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Use your old birth announcements if you have to, but get the word out: Spike TV just approved a permanent move to Monday nights for TNA Impact!

This move places TNA center-stage to challenge WWE directly for audience share on Monday nights, and marks this as the beginning of a new round of Monday Night Wars… the first since WWE bought out WCW several years ago.

The first Impact to air on Mondays will take place on Monday, March 8 on Spike TV. It will be interesting to see how WWE responds to this new challenge from the ratings-starved but momentum-driven upstart promotion.

Beginning Monday, January 4, we just might be witnessing the birth of Monday Night Wars, Take Two. That’s because TNA and broadcast partner Spike TV will be taking the Impact show to Monday night on that day.

No, Spike TV isn’t moving TNA Impact to Monday nights permanently, at least not yet. But if TNA does well against RAW, don’t doubt for a second that TNA will press Spike TV to give them that time slot on an ongoing basis.

And TNA is going all-out to make the three-hour episode of Impact as Impact-ful as possible, with both Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan scheduled to appear on the show. Hogan cut a promo promising that TNA is “going to war against WWE.” That might be a bit premature, but if the ratings for Impact hold and Raw’s drop as a result, well… stranger things have happened. Like that time Elvis took slimming pills while on the john… umm… never mind.