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BY THE NUMBERS: LOOKING BACK AT THE WEEK IN WRESTLING ON TV FROM ROH, TNA, AND WWE (PLUS A LOOK AT THE TOTALS THROUGH APRIL)

This week saw the calendar turn over and we put April in the rear view mirror and May started off with a bang. Raw ended the month with another solid wrestling total, even though they did not have a match last more than four minutes because of the Beat the Clock gimmick. Smackdown won the week for the first time in six weeks and broke the thirty minute barrier for the first time since mid February. Impact took the bronze with two dozen minutes of wrestling, followed by NXT and Ring of Honor tied for fourth and Superstars bringing up the rear with only sixteen minutes of wrestling.

NXT had two of the three matches of more than ten minutes and for the first time since the first week of the year, every match on an individual show was more than ten minutes long. The last time was with Ring of Honor and only two matches.

If you take away the fact that Daniel Bryan and Sheamus had two matches on Smackdown this week and combined the totals, they would have had the longest match of the week at twelve minutes.

For the first time in six weeks, we had to go to a two minute match to get a third short match for the weekly totals. It was not a lost week for the one minute matches because Raw became the first show to have one hundred one minute matches. Smackdown is the only one over fifty and is twenty-two away from hitting the one hundred barrier.

Smackdown continues to lead the pack for ten minute matches and has a four match lead over Ring of Honor in the race for one hundred. The last three matches from NXT were more than ten minutes and the next one will be the thirtieth for NXT. Ring of Honor had its second straight week without a ten minute match and now has an average of one ten minute match per week.

The totals were the highest since the start of March and were well above average. If the weekly average is met next week, we will break the fifteen thousand minute barrier, and it will be a squeaker. Impact passed twenty-nine hundred minutes this week.

Next week could see Raw pass three thousand minutes, Smackdown pass thirty-two hundred minutes, NXT pass sixteen hundred minutes, and Superstars pass twenty-three hundred minutes.

NXT had its three hundredth overall match while reaching one thousand minutes for Season Five (assuming we are still looking at the season concept). We are also a few weeks away from having the total number of matches for season five eclipse the totals for the first four seasons combined.

At the end of the column, I will take a brief look at the totals for the first four months of the year.

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 Miz: 4 Minutes
Nikki Bella versus Brie Bella versus Layla: 1 Minute
Chris Jericho versus Big Show: 4 Minutes
Brodus Clay versus JTG: 2 Minutes
Randy Orton versus Jack Swagger: 4 Minutes
Epico and Primo versus Kofi Kingston and R Truth: 4 Minutes
Great Khali versus Kane: 4 Minutes
Daniel Bryan versus Jerry Lawler: 2 Minutes

WWE NXT
Tyson Kidd and Alex Riley versus JTG and Johnny Curtis: 11 Minutes
Percy Watson and Michael McGillicutty: 10 Minutes

WWE Superstars
Mason Ryan versus Dolph Ziggler: 5 Minutes
Michael McGillicutty versus Zack Ryder: 6 Minutes
Great Khali versus Jinder Mahal: 5 Minutes

TNA Impact
Brooke Tessmacher and Velvet Sky versus Gail Kim and Madison Rayne: 5 Minutes
Devon versus Robbie T: 3 Minutes
Rob Van Dam versus Jeff Hardy: 5 Minutes
Kurt Angle, Frankie Kazarian, and Christopher Daniels versus A.J. Styles, Samoa Joe, and Magnus: 4 Minutes
Bobby Roode versus Ken Anderson: 7 Minutes

WWE Smackdown
Sheamus versus Daniel Bryan: 3 Minutes
Kofi Kingston and R Truth versus Hunico and Camacho: 4 Minutes
Brodus Clay versus Jack Swagger: 2 Minutes
Ryback versus Derrick Bateman: 1 Minute
Kane and Cody Rhodes versus Randy Orton and Big Show: 11 Minutes
Natalya versus Layla: 2 Minutes
Daniel Bryan versus Sheamus: 9 Minutes

Ring of Honor
Tommaso Ciampa versus Matt Taven: 8 Minutes
Mike Mondo versus TJ Perkins: 7 Minutes
Kevin Steen versus Kyle O’Reilly: 6 Minutes

This Week’s Totals

Total Amount of Wrestling on Shows:

WWE Smackdown: 32 Minutes in 7 Matches (last week 17 Minutes)
WWE Raw: 25 Minutes in 8 Matches (last week: 28 Minutes)
TNA Impact: 24 Minutes in 5 Matches (last week: 19 Minutes)
WWE NXT: 21 Minutes in 2 Matches (last week: 20 Minutes)
Ring of Honor: 21 Minutes in 3 Matches (last week 16 Minutes)
WWE Superstars: 16 Minutes in 3 Matches (last week 23 Minutes)

Total Wrestling for the Week: 139 Minutes in 28 Matches (Last Week: 123 Minutes in 28 Matches)

Hourly Averages
WWE NXT: 21 Minutes (up from 20 Minutes)
Ring of Honor: 21 Minutes (up from 16 Minutes)
WWE Superstars: 16 Minutes (down from 23 Minutes)
WWE Smackdown: 16 Minutes (up from 8.5 Minutes)
WWE Raw: 12.5 Minutes (up from 9.33 Minutes)
TNA Impact: 12 Minutes (up from 9.5 Minutes)

Per Match Averages (this week):
WWE NXT: 10.5 Minutes (up from 6.67 Minutes)
Ring of Honor: 7 Minutes (up from 5.33 Minutes)
WWE Superstars: 5.33 Minutes (down from 7.67 Minutes)
TNA Impact: 4.8 Minutes (up from 3.8 Minutes)
WWE Smackdown: 4.57 Minutes (up from 2.43 Minutes)
WWE Raw: 3.13 Minutes (down from 4 Minutes)

Longest Matches
Kane and Cody Rhodes versus Randy Orton and Big Show: 11 Minutes (WWE Smackdown May 4)
Tyson Kidd and Alex Riley versus JTG and Johnny Curtis: 11 Minutes (WWE NXT May 2)
Percy Watson and Michael McGillicutty: 10 Minutes (WWE NXT May 2)

Shortest Matches
Ryback versus Derrick Bateman: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown May 4)
Nikki Bella versus Brie Bella versus Layla: 1 Minute (WWE Raw April 30)
Brodus Clay versus JTG: 2 Minutes (WWE Raw April 30)
Daniel Bryan versus Jerry Lawler: 2 Minutes (WWE Raw April 30)
Brodus Clay versus Jack Swagger: 2 Minutes (WWE Smackdown May 4)
Natalya versus Layla: 2 Minutes (WWE Smackdown May 4)

Overall Totals

Total Wrestling Time by Show
WWE Smackdown: 3,179 Minutes
WWE Raw: 2,970 Minutes
TNA Impact: 2,920 Minutes
WWE Superstars: 2,279 Minutes
[On WGN: 1,153 Minutes]
[On WWE.com: 1,126 Minutes]
Ring of Honor: 1,930 Minutes
[On HDNet: 1,350 Minutes]
[On Sinclair: 580 Minutes]
WWE NXT: 1,594 Minutes
[Season 5: 1014 Minutes]
[Season 4: 161 Minutes]
[Season 3: 90 Minutes]
[Season 2: 158 Minutes]
[Season 1: 171 Minutes]

Overall Wrestling Time: 14,872 Minutes

Total Number of Matches by Show
WWE Raw: 664 Matches
WWE Smackdown: 636 Matches
TNA Impact: 597 Matches
WWE Superstars: 382 Matches
[On WGN: 194 Matches]
[On WWE.com: 188 Matches]
WWE NXT: 300 Matches
[Season 5: 176 Matches]
[Season 4: 29 Matches]
[Season 3: 24 Matches]
[Season 2: 31 Matches]
[Season 1: 40 Matches]
Ring of Honor: 244 Matches
[On HDNet: 174 Matches]
[On Sinclair: 70 Matches]

Total Number of Matches: 2,823

Hourly Averages
Ring of Honor: 24.13 Minutes (down from 24.17 Minutes)
[On HDNet: 25.96 Minutes]
[On Sinclair: 20.71 Minutes]
WWE Superstars: 20 Minutes (down from 20.03 Minutes)
[On WWE.com: 20.47 Minutes]
[On WGN: 19.54 Minutes]
Overall Average: 14.78 Minutes (up from 14.777 Minutes)
WWE NXT: 13.98 Minutes (up from 13.92 Minutes)
[Season 5: 16.9 Minutes (up from 16.83 Minutes)]
[Season 4: 12.38 Minutes]
[Season 3: 6.92 Minutes]
[Season 2: 12.15 Minutes]
[Season 1: 11.4 Minutes]
WWE Smackdown: 13.82 Minutes (up from 13.80 Minutes)
TNA Impact: 12.807 Minutes (down from 12.81 Minutes)
WWE Raw: 12.38 Minutes (up from 12.37 Minutes)

Per Match Averages
Ring of Honor: 7.91 Minutes (down from 7.92 Minutes)
[On Sinclair: 8.29 Minutes]
[On HDNet: 7.76 Minutes]
WWE Superstars: 5.965 Minutes (down from 5.97 Minutes)
[On WGN: 5.94 Minutes]
[On WWE.com: 5.989 Minutes]
WWE NXT: 5.31 Minutes (up from 5.28 Minutes)
[Season 5: 5.76 Minutes (up from 5.71 Minutes)]
[Season 4: 5.55 Minutes]
[Season 3: 3.75 Minutes]
[Season 2: 5.1 Minutes]
[Season 1: 4.28 Minutes]
Overall Average: 5.268 Minutes (down from 5.27 Minutes)
WWE Smackdown: 4.998 Minutes (down from 5.00 Minutes)
TNA Impact: 4.8911 Minutes (down from 4.8918 Minutes)
WWE Raw: 4.47 Minutes (down from 4.489 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
245 Total Matches at 1 Minute
The Last Ten Matches that Qualified:
Ryback versus Derrick Bateman: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown May 4)
Nikki Bella versus Brie Bella versus Layla: 1 Minute (WWE Raw April 30)
Rhino versus Vinny Marseglia: 1 Minute (Ring of Honor April 28)
Antonio Cesaro versus Tyson Kidd: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown April 27)
Ryback versus Jacob Kaye: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown April 27)
Anarquia versus Kurt Angle: 1 Minute (TNA Impact April 26)
AJ Lee versus Natalya: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown April 20)
Brodus Clay versus Hunico: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown April 20)
Ryback versus Danny Lerman: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown April 20)
Brodus Clay versus Dolph Ziggler: 1 Minute (WWE Raw April 16)

2012 Totals on next page

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