Raw Rating for 7/16

3.4

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Raw Rating for 07/09/2007

Last night's Raw did a 3.37 rating with a 3.04 first hour and a 3.69 second hour.

That's the lowest Raw Rating on a non-holiday in quite some time and I've got no idea what the reason/excuse/rationalization is going to be.

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TNA iMPACT rating for 07/05/07

1.1/1.8

Fixed~!

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Smackdown Rating for 07/06/07

The show did a 2.6/5.0 on the fast nationals. It won the night in 18-49 doing a 1.4

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TNA iMPACT Rating for 06/28/2007

The show did a 1.2/1.9 for the show with the Kurt Angle Vs. Rhino Vs. Christian Cage match spanning the entire episode. Seeing quarter hours would be interesting but alas I have not.

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ECW Rating for 06/26

1.8 up from last week's 1.6 and not hard to figure out why.

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WWE Smackdown Rating for 06/22

2.6/5.0

Up from last weeks 2.4 and a tie for 4th place among the major networks for the night.

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TNA iMPACT rating for 06/21

The show did a 1.2 which is a series record.

It will be real interesting to see next week's rating. I hope it is high to show TNA that they can have 1 match or longer matches on iMPACT and not hurt the rating. So if you're ever going to watch TNA...make sure it is next week.

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06/19 ECW on Sci-fi Ratings

1.6

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Raw Rating for 06/18

4.1 or 4.2

that's up over the past few weeks...and that bothers me.

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Fight Night 10 Rating

The show did a surprising, to me, 1.2 rating.

I didn't think it would be that high.

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06/05/2007 ECW on Sci-fi Rating

1.4 and time marches on.

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Raw Rating

Monday's Raw did a 3.8 up from last week's holiday version which did a 3.2 but excluding that it is also up slightly from the 3.7 it had done the prior few weeks. Maybe people were tuning in to see what happened at ONS, I don't know. I expect last week's number to be down slightly but only because of the extra hour, I think the 2 regularly seen hours will do just fine. The first hour on the 3-hour raws has tended to be lower than the regular 2 by a considerable amount so I'm going with the trend. We'll see if the hook of the draft and Mr. McMahon appreciation will be enough to drive up interest but I should note that the latter event isn't all that uncommon if you think about it so for many it could've been greeted with the cries of "again?"

As for the draft, we'll see if people being on all the brands has hurt interest in a draft that much. I actually tend to think no, even if others would say that it would. My feeling is that they've not done a draft in a couple of years so it will seem special plus you get people foolishly thinking that things will happen like HHH going to Smackdown even if those things never have a hope in hell of coming to pass...John Cena to ECW being another example. So it could hurt but maybe not as much as people would speculate.

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Rating for WEC debut on Versus

Credit: www.f4wonline.com

-- 0.39 rating with approximately 400,000 viewers on Sunday night.

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TNA and UFC Ratings for 05/31

TNA: 0.9
TUF: 1.2

Wrestling Observer

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5/29 ECW Rating

The show did a 1.42

Credit: F4WOnline.com

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Raw Rating for 5/28

3.2

When I first read this I was like what the hell happened? Then I remembered, oh yeah, holiday...nothing to see here. Its not a disaster that we need to examine online for the next 3 weeks, ok?

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MMA News and Notes for 05/30

Take a quick glance around the MMA world with me.

Mauricio "Shogun" Rua Interview

Much more behind the cut.



Marlon Sims Vs. Noah Thomas, the 2 men who brought such shame to Dana White and his house will open the TUF 5 Finale.

The IFL has averaged a 0.7 through the first 10 episodes. The ratings in men 18-34 are more than triple the MyNetwork TV average for that demo. The article compares this to the start of TUF on SpikeTV but neglects the fact that TUF benefited from something Battleground did not which is that it followed WWE Raw, the highest rated program on cable TV.

Kazushi Sakuraba has been cleared to fight on Saturday's Dynamite USA card. Great, 1 down like 15 more fighters to go!

Today's observer update had the following note on IFL stock.

--IFL stock collapsed today. At the moment of this writing, it was down from its $3.30 per share close yesterday to $1.28. There was a major sell-off of
1.6 million shares of stock as some institutional investors were not allowed to sell until today, and sensing a collapse, they wanted to at least recover
some money before the stock goes down farther. Another reason is the company is likely to issue new shares in an attempt of a second round of financing,
which would also dilute the value of the stock. This actually should have been a good time as MyNetwork TV announced yesterday the IFL keeping its Monday
and Saturday night at 8 p.m. time slot for the fall season. This was expected as in their upfront presentation weeks ago they had already told advertisers
IFL was staying.

TUF 5's Joe Lauzon is profiled by UFC.com

Get to know Tokyo Sabre's fighter Savant Young

Brock Larson Destiny Delayed, not Denied

Urijah Faber calm in the eye of the hurricane

Max Kellerman interviews Urijah Faber.

Brian Stann faces Craig Zellner on versus

David Loiseau is off July 7's Steel Cage Promotions card but Wes Sims has been added and will face Chris Guillen in a rematch of their bout on Art of War 2, May 11 in Austin.

I'll probably be back with more later.

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Some brief Newsbits

Last week's block of programming on SpikeTV saw TNA iMPACT do a 1.0 and The Ultimate Fighter 5 do a 1.3 rating. TNA is steady, TUF slightly up from prior weeks. I guess that the hype surrounding the street fight that Dana White was so "upset" by added a little to the ratings.

Speaking of the street fight. Marlon Sims Vs. Noah Thomas is confirmed for the 06/23 TUF 5 Finale special.

The Card for One Night Stand looks as follows with a few matches not yet announced:

1. WWE Championship Match: The Great Khali Vs. John Cena, Falls Count Anywhere
2. World Championship Match: Batista Vs. Edge, Steel Cage
   
3. ECW Championship Match: Bobby Lashley Vs. Vince McMahom, Street Fight
   
4. World Tag Team Championship Match: World's Greatest Tag Team Vs. The Hardy Boys, Ladder Match
   
5. Non-title match: Melina Vs. Candice Michelle, Pudding Match
   
6. Chris Benoit Vs. MVP
   
7. CM Punk, Sandman and Tommy Dreamer Vs. Elijah Burke, Marcus Cor Von and Matt Striker

I'll be back with more later.

Credit: Dave Meltzer

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05/22 ECW Rating

Tuesday's show did a 1.5

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