TNA Impact Wrestling quarter-hour ratings: Big number for the Bully Ray and Brooke Hogan wedding

By Jason Powell

The following are the quarter-hour ratings for Thursday's TNA Impact Wrestling television show.

Q1: 1.16 rating - Bully Ray backstage with Tommy Dreamer and Brother Runt, Brooke Hogan with Knockouts as bridesmaids, Jeff Hardy promo interrupted by Christopher Daniels and Kazarian, James Storm saves Hardy from attack

Q2: 1.02 rating - Hardy and Storm vs. Daniels and Kazarian, Joseph Park gives Bully Ray a gift

Q3: 1.07 rating - Gut Check judging with Jay Bradley, Brian Cage, Taz, Al Snow, Bruce Prichard, and Jeremy Borash, Kenny King vs. Christian York, two commercial breaks

Q4: 1.04 rating - King vs. York continuation, Bully Ray asks Sting to talk with Hulk Hogan, Taz heads backstage, Austin Aries and Bobby Roode talk backstage, Hulk Hogan arrives

Q5: 1.24 rating - Taz backstage with Ray, Runt, and Dreamer, Sting and Hogan in the ring for a verbal segment, Gail Kim and Taryn Terrell backstage, Bully Ray's bachelor party footage

Q6: 1.23 rating - Gail Kim vs. Velvet Sky with Terrell as referee, Brooke Hogan with her surrogate mother Dixie Carter,

Q7: 1.19 rating - Bobby Roode and Austin Aries promo interrupted by Chavo Guerrero and Hernandez, Bully Ray and his groomsmen out

Q8: 1.34 rating - Brooke Hogan out and escorted down the aisle by Hulk Hogan, Brooke and Bully wedding interrupted by Taz and an Aces & 8's attack

Powell's POV: Pro wrestling weddings continue to produce ratings and Spike TV has to be pleased with the lead-in that TNA produced for the first live Bellator MMA show that followed. As previously noted, Impact produced a 1.16 rating (rounds up to a 1.2) with an average of 1.6 million viewers.