TNA Wrestling on Bravo (Part 3)

Just found this info that makes me wonder about wwe's ECW

For the 27 weeks from Jan 5 - July 10, iMPACT's average rating is 1.204 and ECW's is 1.201
with iMPACT delivering approximately 1,167,880 HH to ECW's 1,116,930 HH,
a 50,950 HH difference.

Nothing really just thought i'd share

added: Impacts average rating for the whole of 2010 so far is a disappointing 1.04
 
Worst thing to do was cut it off for the NON ABLE to watch reaction countries. ie the UK fans. The yanks can just be forced to watcht eh next show but if taping it then screwed. Bravo should have seen this coming and said cut out the SHORE promo, as they have for the past weeks and makes no sense to us watching and put the extra 6 minutes of the main event in the 2 hour slot and every UK fan would have been happy. Instaed I have had to watch on youtube for the end of the match I had been looking forward to all week.
Glad Bravo is going and TNA is moving as they can not keep PPVs or run a channel correctly.
If this is a common facture every week, then I might as well stop watching completly.
 
Its the other way around Gamer, he said he still feels he has a few more years to go, and would be stupid to take another long break now he's at the very top of his game - he just has 'an understanding' with Vince, and this is one of his little gaps where he goes and plays RockStar for a couple of weeks, then has a few weeks off, then he'll be back around January...

Wrestlemania would earn a guy like Jericho north of half a million dollars - I'd be AMAZED if he misses it.
 
I am starting to really like TNA now. Watched B4G on Extreme Sports channel with my missus and liked it. Loved JeRAB heel turn. Goes to show TNA ain't scared to turn on of their top faces heel (Vince take note re: Cena).

Don't think I'll be re-adding Sky Sports now to watch WWE anymore. Quite liking TNA, my missus prefers it to WWE too.

I think Dixie is a pretty good actress too and totally agree with someone who said she made Hogan look wooden as usual. Also that slap she gave Bischoff was ace :D
 
Well i've set the V+ box to record the initial broadcast of No Surrender, but i've also set it to record the two programs afterwarRAB - an additional two hours. Just in case :)
 
I was only using those guys as examples - I envision he would turn ReAction into the profile type shows that UFC does, Impact into UFC Unleashed / Fight Nights and you know, make the PPV's worth buying. Guys like Amazing Red, Eric Young, they'd fight 10 times a year on free TV, the way a lot of up and coming boxers/mma fighters do. The idea being that these guys are good and AJ etc are better than these guys, so you have to pay for them. If the only way to ever see AJ fight was on PPV or at a house show revenues for both would increase.

Pop Culture... as far as sports/sports entertainment / fighting goes, whats more popular than UFC? 400,000+ people parting with $50 every few weeks for their PPV's is something not even WWE managed to do at the height of a booming economy, let alone in a recession. He's right to tap into it - wrestling isn't cool because MMA exploded and wrestling by comparison "looks fake" again. They can still do tours and house shows that UFC will never pull off because of the athletic commission restrictions, but they need to step away from the stupidity and repetativeness. AJ vs RVD should happen ONCE on tv/ppv. do it to death on tour if you want, but don't have it week in week out. I'm pretty sure if Lesnar and Mir had fought 7 times by now people would be losing interest in UFC too.
 
Can you imagine being a Knockout and realising that J-Woww - a talentless reality TV "star" - is probably getting paid more for her appearance than your entire division combined.

What is this guest spot supposed to achieve? Surely everyone who is interested in J-Woww will be watching Jersey Shore which airs at exactly the same time. Where's the logic behind this?

Re: Bound for Glory - you will be shocked to find that I wasn't impressed by the big pay-off to the angle:

I wasn't holding my breath, but I had faint hopes that the angle might be a springboard for a fresh young talent. Instead, TNA turn one of their most marketable stars (in a move which will INEVITABLY fail) and pair him with four of the least interesting people in professional wrestling. It was essentially a long, drawn-out, incoherent, painful to watch reshuffle of the main event picture in TNA. No injection of new talent, no

The treatment of Jeff Hardy reminRAB me of Bret Hart's move to WCW. Vince famously said that WCW wouldn't know what to do with him, and they didn't. They failed to capitalise on the hottest ticket in professional wrestling and then turned him heel. I think TNA have wasted Hardy in much the same way.

My other major grievance was with Lethal Lockdown. I have no idea why Fourtune were booked to lose. Even if the ECW guys were sticking around (and I hope they're not), how can anyone justify not putting over the stable full of young talent?
 
This worst episode ever drew TNA it's highest rating since January and the first 2 segments got 1.53 and 1.54 ratings which apparantly is over 3 million people. Remember that. More people watched what happened in the first 30 minutes then they did the main event.
 
But could they? Ever thought of that whole Competition Commission and OFCOM investigation against Sky? Maybe the Living TV Group will not be ran by Sky, but rather the people who currently run Living and Challenge now. They could be a separate entity to Sky, just funded by them.

Even so, I suspect the Living TV Group will be self-sufficient. Living has been successful for years. Only Sky used to say they weren't and that they weren't worth any money... money Sky subsequently paid to purchase the channels, and then say they'd been more successful than any Sky attempt at Women-orientated channels.
 
RVD finally getting hit with Janice was realistic because Abyss had been carrying it for weeks. A man of Abyss' size and strength was never NOT gonna hit someone with it. Having him threaten people with it every week yet never actually doing anything about it is unrealistic because Abyss is a big guy and in the real world he would have no problem doing what he wanted to you. In the world of wrestling though sending people to prison for murder is ridiculous. The only realistic thing you can do is say RVD was cut up pretty badly.....which they did. Wrestling is about good vs evil and everyone knows RVD will get his revenge eventually.

You can make things realistic in wrestling, as long as it stays inside the world of pro wrestling and the world of pro wrestling is not like the real world we live in. If they wanna be realistic then surely those TNA security guarRAB that get more than physical should be fired? Dixie Carter should have fired those that hit her husband on Impact, he should have pressed charges. Infact surely every wrestler on the roster should be black and blue every week because their getting punched in the face a lot aren't they? In the real world all you need is one hard punch to give someone a black eye well these guys are swinging left right and centre every week so we should be seeing them with black eyes and cut lips just to try and give off the impression that is a real fight taking place each week.
 
That could be another reason although if OFCOM were worried about competition would they have let Sky buy the company in the first place?

Either way my uneducated guess is remains that TNA will remain in The Living TV Group and be shown on a new Challenge TV.
 
TNA did say they had a longterm contract so maybe Sky would be better just putting it on Sky 2 or Sky 3. The only problem with that is they could show it any time they want and effectively bury the show.
 
Good point,but if it does go to Sky Sports,i think they would put PPVs on SS1or SS4.Like they did with WWF,until TNA has a strong enough following.Then they will go on BO.

But i dont want TNA on SS
 
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