The Ratings Don’t Matter, but I feel compelled to relay them anyway. PWTorch.com and Figure Four Weekly / Wrestling Observer are reporting:
WWE RAW:
Averaged 5.6 million viewers, exact ratings not available et.
TNA Impact:
First Hour: 1.69 (Unopposed)
Second Hour: 1.44
Third Hour: 1.22
Highest: 1.88 for the quarter hour of Hogan’s debut.
If TNA was earning a couple bucks royalties per title of the TNA Impact videogame, it sounds like Midway hasn’t paid them a dime [beyond the advance] yet—which based on the way licensing deals usually work, is probably true.
This means that out of the Midway deal, TNA got a video game that was roundly panned, [...]
Figure Four Weekly / Wrestling Observer reports that Petey Williams and Lance Rock [Hoyt] have been released. I’m not happy to see people losing their jobs, but TNA has had an overflowing roster for far too long.
