Monday Night War brought out best of both products

Yesterday, TNA Wrestling broadcasted a special episode of Impact. It started at 8pm and stayed on until 11pm. The main draw was Hulk Hogan's return to wrestling television. Many fans in the small arena proceeded to cheer for Hogan minutes after he entered the ring. The best part of the night was the variety of other returns to TNA many of them coming as a surprise to the fans. Scott Hall, Sean Waltman and Jeff Hardy to name a few all came to the "Impact Zone" and helped make the show worth watching for three hours.

However, there was another 'little' wrestling show that came on at 9pm on the USA network. That show was Monday Night Raw. Of course this show comes on every Monday evening at 9pm. There main draw was the return of Bret "the Hitman" Hart. This event was 13 years in the making after an ordeal called the "Montreal Screwjob" took place at Survivor Series(if you do not know what this is look it up). The aftereffect of this occurence led to Bret hart never returning the WWE programming until now. To my dissapointment the only thing I watched for 1 hour and 55 minutes of the show was a normal Raw episode until we saw the Vince Mcmahon close the show with a lowblow to Bret Hart. This came after Bret attempted to bury the hatchetb between the two men. All of this excitment may have been precisly why TNA impact came on the same night.

By the time 9 o'clock came, I was flipping back and forth between Spike TV and USA so that I did not miss a beat on either show. This was not what both companies wanted. You could tell by the magnitude of the TNA event that they were coming to take ratings away from WWE program. Did this happen? We will have to wait and see.

This night was incredible. You could tell by TNA's timing of comercial breaks and matches that they were going head to head with there main competition, the WWE. In the end, I can look back and say that TNA did a better job of enticing the spectator to keep watching after opening the show with a cage match and a Jeff Hardy apperance.

Will we see a direct competition between Raw and Impact again? Only time will tell...