Scott D’Amore Addresses The Company’s Friday Night PPVs

IMPACT Wrestling

A top IMPACT executive has addressed the company’s decision to do Friday night pay-per-views.

IMPACT Wrestling has always been about trying new things, so it didn’t surprise many longtime fans when the company decided to move away from Saturday night pay-per-views and present monthly specials on Fridays.

This baffled many fans because they air in direct competition with WWE SmackDown and AEW Rampage.

Speaking with Josh Nason of Wrestling Observer, EVP of IMPACT Wrestling Scott D’Amore explained the decision to move nights.

D’Amore said:

“We want to try some different things. It is a busy night, but one of the things is the way people consume content differently in this day and age. You see sometimes what we think is competition isn’t as much competition as we really think because people are going to watch it. This isn’t as much of a live content consuming world as it used to be and there is great stuff out there on Friday nights. I’ll be totally honest with you, we may turn around and look at this in a handful of months and go, ‘You know what, Friday wasn’t the day to do.’ But it was one of those things where it’s not completely unheard of. I mean, there have been PPVs on Friday nights and there is so much competition on every night of the week these days that we looked at it and said, ‘You know what, Friday and Saturday are great nights to block for live events, let’s take a look and let’s see how the Friday night PPVs do.’ In some ways, Friday night is a night we might find that people are already in the wrestling groove and decide they want to DVR SmackDown and Rampage and watch our show. Or watch SmackDown and Rampage and DVR our PPV. They might want to buy and stream it at 11 o’clock at night or turn around and watch it the next day. One thing is we’ve always been open to trying different things. Sometimes you invent Ultimate X and other times you come up with Reverse Battle Royal.”

IMPACT Wrestling’s next major event will be this Friday, October 7 with Bound For Glory from Albany, New York, available on FITE TV.

The show will feature Josh Alexander vs. Eddie Edwards for the IMPACT World Title, Jordynne Grace vs. Masha Slamovich for the IMPACT Knockouts World Championship and more.

Here’s the announced card for Bound For Glory 2022:

•  Impact World Championship Match: Josh Alexander vs. Eddie Edwards
•  Impact Knockouts Championship Match: Jordynne Grace vs. Masha Slamovich
•  Impact World Tag Team Championship Match: The OGK vs. Motor City Machine Guns
  
•  Impact X-Division Championship Match: Mike Bailey vs. Kazarian
  
•  Impact Knockouts Tag Team Championship Match: Chelsea Green & Deonna Purrazzo vs. Taya Valkyrie & Jessicka
  
•  Call Your Shot Gauntlet Match: PCO, Gisele Shaw, Rich Swann, Heath, Moose, Bobby Fish, More TBD
•  Mickie James vs. Mia Yim
•  Impact Digital Media Championship Match Open Challenge: Bryan Myers vs. TBD (Countdown Show)

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