TNA Impact is moving permanently to Monday nights, reports the Wrestling Observer newsletter.
As we reported earlier today, Impact is scheduled to go live on March 1st against Monday Night Raw, however the latest word is that this will be the show’s first night in a new Monday timeslot.
The company will air Impact live every other Monday night going forward with bi-weekly episodes being taped on the Tuesday night after the live show.
The Observer’s Dave Meltzer notes that an announcement is expected soon
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31 Comments
This is very exciting.
Also a little nerve racking…not that I don’t have confidence in TNA, but fact is the memory of what happened to WCW still lingers, and I would be devistated in TNA was put out of buisness.
I don’t think TNA will be put out buisness though, because there were SO many factor to why WCW went out of buisness…losing to WWE in the ratings wasnt really a big factor.
I think this new time slot will help TNA though. Their ratings were much better on that 1/4/2010 monday then they have ever done on a thursday. Monday night is THE wrestling night.
This will be an exciting time!! Monday Night Wars 2!!!
TNA ALL WAY!!!! Hopefully this will eventually make WWE step up it’s game
agreed with macho madness, it’s exciting yet terrifying.
whether you like one company more than the other, or you only watch one and not the other, you’ve gotta admit that any competition is great.
aren’t tna yet to announce something “big” regarding uk tv, too? i hope it’ll air live over here, as well..
wow i really don’t think this will work in they’re favor, last time everyone tuned out half way through remember?
I can’t see this as being anything but a failure for TNA. Especially once Monday Night football comes back this fall. I agree that the competition will hopefuly force the WWE to improve things and perhaps drop the PG rating, but given that after the first episode they are going to be showing a taped program vs a live one that can adjust and change things before being broadcast, why do they think they can even come close to competing with the WWE? they are really catering to hogan’s ego and are not making sound business decisions.
This has got Hogan and Bischoff written all over it.
I guess it’s exciting but I’m just really nervous.
GO TNA!
Bad bad move if TNA moves to Monday Nights!
Their ratings will go down-hill all the way!
I read other websites about this, and I don’t know why some people are saying this going to be the end of TNA. I’m very happy about this. Honest I like TNA better than WWE I think that TNA have better talent males and sepical the women. So, I don’t watch TNA just for the women I watch it for everything.
This can be great for TNA or bad. I cant can’t. I’m on TNA side with this because I know they can do it.
i guess what they really should do, is go head to head against smackdown instead.
live impact vs pre-recorded smackdown would probably do tna better than trying to swim with the big fish.
i’m pretty sure they’ve come close to beating smackdown, if not beaten, over here in the uk at least, ratings wise..
I can’t even remember what last great match I seen in WWE. Besides JoMo vs Rey M ,christian vs. shelton benjamin, and some of the matches with Chris J.
IMO, TNA have the talent and can put on some amazing matches and shows. I just think the rating wouldn’t be that good because they have a hard time on Thursday with rating like 0. or just in the 1.
theregoeskitty- This is really random but your sentence was kinda bothering me. You used “they’re” in your sentence but not the correct one, the right one to use is “their”. Small grammar lesson lol
I will get behind TNA as long as they get their crap together, they’re to much all over the place and need to get organized
Monday nights is the place to be for wrestling, TNA proved that on Jan 4 when they scored their highest rating EVER with a 1.5 overall rating and scoring a 1.9 during one of the quarter hours. A lot of fans are disgusted by WWE right now so when they have an alternative TNA to switch over too on monday, trust me they will.
Hogan said he will steal WWE’s audience little by little so it is a part move. People saying TNA will fail are just to blinded by their love for WWE
Considering a majority of WWE’s audience most likely doesn’t even know about TNA as they have grew up WWF/WWE, this isn’t going to pay off for them for a long time and most likely hurt them for awhile.
The only good thing is the possibility that WWE steps up it’s game, but it’s been reported many times that Vince doesn’t see TNA ever getting close to even WCW’s status.
I’m quite worried about how all these changes are gonna affect the Knockouts. They’ve been scaled down on in the last couple of weeks, the drama surrounding Kong, what it might mean for Hamada…The only certainty is Angelina Love feuding with TBP.
Dixie Carter is insane for letting Hogan and Bischoff take over her company and bring in all the washed up has beens who should be retired. She’s making herself look really weak as a boss. And as a so called supporter of the Knockouts, she must do more to get them back their spots.
Or pitch for a 2nd show for midcarders, including the Knockouts since Impact isn’t gonna fit everyone in thanks to all the oldies coming in.
“People saying TNA will fail are just to blinded by their love for WWE”
Then how do you explain all the ROH, puro and indie fans who think TNA is crap?
TNA fans are just as blind as the WWE fans, TNA was great in 2002-2007, but became just like WWE ever since. The only highlight in TNA since 2007 were the knockouts. But both sides still think they are the best and continue to insult eachother. Watch a promotion like Dragongate-USA and then compare those matches to the X-Division (TNA’s old pride), and you see how far TNA has fallen the past 2 years.
I agree RKOyou
Bad move, I think. I enjoyed being able to focus on TNA on Thursdays without having to flip back and forth. Hogan & Bischoff are pushing this so hard…there’s a quote that goes “Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it”. I think this applies here. I also worry for the Knockouts because if they move to Monday they’re going to put all the same old faces we’ve seen for the past two decades on the tv and squeeze the women to the backburner – and it’s the Knockouts who’ve gotten the higher ratings in the past.
Meh. This whole thing screams disaster.
TNA should work on going live Thursday nights first. Work out the kinks for a couple months, get a larger arena, and then attempt head-to-head. Bischoff and Hogan claim they’ve learned from their past mistakes, but it seems they haven’t. The only good thing about this move is that it will ignite a flame under Vince to step up WWE’s product, but it will probably be at the expense of TNA going out of business.
Man, I hope for the best because with all this recent rigmarole, I’d say that they have a lot more to work out. I was feeling the idea before the wind changed so now I don’t know what to feel except worry. Get rid of Hogan and Bischoff and the fossils hanging on to the wisps of their former glory (except Sting)! :( I love TNA more than WWE now so I’d be super angry if they failed. And I agree xxChristinaxx, that I watch it for the whole thing, too. They have some amazing athletes, male and female. Now if I could find one guy I like as much as Sheamus to gaze upon while watching TNA… :P
Put on more Knockouts matches so that those who flip between the channel can see what can be done in televised women’s wrestling and then maybe WWE will get some ideas to push the Divas more. Just a hope, but with them marginalizing the Knockouts (if they really are) that might not even be a slight possibility. And since so many comments in other forums are about how much hotter Divas are than Knockouts (I think Knockouts are hotter but oh well) it makes me worry that if there are matches, etc. they may focus on characters like TBP in order to get the horny male(/female to be fair) demographic. :)
RKOyou- “People saying TNA will fail are just to blinded by their love for WWE”
It’s “People saying TNA will fail are just TOO blinded by their love for WWE”
Small grammar lesson for you as well lol
I’m thinking bad move, TNA.
But we’ll see…
Maybe this will get WWE management and Raw to give us more than 2 or 3 minute throwaway no storyline Diva matches for a change .. glad that TNA is moving. Now maybe WWE will get their women moving too.
I honestly think, this is an awful idea. A lot of people watch both Impact and Raw, so there’s a high possibility that both shows loose ratings. It will all depend on the card they present.
i hope they improves raw more and….well i know it sounds mean but i hope tna get lower ratings
i just see it useless to make this move!!
mah wrote:
“i hope they improves raw more and….well i know it sounds mean but i hope tna get lower ratings”
You contradict yourself. If you want RAW to improve they need to get a little wakeup call. So you WANT TNA to score around 2.0 and RAW around 3.0, that will force WWE to improve the quality of their show.
knockout12- I noticed that error the second I posted it, I’m not stupid
WWE will not change their product just because of TNA, I know everyone is hoping Vince will but he won’t. Jan 4 was the perfect example, Vince didn’t do anything to change Raw, the divas match was Brie Bella vs. Maryse enough said
“Vince didn’t do anything to change Raw, the divas match was Brie Bella vs. Maryse enough said”
He placed 2 ppv matches on the show, and with Bret Hart on the show he didnt have to change anything. As long as the ratings stay around 3.4 WWE has no reason to change anything. But i can assure you, when those ratings will drop under 3.0 RAW will get some major changes.
There’s no reason for Vince or the writers to change anything during the “return of the monday night wars” because there is no monday night war. Simply put they don’t see TNA as a threat. Probably over confidence on there part but after watching both shows who can blame them.
Not even the addition of arguably the most famous name in professional wrestling history and a hype machine that worked over time can make a casual fan
tune in and watch the show without switching channels. And thanks to TNA’s lack of confidence those same casual viewers were reminded (consistently may i add) of the existence of a much more polished wrestling program called RAW.
After a grandiloquent promo from Hulk, we were given rejects after rejects and never-was after washed-ups. So why would anyone change their product or go on a panic mode after such display of total failures?
dang! well this is going to be hard which will i watch hmmmmm? lol
RKOyou- You’re getting pretty defensive. I’m just saying, if you’re going to point out someone’s grammar mistakes, you better be damn sure that your grammar is perfect. Never called you stupid. Please don’t put words into my mouth. That is all.
Anyway, I agree with Mikas – if you want RAW to improve then there has to be some competition. It kills me how people continually complain about RAW and yet still act like it’s so superior to TNA. I wouldn’t have thought I would in the past, but I gave TNA a real shot and found myself getting into it more so than WWE. RAW is sucking really bad now, and now I only check it out for 2 reasons, Divas (though at times I wonder why) and Sheamus. So in spite of Hogan/Bischoff’s interference I hope TNA will get GREAT ratings in order to spur WWE to step up their game. To me, right now WWE are the superior product ONLY in terms of production. My opinion.
Good point, knockout12.