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I enjoyed this weeks Impact. And even though I like RVD.... Sting is my favorite wrestler.... so I enjoyed seeing him play batting practice with Hogan and RVD. Some people were still cheering for Sting.... that says something about his legacy.
I was very impressed by the TNA show last Monday and really enjoyed it. I think the Monday Night wars are back on. I will be watching more and more TNA on Monday nights for sure.
More TNA "Haters", Lance Storm and Brian Alvarez...
Lance Storm...
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Last night was the restart of the big Monday Night Wars, or at least that is what TNA would like us all to believe. I’m all for the competition and a return to the Monday Night Wars atmosphere, but I just don’t see that happening. The analogy I like best is looking at this Monday Night situation as: Canada declaring war on the USA, with Canada deciding to lead the charge with mainly veteran soldiers from WWII, because none of the current soldiers in the Military have big war experience.
All of that being said I do have a lot of strong opinions of both RAW and Impact from this week as I managed to sit down and watch both shows in their entirety last night. Let me also state that there is no way I will ever watch all 4 hours of wrestling programming Monday nights ever again. I only managed it last night because I knew I was doing the “Insider” segment on the Fight Show (on Sirius Hardcore Sports Radio) today with my friend Mauro Ranallo.
Let me do RAW first because I think that will be the shorter rant. On the whole I liked RAW. That being said it was far from an exciting show and didn’t produce much in the way of good wrestling; but it did, for the most part, built toward WrestleMania in a logical manner. I’m not going to go segment by segment but I do want to point out a few key segments.
HBK-Taker promo: I loved this segment. This is the kind of angle that IMO sells tickets. You had 2 top stars cutting very serious heavy promos about how each one needs to and intends to beat the other. It doesn’t get any more basic than this and that is all these two needed. No gimmicks, no physicality, no bullshit. When you have STARS this is all you need.
Chris Angle: Let me just lump all these segments together and say I hated them. The celebrity guest host stuff is awful, and on a show where wrestlers constantly “work” fans, magic tricks don’t work. All these segments were horrible and the only stuff I hated on the show. Dreadful!
Show-Miz – Morrison & Truth: A non match, which I could see people complaining about but I thought it served a purpose. Truth and Morrison are a thrown together tag team with NO Tag Team credibility, so they needed to give them something. This segment not only got the challengers some momentum it got them and this feud on RAW (WWE’s biggest audience).
Orton vs. Legacy: This segment confuses me, because I have no idea where they are going. The match itself was fine and the finish made sense, but I don’t know where this leads. Perhaps when I find out what the match at Mania is it will make sense but for now it was just some solid pro-wrestling that left me unattached.
HHH-Sheamus: I was not over whelmed by this segment, but to be honest I can’t come up with anything better. I think HHH’s promo did about as good a job as it could have in creating some interest in this match. I didn’t like HHH saying Sheamus hadn’t done anything until he won at WrestleMania, considering the guy was WWE CHAMP, but on the whole the promo made sense. To be honest Sheamus has only won a couple big matches and its logical to say he hasn’t really proven himself as a legit long term top player yet.
VKM – Cena: Okay this was a load of crap but this too may serve a great purpose. I know there will be people that think I am just anti TNA for tolerating and maybe even putting this segment over considering how badly I am going to slam Impact but hear me out. Yes this match was stupid and the rules made absolutely no sense, and because of that it was complete bullshit, but at the end of the show, Big Dave stood over John Cena and I had more desire to see Cena get his revenge than I had to start the show. Further more I think the complete bullshit match structure could serve a great purpose going into next week. This match illustrated the kind of bullshit Vince will likely try with Bret at Mania, and Steve Austin is guest host next week on RAW for the Bret –Vince contract signing. I suspect that Austin will appoint himself Guest Referee for the match at Mania to ensure none of this bullshit will happen again and Bret gets his fair shake. If that is what they do, this was a HOME RUN segment, because it gives reason to add Austin to this match and Mania, which should increase PPV business.
Over all RAW was an unexciting show but it pushed well towards Mania which of course was the point. Also a note to TNA: Steve Austin is a big star and will be on RAW next week, so WWE is TELLING fans this so he might draw ratings.
IMPACT:
My god I hated this show. I actually watched it first. I DVR’d both shows and with kids, I had to watch them in order of which DVR I had access to first and TNA won out. TNA did have way more happening on their show than RAW did but IMO most of it made little sense. Like RAW let me take a look at a few key segments.
Hogan & Abyss – Flair & AJ: I am so sick of the swerve for the sake of the swerve. Russo books this kind of thing all the time and its complete bullshit. The Sting turn was wrong on so many different levels I don’t even know where to start. WHY did Sting do what he did, it made no sense. I can hear the argument now, “Oh wait, why Sting turned heel will be revealed in time”, but that of course is complete bullshit and anyone who understand BOOKING knows it’s complete bullshit. This isn’t even about Sting’s motivation to turn heel, it’s about his actions on the show and the fact that they made no sense and ultimately made no impact. Before Sting came out the heels had the faces down and were stomping on them. Sting then ran down and stopped them, allowing the faces to get back to their feet. He then hits the faces he just saved with the bat, knocking them down and then he leaves. The heels then proceed to stomp on the baby faces again. The scene was EXACTY the same after Sting left as it was before he came out. Net result = 0; so what did it mean? The answer is nothing. Stings attacked resulted in NOTHING. If Sting wanted the faces to get beat up he could have just stayed in the back and did nothing and got the same result. I don’t even want to get into the fact that Russo has tried to turn Sting heel at least twice before and it has never worked. Fans like this guy, why swim up stream and try to get them to boo him?
Hogan backstage segments: Like the Chris Angle segments I want to lump these together because I hated them all. Although at least the Chris Angle stuff was just pointless, these segments were detrimental to the show. The thought of hyping a main event match by constantly promoting the fact that the top Hero in the match is too old and washed up to compete anymore is just beyond me. The bulk of these segments established that no one thought Hogan had anything left to offer and Hogan agreed with them. Then Hogan and Bischoff tell us that Hogan is the ONLY chance this company has and without him TNA is dead and not worth a damn. That’s one hell of a sales pitch. Better yet Earl Hebner; remember him? Earl was fired by Hulk Hogan for taking money from Ric and AJ to screw over Kurt Angle in a match Hogan booked. So Hogan not only hires him back but makes him the ref of his own match against Ric and AJ. (WTF?) It gets better, Hogan goes on to make Earl promise that if things get tough out there and it looks bad for him, PLEASE STOP THE MATCH. Unless the goal was to ensure Hogan can never draw a dime ever again, I have no idea what the point of this was.
Williams-Daniels-Kaz: Best match of the night on either show (ROH excluded, I don’t get HD Net, which makes me very sad). Wow three guys going out there and producing the best segment on Impact with no angles or bullshit at all. Good hard fought exciting match. Please give me more of this!!!!!
Sting – RVD: This was the worst thing on either show by far. To start I can’t believe they signed RVD and wanted to keep it secret. TNA needs ratings, to get those you have to get people who don’t watch your show to start. Rob is a big deal, fans LOVE this guy, so you need to let them know he will be on your show. That being said they did such a horrible job with RVD they should be glad if none of his fans saw this. Fans got to cheer RVD for about 10 second. He got a fluke (jumped him from behind) win over Sting, that meant nothing, and then proceeded to get the hell beat out of him for what felt like 10 minutes. This was a complete burial because the focus of this endless beat down wasn’t heat between RVD and Sting; it was between Sting and Hogan. RVD was left as nothing more than an after thought because the focus at the close of the segment was Sting laying out Hulk Hogan, again. Rob was not mentioned again, he was forgotten. What a waste. They wasted Rob Van Dam’s debut in order to get over Sting hitting Hogan with a bat... something that had already been done earlier in the show.
Beer Money – JJ: I just have to clarify one point here. Beer Money turned heel tonight because (according to the announcers) they hadn’t been on TV much lately and were trying to get noticed. For the record last week on Impact Beer Money pinned the World Tag Team Champions, and were scheduled to get a Title shot at the PPV. Remind me again how Vince Russo is a great story teller.
Main Event: If the show would have ended at the finish of this match I might have been able to give this a thumbs up since Abyss is challenging AJ at the next PPV and he pinned him here to build toward that match. Unfortunately the show didn’t end there and TNA decided to dilute all that with a bunch of run ins. Pope and Nigel have pretty much nothing to do with this and the show closed with Jeff Hardy laying out AJ Styles, despite AJ facing Abyss on this PPV and Pope on the next one.
In closing, the ratings just came in and the WAR may be over already. RAW got a 3.4 and Impact got 0.98. Yes the biggest night in TNA History Live on Monday night produced a ratings drop from the 1.1 they pulled the last 2 weeks doing taped shows on Thursdays and those 1.1’s were considered bad. If you look at the quarter hours, things look even worse. Impact opened and closed the show with their TOP angle: Hogan & Abyss vs. Flair and AJ. This was the match that was supposed to pull the ratings and the opening and closing segments of the show were the lowest rated. Excluding the over run, the last quarter hour rating for the show was a 0.76 (the lowest rated segment on the show). WWE’s last quarter hour on the other hand was a 3.6 (the highest rated segment on the show).
What more can be said,
Lance
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Regardless of the spin, the number is awful when you take into account that not only was it the first Hogan vs. Flair match in ten years, but Flair's first match since coming out of retirement and Hogan's first match since facing Randy Orton in WWE years back. TNA made the decision to put the match on TV as opposed to PPV because they thought it would be a game changer, the kind of match that would establish them on Monday nights. There was absolutely no chance of that happening and I argued strongly that they should have built it up and at least tried to do a number on PPV. The reality is that everyone was wrong in the sense that it wouldn't have meant a thing on PPV and it didn't mean a thing on TV, and part of that is because the writing crew is so inept that on the go-home show this past Thursday night they had the babyfaces beat up and bloody the heels, particularly Flair who was bleeding a gusher, which left viewers with absolutely no reason to want to see the match. Realistically, if given more time to build it up for PPV they'd have screwed it up even worse. TNA's mindset was that if they showed Flair bleeding really bad, fans would tune in thinking, I don't know, that if they saw all that blood on Thursday, imagine what they would see on Monday. It's pretty much the most elementary booking mistake that you can make, although that shouldn't surprise anyone who has followed TNA for the last eight years.
I don't even have the energy to write about why TNA has been the biggest failure of this generation, largely because I've been writing about it every single week in the Impact report for years now. The story of TNA is the story of a group of people who never learn a thing. They never learn a thing from their failures, and more astoundingly they never learn a thing from their few successes. They're run by a woman who has no idea what she's doing and the TV has been written for years by a guy who has no idea what he's doing. It's the classic story of doing the same thing over and over and over again and hoping that somehow things will change. Vince Russo needs to be fired immediately and never go anywhere near a wrestling promotion ever again. I would say he's the single biggest reason this company is in the shape it's in, but the reality is that Dixie Carter is the one who hired him and has kept him employed through one failure after another, so ultimately she's the one to blame. I can understand getting into the wrestling business in the mid 2000s and having limited understanding of its history, but one would think a wise business person would surround themselves with people who know more than they do. And even if you make a mistake and initially surround yourself with people who don't know what they're doing, which Dixie did, you'd think that when it became crystal clear that these people didn't know what they were doing you'd get rid of them and give other people a chance. People can make all the excuses they want, but the reason TNA is in the state it's in is so simple that I think the simplicity blinds people. When you hire everyone responsible for the death of WCW, from the bookers to the production guys to the top stars, why would you possibly think that the result is going to be any different this time around?
It's not 1998 anymore. What is astounding is that 1998 was the year that everything that made WCW a short-term success began to stop working. Vince Russo did massive damage to WCW during his first run and then in his second run he killed the place absolutely dead. He was brought into TNA secretly at the very beginning by Jerry Jarrett as a favor to Jeff Jarrett, and his writing, combined with a disastrous business plan, had the Jarretts preparing to throw in the towel three months later when Dixie stepped in and said her father might be willing to buy the company. TNA has lost tens of millions of dollars over the past eight years but survives to this day because they found a backer willing to keep them afloat as they lost money hand-over-fist with an ineptly-booked product, and somehow that has led the people in charge to think that they've beaten all the odds and achieved some level of success. Never mind that the normal barometer of business success, making money, has continually eluded them.
In the end, moving to Monday nights may be the biggest mistake TNA ever made. For all the talk about how this is a move that has to be made, the reality is that it's not. They did very well on January 4th, drawing their highest ratings ever, but they didn't take advantage of what momentum they had and by the time March 8th rolled around the booking of the TV show was such that they were actually less popular than they'd been before January 4th. In fact, they were more popular at this time last year than they are now, and that's with the additions of Hogan, Flair, Bischoff, Kennedy, Hall, Waltman and all the rest. Once again it all comes back to the horribly-written Russo television, which continually manages to take positives for TNA and turn them into negatives. It's a pattern impossible to miss. TNA gains momentum by bringing in a Kurt Angle or a Mick Foley or a Jeff Hardy or a Hulk Hogan or a Ric Flair, they see a jump in interest and perhaps increased ratings, and then Russo writes a bunch of shit for them that results in them becoming just another guy on TV, causing the ratings and interest level to drop back either to previous levels or to levels below the previous lows. The March 8th rating is a perfect illustration of that.
Why did TNA need to go to Monday nights head-to-head with Raw? As noted months back, the similarities between TNA in 2010 and WCW in 1995 are approximately zero. WCW and WWF ratings were within a half point of each other when WCW moved to Monday nights. WWE in 2010 does THREE TIMES the ratings TNA does on Thursdays. WCW in 1995 had the money and resources to raid WWF, which at the time was having severe financial problems. WWE in 2010 made over $500 million last year while TNA scratches to break even and is backed by a company with $14 million (million, not billion) in annual revenues. It's not even bringing a knife to a gun fight. A gun can at least run out of bullets. It's basically jumping off a cliff without a parachute.
Smackdown used to do more viewers than Raw on Thursday nights. Read that line again. Meanwhile, last Thursday's Impact didn't even draw more viewers than NXT. In fact, Dixie kept talking about how they beat ECW and now their goal was to do better ratings than Smackdown. Smackdown today, on a network no one watches on a night when no one watches TV, still does nearly 3.5 million viewers. Thursday night in prime time was the PERFECT night for TNA, and if they had any idea what they were doing there is no reason they shouldn't be doing 2 million viewers regularly at this point. But because it's one stupid thing after another they're stuck at the same old 1.5 million viewers that they've been doing forever, and they somehow came to the idiotic conclusion that the ONLY way to grow was to go head-to-head with Raw.
The thought process of the people in this company is astounding. Rather than waste any more time giving previous examples, let's look at the numbers for Monday night, which do a fine job providing examples on their own. A good primer would be to read the Thursday night Impact report later in this issue, which will tell you everything you need to know about how clueless these people are.
So there was one match announced for the March 8th show, Hogan & Abyss vs. Flair & AJ. As noted in the Impact report, they built this match up by having the babyfaces beat up and get revenge on the heels. This left fans with absolutely no reason to need to see the match. It ended up drawing a 1.01 rating going head-to-head with John Cena vs. Vince McMahon and a Cast of Characters which included both Mark Henry and Jack Swagger, a segment that did a 3.98 rating for WWE. So yes, essentially Vince and Cena beat Hogan and Flair 4.0 to 1.0.
TNA posted two videos on Youtube this weekend to hype up the show. They had one where Jeremy Borash got a message on his cell phone that there would be a big surprise in the first five minutes of the show and he had to keep this a secret (because, of course, promoting what you're going to do on a show in an attempt to convince people to watch is a concept that eludes this promotion). Someone overheard him and ended up spreading the news all around the TNA office. It was a creative video. But since this is TNA they couldn't put this skit on Impact Thursday, which was seen by 1.5 million viewers. No. They put it on Youtube. It got 9,000 views as of Sunday and resulted in the big first five minutes of Impact getting an 0.99 rating. That was also the rating for part one of the Hogan/Flair match. The other video was a ten minute deal where all the wrestlers talked about what TNA meant to them and how important Monday night's show was. This video actually got me excited for the show. They also decided not to put it on television and put it on Youtube instead. Hell of a lot of good that did.
Raw opened at a 3.45 for the Undertaker vs. Michaels segment and then fell to a 3.15 for the girls' match. But TNA in the first two quarters did a 0.99 and an 0.98. So nobody switched from Raw to Impact. In fact, like on January 4th, it appears there was almost no switching back and forth. The Raw viewers watched Raw and the Impact viewers watched Impact -- well, at least for the first hour and a half.
At 10:30 PM, when TNA put that completely nonsensical Jeff Jarrett vs. Beer Money with Mick Foley as referee match on TV, they fell from 1.03 to an 0.95. Then the collapse happened. At 10:45 Impact fell from the 0.95 to an 0.76, and Raw, with Vince heading to the ring for the match with Cena, grew from a 3.27 to a 3.6. To be specific, the overrun for Raw did a 3.98 and the overrun of Impact did a 1.01. Most of Cena vs. Vince and Flair vs. Hogan took place from 10:45 to 11:00, which saw Raw do a 3.6 and Impact do an 0.76. This was also the segment with Hulk Hogan, all bloody, telling Earl Hebner that if the going got tough he wanted Earl to stop the match and save his life -- essentially begging people to turn to Raw.
The peak of the Impact rating was the RVD debut and Sting heel turn, which did a 1.07 rating for two straight quarters. Raw dropped a bit in the first quarter head-to-head, from a 3.27 to a 3.15, but then grew big to a 3.39 in the second head-to-head quarter. So again, it doesn't appear Raw's numbers grew or fell as a result of what was on Impact or vice versa, except for the final 20 minutes when a sizable percentage of Impact fans chose Vince vs. Cena over Flair vs. Hogan.
Full quarters for Raw were 3.45, 3.15, 3.27, 3.15, 3.39, 3.56, 3.27, 3.6 and 3.98. Full quarters for Nitro were 0.99, 0.98, 1.00, 1.07, 1.07, 1.03, 0.95, 0.76 and 1.01.
Raw, it should be noted, was down slightly from 5.3 million viewers to 5.1 million. Conceivably they lost a small number of people to Impact. But last week's show was expected to be up with Bret Hart returning to say his final farewell, and next week's show will be up as well with Steve Austin, three main events and a Bret/Vince contract signing. Most importantly, and this is a lesson that to this day TNA has not learned, even if Raw lost 300,000 viewers and dropped to 5 million over two hours, they're still going to convince 20% of them to buy WrestleMania this year, which will net the company over $20 million in revenue. TNA did 1.4 million viewers, down 100,000 from Thursday, but even if they added 500,000, if they do 20,000 buys for Destination X, a number that I would consider them to be lucky to get, they're losing money yet again on a PPV they can't convince anyone to buy.
And speaking of money, regardless of the Spike spin they're not only doing lower ratings on Monday than they were on Thursday, but they have the added expense of going live, which combined with the drop in ad revenue for a lower-rated show is going to take a big bite. Bringing demos up by 5% and 11% isn't going to come close to offsetting that, and if ratings stay at this level or even sink, which is a very likely possibility, I cannot imagine Spike not forcing them to move back to Thursdays within the next three to six months.
It should also be noted that not only does Raw have Steve Austin, the Bret/Vince contract signing and three WrestleMania rematches next week, but they announced all of this and strongly promoted it on the show. TNA went off the air with NOTHING plugged for next week, not a single match. I guess it's back to Youtube to alert the 9,000 hardcores that they might get a match or two with a couple of superstars but it's top secret and they can't reveal who they are.
We published a day late to get these numbers. Next week we probably won't. There is no story to be told here, and unless Dixie has an epiphany and demands a major overhaul -- starting with the axing of Russo -- there will not be any story to be told any time in the near future, unless the story is that Panda or Spike is throwing in the towel.
Storm makes some good points too. Guess we're not seeing him in TNA heh.
I think wrestling will never reach it's status in the 90s because nobody cares anymore. The old veterans could barely wrestle excluding Kurt Angle and Sting, that's just 2 guys. Most of the young guys sort of lack mic skills but do have the talent to carry a match. I like the Flair managing AJ Styles thing though, it's really building AJ Styles as a character and giving him more depth rather than just talent. I mean we need a talented heel.
So I don't know. I got nothing to do when I get back from school on Monday nights and TNA is watchable because it has a few people I'm fans of (Sting, Angle, Hogan and the returning RVD)
The Sting heel turn I disagree with Storm about. I think it was handled well and I think it plays with Sting's hate for Hogan in WCW so that's good. Though I don't see Sting working with Flair, logn time rivals lol.
The Sting heel turn I disagree with Storm about. I think it was handled well and I think it plays with Sting's hate for Hogan in WCW so that's good. Though I don't see Sting working with Flair, logn time rivals lol.
Sting turning heel works for me. TNA just drew out his "attack" on RVD for too long. So it came off as awkward.
Man I didn't know this thread existed..LOL! I am a diehard TNA fan. I have been watching since it came to SPIKE! TNA has gotten so much better with Hogan and Bischoff than it was before. Storylines are easier to follow and they make sense. And they are bringing in more stars. I love it. I like the fact that the known stars are getting the "originals" noticed. Like with Flair and AJ, & Hogan and Abyss. Its also another place for wrestlers to go from the other company up north. I enjoy watching wrestling again!!! THANK YOU, TNA!!!!
I think wrestling will never reach it's status in the 90s because nobody cares anymore.
I wouldn't say that nobody cares. It is the majority of the public that no longer cares. Frankly, in my opinion, the majority of the public ever caring was the surprise, not that they no longer care. I still say wrestling is and was always meant to be a niche form of entertainment, and Vince McMahon figured out how to make that niche grow in the '80s. The '90s were more of a perfect storm of events and a certain level of "in" and "cool" that the sport somehow gained. At this point the market is just saturated. Decades of multiple hours of product on TV every single week will do that. And the fans that tuned in because of a momentary interest have moved on and won't be coming back unless it somehow becomes "cool" again.
Wrestling in front of a crowd of 1,000 fans existed before the '80s, and existed now well after the '90s. If you're going to be a wrestling fan, that's where you go for entertainment. That's where they still realize hey we're a niche product and we can work with that. That's where you get your variety, from the family friendly (CHIKARA) to the "pure sport" (ROH), to the hardcore (CZW).
At this point WWE doesn't do a "wrestling" show. They do an entertainment show that happens to surround wrestling. And they do a great job with it.
TNA is trying to be an alternative to WWE...by being as much like WWE as possible. And they've always been that way, though at the beginning during the PPV-only years they at least had some potential. When the X-Division was the major highlight and not the afterthought that deserves more time.
Alverez really did have some great points. He's right, Impact will likely be off Monday nights within six months at this rate. And there's officially no story to tell anymore, which is disappointing.
Now that they are trying to go head to head with WWE, they need the X-Division back. They still won't beat the WWE in ratings but they will gain some more ratings. The X-Division is the key to their success. Just like The Cruiserweights helped ECW and WCW.
Yeah , the X division is there shinning star as well as the tag team division . The problem they are going to run into now is so many wrestlers , so little air time.Especially when half their show is talk.
Now that they are trying to go head to head with WWE, they need the X-Division back. They still won't beat the WWE in ratings but they will gain some more ratings. The X-Division is the key to their success. Just like The Cruiserweights helped ECW and WCW.
I completely agree with you. Especially during the 90's that's what really made WCW different than WWF until they realized that they should start doing the same thing.
So I woke up kinda late, but just in time for wrestling, so I click on the television, and what do I see? Ric Flair on one channel, and Stone Cold Steve Austin on the other. What is this, 1998?
Wait a minute, I just woke up on the Futon, it must be,... Fu-Ton Time Machine!!!!!!!!
WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm back in 1998!!!
Quick, turn on the radio! No, not that station, the hip hop one.
Oh my god, they're playing DMX and Master P!!!
Now turn on the rock station, Oh my god! Marcy Playground and Barenaked Ladies!!!
Quick, see what's playing at the movies,... Titanic and Armageddon!!!
Holy ****, I'm back in the best year of all time! 1998!!!
Quick, lets go get some Ecstasy and glowsticks and go to a rave!!!
I run out the door, only to see a ******* Ford Fusion drive by.
Ric Flair must be broke if he's willing to go through a wooden ramp at his age...
Nash vs Hall. What was that? Beyond horrible..
Hardy vs A.J Styles was decent.
Good to see RVD some more.
anything Hall is involved in is horrible yes.. But they look like olympic athletes compared to the nasty boys.. Especially knobbs.. I mean really? this guy can barely get up once hes knocked down....
Terrible rating this week, the worst since 2006 apparently. But the show wasn't that good anyway, plus they was up against a pretty strong Raw this week.
Terrible rating this week, the worst since 2006 apparently. But the show wasn't that good anyway, plus they was up against a pretty strong Raw this week.
And it was taped, meaning anyone with internet access could read the results. They have to go live every week if they really want to compete.
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