Jim Ross Hopes Impact Wrestling Will Move On From Bashing The Previous Regime, Viewership Down

WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross has been very supportive of the new Impact Wrestling regime and he’s wished the promotion nothing but success. The new regime kicked off a new era with the most recent episode of Impact and the company is trying to move in a different direction.

Although Impact is trying to move forward, there were still plenty of references to former stars and the previous regime on this week’s show. Some of the references weren’t very kind, and Jim Ross noted in his latest blog that he hopes the bashing of the previous regime ends sooner than later.

“I also hope that Impact will move on from bashing the previous regime and use their valuable TV time to better build the talents and Impact titles plus the personal issues that develop. I’d also expect that moving forward Impact mentions of WWE will subside as that matter has no up side. Going forward I would suggest making the in ring talk more succinct an therefore memorable plus there are enough talents on the roster to provide some outstanding in ring product of which there wasn’t enough of Thursday night.”

Even though the references to the previous regime weren’t exactly his cup of tea, the WWE Hall of Famer seems to be optimistic that Impact Wrestling will be able to grow in time.

“Nonetheless I am pulling for Impact Wrestling to became profitable and popular but these developments won’t come overnight and not without a crazy workload for all involved….and a little luck.”

On this week’s episode of Impact Wrestling, Alberto El Patron made his big debut and he challenged Bobby Lashley for the World Heavyweight Championship.

The episode managed to draw 292,000 viewers according to ShowBuzzDaily, and viewership was down slightly compared to last week’s 293,000 viewers.