TNA is fast approaching the one year anniversary of Impact airing on AMCand the show settled into a stable norm in the fall. As such, no one will be surprised to hear that “Impact” at the end of October was basically no different from the episodes that preceded it, with a few minor variations. Wrestlenomics and: SpoilerTV: reports that “Impact” of October 29. drew 201K total viewers and a 0.03 in the coveted 18-49 demographic.
The only significant changes in “Impact’s” numbers were in total viewers, as the show was down a slight 14% compared to the 233,000 viewers the show was in. October 22. Likewise, “The Impact” was also down from its four-week average, though that drop was even less than its week-over-week average, with the show down just 9% from its average of 220K. In contrast, there was no change for Influence in any of the 18-49 categories, coming in at the same 0.03 as it did a week ago and the four-week average.
Airing the day before Halloween, Impact featured a horror movie main event featuring Joseph Sawyer and syX’s Samuel Shaw playing The Hardys in a cinematic style match called the Slaughterhouse Syx match, a reference to both the syX name and Kurt Vonnegut’s classic anti-war sci-fi novel Slaughterhouse-Five. Although the match was well within the Hardy’s comfort zone, the duo was defeated by Sawyer and Show, giving the duo their second straight win over the Hardys and third straight since they joined TNA shortly before Bound for Glory.