WWE vs. TNA Ratings In The UK Revealed

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The following are ratings for WWE and TNA's shows and pay-per-views in the UK:

WWE RAW:
May 16 - 110,000 viewers
May 23 - 126,000 viewers
May 30 - 109,000 viewers
June 6 - 122,000 viewers
June 13 - 124,000 viewers
June 20 - 117,000 viewers

WWE SmackDown
May 20 - 81,000 viewers
May 27 - 124,000 viewers
June 3 - 115,000 viewers
June 10 - 106,000 viewers
June 17 - 99,000 viewers
June 24 - 117,000 viewers

WWE Over The Limit - 159,000 viewers live, 43,000 viewers for the replay

Impact Wrestling:
May 12 - 197,000 viewers
May 19 - 219,000 viewers
May 26 - 177,000 viewers
June 2 - 197,000 viewers
June 9 - 152,000 viewers
June 16 - 193,000 viewers

TNA Sacrifice - 204,000 viewers in first airing, 25,000 in replay
TNA Slammiversary - 157,000 viewers

This is not really a suprise as TNA has been beating WWE over here for ages, right from the moment it was Bravo and that was because Sky Sports is more expensive than Bravo and now TNA is on a free-view channel it's going to get more views.

Hopefully WWE look at these figures and decides to stop putting PPV's on Sky Boxoffice because some TNA PPV's have been just as good this year and you can watch them for free, so paying £14.95 seems like a joke at times.

Seriously this years Destination X is the only PPV apart from WrestleMania that i've been excited about this year and thats only because i'm a fan of high flyers.

I didn't expect the ratings to look like that, after the move to challange i have pretty much stopped watching, because the of the week deley is to hard to avoid spoilers.

I find it pretty easy to avoid spoilers for TNA just by avoiding TNA websites as spoiler sites don't mention TNA much and when they do you avoid that article.

Also note more people have free-view than Sky which is no doubt the reason for the ratings.

Does this include the Sky replays of WWE though, as alot of people will just wait for the replay rather than staying up till 4am every Tuesday morning?

I was gonna say you also have to bear in mind does the RAW ratings count as the live edition or the replays or all of them put together plus with TNA being on on a saturday night (?) it is a lot easier to watch and does it count Sky + as a viewing figure because I record RAW every monday and so does all of my friends but I have to say Im not suprised that TNA beat Smackdown.

I'd say the RAW/iMPACT/SmackDown ratings are all from the first showing alone (not including replays). Getting over 100,000 people to watch something at 4am on a weekday is not bad IMO.