Partial Source: Pwtorch.com
— Bubba the Love Sponge’s name has, bizarrely, popped up in a peripheral way in the Pentagon sex scandal. Bubba’s name was mentioned in emails between socialite Jill Kelley (who complained of harassing emails from an anonymous woman who turned out to be David Petraeus’ biographer and mistress Paula Broadwell) and Tampa mayor Bob Buckhorn. Kelly–who herself was romantically linked to General John R. Allen, the top commander in Afghanistan–was asked by top officers from MacDill Air Force Base to intercede when Bubba declared that he was going to “deep fat fry” the Koran earlier this year.
Kelley was successful in working things out, as the frying never took place.
— As noted earlier, Thursday night’s episode of iMPACT! Wrestling scored a 1.07 (1.1) cable rating, with 1.35 million viewers, up slightly from a 1.03 rating and 1.27 million last week. The show was the highest-rated in eleven weeks for the promotion and was the most viewers in eight weeks.
The show did lost some ground in the demo ratings though, down slightly in the 18 – 49 male rating. All other adult demographics were even while teen male viewers was up, accounting for the viewership increase.
The show ranked #33 in overall viewers, #24 among males 18 – 34 and #23 among males 18 – 49.
The quarter-hour ratings are below:
Q1: 0.99 rating – James Storm’s victory speech interrupted by Bobby Roode
Q2: 1.02 rating – RVD vs. Kid Kash for the X Division Title match, backstage
Q3: 1.00 rating – Jesse vs. Eric Young, Joseph Park and Hulk Hogan in Hogan’s office, Aces & Eights taking out Magnus
Q4: 1.01 rating – follow-up on Magnus’ beat down, Austin Aries and Jeff Hardy backstage
Q5: 1.18 rating – Kurt Angle & Garett Bischoff vs. Aces & Eights, ring intros for the Knockouts battle royal
Q6: 1.18 rating – Knockouts battle royal, backstage segments, A.J. Styles coming to the ring for a speech
Q7: 1.11 rating – Styles’ speech interrupted by Daniels and Kazarian, various backstage or video segments, ring intros for the main event
Q8: 1.08 rating – Bobby Roode vs. James Storm
