So.... who are ye picking???

D2D

So, we're 2 days away from the Monday Night Wars re-commencing, this time between WWE and TNA and I was wondering, what will you be watching on Monday night/Tuesday morning. Will it be Raw or will you stream TNA??

Raw has Criss Angel as guest-GM this week and iMPACT! has Hogan/Abyss vs. Flair/A.J and the probable debut of

RVD

Me, I'm in 2 minds. I'm gonna try to see what TNA will do so I'll have Raw on record but if TNA just bores me, on Raw goes

waltersobchak

Both

TNA.. Im an admitted RVD mark so ill have to see his "Debut" if it is infact true:pac: but i have to say im enjoying Raw a lot these days especially Batista that big bast*rd has become my wrestling guilty pleasure

Jolt2007

iMPACT!

Raw. Might watch TNA after if it gets a good enough response.

Gerard.C

iMPACT!

Raw. No interest in TNA whatsoever

flahavaj

Atari Jaguar

Giving away Hogan's first wrestling match in TNA on free TV makes my head explode.

Machismo Fan

Atari Jaguar

I'll be watching neither live but I see no reason why people wouldn't watch both, at the very least iMPACT!'ll be a newsworthy show with Sting among other things.

Vince135792003

Atari Jaguar

I will watch both but neither live.

It will be interesting to see what TNA does. They threw so much at the wall last time around and it worked in that they are now airing on Mondays but I don't think they can do that again.

I fear for TNA in that they lost any momentum they had from January.

A .93 final segment featuring Hogan and Flair is a terrible sign. They are using and portraying Hogan and Flair completely wrong. Flair being a heel in 2010 just doesn't work and does no favours for AJ Styles espcially.

As for Hogan, I think he has over exposed himself and his team with Abyss does nothing for me. The whole storyline with Flair is back to front too.

Machismo Fan

Atari Jaguar

flahavaj wrote: »

Giving away Hogan's first wrestling match in TNA on free TV makes my head explode.

Would it have done huge business anyway though? It probably would've done 80000 buys at most, I think it's better used here to attempt to capture some of the audience on Mondays. Unfortunately the rest of the show will probably drive that audience away. It's the first true test of whether Hogan is serious or not. If AJ or Abyss don't get the pin in the match, it is entirely pointless.

Vince135792003

Atari Jaguar

Machismo Fan wrote: »

Would it have done huge business anyway though? It probably would've done 80000 buys at most, I think it's better used here to attempt to capture some of the audience on Mondays. Unfortunately the rest of the show will probably drive that audience away. It's the first true test of whether Hogan is serious or not. If AJ or Abyss don't get the pin in the match, it is entirely pointless.

I think the Hogan/Flair tag could make alot of old fans very sad.

Doing it on ppv would have made the most sense but the way TNA has dipped lately post January 4th, it really doesn't matter.

I honestly don't think it matters a jot who gets the pin. It was the Hogan/Bischoff show this week anyway. AJ Styles being the champion is a minor point the way their tv is.

Machismo Fan

Atari Jaguar

Vince135792003 wrote: »

I honestly don't think it matters a jot who gets the pin. It was the Hogan/Bischoff show this week anyway. AJ Styles being the champion is a minor point the way their tv is.

You can fully understand why it was the Hogan show though, he's the selling point of Monday and I think it does matter who gets the pin as pinning Hogan or Flair lends instant credibility to whoever does it for new fans that are tuning in for the first time.

callaway92

RAW....impact is shíte

Vince135792003

Atari Jaguar

Machismo Fan wrote: »

You can fully understand why it was the Hogan show though, he's the selling point of Monday and I think it does matter who gets the pin as pinning Hogan or Flair lends instant credibility to whoever does it for new fans that are tuning in for the first time.

It might lead to instant credibility (depending on good/bad Flair and Hogan looked) if they followed through on it but I don't have confidence they will given how they book their shows. I mean you have the Pope as AJ's main title contender but only a few weeks back he lost to Orlando Jordan.


I just think they are so bad at writing tv that Monday's tv will be a distant memory in terms of who did what in a months time.

Diabhal Beag

iMPACT!

I don't think that much people would have bought a PPV with Flair and Hogan headlining. It would have boosted the buyrate by maybe 30,000. It appears that no matter what TNA do they will always have a 1.4 rating for iMPACT and a 40,000 PPV buyrate.

Will be sticking with RAW

Rjd2

What show has the Masterpiece? :pac:

DM_7

iMPACT!

I will record RAW and watch it on tuesday afternoon.

I have no plans to watch TNA as it always annoys me when I do watch.

flahavaj

Atari Jaguar

Machismo Fan wrote: »

Would it have done huge business anyway though? It probably would've done 80000 buys at most, I think it's better used here to attempt to capture some of the audience on Mondays. Unfortunately the rest of the show will probably drive that audience away. It's the first true test of whether Hogan is serious or not. If AJ or Abyss don't get the pin in the match, it is entirely pointless.

No one will get the pin, it'll be some kind of non-finish. This is TNA.

If they built Hogan's in ring return over a 6 month long storyline they'd at least sell some PPV's ansd break their record. Giving it away in TV with Abyss involved is just monumental fail to me.

Both

I'l watch both eventually but if I had to pick it'd be TNA just because im an RVD mark.

MuscleShark

Both

Hard to say...i think ill go for impact. TNA is going to throw lots of suprises on Monday and its going to be interesting. I have nothing against the WWE the reasons ill go for impact because i want the competition to come back again and hope the others will come and see impact too. The most important thing is that at the end of the day the wrestling fans wins and they will get to choose the show and more people will tune in to watch wrestling.

Machismo Fan

Atari Jaguar

flahavaj wrote: »

No one will get the pin, it'll be some kind of non-finish. This is TNA.

If they built Hogan's in ring return over a 6 month long storyline they'd at least sell some PPV's and break their record.

You just explained yourself why that wouldn't work, it's TNA. They would never have had that kind of patience.

JP Liz V1

iMPACT!

It has to be Raw

Fozzy

Atari Jaguar

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

It appears that no matter what TNA do they will always have a 1.4 rating for iMPACT and a 40,000 PPV buyrate.

Or a 1.1 like they did this week :pac:

I'll just be watching them when they're on tv here. I'm in no rush to see Impact

I really think that this thing is going to fail badly. Impact will not be on Monday nights by the time the summer comes

Ridley

Same as usual: Raw live - or as live on some occasions - and reading Impact results to find out if MMG or Kendrick had matches.