed hour? If the TNA product is as superior as the Impact apologists claim, why not build your show with no competition so no one turns to USA? Anyone...?
Posted By: Jay Evans (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 12:01 AM
Man, I want to say something funny to TNA fans, but it's all been said. Keep chugging that Kool-Aid, though, fellas.
Posted By: Talon (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 12:05 AM
its actually really sad to see theres no actual fans of the wrestling part....
for the lowest rated part of impact to be world champ aj styles vs jeff hardy and they had some time.....its just sad....
so instead of watching to great wrestlers in action everyone would rather watch the old annoying vince talk to bret in ring yet again....
saying roughly the same shit he said since the 1st day.....
why dont you all go watch some reality tv...you dont care about wrestling...
i mean you all say raw won last week when all there in ring action was garbage...
if all you want to see is pg rated promos you might as well pick up a tv show with actual talented actors and stories....
you all aint wrestling fans....i can tell you internet marks havent been watching long....you probably dont know what a good wrestling match is....
Posted By: Guest#6160 (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 12:35 AM
I would rather DIE a TNA fan. Than LIVE a WWE fan
Posted By: Wrestling Heroes (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 12:41 AM
What war?
Posted By: Guest#0769 (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 12:46 AM
ECW's ratings were never that bad, and Vince blamed Heyman and fired him!
Posted By: Guest#5436 (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 12:47 AM
The problem is that TNA didn't hype up the main event with Jeff Hardy and AJ Styles. They just threw it out there. TNA needs to work on their promotion and marketing big time. Also, this is a mistake to leave Thursday nights this soon because they've built an audience there for four years. Why try to fix something that's not broken?
Posted By: vantheman77 (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 01:06 AM
Stone Cold you old bastard
Posted By: Guest#0556 (Guest) on March 16, 2010 at 09:32 PM
Wow funny when half of the "stars" taking up time on impact EVERY week are even older than Austin and aside from Hogan never drew a 10th of what Austin did.Keep watching the geriatric stars of TNA while all the talent in TNA jumps to WWE by the summer,come summerslam you will see AJ styles vs Shawn Michaels,and Samoa Joe vs John Cena. TNA will die and it will be ugly
Posted By: TNARIP (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 01:15 AM
I don't like TNA but I want it to succeed. Giving Hogan and Bischoff nearly free reign is a huge risk that hasn't paid of as of yet. I just remember some idiot on here writig that Bischoff won't make the seiatakes because he'll have learned from his mistakes, discounting the fact that WWE learned from mistakes to put WCW out of biz. I hope it doesn't happen, but too many changes too fast could cripple TNA. There shoulda been a longer run with the new talent/advisors for long term proof. Hogan pops a big rating and uses that to coerce Dixie into making fast changes without sustained results. It's sad, really. Hopefully Daniels and AJ can carry them through TNA's Nasty Era.
Posted By: beezy (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 01:24 AM
They need to stop being pussies and go live. Taped show vs live show? I'm watching the live show since I've already read the Impact tapings and it didn't sound interesting (Raw wasn't interesting either, but I couldn't have known that until I already watched!)
Posted By: poffo316 (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 01:31 AM
TNA needs to ditch it's business model. It's trying to be too much like WWE.
Raw is basically a 2-hour commercial for the upcoming PPV. That's why there's little to no wrestling on it.
If TNA decided to ditch PPVs and make every Impact something significant, they could make some good TV.
Posted By: Guest#8011 (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 01:36 AM
Paul E, is that u? Yes, we need u right away.
Posted By: Dixie (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 02:06 AM
oh please! WWE loyaltist are acting like this is a regular rating they get on a regular night. this was all because of AUSTIN, I watched Raw over impact as well because of stone cold. Normally though both shows are the same thing except TNA is more exciting, everybody saying the bullshit that TNA uses all old men are retarded.If anything Tna is trying to use its veterans like hogan,sting and flair to hype and support the younger talent{and there IS more focus on the young talent, if you actually watched the damn program and stop sucking vince's dick you would know that}
god I'm sick of all you people and your desire to kill a wrestling company, YOU people are going to kill the wrestling industry, not TNA....I know I for 1 am getting close to ending my 14 year fan hood of wrestling because of idiots like you WWE loyalist and because of WWE's pg shit.{seeing sting vs RVD, Abyss vs Aj, anderson vs angle, beer money vs hernandez and jarret ect ect is all new to me and is keeping my attention}
to close, either watch both programs and have legit criticism{like I do and every REAL wrestling fan does} or track down vince and ask him to give it to you in the ass you bunch of mindless WWE drones
Posted By: Son_michael (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 02:25 AM
After The Wrestlemania hype dies down in 4 weeks, TNA will be back to 1.1. But the internet marks won't take that into consideration.
Posted By: Gabe (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 02:51 AM
These numbers don't mean anything right now. Think about it. I'll give them until 3 weeks after Wrestlemania. If they haven't gotten above a 1.2 by then, I will be the first person on here telling them to give up.
Posted By: James (Registered) (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 03:04 AM
wrestlemania? thats the defense tna fans have thats the reason that they got low ratings oh and stone cold??? hahaha please!! wwe was beating tna in ratings before wrestlemania and at least when tna was on thursdays some wwe fans watched but now that there on mondays there going to stay loyal to wwe and watch raw thats why there ratings were so low!! so dixie carter stop trying to make a war with wwe you cant even chip wwe armor
Posted By: ozzy (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 03:11 AM
It is a sad day when WWE puts out the same crap week after week. The same 6 guys fighting, giving away PPV matches every week. And they all finish with interference, cheating or DQ. Mid-carders get squashed and people like Bourne get murdered and he will be in WM.
WWE is worse than WCW circa 1999 and TNA needs to compete but no one wants them to succeed rather just piss and moan and then when they are gone the WWE product will get worse: you may have angles with midgets, terrible women's wrestling and psychodelic Lucky Charms-Long Live the HHH and John Cena show while making Edge the worst face in wrestling history!! Good times
Posted By: guest (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 03:40 AM
Id watch Angelina Love do laundry
Posted By: BobZ (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 05:05 AM
"How can people watch that PG WWE horse shit?"
*****************
Because we don't suck Hogan, Bischoff and Russo's nuts like you do.
Posted By: Guest#1364 (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 05:19 AM
I am not suprised by this rating TNA has gone from good to bad to unwatchable to painfull to watch as it is now.
What really annoys me is that TNA has so much potential and I really want TNA to succeed the young tallents of TNA are amazing but the company has so little faith in them they have to bring in old guys who cant work and old politicions and the combination of Hulk Hogan's ego Russo's crapness and Bishoffs senility is killing TNA
Posted By: awindos (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 06:02 AM
Dear Dixie Carter,
You've been played. Vince has used the Outsiders angle on you and is bringing down TNA from within. You're so naive about wrestling that you let the names Hogan and Bischoff lure you into false sense of security and then you let a 1.0 rating against RAW one week give you courage to try to compete with an established brand on in an established timeslot.
You are a fool.
Posted By: Guest#1729 (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 06:28 AM
"God damn I feel sorry for TNA putting in all this effort and only getting a .84"
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What effort?
I was a diehard TNA fan from 2002 till 2007. I still TRY to enjoy the show, but it's so bad that i just cant sit through the entire 2 hours anymore.
They put in ZERO effort to make a good show. They have the best roster, but are completely clueless on how to use that talent. They need to find someone like Paul Heyman or Jim Cornette and give them full creative control once Bischoff/Hogan/Russo are fired.
Posted By: Guest#3758 (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 06:31 AM
I can't believe people are talking about TNA's storylines like WWE's are any better. Seriously? They're both god-awful.
Posted By: Paul (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 07:46 AM
It would have broke 1.0 if they had the Velvet Sky ass shot entrance!!
Posted By: Lord Keedik (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 08:09 AM
Hopefully this shows TNA that the Monday Night move AND bringing in Hogan & the other dinosaurs is not the answer. I actually had some interest in TNA when Angle was champ with Main Event Mafia and Joe was featured etc. The new storylines are just lame. And for those who keep harping on WWE being PG, what the fuck would you call TNA? Rated R? It's on regular TV stupid, all this shit is PG!! That whole argument is perhaps the dumbest of all. And also the AJ heel turn just doesn't work. It's like one poster said on another thread, he looks like a kid playing dress up in Flair's robe. Too small, no heel personality, it just doesn't work. Especially when you compare with the impeccable heel work being done by Punk on Smackdown. Not even close. TNA needs to forget this whole "war" crap, move back to Thursday & go back to being a decent alternative on another night.
Posted By: Guest#2680 (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 08:42 AM
There's no reasoning. Wrestling fans are just flat out retarded. They totally mark out for Jeff Hardy in WWE, but then he's in the main event on TNA against the great AJ Styles and they don't watch at all. Idiots. There's no winning with these morons. Don't try to win over all the stupid "wrestling" fans that watch WWE. Just worry about continued awesome wrestling for us true wrestling fans, the TNA fans.
Posted By: matrix1004 (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 09:04 AM
TNA managements big problem is that they are so stupidly impatient about everything. You can't be a successful David if you go charging into everything head first like a Goliath. They waste almost every single one of their stars debuts by just throwing them out there as soon as they are signed. They rush their stories and give away their PPV matches. But the dumbest thing of all is the way they have rushed into going head to head with Raw on Monday night!
This is the build up the Wrestlemania, that means ALL the big stars end up on Raw and everything is dialled up to 11 to help sell their biggest PPV of the year. Meanwhile TNA is going through all it's changes as Hogan and co settle in and figure stuff out.
Putting the product head to head with Raw right now is like an unarmed man charging on to a battlefield with his trousers around his ankles to take on the elite guard of the enemy who have been training hard for a coming battle. It's just dumb.
However if they had thought about it a bit, they could have planned to change to Monday night just AFTER Mania, when things are simmering down and many of the big stars (e.g. Taker & Michaels) traditionally go off for a break until around Summerslam. Hit the Giant with a stone while he's on the shitter, that's how you do it!
But TNA management wouldn't know cunning or patience if it bit them on the arse. They should rename themselves to Total Premature Ejaculation.
Posted By: Fenris (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 09:19 AM
"I would rather DIE a TNA fan. Than LIVE a WWE fan
Posted By: Wrestling Heroes (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 12:41 AM"
I hope you're dead now.
Posted By: lolTNA (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 09:21 AM
TNA have brought so many big names in the last few weeks yet they still cant break 1.0, thats really really poor no matter what excuse you can come up with.
Posted By: jbardo (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 09:35 AM
no more Nasty "boys". PLEASE.
WWE has gone not-funny SNL and TNA has gone even worse Hogan-is-Mickey-Rourke wrestler. Soap opera angles only work if the fans care.
Posted By: Guest#7060 (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 10:53 AM
Coming out on WWE Home Video, the Rise and "Major" Fall of TNA, in stores on January 4, 2011.
Posted By: WWE Home Video (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 11:30 AM
lol... lowest rated impact since 06.. man TNA sucks.. lol
Posted By: TheSurge (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 11:48 AM
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA
Posted By: Guest (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 12:12 PM
"Just worry about continued awesome wrestling for us true wrestling fans, the TNA fans.
Posted By: matrix1004 (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 09:04 AM"
Yeah, how about those Nasty Boys, huh?
Btw, the problem with Jeff Hardy is that he is due in court, and he pinned the World Champ before his PPV title defense against another opponent! He doesn't fit at all with the current title picture, and Styles is starting to have the same type of title reign as Joe in 2008. Real quality stuff... not!
Posted By: Well, it's true! (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 12:15 PM
The amount of money they undoubtedly paid Hogan...man....
I'm a Hulkamaniac. Don't get me wrong. But I KNEW this would fail, because, and he even admitted it....they were going to move back to a pro wrestling formula for a TV, and that hasn't worked on a large scale since ECW died(I still say ECW was the last "wrestling" show on TV). ROH does well enough to pay the bills...but then you don't see them trying to move mountains either. They do good shows, entertain the people that still wanna see "wrestling", and for the most part, they succeed. Hogan coming in thinking that simply bringing people in that he thinks draw is a mistake, and the fact that he doesn't realize that....just sad.
TNA could have been real good, and it was getting there. And Hogan came in and un-did it all. What in the fuck were they thinking?
Posted By: Big Mike Watters (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 12:39 PM
Let's say that TNA for a 2 month period gradually scales back the television time of Hogan, Flair, Foley, Bischoff, Sting, The Nasty Boys, Team 3D, Hall, Nash, and Waltman. After all, these guys were in their prime when the 18-35 target demographic were 3-20. They then start concentrating more on their younger talent, developing feuds for the younger wrestlers on television building to a special 3 hour, commercial free, live Monday show with the following matches:
RVD vs. Daniels
Wolfe vs. Dinero
Angelina Love vs. Velvet Sky - Lumberjill Strap Match
Beer Money vs. Hernandez and Morgan - Tag Titles
MCMG vs. Generation Me vs. Kazarian vs. Amazing Red vs. Lethal Consequences - Ultimate X Match
Tara vs. Daffney - Women's Title
Angle vs. Abyss vs. Anderson vs. Samoa Joe - #1 Contender's Match
AJ Styles vs. Jeff Hardy - Heavyweight Title Ladder Match
This show probably still wouldn't pull a 2.0 rating. Most 18-35 year old males live busy lives and they don't have the time to follow 2 wrestling promotions.
Posted By: guest (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 02:44 PM
Someone at Panda Energy PLEASE pull the plug on this abortion of a show . I've been a TNA fan even through all the shitty gimmicks and aborted angles but I stuck around for the younger guys and the wrestling, I can't even watch 5 mins if this shit. Please dig a hole and throw TNA Hogan and Bischoff in it and bury them already.
Posted By: BustHerUp (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 02:50 PM
WWE dinosaurs > TNA dinosaurs.
Posted By: Guest#4824 (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 03:36 PM
I thinking cancelling the show would be a mistake. TNA DOES fit the bill of "another company besides WWE"....but they need to take the book away from people like Hogan and those who think like him.
Posted By: Big Mike Watters (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 04:02 PM
0.1 next week please
Posted By: Guest#9029 (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 04:58 PM
Everybody grab a shovel so we can start burying TNA.
Posted By: Dwayne (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 06:41 PM
Why does everyone on this site talk so much shit? TNA has been on for less than a month. TNA has been very fun so far. I seriously hate most of you trash talking losers. Go watch WWE you jags!
Posted By: WP (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 09:11 PM
Why does everyone on this site talk so much shit? TNA has been on for less than a month. TNA has been very fun so far. I seriously hate most of you trash talking losers. Go watch WWE you jags!
Posted By: WP (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 09:11 PM
TNA's been around seven plus years, brah. They've been on in primetime for at least the last two years. They were doing better ratings on Thursday than now. Their Monday show has yet to beat the last original Thursday episode (3/4).
I wanna see how TNA and Spike spin those numbers.
Posted By: Eddie Mac (Guest) on March 17, 2010 at 11:13 PM
I'd love to see a viable alternative to WWE. Prior to Hogan coming in TNA seemed to be profitable and to have some potential on the roster. Not saying that it was ready to be that alternative on a large scale, but they were viable at least. Hogan, Hall, Pac, Flair ... these guys are not a viable alternative as much as a group of old guys who were big in WWE & WCW/NWA. I'd love to support TNA, but I try watching the stuff since Hogan came in and have to say the show is terrible. The plots are bad and the wrestling (that tag match 2 weeks ago) is beyond bad. I can't watch. I might try TNA again in a few months and if it is still this bad well...
Ratings are down and expenses are up ... great moves by Panda Energy and Spike TV. Profitable model vs. taking a risk that two geriatrics can pay for their salaries by doing matches we all saw in 1994? Come on Panda Energy!
Posted By: Guest#8802 (Guest) on March 18, 2010 at 08:32 AM
I have a surefire way to increase ratings - A Ric Flair's social security check on a pole match.
Posted By: Guest#4996 (Guest) on March 18, 2010 at 08:34 AM
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