What’s up, Radiitz? I actually just stumbled upon that post and I found it absolutely hilarious. Anyone who reports this stuff should have some type of grounding in the data. The reason why I report the numbers each week is because I’ve been doing this for 15+ years and I understand how the viewership estimates and cable ratings work (high rating doesn’t always equal high viewership) which is different, by the way, to how network ratings work. And I bring up that difference because the uninformed person who wrote the article that you linked to thought it apt to report that iMPACT Wrestling goes against certain network shows. Sure, they’re drawing the same demographic, but they’re not rated the same way so the comparison is useless.

Let’s be clear – Dixie’s comment was totally correct. This week’s episode of iMPACT Wrestling was the most watched episode of the show ever. This is what Dixie wrote on Twitter: Two million viewers on Thursday’s IMPACT WRESTLING on SpikeTV – our most watched episode ever!!!

No lie there whatsoever.

But what entries like the one linked in your comment (as well as the comments embedded in that entry) really show is the fact that there are a lot of TNA haters out there. Frankly, I don’t care – let them hate TNA for whatever reason they want to and let them believe whatever they want to believe about ratings and reports or whatever makes them happy. I don’t expect them to dictate my perspective and I have no desire to dictate theirs, you know?

What does get me about those haters, though, is that they don’t realize that they are the very marks that they mock. Look, I come right out and tell everyone that I’m a mark for TNA and its product. Of course, being pretty intelligent I’m able to distinguish between reality and falsehoods, so when I say I’m a mark, I mean that I really am entertained by iMPACT Wrestling each week. When the thoughtless masses just agree with everything posted on the anti-TNA hate sites, they prove that not only are they marks, but they’re blind marks. And then they’ll go say something stupid like, “TNA fans R stoopid!!1!”

Makes me laugh.

Ah – well good for you for trying to be the voice of reason in a sea of madness! Honestly, though, I learned a while back that some arguments aren’t worth having with online wrestling fans. There are people who are going to hate on the TNA product no matter what and that’s cool – I just let them do whatever it is that they do.

And we’d love to have you at the site more often to read our news – we’ll see you back here soon!