Thanksgiving Night TNA Impact Wrestling Draws Lowest Audience Ever for a First-Run Episode

November 29, 2016

Rating information was delayed because of the holiday, but the numbers are in for the Thanksgiving edition of TNA Impact Wrestling, courtesy of ShowBuzzDaily.com.

The show averaged 165,000 viewers which is the lowest audience for Impact since it first moved to Spike TV in 2005.

The Thanksgiving day broadcast is down 51% from the previous week, which drew 336,000 viewers and ranked #114 for the night.

Comparatively, the Impact Wrestling episode which aired the night before Thanksgiving in 2015 averaged 312,000 total viewers, back when TNA was still airing a replay. The first show averaged 234,000 viewers while the replay drew 78,000 viewers.

Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.

Nick attended New York University and graduated in 2001 with a degree in Drama.

Nick first entered the internet wrestling community back in 2004 when he became the co-host of The Voice of Wrestling Radio Show. From there, Nick made the transition from radio personality to editor when he began working with WrestleZone in 2008.

Nick is a member of two Off-Broadway theatre companies, Another Urban Riff, and the Drama Desk Award winning Godlight Theatre Company. Nick has appeared in over a dozen Off-Broadway plays since he moved to New York City, and has shot several short and feature length films. In 2010, he completed principle photography on a film titled "How to Score Your Life," which also features TNA Knockout ODB.

Inspiration in his life has come from many people including his family, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson, The Beatles, and of course, Lassie.