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BEYOND THE NUMBERS: THE MATCHES OF 2010: THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT PART I: THIS COLUMN HAS A TEN MINUTE TIME LIMIT

By Richard Trionfo on 2011-01-11 02:00:41
World Wrestling Entertainment Smackdown

Ten Minute Matches on Smackdown in 2010

January 22: John Morrison and R Truth versus Drew McIntyre and Chris Jericho 14 Minutes
January 29: Rey Mysterio versus Shawn Michaels 12 Minutes
February 12: Rey Mysterio versus CM Punk 12 Minutes
March 26: Kane, Drew McIntyre, Matt Hardy, Dolph Ziggler, and Shelton Benjamin versus Evan Bourne, Jack Swagger, Kofi Kingston, Montel Vontavious Porter, and Christian 11 Minutes
April 9: Edge versus Chris Jericho 13 Minutes
April 16: Chris Jericho versus Edge versus Jack Swagger 13 Minutes
April 16: Darren Young, CM Punk, and Luke Gallows versus Rey Myserio, Tyson Kidd, and David Hart Smith 10 Minutes
May 7: Christian versus Cody Rhodes 10 Minutes
May 28: Big Show and Kofi Kingston versus Jack Swagger and Drew McIntyre 11 Minutes
May 28: CM Punk versus Kane 10 Minutes
June 4: Battle Royal: Rey Mysterio, Kane, Christian, Dolph Ziggler, Montel Vontavious Porter, Curt Hawkins, Vance Archer, JTG, Caylen Croft, Trent Barreta, Fit Finlay, Luke Gallows, Kofi Kingston, Drew McIntyre, Chavo Guerrero 13 Minutes
June 4: Jack Swagger versus Montel Vontavious Porter 12 Minutes
June 4: Kofi Kingston versus Drew McIntyre 10 Minutes
June 11: Rey Mysterio versus Jack Swagger 10 Minutes
June 25: Drew McIntyre versus Matt Hardy 12 Minutes
July 9: Drew McIntyre versus Kofi Kingston 10 Minutes
July 23: Kofi Kingston versus Dolph Ziggler 11 Minutes
July 23: Matt Hardy and Christian versus Drew McIntyre and Cody Rhodes 11 Minutes
July 23: Rey Mysterio versus Jack Swagger 13 Minutes
July 30: Christian versus Drew McIntyre 10 Minutes
July 30: Kofi Kingston versus Dolph Ziggler 11 Minutes
July 30: Rey Mysterio versus Jack Swagger 11 Minutes
August 6: Rey Mysterio versus Drew McIntyre 11 Minutes
August 27: Kofi Kingston versus Dolph Ziggler 11 Minutes
September 10: CM Punk versus Undertaker 11 Minutes
September 17: Jack Swagger versus Kofi Kingston 13 Minutes
October 8: Alberto Del Rio versus Rey Mysterio 10 Minutes
October 15: Dolph Ziggler versus Edge 10 Minutes
October 22: Edge versus CM Punk 10 Minutes
October 29: Rey Mysterio versus Alberto Del Rio versus Edge 12 Minutes
November 5: Edge versus Alberto Del Rio 10 Minutes
November 5: Cody Rhodes versus Drew McIntyre versus Montel Vontavious Porter 10 Minutes
November 5: Kane, Big Show, Alberto Del Rio, Edge, Kofi Kingston versus Michael McGillicutty, David Otunga, Heath Slater, Justin Gabriel, Husky Harris 15 Minutes
November 12: Big Show versus Kane 11 Minutes
November 26: Kofi Kingston versus Jack Swagger 13 Minutes
December 3: Kofi Kingston versus Jack Swagger 13 Minutes
December 3: Edge versus Kane 10 Minutes
December 10: Kofi Kingston versus Dolph Ziggler 10 Minutes
December 17: Rey Mysterio versus Miz 10 Minutes
December 21: Miz versus Randy Orton 11 Minutes
December 21: Jack Swagger and Alberto Del Rio versus Kofi Kingston and Rey Mysterio 10 Minutes
December 21: John Cena versus Dolph Ziggler and Vickie Guerrero 13 Minutes
December 31: Dolph Ziggler versus Jack Swagger versus Kofi Kingston 14 Minutes

Number of Appearances in Ten Minute Matches on Smackdown in 2010

Kofi Kingston 15
Jack Swagger 12
Rey Mysterio 12
Drew McIntyre 11
Dolph Ziggler 9
Edge 8
Kane 6
Alberto Del Rio 5
Christian 5
CM Punk 5
Montel Vontavious Porter 4
Big Show 3
Chris Jericho 3
Cody Rhodes 3
Matt Hardy 3
Luke Gallows 2
Miz 2
Caylen Croft 1
Chavo Guerrero 1
Curt Hawkins 1
Darren Young 1
David Hart Smith 1
David Otunga 1
Evan Bourne 1
Fit Finlay 1
Heath Slater 1
Husky Harris 1
John Cena 1
John Morrison 1
JTG 1
Justin Gabriel 1
Michael McGillicutty 1
R Truth 1
Randy Orton 1
Shawn Michaels 1
Shelton Benjamin 1
Trent Barreta 1
Tyson Kidd 1
Undertaker 1
Vance Archer 1
Vickie Guerrero 1

Other Facts and Figures

Kofi Kingston and Dolph Ziggler faced each other four times in singles matches on this list and were in three other multi-man matches during the year.

Kofi Kingston and Jack Swagger had three singles matches against each other during the year that appear on this list.

Rey Mysterio and Jack Swagger had three singles matches against each other during the year that qualify for this list.

Of the thirteen weeks that Smackdown was on SyFy in 2010 (October 1 through December 31), there were only two weeks that did not have a ten minute match [October 1 and November 19].

Five times in 2010 there were three ten minute matches on a single episode of Smackdown (June 4, July 23, July 30, November 5, and December 21)


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