RAW/iMPACT! March 8th Ratings Breakdown

Hour-by-hour ratings breakdown of WWE Monday Night Raw and TNA iMPACT! from this past Monday:

Segment 6:
The Triple H/Sheamus in-ring promo on Raw and a Criss Angel backstage segment with Santino gained 249,000 viewers, while iMPACT! featuring the Kevin Nash/Eric Young in-ring segment with Scott Hall and Shawn Waltman, Young vs. Waltman and a Kurt Angle/Mr. Anderson segment lost 56,000 viewers.

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source: f4wonline.com

Triple H-WrestleMania Note

Triple H mentioned in his promo on RAW that everyone who faces him at WrestleMania goes on to win a major world title. Here are more details from www.twnpnews.com:

In actuality, just facing Triple H at WrestleMania guarantees you a major world championship, with 1 exception. Since, WrestleMania XVI every person but one Triple H has faced at WrestleMania has gone on to win a major world championship. At WrestleMania XVI, Triple H defeated Mick Foley, The Rock and Big Show. Mick Foley had to go to TNA to get his World Championship, but they all would get another run with the world championship. At WrestleMania XVII, Triple H lost to Undertaker, who has had numerous runs with the title since then. At WrestleMania XVIII, Triple H defeated Jericho, a current World Champion. At WrestleMania XIX, Triple H defeated Booker T, who would go on to win a world championship. At WrestleMania XX, Triple H lost to Benoit in what would be Benoit's only world title reign in a match with Shawn Michaels.

Michaels is the lone "failure" among the list of opponents Triple H has faced in the last 11 years. Michaels has not won a major world championship since WrestleMania XX. At WrestleMania XXI, Triple H lost to Batista, a reigning world champion. At WrestleMania XXII, Triple H lost to John Cena who has held the world championship many times. At WrestleMania XXIV, Triple H lost to Randy Orton in a match with John Cena. Cena is less then 1 month removed from his last title reign. Orton has also held a world title multiple times since that match. At WrestleMania XXV, Triple H defeated Orton, who in the past year has held a world title multiple times since that match.

Ring of Honor Launches Downloadable DVD Website

Ring of Honor Wrestling announced the launch of its Downloadable DVD Service at www.rohvideos.com. Featuring more than seventy out-of-stock titles from the eight year history of ROH, this service allows fans to finally purchase the events they may have missed their opportunity to buy when the DVD’s were first released...More?

Another Raw Guest Host Revealed

The cast of the MacGruber movie will host the April 19th edition of Monday Night Raw. Chris Jericho, The Great Khali, Mark Henry and MVP co-star in the movie.

Senate Hopeful Has WWE In Her Corner

Chris Jericho Nominated for Award

Chris Jericho has been nominated for the "Most Metal Athlete" award at the Golden Revolver metal awards in Los Angeles on April 8th. Jericho will be also hosting the show that airs May 22nd on VH1 Classics.

WWE NXT Results: Rookies on the Rise

After an explosive, post-match brawl on last week’s WWE NXT, R-Truth & his Rookie, David Otunga, put their differences aside to earn a tag team win over The Miz & Daniel Bryan, another Pro & Rookie duo who aren’t exactly the best of friends either. The Miz threatened Bryan with his career before the match, saying he’ll be sure he’s thrown off the show if he’s pinned. But it was the United States and Unified Tag Team Champion The Miz who was pinned by Otunga, who upped his record to 2-1. Full results.

source: wwe.com

USA Network's VP and Dixie Carter Comment on Monday's RAW and iMPACT!

USA Network's Vice President of Program Research commented on the Monday ratings via Twitter yesterday. He wrote: "Not much of a Monday Night "War". RAW trounced TNA by 275% w/ total viewers. Also Impact much lower than the test Monday ep in early Jan"

Dixie Carter wrote the following on her Twitter last night: "I'm humbled by all your comments re:iMPACT last nite. I'm so proud of our talent, staff & the show we put on. It's only going to get better."

Sheamus Confronts Triple H On Raw

Triple H gave his best promo in several years - his humility was very becoming. The man actually referenced jobbing to the Ultimate Warrior and Batista. I was charmed by the credit he gave Sheamus for doing the same things he would have.

source: raw reax pwtorch.com

NWA Future Legends Cup Competition

Many of the NWA's great heroes and villains -- all legends of the
sport -- gather here to interact with throngs of appreciative fans
from all over the world, signing autographs and creating lasting new
memories for fans of wrestling "the way it used to be."

One such legend, and at one time one of the most-hated of all
wrestling managers, Jim Cornette joins us this Sunday in Charlotte to
make a very special announcement. The former manager of The Midnight
Express, now a favorite of fanfest attendees and wrestling fans
everywhere, will be here to announce the "NWA Future Legends Cup"
competition...More?

www.NWALegends.com/nb.htm

Off-Air Raw Notes

After Raw went off the air last night, Sheamus did a run-in to help Batista beat up Cena. Triple H then came out and the dark match main event of Triple H and John Cena vs Sheamus and Batista was made. Cena and HHH won the match, and a funny thing happened during the bout. Triple H's music hit for about 5 seconds in the middle of the match, and Triple H looked around and mouthed "I'm already here" which drew a good laugh from the audience.

source: wrestlezone.com

Monday Night Raw Puts Smackdown on Spikes TNA iMPACT!

TNA Impact moved to Monday nights starting last night, competing head-to-head directly with WWE RAW from 9p-11p. TNA ran until 11:08p last night, but in the 9p-11p portion RAW crushed TNA by 274 percent in total viewers, by 226 percent in adults 18-49 and by 275 percent in total viewers.

For purposes of comparison the Monday January 4 test (8p-10p) of TNA did 2.03 million in total viewes and 1.18 million adults 18-49...More?

Raw rating - 3.4
Impact rating - 1.0

source: tvbythenumbers.com