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

After three straight weeks of declining totals, the six wrestling shows returned to the total it had before the drop. We had slightly less than two and a half hours of wrestling from the six shows.

Impact led the six shows for the second straight week after giving Smackdown the honor for two weeks. Smackdown almost fell into third place after a very solid wrestling week from Superstars thanks to two matches of more than ten minutes. Superstars is now only two matches away from catching Impact for fourth place.

After three straight weeks of eighteen minutes of wrestling from Raw, they did not do it for a fourth straight week. They did stay in the teens and dropped two minutes from last week. That sent Raw into last place, falling below NXT which fell short of the twenty minute mark for the week.

With the current pattern from Raw, we could be witnessing the first show to hit one hundred one minute matches before the end of May. With two more one minute matches, the show now sits at ninety. The lead over Smackdown is now twenty-five and the only other sow with more than ten one minute matches is Impact with forty-two. In the last seven weeks, Raw has had ten one minute matches.

Last week I mentioned that Raw might pass the twenty-eight hundred minute barrier this week. However, with four straight weeks of less than twenty minutes of wrestling, it is hard to hit a hundred minutes. Over the last five weeks, Raw has had ninety-two minutes of wrestling. That was only six more minutes than NXT, which is only a one hour show. Impact had one fewer minute of wrestling in the last three weeks than Raw over the last five weeks. This had allowed Impact to cut the gap between second and third over the last seven weeks from one hundred thirty-nine minutes after week 100 to sixty-seven minutes after this week. Smackdown has increased its lead over Raw since week 100 from one hundred sixty-nine minutes to two hundred three minutes.

While Raw could not pass a milestone, Smackdown finally passed the three thousand minute barrier, becoming the first show to achieve that goal. Ring of Honor passed the eighteen hundred minute mark. Next week, Raw should finally pass twenty-eight hundred minutes while the overall total should break fourteen thousand minutes, hitting the next thousand minute barrier in eight weeks, slightly below the average to hit a thousand minutes.

The time for the Bully Ray versus Bobby Roode match goes from the bell until James Storm connects with the super kick.

The time for the Teddy Long versus John Laurinaitis match goes from the time that Laurinaitis stops yelling at Randy Orton until the end of the match. The two minutes of stalling/promo by Laurinaitis should not be rewarded to avoid a one minute match.

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
Santino Marella versus Jack Swagger: 3 Minutes
Alicia Fox versus Eve Torres: 1 Minute
CM Punk and Sheamus versus Daniel Bryan and Chris Jericho: 9 Minutes
Big Show versus Miz: 2 Minutes
Kane versus R Truth: 1 Minute

WWE NXT
Tamina versus Maxine: 3 Minutes
Johnny Curtis versus Yoshi Tatsu: 6 Minutes
Darren Young versus Jey Uso: 5 Minutes
Titus O’Neil versus Percy Watson: 5 Minutes

WWE Superstars
Justin Gabriel versus Heath Slater: 10 Minutes
Jinder Mahal versus Ted DiBiase: 4 Minutes
Kofi Kingston versus Dolph Ziggler: 14 Minutes

TNA Impact
Gail Kim and Madison Rayne versus ODB and Eric Young: 6 Minutes
Zema Ion versus Austin Aries: 4 Minutes
Bully Ray versus Bobby Roode: 7 Minutes
Robbie E and Rob Terry versus Crimson and Matt Morgan: 4 Minutes
Gunner and Kurt Angle versus Garett Bischoff and Jeff Hardy: 11 Minutes

WWE Smackdown
Santino Marella versus Jack Swagger: 8 Minutes
Drew McIntyre versus Hornswoggle: 1 Minute
Mark Henry versus Ezekiel Jackson: 2 Minutes
John Laurinaitis versus Teddy Long: 1 Minute
Kofi Kingston and R Truth versus Epico and Primo: 5 Minutes
Sheamus, Randy Orton, and Big Show versus Daniel Bryan, Miz, and Cody Rhodes: 12 Minutes

Ring of Honor
Kenny King versus Jay Lethal: 7 Minutes
Adam Cole versus Kevin Steen: 5 Minutes
Michael Elgin versus Kyle O’Reilly: 10 Minutes

This Week’s Totals

Total Amount of Wrestling on Shows:

TNA Impact: 32 Minutes in 5 Matches (last week: 31 Minutes)
WWE Smackdown: 29 Minutes in 6 Matches (last week 25 Minutes)
WWE Superstars: 28 Minutes in 3 Matches (last week 13 Minutes)
Ring of Honor: 22 Minutes in 3 Matches (last week 25 Minutes)
WWE NXT: 19 Minutes in 4 Matches (last week: 14 Minutes)
WWE Raw: 16 Minutes in 5 Matches (last week: 18 Minutes)

Total Wrestling for the Week: 146 Minutes in 26 Matches (Last Week: 126 Minutes in 24 Matches)

Hourly Averages
WWE Superstars: 28 Minutes (up from 13 Minutes)
Ring of Honor: 22 Minutes (down from 25 Minutes)
WWE NXT: 19 Minutes (up from 14 Minutes)
TNA Impact: 16 Minutes (down from 16.5 Minutes)
WWE Smackdown: 14.5 Minutes (up from 12.5 Minutes)
WWE Raw: 8 Minutes (down from 9 Minutes)

Per Match Averages (this week):
WWE Superstars: 9.33 Minutes (up from 6.33 Minutes)
Ring of Honor: 7.33 Minutes (down from 8.33 Minutes)
TNA Impact: 6.4 Minutes (up from 5.17 Minutes)
WWE Smackdown: 4.83 Minutes (up from 4.17 Minutes)
WWE NXT: 4.75 Minutes (up from 4.67 Minutes)
WWE Raw: 3.2 Minutes (down from 3.6 Minutes)

Longest Matches
Kofi Kingston versus Dolph Ziggler: 14 Minutes (WWE Superstars March 8)
Sheamus, Randy Orton, and Big Show versus Daniel Bryan, Miz, and Cody Rhodes: 12 Minutes (WWE Smackdown March 9)
Gunner and Kurt Angle versus Garett Bischoff and Jeff Hardy: 11 Minutes (TNA Impact March 8)

Shortest Matches
John Laurinaitis versus Teddy Long: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown March 9)
Drew McIntyre versus Hornswoggle: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown March 9)
Alicia Fox versus Eve Torres: 1 Minute (WWE Raw March 5)
Kane versus R Truth: 1 Minute (WWE Raw March 5)

Overall Totals

Total Wrestling Time by Show
WWE Smackdown: 3,002 Minutes
WWE Raw: 2,799 Minutes
TNA Impact: 2,732 Minutes
WWE Superstars: 2,131 Minutes
[On WGN: 1,153 Minutes]
[On WWE.com: 978 Minutes]
Ring of Honor: 1,809 Minutes
[On HDNet: 1,350 Minutes]
[On Sinclair: 459 Minutes]
WWE NXT: 1,460 Minutes
[Season 5: 880 Minutes]
[Season 4: 161 Minutes]
[Season 3: 90 Minutes]
[Season 2: 158 Minutes]
[Season 1: 171 Minutes]

Overall Wrestling Time: 13,933 Minutes

Total Number of Matches by Show
WWE Raw: 615 Matches
WWE Smackdown: 589 Matches
TNA Impact: 558 Matches
WWE Superstars: 358 Matches
[On WGN: 194 Matches]
[On WWE.com: 164 Matches]
WWE NXT: 278 Matches
[Season 5: 154 Matches]
[Season 4: 29 Matches]
[Season 3: 24 Matches]
[Season 2: 31 Matches]
[Season 1: 40 Matches]
Ring of Honor: 228 Matches
[On HDNet: 174 Matches]
[On Sinclair: 54 Matches]

Total Number of Matches: 2,626

Hourly Averages
Ring of Honor: 24.45 Minutes (down from 24.48 Minutes)
[On HDNet: 25.96 Minutes]
[On Sinclair: 20.86 Minutes]
WWE Superstars: 20.10 Minutes (up from 20.028 Minutes)
[On WWE.com: 20.81 Minutes]
[On WGN: 19.54 Minutes]
Overall Average: 14.90 Minutes (up from 14.889 Minutes)
WWE Smackdown: 14.028 Minutes (up from 14.024 Minutes)
WWE NXT: 13.77 Minutes (up from 13.724 Minutes)
[Season 5: 16.92 Minutes (up from 16.88 Minutes)]
[Season 4: 12.38 Minutes]
[Season 3: 6.92 Minutes]
[Season 2: 12.15 Minutes]
[Season 1: 11.4 Minutes]
TNA Impact: 12.89 Minutes (up from 12.86 Minutes)
WWE Raw: 12.55 Minutes (down from 12.59 Minutes)

Per Match Averages
Ring of Honor: 7.93 Minutes (down from 7.94 Minutes)
[On Sinclair: 8.5 Minutes]
[On HDNet: 7.76 Minutes]
WWE Superstars: 5.95 Minutes (up from 5.92 Minutes)
[On WGN: 5.94 Minutes]
[On WWE.com: 5.96 Minutes]
Overall Average: 5.306 Minutes (up from 5.303 Minutes)
WWE NXT: 5.251 Minutes (down from 5.259 Minutes)
[Season 5: 5.71 Minutes (down from 5.74 Minutes)]
[Season 4: 5.55 Minutes]
[Season 3: 3.75 Minutes]
[Season 2: 5.1 Minutes]
[Season 1: 4.28 Minutes]
WWE Smackdown: 5.097 Minutes (down from 5.099 Minutes)
TNA Impact: 4.896 Minutes (up from 4.88 Minutes)
WWE Raw: 4.55 Minutes (down from 4.56 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
219 Total Matches at 1 Minute
The Last Ten Matches that Qualified:
John Laurinaitis versus Teddy Long: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown March 9)
Drew McIntyre versus Hornswoggle: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown March 9)
Alicia Fox versus Eve Torres: 1 Minute (WWE Raw March 5)
Kane versus R Truth: 1 Minute (WWE Raw March 5)
A.J. Styles versus Frankie Kazarian: 1 Minute (TNA Impact March 1)
Sheamus and Big Show versus Mark Henry and Cody Rhodes: 1 Minute (WWE Raw February 27)
Kelly Kelly versus Nikki Bella: 1 Minute (WWE Raw February 27)
Drew McIntyre versus Great Khali: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown February 24)
David Otunga versus Ezekiel Jackson: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown February 24)
Daniel Bryan versus Santino Marella: 1 Minute (WWE Raw February 20)

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