Source: PWInsider.com

— Last night’s edition of TNA iMPACT! did a 1.22 cable rating, which is the highest rating ever for the show. Not only was it their biggest audience to date, but they finally beat ECW’s rating from the same week. TNA iMPACT! did a 1.00 in M18-49 (22% above ECW’s .82) a .88 in M18-34 (+42% above ECW’s .62) and an average audience of 1,623,000 viewers (better than ECW, which drew an average audience of 1,488,000). Congrats to TNA!

— The Global iMPACT! special that followed it did a 0.8 cable rating.

— The second season of American Gladiators will be taped in March in Los Angeles and air this July, according to a source at NBC.

— GameStop, The CW, USA Network, The SciFi Channel and THQ will be the official sponsors for the WWE Wrestlemania AXXESS tour stops with each entity rotating sponsorship based on the market. Gamestop will be the sponsor for the tour’s opening weekend in New York City as part of the Royal Rumble festivities.

— Ric Flair got a lot of media mentions in newspaper articles around the country this week as he was campaigning for Mike Huckabee alongside Chuck Norris.

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