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BY THE NUMBERS PAY PER VIEW EDITION: LOOKING BACK AT VICTORY ROAD AND THE START OF YEAR THREE

After debating the situation, I have decided that instead of looking at the next set of pay per views from both companies, I will continue to make the calendar as the source for this column. That means that we will have three pay per views to analyze in April, just like last May and October when we got three pay per view offerings from World Wrestling Entertainment and Impact Wrestling.

This is a bit of a celebratory column because it was March 2010 when I started the first spin off of the By the Numbers Column to analyze pay per views. That month featured Destination X from Impact Wrestling and Wrestlemania 26 from World Wrestling Entertainment.

Looking back at those shows, we had more than two hundred minutes of wrestling from the seven hours of pay per view time. Destination X featured Matt Morgan in a tag title match, Ken Anderson in the semi-main event, and Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian together in a match even though they were participants in a four way match.

Wrestlemania 26 saw Shawn Michaels’ final wrestling match, a tag team match with a lot of people in it, Chris Jericho wrestling for a Heavyweight Title, and Big Show wrestling for a title.

In 2011, with Wrestlemania in April, we only had Victory Road which moved from the summer to its current March spot on the pay per view calendar. It gave us the second lowest amount of wrestling at the time for an Impact Wrestling pay per view(after Hardcore Justice 2010) with only eighty-four minutes of wrestling.

This month’s offering from Impact Wrestling did have a few similarities to the 2011 offering. If you watched the pay per view, there was an accidental similarity because a few of the graphics for the wrestlers had the 2011 Victory Road logo. However, we did see Sting in the main event and we saw a one minute match. Unlike last year, those two things did not take place in the same match. Bully Ray got to be in the opening match again.

Total Wrestling Time: Total this Month: 82 Minutes [last month 189 Minutes]
TNA Victory Road: 82 Minutes [last month 91 Minutes]
WWE: No Pay Per View [last month 98 Minutes]

TNA Victory Road

Bully Ray versus James Storm: 1 Minute
Zema Ion versus Austin Aries: 11 Minutes
Samoa Joe and Magnus versus Matt Morgan and Crimson: 10 Minutes
Robbie E versus Devon: 3 Minutes
Gail Kim versus Madison Rayne: 7 Minutes
Ken Anderson and A.J. Styles versus Frankie Kazarian and Christopher Daniels: 14 Minutes
Kurt Angle versus Jeff Hardy: 19 Minutes
Sting versus Bobby Roode: 17 Minutes

Wrestling Per Hour
Total for Month: 27.33 Minutes (Last Month 31.5 Minutes)
TNA Victory Road: 27.33 Minutes (Last Month 30.33 Minutes)
WWE: No Pay Per View(Last Month 32.67 Minutes)

Average Length of Matches:
Total for Month: 10.25 Minutes (Last Month 14.54 Minutes)
TNA Victory Road: 10.25 Minutes (Last Month 11.38 Minutes)
WWE: No Pay Per View (Last Month: 19.6 Minutes)

Longest Matches:

Kurt Angle versus Jeff Hardy: 19 Minutes (TNA Victory Road)
Sting versus Bobby Roode: 17 Minutes (TNA Victory Road)
Ken Anderson and A.J. Styles versus Frankie Kazarian and Christopher Daniels: 14 Minutes (TNA Victory Road)

Shortest Matches:

Bully Ray versus James Storm: 1 Minute (TNA Victory Road)
Robbie E versus Devon: 3 Minutes (TNA Victory Road)
Gail Kim versus Madison Rayne: 7 Minutes (TNA Victory Road)

Totals for 2012

Total Wrestling Time

TNA: 264 Minutes
WWE: 194 Minutes
Overall Wrestling: 458 Minutes

Total Number of Matches

TNA: 24 Matches
WWE: 11 Matches
Total: 35 Matches

Wrestling Per Hour
WWE: 32.33 Minutes
TNA: 29.33 Minutes

Average Length of Matches:
WWE: 17.64 Minutes
TNA: 11 Minutes

Longest Matches:

Royal Rumble Match: 55 Minutes (WWE Royal Rumble)
Smackdown Elimination Chamber Match: 34 Minutes (WWE Elimination Chamber)
Raw Elimination Chamber Match: 33 Minutes (WWE Elimination Chamber)

Shortest Matches:
Drew McIntyre versus Brodus Clay: 1 Minute (WWE Royal Rumble)
Bully Ray versus James Storm: 1 Minute (TNA Victory Road)
Robbie E versus Devon: 3 Minutes (TNA Victory Road)
Jack Swagger versus Justin Gabriel: 3 Minutes (WWE Elimination Chamber)

Total Wrestling Time

WWE: 2,437 Minutes
TNA: 2,415 Minutes
Overall Wrestling: 4,852 Minutes

Total Number of Matches

TNA: 212 Matches
WWE: 186 Matches
Total: 398 Matches

Wrestling Per Hour
TNA: 32.2 Minutes (down from 32.40 Minutes)
WWE: 30.46 Minutes (No Change)

Average Length of Matches:
WWE: 13.10 Minutes (No Change)
TNA: 11.39 Minutes (down from 11.436 Minutes)

Longest Matches:
Royal Rumble: 70 Minutes (WWE Royal Rumble 2011)
Royal Rumble Match: 55 Minutes (WWE Royal Rumble 2012)
Team WWE (John Cena, Bret Hart, John Morrison, R Truth, Daniel Bryan, Chris Jericho, and Edge) versus Nexus (David Otunga, Skip Sheffield, Darren Young, Heath Slater, Justin Gabriel, Wade Barrett, and Michael Tarver): 35 Minutes (WWE SummerSlam 2010)

Shortest Matches:
Magnus versus Rob Terry: 1 Minute (TNA Destination X 2010)
Sting versus Jeff Jarrett: 1 Minute (TNA Sacrifice 2010)
Kane versus Rey Mysterio: 1 Minute (WWE Money in the Bank 2010)
Robbie E versus Max Buck versus Jeremy Buck: 1 Minutes (TNA Against All Odds 2011)
Jeff Hardy versus Sting: 1 Minute (TNA Victory Road 2011) Madison Rayne versus Mickie James: 1 Minute (TNA Lockdown 2011)
Alberto Del Rio versus CM Punk: 1 Minute (WWE SummerSlam 2011)
Jeff Hardy versus Jeff Jarrett (part 1): 1 Minute (TNA Turning Point 2011)
Jeff Hardy versus Jeff Jarrett (part 3): 1 Minute (TNA Turning Point 2011)
Daniel Bryan versus Big Show: 1 Minute (WWE TLC 2011)
Drew McIntyre versus Brodus Clay: 1 Minute (WWE Royal Rumble 2012)
Bully Ray versus James Storm: 1 Minute (TNA Victory Road 2012)

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