Category: Wrestling Musings

Source: https://www.sescoops.com/impact-wrestling-viewership-plummets-for-first-episode-on-pursuit-channel/

TLDR version: Since debuting on the Pursuit Channel, Impact Wrestling only draws roughly 10,000 viewers, which is about as much as a typical Youtube video with some semblance of popularity behind it. This is just sad. At this point, you may as well start airing the shows on Youtube since you’ll probably get more viewers that way.

When all is said and done, the quality of a show – no matter how good or bad it may be – means nothing if nobody has the channel its airing on. I guess we might as well wave the flags and bring the calls for the Death of TNA or something like that.

So this is it… the eco-friendly WWE World Heavyweight Championship belt… and it’s already more distinguished than the toy belt held by Abeyance.

In all seriousness, I love this belt; it’s wonderfully hideous. It’s a creative twist to the custom title, looks somewhat homemade despite the wood panels, and probably stinks a weed bit. And while this might seem like a joke for some folks, at the very least, when Daniel Bryan Danielson eventually loses the title, we’ll simply revert back to the previous title belt and move on with our lives.

That red belt, on the other hand? Then, now, forever… a joke.

Well, that’s a thing that happened.

Let’s let it play out and see where it goes.

Never been the biggest JDF fan, but if this is something he wants to do, then all the best in his future endeavor. Maybe now he’ll get Punk’s attention… or is it Van Damme? I don’t remember.

So the Jon Jones thing happened. The show that got moved because Dana’s boy failed a drug test in one state so let’s go to another. With shit like this, UFC may as well be faker than pro wrestling at this point.

To quote one producer… “For being shitty? Yes.”

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.

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.