The Riddler Report: WWE & TNA Rantings For 15/3/10 (Report)

Welcome readers to another edition of The Riddler Report staring you favorite Gotham Villain The Riddler.

Today segment:

The Riddler Monday Night Rating War Update

Here are the rantings for 15/3/10 has reported on 24wrestling:

WWE RAW did a 3.71 cable rating last night off hours of 3.68 and 3.73 and averaged 5.60 million viewers, an overall increase of 10% in viewership from last week. RAW's first hour (which drew 5.57 million viewers) was the most viewed first hour since August 4th, 2009, while hour two (5.63 million viewers) was the most viewed second hour since the January 4th RAW.

TNA iMPACT! did a .84 cable rating off hours of .88 and .80 and averaged 1.1 million viewers, an overall decrease of 21.4% in viewership from last week. iMPACT! opened with a .84. In a very troubling sign for TNA, the AJ Styles vs. Jeff Hardy main event was the lowest rated segment of the entire show with a .72 with the overrun doing a .74. Keep in mind though that the match went head-to-head with a Bret Hart-Vince McMahon-Steve Austin contract signing on RAW.

My Thoughts:

Well odiously WWE beats TNA for the second week in a row but that is no surprise to anyone especially a battle where TNA went against Stone Cold. I think they did okay and ranting wont really matter until TNA start there real storylines. From what I can tell we might see a civil war soon in TNA, Hogan Heroes in one side in the other Easy E. Band for control of TNA. If that happen and they till cant even do at least a 1.5 then I think TNA wont last much longer after that.

Here some other notes from the report:

-- Monday's TNA iMPACT! rating of .84 is the lowest rating for iMPACT! since November of 2006. Back then, Impact was airing in a late-night Thursday timeslot, not in prime-time.

-- Not a single quarter hour segment of iMPACT! reached the 1.0 mark. The highest rated segment was the fourth quarter hour (9:45PM ET-10PM ET) which featured the Beautiful People, Hulk Hogan calling out Sting, and RVD appearing. The segment drew a .96. It's probably worth noting that the Beautiful People were also in one of the highest rated segments of iMPACT! last week.

-- After the .96 in the fourth quarter hour, every segment dropped in the ratings all the way up to AJ Styles vs. Jeff Hardy doing a show-low .72. The overrun saw a slight increase up to a .74.

-- TNA lost 15% of the audience they opened with, going from a .87 opening quarter hour to a .74 for the overrun.

-- Sources say SpikeTV and TNA were aware that this week's rating would be down due to Austin's WWE return on the road to WrestleMania. This number hasn't come as a shock to them

So there you have it readers even Spike was not surprise low ranting this week

What do you think?

Will TNA ever come close to Raw rantings? or Is this just a big waste of time?

This concludes another edition of The Riddler Report

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