Category: Wrestling Musings

All posts related to pro rasslin’ that isn’t covering specific shows or events.

IMPACT Wrestling To Debut On The Pursuit Channel

Source: https://impactwrestling.com/impact-wrestling-pursuit-channel-announce-agreement-to-televise-impact-nationally-across-the-u-s/

Impact Wrestling is moving out of the obscurity of Pop TV this year and will premiere this January on the Pursuit Channel, a television channel dedicated to hunting and fishing. This seems almost about as odd a move as WWE premiering their relaunched WWECW show on SyFy back in 2006… and then you realize that the Pursuit Channel is run by Anthem, the same folks who also own the Fight Network and – you guessed it – Impact Wrestling.

Welp, that explains that. Best of luck to them, I suppose.

About Last Night’s RAW…

So Vinny Mac showed up because ratings were tanking and so we’re going to shake things up with a brand new era of RAW that doesn’t suck. And apparently, we’re going to shake things up by getting rid of Baron Corbin as GM and having the McMahons run RAW hands-on.

So, basically, it’s the same old shit.

I heard Smackdown is pretty good, though.

Corbin's RAW IS LOW

Source: https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/wwe-raw-ratings-hit-another-record-low-272186

So the past couple weeks saw Baron Corbin’s RAW sink the show to new lows in the ratings and last Monday’s show began with a segment which saw top star and reigning IC champ complain about how much RAW has been sucking as of late.

Turns out telling people outright that the show sucks is NOT a formula for suck-cess and thus ratings continue to drop.

I have not been watching the show, but I’ve heard horrible things about the show; most of it revolving around the increased presence of one Baron Corbin. I’d hate to knock the guy because he’s just doing what he’s told, but honestly, it’s getting to the point where he’s becoming the male equivalent of Stephanie McMahon; somebody that prompts me to change the channel and never look back. Fortunately, I haven’t watched the show in ages and only follow through recaps, so I think I’m alright.

So Impact Wrestling Is Putting Up Old Shows On Their Youtube Channel

To celebrate their Youtube channel getting 2 million subscribers, Impact Wrestling will be uploading a couple full shows onto said channel.

Yesterday, they put up the very first NWA-TNA PPV. I wrote those on that show ages ago here.

Tomorrow, they put up the December 20, 2007 episode of TNA Impact.

And then on Friday, they put up Bound For Glory 2012.

Well, good for them, I suppose. I guess I’ll be checking those shows out eventually.

FOX Wants Legitimacy On Smackdown… And They Ask For Cold Ronda…

The last time Ronda was in anything resembling a “legit” combat match, she ate fist and took a year off. So if Ronda loses on Smackdown, she has to be off for a year or else there is no legitimacy to be had and it’s just another fake wrestling angle.

Smackdown moves to FOX in October 2019.