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This week marked the return of the mystery man who turned out to be Chris Jericho and he might have had more time than the longest match on Raw.
After long deliberations, it was decided that the Ring of Honor show will count in the totals for the two full matches that were shown on the broadcast so the two week vacation is over for Ring of Honor.
This was a solid week for television with the average for the week being twenty-five minutes per show. This week’s total was only ten minutes more than last week without Ring of Honor due to four shows near or over thirty minutes. It was one minute less than the last week to have all six shows.
This week was won by Impact for the third straight week and their third straight week over thirty minutes of wrestling. Second place was Smackdown while Ring of Honor with only two matches finished in third. Raw and Superstars were tied for fourth while NXT was in last, two minutes behind Raw and Superstars.
Even though they won the week, TNA did not have one of the three longest matches of the week, but they were within the six to eight minute range for their five matches.
With their strong week of television, Ring of Honor moved back over the twenty-five minute average for the show and the eight minute barrier for average match length. Thanks to the opening match from Ring of Honor, we passed the three hundred match barrier for ten minute matches.
The wrestling times below cover the wrestling that takes place during the show so commercials are not included. All times are rounded to the closest minute (examples: a 4:23 match will be listed as 4 minutes while a 4:32 match will be listed as 5 minutes and anything under a minute is rounded up to a minute).
Breakdown of the matches on each show:
WWE Raw
Daniel Bryan versus Cody Rhodes: 3 Minutes
Santino Marella versus Wade Barrett: 1 Minute
CM Punk versus Dolph Ziggler: 10 Minutes
Kelly Kelly and Eve Torres versus The Bellas: 2 Minutes
Big Show, Zack Ryder, and John Cena versus Mark Henry and Jack Swagger: 5 Minutes
WWE NXT
Alex Riley versus Michael McGillicutty: 8 Minutes
Maxine versus Kaitlyn: 2 Minutes
Trent Barreta versus Curt Hawkins: 6 Minutes
Darren Young versus Derrick Bateman: 3 Minutes
WWE Superstars
Evan Bourne versus Epico: 8 Minutes
Mason Ryan versus JTG: 3 Minutes
Tyson Kidd versus Yoshi Tatsu: 4 Minutes
Jinder Mahal versus Ezekiel Jackson: 6 Minutes
TNA Impact
Mickie James and Traci Brooks versus Madison Rayne and Gail Kim: 6 Minutes
Rob Van Dam versus Gunner: 6 Minutes
Austin Aries and Kid Kash versus Jesse Sorensen and Zema Ion: 7 Minutes
Samoa Joe and Magnus versus A.J. Styles and Kazarian: 6 Minutes
Abyss, James Storm, and Jeff Hardy versus Kurt Angle, Bully Ray, and Bobby Roode: 8 Minutes
WWE Smackdown
Booker T versus Cody Rhodes: 9 Minutes
Hornswoggle versus Heath Slater: 2 Minutes
Ted DiBiase versus Hunico: 3 Minutes
Santino Marella versus Drew McIntyre: 3 Minutes
Epico and Primo versus Evan Bourne and Kofi Kingston: 4 Minutes
Tamina versus Natalya: 2 Minutes
Daniel Bryan versus Big Show: 6 Minutes
Ring of Honor
TJ Perkins versus Jay Lethal: 11 Minutes
Michael Elgin and Roderick Strong versus Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin: 16 Minutes
This Week’s Totals
Total Amount of Wrestling on Shows:
TNA Impact: 33 Minutes in 5 Matches (last week: 34 Minutes)
WWE Smackdown: 29 Minutes in 7 Matches (last week 29 Minutes)
Ring of Honor: 27 Minutes in 2 Matches (Last Week No Show)
WWE Superstars: 21 Minutes in 4 Matches (last week 28 Minutes)
WWE Raw: 21 Minutes in 5 Matches (last week: 27 Minutes)
WWE NXT: 19 Minutes in 4 Matches (last week: 22 Minutes)
Total Wrestling for the Week: 150 Minutes in 27 Matches (Last Week: 140 Minutes in 26 Matches)
Hourly Averages
Ring of Honor: 27 Minutes (No Show Last Week)
WWE Superstars: 21 Minutes (down from 28 Minutes)
WWE NXT: 19 Minutes (down from 22 Minutes)
TNA Impact: 16.5 Minutes (down from 17 Minutes)
WWE Smackdown: 14.5 Minutes (No Change)
WWE Raw: 10.5 Minutes (down from 13.5 Minutes)
Per Match Averages (this week):
Ring of Honor: 13.5 Minutes (No Show Last Week)
TNA Impact: 6.6 Minutes (up from 5.67 Minutes)
WWE Superstars: 5.25 Minutes (down from 7 Minutes)
WWE NXT: 4.75 Minutes (down from 7.33 Minutes)
WWE Raw: 4.2 Minutes (down from 4.5 Minutes)
WWE Smackdown: 4.14 Minutes (No Change)
Longest Matches
Michael Elgin and Roderick Strong versus Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin: 16 Minutes (Ring of Honor January 7)
TJ Perkins versus Jay Lethal: 11 Minutes (Ring of Honor January 7)
CM Punk versus Dolph Ziggler: 10 Minutes (WWE Raw January 2)
Shortest Matches
Santino Marella versus Wade Barrett: 1 Minute (WWE Raw January 2)
Kelly Kelly and Eve Torres versus The Bellas: 2 Minutes (WWE Raw January 2)
Maxine versus Kaitlyn: 2 Minutes (WWE NXT January 4)
Tamina versus Natalya: 2 Minutes (WWE Smackdown January 6)
Hornswoggle versus Heath Slater: 2 Minutes (WWE Smackdown January 6)
Overall Totals
Total Wrestling Time by Show
WWE Smackdown: 2,776 Minutes
WWE Raw: 2,614 Minutes
TNA Impact: 2,465 Minutes
WWE Superstars: 1,961 Minutes
[On WGN: 1,153 Minutes]
[On WWE.com: 809 Minutes]
Ring of Honor: 1,651 Minutes
[On HDNet: 1,350 Minutes]
[On Sinclair: 301 Minutes]
WWE NXT: 1,319 Minutes
[Season 5: 739 Minutes]
[Season 4: 161 Minutes]
[Season 3: 90 Minutes]
[Season 2: 158 Minutes]
[Season 1: 171 Minutes]
Overall Wrestling Time: 12,786 Minutes
Total Number of Matches by Show
WWE Raw: 568 Matches
WWE Smackdown: 534 Matches
TNA Impact: 515 Matches
WWE Superstars: 330 Matches
[On WGN: 194 Matches]
[On WWE.com: 136 Matches]
WWE NXT: 247 Matches
[Season 5: 123 Matches]
[Season 4: 29 Matches]
[Season 3: 24 Matches]
[Season 2: 31 Matches]
[Season 1: 40 Matches]
Ring of Honor: 206 Matches
[On HDNet: 174 Matches]
[On Sinclair: 32 Matches]
Total Number of Matches: 2,400
Hourly Averages
Ring of Honor: 25.02 Minutes (up from 24.98 Minutes)
[On HDNet: 25.96 Minutes]
[On Sinclair: 21.5 Minutes]
WWE Superstars: 20.22 Minutes (up from 20.21 Minutes)
[On WWE.com: 21.29 Minutes]
[On WGN: 19.54 Minutes]
Overall Average: 14.954 Minutes (up from 14.936 Minutes)
WWE Smackdown: 14.163 Minutes (up from 14.1598 Minutes)
WWE NXT: 13.60 Minutes (up from 13.54 Minutes)
[Season 5: 17.19 Minutes (up from 17.14 Minutes)]
[Season 4: 12.38 Minutes]
[Season 3: 6.92 Minutes]
[Season 2: 12.15 Minutes]
[Season 1: 11.4 Minutes]
WWE Raw: 12.75 Minutes (down from 12.77 Minutes)
TNA Impact: 12.71 Minutes (up from 12.67 Minutes)
Per Match Averages
Ring of Honor: 8.01 Minutes (up from 7.96 Minutes)
[On Sinclair: 9.41 Minutes]
[On HDNet: 7.76 Minutes]
WWE Superstars: 5.94 Minutes (down from 5.95 Minutes)
[On WGN: 5.94 Minutes]
[On WWE.com: 5.95 Minutes]
WWE NXT: 5.34 Minutes (down from 5.35 Minutes)
[Season 5: 6.01 Minutes (down from 6.05 Minutes)]
[Season 4: 5.55 Minutes]
[Season 3: 3.75 Minutes]
[Season 2: 5.1 Minutes]
[Season 1: 4.28 Minutes]
Overall Average: 5.328 Minutes (up from 5.3249 Minutes)
WWE Smackdown: 5.20 Minutes (down from 5.21 Minutes)
TNA Impact: 4.79 Minutes (up from 4.768 Minutes)
WWE Raw: 4.602 Minutes (up from 4.606 Minutes)
Longest Matches
Tyler Black versus Davey Richards: 27 Minutes (Ring of Honor October 18, 2010)
Davey Richards and The Briscoes versus Roderick Strong and the Kings of Wrestling: 26 Minutes (Ring of Honor April 4, 2011)
John Cena, CM Punk, Sheamus, Kofi Kingston, Evan Bourne, and Mason Ryan versus Alberto Del Rio, Christian, Cody Rhodes, Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger and David Otunga: 21 Minutes (WWE Raw October 3, 2011)
Shortest Matches
191 Total Matches at 1 Minute
The Last Ten Matches that Qualified:
Santino Marella versus Wade Barrett: 1 Minute (WWE Raw January 2)
Santino Marella versus Cody Rhodes: 1 Minute (WWE Raw December 19)
Beth Phoenix versus Alicia Fox: 1 Minute (WWE Raw December 19)
Alicia Fox versus Natalya: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown December 16)
Zack Ryder versus Heath Slater: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown December 9)
Kelly Kelly and Eve Torres versus Beth Phoenix and Natalya: 1 Minute (WWE Raw December 5)
Kevin Nash versus Santino Marella: 1 Minute (WWE Raw December 5)
Mistletoe Match: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown November 29)
AJ Lee and Kaitlyn versus Natalya and Beth Phoenix: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown November 25)
Santino Marella versus Cody Rhodes: 1 Minute (TNA Impact November 24)
One Year Ago in By the Numbers
[Week 46]
One year ago, we started off 2011 with the best week of wrestling from the six shows. There was a total of one hundred eighty minutes, breaking the record set only two weeks earlier. The highest total since this week was in week 89 when there was one hundred sixty-one minutes of wrestling.
Raw and Smackdown accounted for half of the wrestling this week with Smackdown winning the week for the fourth straight week. Raw was only two minutes behind and Ring of Honor was also over thirty minutes. Superstars finished in fourth with Impact fifth and NXT bringing up the rear.
There were a total of seven matches of more than ten minutes with Smackdown having three matches and Raw and Ring of Honor had two each.
The longest match of the week was Edge versus Kane from Smackdown as their feud continued over the World Title. The second longest match came from Raw and featured Sheamus versus Wade Barrett versus Randy Orton proving that the more things change, the more feuds stay the same. The feud between Miz and John Morrison was also intensifying and they gave us the third longest match of the week.
The man of destiny, Alberto Del Rio wrestled R Truth while we saw a six person Divas match with the two people who Ariane would mention to lead to Austin Face on Tough Enough. On NXT, the man who was teased through the last two months of 2011 made an appearance.
On Superstars, two of the men who are currently feuding over the World Title, Mark Henry and Daniel Bryan, were tag team partners against Tyson Kidd and Ted DiBiase.
A year ago, A.J. Styles and Frankie Kazarian were tag team partners, just like they were this week, but the problems that existed at the start of 2012 were not there in 2011.
On Smackdown, Drew McIntyre actually got to wrestle in a match that meant something where he teamed with Dolph Ziggler to face Big Show and Cody Rhodes.
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