----Dustin Starr beat Giggles with Rashard Devon…Bobo with Rashard Devon beat Tatt2…JR Title Match: Derrick King with Rashard Devon beat Johnny Dotson with a chain with special ref Jimmy Valiant…Mr.Hughes/Kevin White beat Bill Dundee/Koko Ware… “Midnight Express” [Dennis Condrey/Bobby Eaton] with Jimmy Cornette beat by DQ “Too Kool 2” [Flex/Tim Grind] with the champs retaining the belts…Brian Christopher/Jerry Lawler beat Sid Vicious/Johnny Rotten – Lawler pinned Rotten.
----300 in the crowd with a gate in the 5,200 range…DK was hiding a chain from Valiant, but this was a Street Fight?? Valiant ended up pulling down his pants after DK won and the chain fell out…Kevin used a chain to beat Dundee when Mr. White came out and gave it to him. The Mr. White/Spellbinder angle is done I guess, because best I can figure out Spellbinder is done with Memphis Wrestling again…Condrey hit both TK2 with the tennis racket and then the ref caught him with it for the DQ…Koko Ware replaced a no showing Dutch Mantel…Brian Christopher was a good pick for a mystery opponent. I have been hearing rumors of Brian coming back to Memphis Wrestling TV…The infamous group of guys that gave Sal Corrente so much hell were at it again last night. Apparently, Rotten took a bump outside the ring hitting their railing and one of the guys pushed him. Rotten didn’t put it over at all, but Sid said something to them. These guys have to be just stupid!! I mean pick on a manager is normal, but what idiot would want to pick a fit with either Rotten or Vicious??
The Ratings - Memphis Wrestling 8.11.07
----This past Saturday’s show did another huge jump from a slow week scoring 4.0 [66,484 viewers]. They did air a good show, so it will be interesting if the fans will return this week. The company must continue to have good storylines and present some good matches, so the fans will return over and over. They set a record for the best quarter of the year in the second quarter of the show finally beating out the 1st quarter of the 1.27.07 that did a 4.8 rating. Memphis TV viewership was the lowest I have seen it since tracking that number. Wrestling actually beat out the regular TV shows in the 3rd and 4th quarters. The major bad spot on this week’s show is the big dip from 2cnd to the 3rd Quarter of with almost 14,000 people. They did finish with +20,146 viewers from start to finish being a major positive.
----I also would like to note that the 3rd quarter of 2007 is doing better than the first two quarters of the year, so we might be seeing an upper swing in the ratings if they continue. 1st quarter of 2007 averaged 2.9 [48,623 viewers], 2cnd quarter was 2.6 [43,806 viewers] and now the third quarter is averaging 3.2 [55,460 viewers]. That is good news for the promotion if it continues at that rate.
-Hughes/White vs Michael/Starr
-Lawler interview
1st – 2.8 [46,338 viewers]
-Sid/Rotten come out and do angle with with Shawn Williams
-Dotson/Tatt2 vs Precious/Ray
-Bill Dundee interview
2cnd: 5.0 [83,441 viewers] [+37,103 viewers]
-TK2 - interview
-Cornette interview along with classic Midnight Express footage
-DK interview - Dotson jumps DK
3rd: 4.1 [69,506 viewers] [-13,935 viewers]
-Lawler/Fan vs Vicious/Rotten
-White/Hughes interview
-Lawler - interview
4th: 4.0 [66,484 viewers] [-3,022 viewers]
12 week average – 3.0 [49,989 viewers]
12 week low – 1.8 [29,884 viewers] 6.30.07
12 week high – 4.3 [71,353 viewers] 7.28.07
Viewers from start to finish: [+20,146 viewers]
----What was Memphis watching? 5.3 [89,317 viewers] Channel 3 News [1st]/Channel 5 News [2cnd]/Saturday Night Live [3rd]/CSI Miami [4th]
