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BY THE NUMBERS: LOOKING BACK AT THE WEEK IN WRESTLING ON TELEVISION FROM WWE, TNA, AND ROH

By Richard Trionfo on 2012-01-29 17:21:43
With one hundred editions of this column completed, it is time to look ahead to number two hundred, which will take place at the end of 2013. The first week of the second hundred came in below the average for amount of wrestling, but not for number of matches.

The Royal Rumble is later tonight and that means that I will have the special Beyond the Numbers for the Royal Rumble match.

This week marks the seventh straight week that Impact has won the week, but we had a bit of a surprise at the bottom of the list. For the first time since week 85, Smackdown finished last with an anemic twelve minutes of wrestling in the seven matches on the show. Smackdown had an average match length of under two minutes this week. Impact and Raw were the only two shows over twenty minutes for the week.

We finally got to our two hundredth match of one minute. With Brodus Clay wrestling on Raw and Smackdown, it might not be long before we get to three hundred. Brodus earned the honor for number two hundred with his match on Smackdown against Alex Riley.

With another below average week from Ring of Honor, their per match average has dropped below nine minutes since they returned to television on Sinclair. They also continue to move away from the eight minute match average. They are also moving well below the twenty-five minute average for the show. Ring of Honor and Smackdown almost dropped by an average of six seconds per hour of wrestling.

Next week, we should break the twenty-five hundred match barrier and we get closer to the first show to hit six hundred matches with Raw only sixteen matches away. Superstars passed the two thousand minute barrier while Raw should break twenty-seven hundred next week and Ring of Honor should pass seventeen hundred minutes.

One thing that I forgot to mention in last week’s By the Numbers was the there was a streak that ended with last week’s television. Ring of Honor had 26 consecutive shows with a ten minute match. It looks like a new streak was started with Ring of Honor because they had their second straight week without a ten minute match after going through all of 2011 without a show that did not have a ten minute match.

The time for the Zack Ryder/Kane match goes from the opening bell until Ryder gets choke slammed through the stage.

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
CM Punk and John Cena versus Dolph Ziggler and Jack Swagger: 8 Minutes
Zack Ryder versus Kane: 8 Minutes
Sheamus versus Jinder Mahal: 3 Minutes
Brodus Clay versus Heath Slater: 1 Minute
Miz versus R Truth: 5 Minutes

WWE NXT
Tyler Reks and Curt Hawkins versus The Usos: 5 Minutes
Trent Barreta versus Heath Slater: 5 Minutes
Titus O’Neil versus Percy Watson: 6 Minutes

WWE Superstars
Jinder Mahal versus Tyson Kidd: 5 Minutes
Beth Phoenix versus Brie Bella: 3 Minutes
Kofi Kingston versus Michael McGillicutty: 10 Minutes

TNA Impact
Velvet Sky versus Tara versus Mickie James: 5 Minutes
Alex Shelley versus Zema Ion: 4 Minutes
Winter and Angelina Love versus Eric Young and ODB: 7 Minutes
Samoa Joe versus Matt Morgan: 5 Minutes
Bully Ray and Bobby Roode versus James Storm and Jeff Hardy: 10 Minutes

WWE Smackdown
Cody Rhodes versus Justin Gabriel: 2 Minutes
Drew McIntyre versus Sheamus: 3 Minutes
Epico and Primo versus Santino Marella and Yoshi Tatsu: 2 Minutes
Hunico versus Ted DiBiase: 2 Minutes
Brodus Clay versus Alex Riley: 1 Minute
Natalya versus Aksana: 1 Minute
Mark Henry versus Big Show: 1 Minute

Ring of Honor
Tommaso Ciampa versus TJ Perkins: 6 Minutes
Grizzly Redwood versus Michael Elgin: 4 Minutes
Caprice Coleman and Cedric Alexander versus Davey Richards and Kyle O’Reilly: 9 Minutes

This Week’s Totals

Total Amount of Wrestling on Shows:

TNA Impact: 31 Minutes in 5 Matches (last week: 26 Minutes)
WWE Raw: 25 Minutes in 5 Matches (last week: 21 Minutes)
Ring of Honor: 19 Minutes in 3 Matches (last week 18 Minutes)
WWE Superstars: 18 Minutes in 3 Matches (last week 14 Minutes)
WWE NXT: 16 Minutes in 3 Matches (last week: 12 Minutes)
WWE Smackdown: 12 Minutes in 7 Matches (last week 25 Minutes)

Total Wrestling for the Week: 121 Minutes in 26 Matches (Last Week: 119 Minutes in 26 Matches)

Hourly Averages
WWE Superstars: 18 Minutes (up from 14 Minutes)
TNA Impact: 15.5 Minutes (up from 13 Minutes)
WWE NXT: 16 Minutes (up from 12 Minutes)
WWE Smackdown: 6 Minutes (down from 12.5 Minutes)
WWE Raw: 12.5 Minutes (up from 10.5 Minutes)
Ring of Honor: 19 Minutes (up from 18 Minutes)

Per Match Averages (this week):
Ring of Honor: 6.33 Minutes (up from 6 Minutes)
TNA Impact: 6.2 Minutes (up from 5.2 Minutes)
WWE Superstars: 6 Minutes (up from 4.67 Minutes)
WWE NXT: 5.33 Minutes (up from 5 Minutes)
WWE Raw: 5 Minutes (up from 3.5 Minutes)
WWE Smackdown: 1.71 Minutes (down from 4.17 Minutes)

Longest Matches
Kofi Kingston versus Michael McGillicutty: 10 Minutes (WWE Superstars January 26)
Bully Ray and Bobby Roode versus James Storm and Jeff Hardy: 10 Minutes (TNA Impact January 26)
Caprice Coleman and Cedric Alexander versus Davey Richards and Kyle O’Reilly: 9 Minutes (Ring of Honor January 28)

Shortest Matches
Brodus Clay versus Alex Riley: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown January 27)
Natalya versus Aksana: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown January 27)
Mark Henry versus Big Show: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown January 27)
Brodus Clay versus Heath Slater: 1 Minute (WWE Raw January 23)

Overall Totals

Total Wrestling Time by Show
WWE Smackdown: 2,837 Minutes
WWE Raw: 2,681 Minutes
TNA Impact: 2,548 Minutes
WWE Superstars: 2,010 Minutes
[On WGN: 1,153 Minutes]
[On WWE.com: 857 Minutes]
Ring of Honor: 1,688 Minutes
[On HDNet: 1,350 Minutes]
[On Sinclair: 338 Minutes]
WWE NXT: 1,362 Minutes
[Season 5: 782 Minutes]
[Season 4: 161 Minutes]
[Season 3: 90 Minutes]
[Season 2: 158 Minutes]
[Season 1: 171 Minutes]

Overall Wrestling Time: 13,126 Minutes

Total Number of Matches by Show
WWE Raw: 584 Matches
WWE Smackdown: 555 Matches
TNA Impact: 529 Matches
WWE Superstars: 339 Matches
[On WGN: 194 Matches]
[On WWE.com: 145 Matches]
WWE NXT: 257 Matches
[Season 5: 133 Matches]
[Season 4: 29 Matches]
[Season 3: 24 Matches]
[Season 2: 31 Matches]
[Season 1: 40 Matches]
Ring of Honor: 212 Matches
[On HDNet: 174 Matches]
[On Sinclair: 38 Matches]

Total Number of Matches: 2,476

Hourly Averages
Ring of Honor: 24.82 Minutes (down from 24.91 Minutes)
[On HDNet: 25.96 Minutes]
[On Sinclair: 21.13 Minutes]
WWE Superstars: 20.1 Minutes (down from 20.12 Minutes)
[On WWE.com: 20.90 Minutes]
[On WGN: 19.54 Minutes]
Overall Average: 14.899 Minutes (down from 14.914 Minutes)
WWE Smackdown: 14.04 Minutes (down from 14.13 Minutes)
WWE NXT: 13.62 Minutes (up from 13.596 Minutes)
[Season 5: 17 Minutes (down from 17.02 Minutes)]
[Season 4: 12.38 Minutes]
[Season 3: 6.92 Minutes]
[Season 2: 12.15 Minutes]
[Season 1: 11.4 Minutes]
WWE Raw: 12.706 Minutes (down from 12.708 Minutes)
TNA Impact: 12.74 Minutes (up from 12.712 Minutes)

Per Match Averages
Ring of Honor: 7.96 Minutes (down from 7.99 Minutes)
[On Sinclair: 8.89 Minutes]
[On HDNet: 7.76 Minutes]
WWE Superstars: 5.929 Minutes (down from 5.928 Minutes)
[On WGN: 5.94 Minutes]
[On WWE.com: 5.91 Minutes]
Overall Average: 5.301 Minutes (down from 5.308 Minutes)
WWE NXT: 5.2996 Minutes (up from 5.2992 Minutes)
[Season 5: 5.88 Minutes (down from 5.89 Minutes)]
[Season 4: 5.55 Minutes]
[Season 3: 3.75 Minutes]
[Season 2: 5.1 Minutes]
[Season 1: 4.28 Minutes]
WWE Smackdown: 5.11 Minutes (down from 5.16 Minutes)
TNA Impact: 4.82 Minutes (up from 4.803 Minutes)
WWE Raw: 4.59 Minutes (up from 4.587 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
202 Total Matches at 1 Minute
The Last Ten Matches that Qualified:
Brodus Clay versus Alex Riley: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown January 27)
Natalya versus Aksana: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown January 27)
Mark Henry versus Big Show: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown January 27)
Brodus Clay versus Heath Slater: 1 Minute (WWE Raw January 23)
Magnus versus Crimson: 1 Minute (TNA Impact Wrestling January 19)
Kelly Kelly and Alicia Fox versus Bellas: 1 Minute (WWE Raw January 16)
Brodus Clay versus JTG: 1 Minute (WWE Raw January 16)
Tyson Kidd versus Brodus Clay: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown January 13)
Tamina versus Natalya: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown January 13)
Daniel Bryan versus Kofi Kingston: 1 Minute (WWE Raw January 9)

One Year Ago in By the Numbers

Week 49

Four weeks into 2011, we saw the totals start to increase. Despite not coming close to the totals from the first week, they were up for the second straight week. The week was won by Smackdown with thirty-one minutes of wrestling followed by Raw with twenty-nine minutes. The bronze went to Ring of Honor with twenty-three minutes. Impact finished fourth with twenty-two minutes, Superstars had twenty-one minutes, and NXT brought up the rear with eighteen minutes.

There were four ten minute matches and four one minute matches. The ten minute matches were spread between Raw, Smackdown, Ring of Honor, and NXT. Raw and Smackdown had two one minute matches each.

The NXT match that qualified as a ten minute match featured the current World Heavyweight Champion against Ted DiBiase. We were still in Season Four of the show and they had already passed the total for Season Three in half the time.

The longest match on Impact was a six Knockout Tag Match. The main event saw a seven on two handicap match featuring Kurt Angle and Crimson facing Immortal.

Smackdown had passed fourteen hundred minutes while Superstars was poised to pass one thousand minutes. Raw was about to pass the three hundred match barrier.

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