Black Widow
07-11-2008, 09:24 PM
source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter
-- There appears to be at least one disgruntled wrestler within TNA. A TNA wrestler currently in the midst of a push made the following remark to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter: "Impact sucks so much I don't even watch myself on television anymore."
-- Here is a segment-by-segment ratings breakdown for the 7/3 Impact. A match featuring The Motor City Machine Guns lost viewers once again. Their match with Robert Roode & James Storm featuring a post-match attack lost 177,000 viewers, the biggest drop of the show, not to mention the biggest drop for a segment since the 6/5 Impact (Dutt & Lethal vs. Hoyt & Rave with an Ace Young video lost 180,000 viewers). On the positive side, Moose scored ratings for TNA for the second consecutive week. Her match with Roxxi Laveaux, as well as backstage segment with Cornette & Nash segment gained 88,000 viewers. A segment featuring Cornette & Joe backstage, the payoff of the Kurt Angle blind date segment, and the Alex Koslov vs. Rey Bucanero World X Cup match gained 44,000 viewers. The big in-ring angle involving Kurt Angle, Team 3-D, the blonde woman, Karen Angle, Angelina Love & Velvet Sky coming out, followed by A.J. Styles, Gail Kim, ODB and Rhino coming out, gained 162,000 viewers to draw the show's peak rating at 1.04. Things went down from there. The Curry Man vs. Milano Collection A.T. World X Cup match, a Booker T dressing room promo, and the third Matt Morgan video feature lost 29,000 viewers. The Shantelle Taylor vs. Raisha Saeed match lost 44,000 viewers, the second week in a row in which an Awesome Kong-related segment lost viewers. And finally, the main event with Samoa Joe & Nash vs. Roode & Storm with a Sting sighting also lost 44,000 viewers. Overall, the show drew a 0.95 rating and 1.4 million viewers, up from the week before. Despite the 0.95 rating, it was actually the highest number of actual viewers for the show in two months, beating out the number of total viewers the 1.03 rated 6/19 Impact did. The show did a 0.57 in Males 18-34 and 0.67 in Males 35-49.
-- For the first time ever, a TNA pay-per-view will be taking place in Canada. The TNA No Surrender pay-per-view is set to take place in Oshawa, Ontario at the General Motors Centre on September 14, 2008. This will be the company's first international pay-per-view. TNA held a house show at the same arena on 12/30/07 and drew a big house show gate. An announcement is expected to be made within the next few weeks. The General Motors Centre is an hour outside of Toronto.
-- There appears to be at least one disgruntled wrestler within TNA. A TNA wrestler currently in the midst of a push made the following remark to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter: "Impact sucks so much I don't even watch myself on television anymore."
-- Here is a segment-by-segment ratings breakdown for the 7/3 Impact. A match featuring The Motor City Machine Guns lost viewers once again. Their match with Robert Roode & James Storm featuring a post-match attack lost 177,000 viewers, the biggest drop of the show, not to mention the biggest drop for a segment since the 6/5 Impact (Dutt & Lethal vs. Hoyt & Rave with an Ace Young video lost 180,000 viewers). On the positive side, Moose scored ratings for TNA for the second consecutive week. Her match with Roxxi Laveaux, as well as backstage segment with Cornette & Nash segment gained 88,000 viewers. A segment featuring Cornette & Joe backstage, the payoff of the Kurt Angle blind date segment, and the Alex Koslov vs. Rey Bucanero World X Cup match gained 44,000 viewers. The big in-ring angle involving Kurt Angle, Team 3-D, the blonde woman, Karen Angle, Angelina Love & Velvet Sky coming out, followed by A.J. Styles, Gail Kim, ODB and Rhino coming out, gained 162,000 viewers to draw the show's peak rating at 1.04. Things went down from there. The Curry Man vs. Milano Collection A.T. World X Cup match, a Booker T dressing room promo, and the third Matt Morgan video feature lost 29,000 viewers. The Shantelle Taylor vs. Raisha Saeed match lost 44,000 viewers, the second week in a row in which an Awesome Kong-related segment lost viewers. And finally, the main event with Samoa Joe & Nash vs. Roode & Storm with a Sting sighting also lost 44,000 viewers. Overall, the show drew a 0.95 rating and 1.4 million viewers, up from the week before. Despite the 0.95 rating, it was actually the highest number of actual viewers for the show in two months, beating out the number of total viewers the 1.03 rated 6/19 Impact did. The show did a 0.57 in Males 18-34 and 0.67 in Males 35-49.
-- For the first time ever, a TNA pay-per-view will be taking place in Canada. The TNA No Surrender pay-per-view is set to take place in Oshawa, Ontario at the General Motors Centre on September 14, 2008. This will be the company's first international pay-per-view. TNA held a house show at the same arena on 12/30/07 and drew a big house show gate. An announcement is expected to be made within the next few weeks. The General Motors Centre is an hour outside of Toronto.