TNA did peak at a 1.9 rating which is great. iMPACT! peaked with 2.9 million viewers .

The combined Monday night wrestling audience of 7.8 million viewers is obviously the highest it has been in a very long time.

Hulk Hogan was said to be very stressed backstage at iMPACT on Monday, and feels the company has organizational issues. TNA was still filming pre-tapes late in the day, and it was said to be a very chaotic atmosphere for Hulk compared to the treatment he was used to in WCW and WWE.

Hogan held a meeting with the TNA roster prior to the show, which was described as a basic pep talk meeting. Hulk told the wrestlers that he’s looking forward to getting to know them all. He told them his door is always open, and gave the impression that he and Bischoff are running the show, although Vince Russo is still handling his usual backstage duties.

Some backstage sources say Russo came across as withdrawn, and after the show was telling people he had no idea what the storyline direction will be going forward.

I'm glad Hogan realizes what chaos it was, because unfortunately it showed. Loved Hogan saying ''I'VE BEEN IN THE BACK ALL DAY BROTHER'' after the 30 minute hype of him coming to the arena in a limousine.

yea i mentioned that in my post above. that was a wtf moment. it was prolly a pretape and wasnt informed of it. there was a few problems like that during the night. jc said they just drove around the block for 30 min lol.

i hope they get on full time on monday nights.

not only does it force both programs to step up their game, but now tna HAS to put on great matches. they cant botch something then edit out later if they are live. and maybe wwe will have better matches. ever since the whole "sports entertainment" thing started (i HATE that name and pray tna stops saying it) wwe really dont care about quality matches. u can watch raw and see 10 botches per match. i remember back when seeing a botch was a rare thing. i miss how they used to take is serious, i miss PRO WRESTLING, and a big FUCK YOU to vinnie mac for ruining it.

i think thats why i always picked wcw over wwf. better match quality. even in its dying days, it may have been aweful, but wcw still had great matches.

i think the bret hart thing will go no where. ive heard some ppl say they expected a super kick when he and hbk was standing there. but i was thinking, yea fuckin right. bret could barely move. you can tell hes suffered the stroke when hes talking. theres no way in hell he was gonna stand there and take a super kick. the last one he took ended his career. an id he does get a match with vince, its gonna suck ass he cant do anything in the ring nowadays. unless theyre just planning on have vince run from him for 15 min then hart hit a low blow then sharpshooter its not gonna be much of anything. but i really expect a screwjob of somekind to take place.


you know i was thinking during impact....for a min i was hoping that hogan was bringing in hart to impact. when i seen the limos stop and someone get in hogans limo, i thought....damn that would be the big screw job to pay back vince to be booked as raw host then show up on another show. that would have been awesome. but, never happened :(

Yeah, thank God Bret still has a brain and that didn't happen.

Have to admit it'd be funny though...

Hulk Hogan called into the Bubba the Love Sponge radio show this morning I did not catch the last part of the interview, but here is what I did hear:

He and Bubba talked about the Terrordome match and Hulk said that when he and Bubba were in the production meeting the day before, about 10 people said there was a decent door to the cage. He then got to the soundstage and found out it had no real door and that none of the wrestlers could climb out of the top, hence the DQ finish. There were plans for a big bump off the cage but it just was not possible. He and Bubba agreed that the Terrordome needs to be scraped for good.

About Jim Cornette: Bubba played Hulk some of the Who's Slamming Who podcast and Hulk said that he did not know Jim was so bitter. He said Jim has a good mind for the business and that he had plans for Jim to do something in TNA, but he does not need that negative attitude in there right now. Bubba made the comment that after the rating they got on Monday, Hulk needs to say what needs to be said and not be afraid to step on some toes.

About Mondays nights: Hulk says they have kinda dropped the ball by taping a Thursday show the day after going live and that right after he hangs up with Bubba he is gonna call Dixie Carter, Eric Bischoff and the people at Spike and tell them that they need to be on Mondays live from now on. He says he knows that it will cost a ton of money but you gotta spend money to make money. Hulk says that he will get Vince's audience a bit at a time just like he did in WCW.

Hulk Says he talked to Bob Carter and Bob made the comment that Hulk knew what he was doing and that they needed a bigger building.

Bubba said that they are working on a deal to make nice with the "Bubba Army" based on what happened on Monday with the tickets and it sounded like they wanna rent a big building and run a free taping with only the Bubba Army being let in.

That is pretty much when I stopped listening as they were talking divorce drama after that and I have no interest in that.

Hope they work on getting a bigger building and get on Mondays live regularly.

I never want to see Bubba again though.

i seriously doubt that they'd even make a dent in WWE's armor by moving to Mondays, but who knows.

i'm glad i watched Raw instead of Impact. yeah the matches weren't as good as the "two" good ones on Impact. but overall, Impact didn't blow my mind. yeah it was interesting to see Jeff Hardy (even if he is a tool, as his shirt says for screwing Vince by going back there), and Flair. but what the hell is up with Orlando Jordon and Val Venus? i mean c'mon TNA, really? and the pointless title changes, i mean, why did Tara drop the belt back to ODB so soon, does TNA not value her? i was just disappointed with Impact. it felt too much like i was watching Nitro or Thunder

How did Jeff Hardy screw Vince McMahon?

oh gee i dunno, maybe giving Vince some bullshit excuses about needing out of his contract, after having two major title reigns handed to him on a silver plater, then turning around and signing with TNA, where he never amounted to jack while he was there the last time. so i'd call that a royal screw job. just hope Vince never welcomes back Hardy into the WWE when he once again fails in TNA. i've no respect for Jeff Hardy

The reason Jeff Hardy I think went to TNA is first that they don't have a wellness policy so he basically get away with using his drugs.

Second: less traveling.

I also herd that he would have an Undertaker like contract where he doesn't have to do house shows or just not appear as often as the regular wrestlers would. But I don't know if it's true or not.

That's bullshit, Geek. Hardy didn't give any excuses, he didn't resign his contract and that was it. And now he's decided to go to TNA because maybe he won't die of overworking there. Hardy is free to live his life the way he wants, he didn't screw anybody. I don't blame Hardy for wanting a good schedule, it's not like he was married to McMahon. This is part of what makes the wars great: People are given a choice of where to work instead of having to settle for the WWE. Good for Jeff.

well that's your take on it, but i disagree. he did actually give excuses, it was all over the news sites. maybe "screwing" Vince was the wrong thing to say, but i'm sure he blew his chances of ever returning to the WWE in the future, specially after having two World title reigns handed to him on a silver plater. what did TNA do for him while he was there before, nothing! but if all the shit in his life works out, then i hope he has a good tenure in TNA, but if he's sent to prison, he's basically fucked like he couldn't have gotten that in WWE if he'd asked for it. but whatever, it's done and he's with TNA. just think he could've done things differently is all

You don't know shit, Geek, none of us do. Were you there when Jeff gave his ''excuses'' to Vince? Whatever Jeff said, for all we know he meant every word and didn't even know he'd be working for TNA. Which I believe to be the case.

Hardy didn't owe the WWE anything, he was over enough to get pushed, they put their fath in him, he came through, and now he has a life to live. He has to do what's best for himself and his family, and if that's not working for WWE, then that's his life and his decision and a very good one in my opinion, I haven't lost any respect for Jeff at all, and nobody should.

whatever. let's agree to disagree. like i said, i hope things work out for him regardless.

Sounds like a plan.


You know what? There's one thing that TNA is still doing horribly that seems like it's been the same shit since they've started. Music. God I hated the iMPACT! theme song and I'm glad they changed that, but most of the wrestlers' themes are still AWFUL. Amazing Red's is audible garbage, especially.

After watching AJ Styles wrestle for the first time against Angle I not only have him in my top ten current wreslters, But I also have his theme song as my morning alarm tone.

It psyches me up!

anyway, Sheamus vs Orton at the rumble..
That means Cena is going to be part of the rumble.... Great (Zzzz)

I think Orton vs Giner will be good though, something different.

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on the rumble, I hope and pray the rock is listed as number 30. I know it isnt going to happen but one can dream.

wwe needs to change the wwe raw name to wwe botch.

every time i turned it to raw tonight, there was a botch EVERY TIME. it was weird. flipped it on there too see john cena fuck his lines about the packers up. then again during some divas match (dono who the hell they were). and what was the deal with the 3 way with some r truth lookin guy, cena, and orton? the end where ted jumped in to attack cena was a total botch. he pretty much jumped in one side ran to the corner, then jumped out the other side. it actually looked like he pushed orton instead of cena.

and that phantom punch from tyson to jericho was fuckin sad. he must have swung hella fast for the wind from his forearm to knock chris down like that. and it looked bad on jerichos part bc he started falling b4 the punch got anywhere near him.

every time it showed tyson he looked like he was about to bust out laughing.

I agree mostly with MKGeek about Jeff Hardy, but it works both ways. On one hand, if somebody makes you a star, you don't leave for another promotion regardless of how much more money you'd be making or how much better it is for your health. That reeks of disloyalty. Before Vince Jr showed up, you would never get away with jumping ship for petty reasons without being seen as traitor and severely damaging your reputation. That's the way it largely remains in Japan, and in Mexico still to a slightly lesser degree. If I was a noteworthy promoter who'd made somebody a huge star and then they jumped ship on me, you best believe I'd have them fucking blackballed from the business for life.

On the other hand, Vince Jr himself is as disloyal as they come and he deserves every slap in the face he gets. I can't say I hold it against Jeff Hardy (or anyone else) if they show him no respect; he certainly doesn't show any to his talent. So whatever.

I do think Jeff practically flushed the remainder of his career down the toilet by signing with TNA though.

Well I really enjoyed Monday's RAW. I felt like a mark through most of it, which is a great thing. Of course, I skipped all the divas matches I guess that explains why I didn't see a lot of the botches, but it was still a very fun RAW.

Well this is obvious...Orton is gonna win the title. Dibiase is gonna win the rumble. Thus having a match at Wrestlemania.

There was some heat from TNA officials on Sean "X-Pac" Waltman for arriving very late to the iMPACT Zone for last Tuesday night's tapings. Waltman is on a short-term deal with the company.

-- Word is that Scott Hall has been very excited about his return to TNA and is hoping it lasts longer than his previous stints. Hall is also working on a short-term deal as company officials want him to prove himself before they invest. While he's not in the shape he was in during his peak, many feel he's in better shape than in years past.

Luchadore Super Nova has signed a developmental deal with WWE, and that he will be heading to Florida Championship Wrestling.

Super Nova worked on the ECW brand a few weeks ago, unmasked, against Trent Baretta and Caylen Croft.

The official website of World Wrestling Entertainment has a story up online noting that WWE Hall of Famer "Stone Cold" Steve Austin will guest host WWE RAW on March 15th, just two weeks before WrestleMania 26.

Diamond Dallas Page announced on his Facebook that he will be guest-hosting GSN Live today from 3PM-5PM ET. DDP will have live cut-ins during the commercial breaks, and they will play home-viewer games with callers for prizes. The reason that DDP is there is because he is promoting the Carnie Wilson reality show that he's appearing on in the next couple of weeks.

ROH sent out the following press release today, announcing their new IPHONE APP: Ring of Honor Wrestling is proud to announce the ROH app for your Apple IPhone and ITouch now available in the Apple ITunes store. The hottest wrestling in the world is now available on hottest mobile phone in the world. You will be getting all the ROH news, videos, and twitter right on your IPhone - when you want, where you want. Search the Apple ITunes store for: ROH, ROH Wrestling, or Ring of Honor – look for our logo or use this link. It will be listed as ROH Built by AppMaker. The app is free and we look forward to all your feedback on it. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/roh-built-by-appmakr-com/id349353523?mt=8 This app was built by a company by the name PointAbout (http://www.pointabout.com/)

Hahaha DiBiase winning the Rumble? Are you kidding me? He's not over, he has very little mic skills, people forget he probably exists half the time. I guarantee he'll get a conway pop when he enters the rumble. If he won I bet people would boo the shit out of the rediculousness. There's absolutely no way in hell he's going to win. Kofi has a better chance at winning and even then it's slim. It's probably going to be between Cena and HBK with HHH being the runner up yet again

Ha! The WWE is going to do something far worse. Cena will win the rumble and face Sheamus or some other shmuck.

HBK will win it and challenge taker for the title at WM...

My guess anyway