TNA ratings drop for all-cage Lockdown special

[Big Red Machine]

Source: www.F4WOnline.com

By Dave Meltzer | @davemeltzerWON | Feb 24, 2016 6:03 pm

Despite being the heavily promoted Lockdown episode of Impact last night, the TNA audience dropped 23 percent from last week to 210,000 for the first run episode, easily the lowest in the modern history of the show.

The replay did 87,000, identical to the previous week, but still tied for second to the lowest number since moving to Pop TV with first-run shows.

The 297,000 total was the lowest as well, by a significant margin as the previous low was 345,000 on the debut show.

Matt Hardy retained the TNA World Heavyweight Title over former champion EC3 in the main event after Spud turned on EC3 and cost him the match.

EC3 was a guest on Wrestling Observer Live yesterday talking Lockdown, his babyface turn, his dive on Impact last week that went horribly awry, and more.

The Doll House also beat Gail Kim and Velvet Sky in the first-ever women's Lethal Lockdown match (essentially War Games), which ended up being two-on-three after Maria teased teaming up with Kim and Sky but then walked out on them.

You can read our full TNA Impact TV report here.

[XIV]

Too many swerves. Too many turns. Too little consistency. They needed to use these specials to hook fans in on the new network. And it's not working.