TNA Impact moving to Monday to battle Raw

In a move that's eerily similar to the former WCW, TNA's Impact show on SPIKE TV will be moving into the Monday night slot to try to compete with the WWE Raw wrestling product. The move officially happens on March 8th, in what appears to be Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan's attempt to go head-to-head with Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Entertainment.

It's also been revealed via The Sun's Phil Allely that in the soon-to-air episode of TNA, Hogan announced he'll be headlining the first Monday night Impact show. Hogan will team up with TNA wrestler Abyss to battle Ric Flair and TNA Champion AJ Styles. While Hogan and Flair make for two of the oldest wrestlers in the industry, the two recently battled as part of Hulk Hogan's Hulkamania Tour in Australia.

TNA went head-to-head with WWE back on January 4th with the return of Hulk Hogan, as well as the surprise arrivals to TNA of other stars including Flair and Jeff Hardy. The show drew 2.2 million viewers due to the hype over Hogan's appearance. The plan for TNA is to air a live episode every other week, for now.

The move is the kind of gutsy, brash and arrogant decision you'd expect from Hogan and Bischoff. Several years back Hogan revealed in interviews how he wanted to form his own company to try to take down Vince McMahon. Since that didn't materialize, Hogan has now joined forces with TNA and has brought other former WCW/WWE talent on board with him such as The Nasty Boys, Flair, Scott Hall, Ken Anderson and Jimmy "the Mouth of the South" Hart.

With TNA making a move to Monday nights, it may make fans wonder how long before they run out of steam trying to compete with a larger, global product like WWE, and how long before Vince McMahon is buying up TNA along with all of its talent.