----I talked with the FedEx Forum today and they stated they have 1,500 tickets already sold for the Memphis Wrestling Hulk Hogan vs Paul Wight match. That is already a gate of $70,875. I might be guessing too much here, but I am thinking around $100,000 for talent and the advertising going into this event. So, anything over that is going to be pure profit. Cost may be lower, but you know Hogan is probably got to take more than $10,000, which was his rumored fee.
----Memphis Wrestling scored the lowest rating Saturday night than any other show since the start of my site in May, 2006. The record was 1.9 rating with 31627 viewers for the 8.12.06 show. Maclin and company broke the record this week with a 1.8 – 30,220 viewers. This can not be good news for the company leading up to the Hogan match. Since it was a total promo show, I am not going to list quarter hour happenings and such, but will list the ratings.
1st Quarter – 2.4 – 39,958 viewers
2cnd Quarter – 2.1 – 35,089 viewers
3rd Quarter – 1.5 - 25,687 viewers
4th Quarter – 1.2 = 20,818 viewers
12 Week Average – 2.8 – 47,159 viewers
12 Week High – 4.1 – 67,583 viewers – 1.27.07
12 Week Low – 1.8 – 30,220 viewers – 4.14.07
Growth from start to finish [-19,140]
-----Nothing good can be said about this show as it dropped a lot of viewers. As I have reported in the past, ratings don’t always equal gates, but since this show and next week’s show is just two commercials for the Legends show, then I think a good rating would really help it. I think a lot of people may have turned off because as soon as they seen it was going to be Hogan vs Wight, they were not interested.
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