By James Caldwell, Torch assistant editor

TNA Impact on Monday night averaged a 0.99 rating (rounded up to a 1.00) off a first hour 1.01 rating and second hour 0.96 rating.

Impact peaked in the fourth and fifth quarter-hours with a 1.07 rating in each quarter-hour.

The over-run segment for the end of Hogan & Abyss vs. Flair & Styles averaged a 1.01 rating, which might not seem like a good sign with as much hype as TNA put into the match, but the eighth quarter-hour drew an astonishingly low 0.76 quarter-hour.

-- The fourth and fifth quarter-hours with the 1.07 rating featured Beautiful People's KO tag title celebration, Sting's in-ring return, Rob Van Dam's surprise debut, Sting's beat down, the Sting and Hogan confrontation, and another installment of the Nash & Young and Waltman & Hall talking segments.

-- The show declined slightly after the 1.07 in Q5, then dropped off a cliff to a 0.76 in the eighth quarter-hour up against John Cena vs. Vince McMahon on Raw.

The eighth quarter-hour featured Abyss and the Hogans backstage, a commercial, ring intros for the main event, another commercial, and the first-half of the Hogan & Abyss vs. Flair & Styles main event.

-- Impact opened with a 0.99 quarter-hour for the first installment of Hogan & Abyss vs. Flair & Styles and closed with a 1.01 eight-minute over-run after the poor eighth quarter-hour, which is a decent sign the show ended with a higher rating than it ended.

In the typical and unfortunate TNA ratings pattern, the show drew more viewers in the first hour than the second hour, however, mainly due to the weak eighth quarter-hour.

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