NOTES FOR WEEK 40:
Welcome to Week 40 of Darren’s Win-Loss Records Column for the week of October 1 – 7, 2012. I hope you enjoyed the September Month in Review. This week gave us the addition of a new show, WWE Main Event, on Wednesday. Now, to this week’s news & notes.
On Raw, we had 3 matches to start the September-October Re-Match list, as this was the 2nd time that Sin Cara & Rey Mysterio wrestled Epico & Primo, Eve Torres wrestled Beth Phoenix, and Ryback and Tensai competed against each other. The tag match and the Diva’s match both took place on the September 17th Episode of Raw, while Ryback and Tensai wrestled last Friday on Smackdown. That makes it the 2nd week in a row that a match from Smackdown was repeated on the following Raw. We also had the 1st match to be re-matched in August, September, & October, as this was the 3rd time that Santino Marella & Heath Slater wrestled each other. They also became the 1st match to take place on Raw, then re-matched on Saturday Morning Slam, and then on Raw again. Marella’s victory over Slater by Disqualification was the 1st Disqualification on Raw since September 10. Raw also marked the 2nd time that Sheamus wrestled Damien Sandow, but they last wrestled in August, so it is not counted in my Re-Match count. Raw marked the 1st time that Damien Sandow has ever been pinned in WWE. His other losses have been by Count Outs, No Contests, or tag matches where he wasn’t the one who got pinned or in Ladder Matches or Battle Royals. The main event tag match was 2nd time that CM Punk and Dolph Ziggler teamed up and was the 1st time that AJ was Special Guest Referee since she refereed Punk VS Bryan at Money In The Bank in July. It was also the 1st time that Raw had a Special Ref since Daniel Bryan was a referee for Sheamus VS Mark Henry on the April 23rd Episode of Raw.
On the debut episode of Main Event, we had 2 matches. We had the 1st ever meeting between WWE Champion CM Punk & WWE World Heavyweight Champion Sheamus. They were supposed to face off on the September 3rd Episode of Raw, but CM Punk took a personal day and didn’t compete. Since the match never took place, it didn’t count, so this match is their official 1st match. Punk’s victory over Sheamus gave us his 1st loss since he & Punk lost to Daniel Bryan & Dolph Ziggler in a tag team match on Smackdown on June 15. Besides a No Contest with Alberto Del Rio, Sheamus hasn’t lost in 26 straight matches that he has competed in, giving him the 2nd longest winning streak behind Ryback. The other match on Main Event was a WWE Tag Team Championship #1 Contender’s Tournament Quarterfinal Match between Santino Marella & Zack Ryder and Justin Gabriel & Tyson Kidd. This was the 1st time that both teams competed against each other.
On NXT, we had all 1st time ever matches. There were no re-matches. Drew McIntyre’s win over Richie Steamboat was his 1st match on NXT since he lost to Seth Rollins on August 1. The tag team match between Justin Gabriel & Tyson Kidd and The Ascension was the 1st tag team match on NXT since September 5, when The Ascension defeated The Usos. The tag match was also NXT’s 150th Match of the year.
On Superstars, Tyson Kidd became the 1st person to wrestle on Main Event, NXT, & Superstars in the same week. He is the 1st person to lose on 3 consecutive shows on the same week of television. His match against Wade Barrett and The Usos VS Team Rhodes Scholars was the 2nd time both matches took place in September & October, adding them to the September-October Re-Match list. This week marked the 2nd straight week that both Yoshi Tatsu and Michael McGillicutty wrestled and lost on Superstars.
On Impact, Mr. Anderson defeated Gunner. This was Gunner’s 1st match since he defeated Kris Lewie in a Gut Check Match on August 23. The Knockout’s Tag Team Match was the 1st time that ODB & Miss Tessmacher and Gail Kim & Tara teamed up with each other. Samoa Joe defeated Rob Van Dam in his 1st successful title defense of the TV Title after winning it last week. That match and Zema Ion’s defense of the X-Division Title against Douglas Williams added 2 more title matches to the count, bringing the total to 142 overall and 72 for TNA. This was the 1st defense of the X-Division Title since the September 13 episode of Impact. Ion lost by Disqualification, when the referee reversed his decision, giving us the 1st DQ on Impact since May 3, though there have been No Contests since then. The 3-Way between Austin Aries, Jeff Hardy, & Bully Ray was the 2nd 3-Way in 2 weeks and the 145th Gimmick Match of the year overall, 51st for TNA.
On Smackdown, we had the 3rd match between Kofi Kingston & R-Truth and The Prime Time Players, as they faced off in the final 1st Round Match of the WWE Tag Team Championship #1 Contender’s Tournament, but this was the 1st time they wrestled each other since August. Wade Barrett’s opponent was never announced or mentioned by name and is listed as local competitor on WWE.com, so he will be listed as Unknown Talent #5, joining the previous Unknown Talents (#1 - #4), who competed against Ryback & Jinder Mahal in Handicap Matches in the past. The 2nd Champion VS Champion Match of the week between Sheamus and The Miz was Smackdown’s 250th Match of the year. The 2 Disqualifications in the Sheamus-Miz match and Tensai-Big Show match was the 1st time since September 21 that there was 2 Disqualifications on Smackdown. This was the 1st time since the week of August 20 that both Raw & Smackdown had a Disqualification. The tag match with Team Hell No VS Alberto Del Rio & David Otunga was the 1st time that Del Rio & Otunga teamed up in a regular tag team match, adding them to the standings. They did team up last week with Ricardo Rodriguez in a 6-Man Tag Team Match. CM Punk’s match against Dolph Ziggler was Punk’s 1st match on Smackdown since he participated in the Great American Bash Battle Royal on the special live Smackdown on July 3.
On Saturday Morning Slam, we saw Rey Mysterio’s debut on the show. He defeated Michael McGillicutty. This was McGillicutty’s 2nd appearance on the show. He last appeared on September 8 when he lost to Rey Mysterio’s tag partner Sin Cara.
Now without further ado, here are the Win-Loss Records for this week, followed by the results of the week that was. Thanks again to Mike for posting it and all of you for reading it. Please send all feedback and comments to my Twitter Account (@hbkid718).
OVERALL RANKINGS
WRESTLER (BRAND) | W | L | D |
| 57 | 13 | 4 |
| 35 | 0 | 1 |
| 33 | 30 | 0 |
| 32 | 5 | 3 |
| 31 | 29 | 6 |
| 30 | 17 | 0 |
| 29 | 27 | 0 |
| 27 | 19 | 6 |
| 25 | 14 | 4 |
| 24 | 17 | 0 |
| 24 | 20 | 6 |
| 22 | 42 | 3 |
| 21 | 4 | 1 |
| 21 | 18 | 0 |
| 20 | 20 | 0 |
| 20 | 20 | 3 |
| 20 | 20 | 4 |
| 20 | 31 | 0 |
| 19 | 20 | 7 |
| 18 | 4 | 0 |
| 18 | 7 | 8 |
| 18 | 9 | 2 |
| 18 | 12 | 0 |
| 17 | 4 | 0 |
| 17 | 7 | 2 |
| 17 | 8 | 4 |
| 17 | 14 | 4 |
| 17 | 19 | 0 |
| 17 | 36 | 0 |
| 16 | 13 | 1 |
| 16 | 15 | 0 |
| 15 | 19 | 0 |
| 14 | 11 | 1 |
| 14 | 25 | 1 |
| 13 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | 6 | 0 |
| 13 | 7 | 1 |
| 13 | 8 | 0 |
| 13 | 10 | 0 |
| 13 | 12 | 1 |
| 13 | 14 | 2 |
| 13 | 18 | 2 |
| 13 | 25 | 0 |
| 12 | 10 | 2 |
| 12 | 12 | 0 |
| 12 | 14 | 4 |
| 12 | 17 | 2 |
| 12 | 23 | 2 |
| 12 | 24 | 0 |
| 11 | 5 | 0 |
| 11 | 10 | 0 |
| 11 | 11 | 0 |
| 11 | 12 | 0 |
| 11 | 33 | 2 |
| 10 | 7 | 0 |
| 10 | 11 | 1 |
| 10 | 12 | 0 |
| 10 | 13 | 5 |
| 10 | 20 | 0 |
| 9 | 7 | 0 |
| 9 | 9 | 1 |
| 9 | 20 | 0 |
| 9 | 28 | 0 |
| 9 | 32 | 3 |
| 8 | 2 | 0 |
| 8 | 7 | 1 |
| 8 | 16 | 0 |
| 8 | 18 | 0 |
| 7 | 6 | 0 |
| 7 | 7 | 0 |
| 7 | 9 | 0 |
| 7 | 13 | 0 |
| 7 | 25 | 0 |
| 7 | 43 | 0 |
| 6 | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 |
| 6 | 8 | 0 |
| 6 | 24 | 0 |
| 6 | 25 | 0 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 |
| 5 | 6 | 0 |
| 5 | 8 | 0 |
| 5 | 8 | 1 |
| 5 | 11 | 0 |
| 5 | 14 | 0 |
| 5 | 18 | 0 |
| 5 | 27 | 0 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 |
| 4 | 7 | 1 |
| 4 | 9 | 0 |
| 4 | 11 | 0 |
| 4 | 14 | 0 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 2 | 16 | 0 |
| 2 | 22 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1 | 15 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 1 |
TAG TEAM RANKINGS
TAG TEAM (BRAND) | W | L | D |
| 15 | 5 | 0 |
| 14 | 10 | 0 |
| 13 | 11 | 0 |
| 12 | 17 | 0 |
| 8 | 2 | 0 |
| 6 | 12 | 0 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 3 | 5 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
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| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
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| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 2 | 0 |
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| 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 1 |
RAW (10/1/12)
Sin Cara & Rey Mysterio defeated Epico & Primo in a WWE Tag Team Championship #1 Contender’s Tournament Quarterfinal Match
WWE United States Champion Antonio Cesaro defeated Brodus Clay in a Non-Title Match
WWE Intercontinental Champion The Miz defeated Zack Ryder in a Non-Title Match
Ryback defeated Tensai
WWE Diva’s Champion Eve Torres defeated Beth Phoenix in a Non-Title Match
Santino Marella defeated Heath Slater by Disqualification
WWE World Heavyweight Champion Sheamus defeated Damien Sandow in a Non-Title Match
Alberto Del Rio defeated Kofi Kingston
WWE Tag Team Champions Team Hell No (Daniel Bryan & Kane) defeated WWE Champion CM Punk & Dolph Ziggler in a Non-Title Match with Special Guest Referee AJ Lee
MAIN EVENT (10/3/12)
WWE Champion CM Punk defeated WWE World Heavyweight Champion Sheamus in a Non-Title Champion VS Champion Match
Santino Marella & Zack Ryder defeated Justin Gabriel & Tyson Kidd in a WWE Tag Team Championship #1 Contender’s Tournament Quarterfinal Match
NXT (10/3/12)
Drew McIntyre defeated Richie Steamboat
Big E. Langston defeated Aiden English
Kassius Ohno defeated Percy Watson
The Ascension (Kenneth Cameron & Conor O’Brian) defeated Justin Gabriel & Tyson Kidd
SUPERSTARS (10/4/12)
Wade Barrett defeated Tyson Kidd
David Otunga defeated Michael McGillicutty
Tensai defeated Yoshi Tatsu
Team Rhodes Scholars (Cody Rhodes & Damien Sandow) defeated The Usos (Jey & Jimmy Uso)
IMPACT (10/4/12)
Mr. Anderson defeated Gunner
Gail Kim & Tara defeated ODB & TNA Knockout’s Champion Miss Tessmacher
TNA World Television Champion Samoa Joe defeated Rob Van Dam to retain the title
Chavo Guerrero defeated Kurt Angle
Douglas Williams defeated TNA X-Division Champion Zema Ion by Disqualification
Bully Ray defeated TNA World Heavyweight Champion Austin Aries & Jeff Hardy in a Non-Title 3-Way Match
SMACKDOWN (10/5/12)
The Prime Time Players (Titus O’Neil & Darren Young) defeated Kofi Kingston & R-Truth in a WWE Tag Team Championship #1 Contender’s Tournament Quarterfinal Match
Ryback defeated Primo
Layla defeated Alicia Fox
Wade Barrett defeated Unknown Talent #5
WWE Intercontinental Champion The Miz defeated WWE World Heavyweight Champion Sheamus by Disqualification in a Champion VS Champion Non-Title Match
WWE Tag Team Champions Team Hell No (Daniel Bryan & Kane) defeated Alberto Del Rio & David Otunga in a Non-Title Match
Tensai defeated The Big Show by Disqualification
WWE Champion CM Punk defeated Dolph Ziggler in a Non-Title Match
SATURDAY MORNING SLAM (10/6/12)
Rey Mysterio defeated Michael McGillicutty
GIMMICK MATCHES: 145 (94 in WWE – 51 in TNA)
(10/4/12 IMPACT) Bully Ray defeated TNA World Heavyweight Champion Austin Aries & Jeff Hardy in a Non-Title 3-Way Match
TITLE MATCHES: 142 (70 in WWE – 72 in TNA)
(10/4/12 IMPACT) TNA World Television Champion Samoa Joe defeated Rob Van Dam to retain the title
(10/4/12 IMPACT) Douglas Williams defeated TNA X-Division Champion Zema Ion by Disqualification
TITLE CHANGES: 26 (14 in WWE – 12 in TNA)
There were no Title Changes this week
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