GFW News: Bound For Glory in Canada, Eli Drake on Impact Ratings Decline

Bound for Glory

GFW announced that the Bound for Glory PPV on November 5 will take place in Canada. It was previously reported that the likely location was Toronto or the Toronto area, since Anthem Entertainment is headquartered there.

While we will wait to tell you the city until Monday…. #BFGCanada 🇨🇦 11.5 pic.twitter.com/KMzzRJRUTG

— IMPACT (@IMPACTWRESTLING) September 16, 2017

Eli Drake on Impact Ratings

GFW Global Champion Eli Drake was interviewed by Sports Illustrated and was asked about Impact’s recent decline in ratings and whether Thursday night football was hurting it.

“I don’t like to use that as an excuse. If we’re putting out a compelling product, then we should still have the eyeballs on our product. If you rewind about 20 years, and look at WWE in 1997, they were putting on a great product but nobody knew because WCW made such a loud noise via the NWO. It took WWE another year-and-a-half to make that big comeback, even though they were producing some great stuff with [Steve] Austin and DX.

“We just had the regime change months ago. There is the stuff we didn’t expect with Jeff [Jarrett] and Anthem, but growing pains are to be expected. I hold a lot of that burden on myself. I am the guy at the forefront of the company, and I want to make sure eyes are on us.”

Drake also said he’s been working extra hard since being told he was winning the world title, since he would be the “face of the company.”

“Once I heard the decision was made [to win the world title], I put a lot of extra pressure on myself to not relax or be complacent. I actually started doubling up my workouts and I was in the ring two or three times a week extra just because I wanted my work in the ring, on the mic, and my conditioning to be second to none. If I’m going to be the face of the company, then I’m going to make sure I can go like nobody else.”