Thursday’s edition of iMPACT! topped ECW in the ratings, drawing a 1.1 rating and 1.4 million viewers compared to ECW’s 1.0 (rounded up from 0.95). Although, the number was down from the week before, which drew a 1.16 rating and 1.6 million viewers overall.

The most-watched quarter hour of iMPACT! was the sixth quarter hour, which featured Awesome Kong & Raisha Saeed vs. Taylor Wilde & Rhaka Khan, a Kevin Nash promo, and Mike Tenay’s interview with Sheik Abdul Bashir. Both the opening promo and main event segments each drew a 1.1 rating. iMPACT!’s rating slid to a 0.99 rating by the end of the first hour, but bounced back following Mick Foley’s promo at the top of the second hour. This week’s show drew a 0.90 rating among males 18-35, compared to 0.85 the previous week.

This is the best ratings news TNA has received in a while, as they are finally breaking the trend of losing hundreds of thousands of viewers for the main event

source - 24wrestling.com

Congrats once again to the TNA Knockouts for stealing the show!

Our very own, Cheerleader Melissa is showcased this month in Pro Wrestling Illustrated’s special PWI Female 50 issue!  Congratulations to Melissa and the rest of the female wrestlers that received full-page recognition in this issue.  PWI magazine has been around for many, many years and is the standard in pro wrestling magazines.  We thank PWI for their coverage of female wrestling and Cheerleader Melissa.

Pickup your copy of the PWI Female 50 at bookstores today or visit http://www.pwi-online.com for more information.

Here’s a breakdown for TNA’s iMPACT going into the Bound For Glory pay-per-view last week…

The Cute Kip vs. Rhino match lost 103,000 viewers, the X Division qualifying match with Petey, Creed, Dutt and Lethal with Karen’s Angle with Mick Foley gained 15,000 viewers. The Beer Money vs. Abyss and Matt Morgan match gained 0 viewers. Mick Foley’s in-ring interview going into the segment with Jeff Jarrett and Kurt Angle gained 44,000 viewers. That week’s peak rating came with the Awesome Kong and Raisha Saeed vs. Roxxi and Taylor Wilde match, gaining 102,000 viewers going to a 1.00 rating. The Booker T vs. AJ Styles match lost 147,000 viewers while the final segment of the show, with Samoa Joe and Sting, only gained 15,000 viewers and ended at an 0.91 rating.

This past June we were fortunate enough to be involved with a live wrestling show that took place at Cauliflower Alley Club’s 43rd Annual Reunion in Las Vegas.  The show was promoted by Pro Wrestling Revolution and as a CAC Board Member, it was my job to make sure things ran smooth and of course to oversee the ChickFight match on the show.

Cauliflower Alley Club is a wonderful group of people and I can’t say enough about what a great organization it is.  The only downside to CAC is the fact the reunions only take place once a year.  During these reunions, you never know who you will meet next and it was a huge thrill for me this year as I had the opportunity to meet and work with Luna Vachon.

Luna Vachon was one of the few female wrestlers I remember really loving to watch as a kid.  I remember watching her and being blown away.  Luna was unlike anything I had seen before and she had the same affect on me as watching guys like the Missing Link.

Needless to say, I was excited when Gabriel Ramirez (owner of Pro Wrestling Revolution) approached me during the tryouts for the show and said there was a chance of getting Luna involved in some way.  After a quick glance at what we had for a line-up so far, the choice was obvious.  We wanted Luna to manage the team of former WWE Superstar, Gangrel and Billy Blade.

Luna was just one of several legends that were involved on the show that night, but working with her was deffinately a high point of the week’s events in my eyes.

Our own infamous photographer extraordinaire, Mike Lano sent over this picture of Luna posing with Strongman Jon Andersen and you can see, she still looks as good as ever.

Now just to book that Luna Vachon vs. Cheerleader Melissa Streetfight on an upcoming ChickFight show…. hmmmmm

During the 1960s, professional wrestling was huge at the Cow Palace. There are vast websites devoted to the phenomenon, which was part of a circuit that included Sacramento.

Now a new book, When I Shot Good Guys & Bad Guys Who Wrestled at the Cow Palace, commemorates the era. The book collects photographer Jim Fitzpatrick’s work documenting the bouts held by promoter Roy Shire, a former wrestler who became the biggest wrestling promoter in Northern California in the 1960s (scroll down in that page to “The Beginning” for Shire’s story).

You can read the original post here.

Congratulations to the TNA Knockouts for once again, out drawing their male counterparts in the ratings on TNA’s weekly tv show, Impact.

TNA Impact took another upward tick in viewership last Thursday with a 1.1 overall rating and 1.6 million viewers on average during the show. The rating is actually 0.01 lower than the previous week, but statistically insignificant given the margin of error. It’s up from the 1.05 and 1.02 of the previous two weeks.

The story of the show is that the Knockouts were given the main event final quarter hour slot for the first time and they delivered with a show-high 1.18 rating. Only Q4 came close with a 1.16 rating for the Booker T-Samoa Joe in-ring segment and the A.J. Styles promo that followed it, plus a Beautiful People promo with Shark Boy and Curry Man.  By Wade Keller, PWTorch

We’re always happy to hear improvements in the ratings for TNA, but it’s made even better when it’s because of the Knockout division.  Keep up the great work!

The good folks over at SLAM! Wrestling have just posted a review of ChickFight: Goldrush, the 3-DVD set of our shows from Kezar Pavilion in San Francisco which is available at retail locations nationwide.

Here’s a quote from the story..

These girls are intense and brutal. No one’s fooling around here with thinly veiled beauty contests or strip teases. A couple of inter-gender bonus matches reveal the ladies aren’t afraid to mix it up with the lads either.

Adding to the smash-mouth action are the girls’ impressive and varied arsenals. Don’t expect a clothesline exhibit here, as one is treated to a mix of old school fundamentals and a variety of innovative acrobatic and ground moves, including a plethora of submission and pinning combinations.

I love to read things like this because it means we are doing what we set out to accomplish.  Prove to the world that women can fight and wrestle just as good (an in some cases, far better) than their male counterparts.

Here’s a direct link to the rest of the story. Please be sure to email the author and let him you are a fan of ChickFight and appreciate his support.

Female Fight League is pleased to announce the newest addition to our ChickFight broadcasting team, Holly Hearse. Holly has been a fan of professional wrestling her entire life and is a perfect fit with the wild women of ChickFight.  As a San Francisco-native, Holly brings her attitude and unique style to the ChickFight TV show, which is filmed in our downtown San Francisco studios and airs weekly in six countries on broadcast television.

The enchanting, Ms. Hearse shared with us some of her thoughts on female fighting and professional wrestling.

“My fascination with pro wrestling came at a young age. I remember sitting on the couch with my dad and younger brother hearing the  threats made from one wrestler to another that would ultimately be settled in a match later in the night. The excitement and suspense was overwhelming! I was instantly a fan of this crazy sport. Cage matches, Ladder matches, the famous Loser-Leaves-Town matches… what’s not to love? Wrestlers of all shapes and sizes, the ones you rooted for and the ones you booed.

I remember my brother and I watching “The Godfather” come out to wrestle and my mother would walk over and cover my brother’s eyes because she didn’t want him seeing the way the women were being used during his entrance. The thin, long legged, scantily clad strippers would gyrate in the ring before the match would begin.

The matches I looked forward to that involved a woman was when I’d see Luna Vachon wrestle. I thought to myself…we can do that?!! Women are capable of being as tough as those other guys? Wow! I was so impressed that I would have dreams that I could kick ass. I’d be running up walls and delivering kicks to the heads of bad guys. Seeing women wrestle made me more confident as a woman.

So here I am. The host of ChickFight. Watching these ladies show the world just what a woman can do. How lucky am I?”

Please join us in welcoming Holly to the world of ChickFight and the Female Fight League.  Female wrestling is about to get interesting!

ClickWrestle has migrated to the Drupal platform and now we are looking for someone to take it to the next level. This is your opportunity to work on the number one independent wrestling VOD site on the Internet.

Contact us asap if interested in joining the team. Requirements are a strong understanding of the Drupal platform and a serious passion for wrestling. We are a worldwide company and telecommuting is acceptable.

It may seem out of place reading a post about the iPhone on a female fighting site, but let me explain.

Those that know me, know that I have always been a bit of a geek. When I was not training to wrestle or spending long weekends on the road at house shows, I was making a living designing online software systems and solutions.

I was a computer science major and moved to San Francisco in 1991 to work for Lucasfilm Games. It was there that I launched one of the world’s first entertainment-based websites in 1993, LucasArts.com. From there, it has been a blur of websites, wrestling, code and clotheslines for the past 15 years.

Don’t think it was easy, far from it. Technology and wrasslin’ can make for some interesting bedfellows. I recall a time during my wrestling training when I would show up at Lucas and sit in marketing meetings with my still bloody elbows soaking through my dress shirt. Of course, at the time none of my co-workers knew of my secret passion, nor did they understand why this 23 year old super-programmer was having so many back issues and covered in bruises.

Remeber the movie, Fight Club? Yeah, so do I, because for several years, I lived it.

Eventually, I stopped hiding my actions and embraced my passion for wrestling. It was then that I was able to really combine my two careers and make things happen.

Two major highlights of my web/wrestling background are ClickWrestle and Online World of Wrestling.

I take a great deal of pride in ClickWrestle, which I built in 2001 after the dot com bust. ClickWrestle has over 1300 wrestling matches available to download and we’re adding new matches and features non-stop. As any programmer would tell you, maintaining a VOD site takes a lot of hard work and for us to maintain the largest independent wrestling VOD site in the world takes countless man-hours of writing code and transcoding videos. Don’t be fooled, it takes more than words to run a site like ClickWrestle.com.

Down the line we acquired Obsessed With Wrestling, the world’s largest site for pro wrestling information and brought Brad Dykens on to the team. OWW was renamed Online World of Wrestling and has taken over as the single place for all wrestling history. With an average of 5 Million pageviews a month, I am very excited as OWW prepares for it’s 7th and biggest year yet.

I believe that technology is great and it has allowed me to do things in the wrestling business that I would have never anticipated. I hope you enjoy my posts about the latest devices and software tools and how I am using them in the wrestling business.

So back to the iPhone. Wordpress and Drupal are my favorite CMS tools right now. I have launched and maintain several Wordpress sites for my partners in the wrestling business and the latest version of ClickWrestle is powered by Drupal.

Tonight the Wordpress iPhone app was released that allows WP authors to publish to their site from anywhere using the slick iPhone interface. I think this will really be a wonderful tool for those wrestling webmasters that can use it. Wrestling is a “time to launch” game. News becomes old fast and this is just another way technology can help keep content fresh and up to date.

As a promoter, I can tell you first hand that the last thing I am thinking about on show day is posting to my site via my phone, but I expect that to change. Afterall, the name of the game is promoting, right? So expect to see more spontaneous postings here and we’ll see if we can bridge the gap between occasional long posts and hourly short twitters.

Additionally, our own Cheerleader Melissa just relaunched her website using Wordpress and we know how much she loves her iPhone. Our goal over the next week is to get her on the technology train as well. Melissa spends so much time on the road, it’s hard for her to find time to post, but now I think she’ll have something to do in all those lonely hotel rooms.

Thanks for reading the longest post I’ve ever written on a phone in bed.

Jason Deadrich
I am Jack’s iPhone