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The other two WWE shows on television had slight increases over last week but are still well under their averages and their internet offering, NXT, while being one of the better shows of the week maintained its wrestling total from last week. Both Ring of Honor and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling had double digit drops from last week with Impact in danger of falling into single digits. It was their lowest total since Week 34 when there was only 14 minutes of wrestling, and broke the mark set in the first week of this column by two minutes.
This week saw another four matches join the ever growing club of one minute matches with WWE and TNA each providing two matches. On the other side of the wrestling scale, there were only two matches that were longer than ten minutes, one more than last week. However, there were no other matches longer than six minutes so four matches tied for the third longest of the week with Raw, Superstars, and Impact represented.
A few other milestones were reached this week. WWE Superstars passed eleven hundred minutes and we also passed fourteen hundred total matches.
Next week should see a plethora of milestones being passed. Even with Ring of Honor on hiatus for a few weeks before their finale, here are some of the potential ones assuming averages are met:
Total Wrestling: 7500 Minutes
WWE Raw: 1500 Minutes
WWE NXT: 600 Minutes
TNA Impact: 1400 Minutes
WWE Smackdown: 1600 Minutes
WWE Smackdown: 300 Matches
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).
Based on the same theory that I utilized for the determination of three hour episodes of Impact, this week’s Raw qualified as a three hour show because it ran approximately fifteen minutes past its scheduled end time.
Breakdown of the matches on each show:
WWE Raw
Miz versus Great Khali: 1 Minute
Daniel Bryan versus Sheamus: 6 Minutes
Randy Orton versus Mason Ryan: 3 Minutes
Trish Stratus versus Vickie Guerrero: 2 Minutes
Alberto Del Rio versus John Cena: 4 Minutes
Ring of Honor
Bravado Brothers versus Grizzly Redwood and Bobby Dempsey: 4 Minutes
Davey Richards versus Tony Kozina: 4 Minutes
Tommaso Ciampa versus Mike Sydal: 2 Minutes
Mike Bennett versus Kyle O’Reilly: 10 Minutes
WWE NXT
Darren Young versus Conor O’Brian: 3 Minutes
Yoshi Tatsu and Byron Saxton versus Lucky Cannon and Tyson Kidd: 4 Minutes
WWE Superstars
Tyler Reks versus JTG: 6 Minutes
Santino Marella and Vladimir Kozlov versus the Usos: 4 Minutes
Eve Torres, Tamina, Gail Kim, and Natalya versus The Bellas, Melina, and Alicia Fox: 6 Minutes
TNA Impact
Madison Rayne versus Alissa Flash: 1 Minute
Rob Terry versus Gunner versus Murphy: 2 Minutes
Hernandez, Sarita, and Rosita versus Matt Morgan, Winter, and Angelina Love: 1 Minute
Rob Van Dam versus Bully Ray versus A.J. Styles versus Ken Anderson: 6 Minutes
WWE Smackdown
Brodus Clay versus Edge: 5 Minutes
Kofi Kingston versus Sheamus: 5 Minutes
Cody Rhodes versus Trent Barreta: 1 Minute
Kelly Kelly versus Layla: 2 Minutes
Big Show and Kane versus Justin Gabriel and Heath Slater: 3 Minutes
Jack Swagger versus Chris Masters: 2 Minutes
Rey Mysterio versus Ted DiBiase: 4 Minutes
Christian versus Alberto Del Rio: 10 Minutes
This Week’s Totals
Total Amount of Wrestling on Shows:
WWE Smackdown: 32 Minutes in 8 Matches (last week 17 Minutes)
Ring of Honor: 20 Minutes in 4 Matches (last week 33 Minutes)
WWE Raw: 16 Minutes in 5 Matches (last week: 14 Minutes)
WWE Superstars: 16 Minutes in 3 Matches (last week: 13 Minutes)
TNA Impact: 10 Minutes in 4 Matches (last week: 21 Minutes)
WWE NXT: 7 Minutes in 2 Matches (last week: 7 Minutes)
Total Wrestling for the Week: 101 Minutes in 26 Matches (Last Week: 105 Minutes in 26 Matches)
Hourly Averages
Ring of Honor: 20 Minutes (down from 33 Minutes)
WWE Superstars: 16 Minutes (up from 13 Minutes)
WWE Smackdown: 16 Minutes (up from 8.5 Minutes)
WWE NXT: 7 Minutes (no change)
WWE Raw: 5.33 Minutes (down from 7 Minutes)
TNA Impact: 5 Minutes (down from 10.5 Minutes)
Per Match Averages (this week):
WWE Superstars: 5.33 Minutes (up from 4.33 Minutes)
Ring of Honor: 5 Minutes (down from 11 Minutes)
WWE Smackdown: 4 Minutes (up from 2.83 Minutes)
WWE NXT: 3.5 Minutes (no change)
TNA Impact: 2.5 Minutes (down from 3.5 Minutes)
WWE Raw: 3.2 Minutes (up from 2.33 Minutes)
Longest Matches
Mike Bennett versus Kyle O’Reilly: 10 Minutes (Ring of Honor March 14)
Christian versus Alberto Del Rio: 10 Minutes (WWE Smackdown March 18)
Daniel Bryan versus Sheamus: 6 Minutes (WWE Raw March 14)
Tyler Reks versus JTG: 6 Minutes (WWE Superstars March 17)
Eve Torres, Tamina, Gail Kim, and Natalya versus The Bellas, Melina, and Alicia Fox: 6 Minutes (WWE Superstars March 17)
Rob Van Dam versus Bully Ray versus A.J. Styles versus Ken Anderson: 6 Minutes (TNA Impact March 17)
Shortest Matches
Miz versus Great Khali: 1 Minute (WWE Raw March 14)
Madison Rayne versus Alissa Flash: 1 Minute (TNA Impact March 17)
Hernandez, Sarita, and Rosita versus Matt Morgan, Winter, and Angelina Love: 1 Minute (TNA Impact March 17)
Cody Rhodes versus Trent Barreta: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown March 18)
Overall Totals
Total Wrestling Time by Show
WWE Smackdown: 1,582 Minutes
WWE Raw: 1,486 Minutes
TNA Impact: 1,393 Minutes
Ring of Honor: 1,324 Minutes
WWE Superstars: 1,103 Minutes
WWE NXT: 594 Minutes
[Season 5: 14 Minutes]
[Season 4: 161 Minutes]
[Season 3: 90 Minutes]
[Season 2: 158 Minutes]
[Season 1: 171 Minutes]
Overall Wrestling Time: 7,482 Minutes
Total Number of Matches by Show
WWE Raw: 331 Matches
WWE Smackdown: 296 Matches
TNA Impact: 288 Matches
WWE Superstars: 186 Matches
Ring of Honor: 173 Matches
WWE NXT: 128 Matches
[Season 5: 4 Matches]
[Season 4: 29 Matches]
[Season 3: 24 Matches]
[Season 2: 31 Matches]
[Season 1: 40 Matches]
Total Number of Matches: 1,402
Hourly Averages
Ring of Honor: 25.96 Minutes (down from 26.08 Minutes)
WWE Superstars: 19.70 Minutes (down from 19.76 Minutes)
WWE Smackdown: 14.13 Minutes (down from 14.09 Minutes)
WWE Raw: 12.49 Minutes (down from 12.67 Minutes)
TNA Impact: 12.01 Minutes (down from 12.13 Minutes)
WWE NXT: 10.61 Minutes (down from 10.67 Minutes)
[Season 5: 7 Minutes]
[Season 4: 12.38 Minutes]
[Season 3: 6.92 Minutes]
[Season 2: 12.15 Minutes]
[Season 1: 11.4 Minutes]
Per Match Averages
Ring of Honor: 7.72 Minutes (up from 7.65 Minutes)
WWE Superstars: 5.93 Minutes (down from 5.94 Minutes)
WWE Smackdown: 5.34 Minutes (down from 5.38 Minutes)
TNA Impact: 4.84 Minutes (down from 4.87 Minutes)
WWE NXT: 4.64 Minutes (down from 4.66 Minutes)
[Season 5: 3.5 Minutes]
[Season 4: 5.55 Minutes]
[Season 3: 3.75 Minutes]
[Season 2: 5.1 Minutes]
[Season 1: 4.28 Minutes]
WWE Raw: 4.49 Minutes (down from 4.51 Minutes)
Longest Matches
Tyler Black versus Davey Richards: 27 Minutes (Ring of Honor October 18)
Christopher Daniels versus Tyler Black: 20 Minutes (Ring of Honor August 9)
Davey Richards versus Eddie Edwards: 20 Minutes (Ring of Honor April 26)
Shelton Benjamin, Charlie Haas, Mark Briscoe, and Jay Briscoe versus Rhett Titus, Kenny King, Claudio Castagnoli, and Chris Hero: 20 Minutes (Ring of Honor February 7)
Shortest Matches
113 Total Matches at 1 Minute
The Last Ten Matches that Qualified:
Cody Rhodes versus Trent Barreta: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown March 18)
Madison Rayne versus Alissa Flash: 1 Minute (TNA Impact March 17)
Hernandez, Sarita, and Rosita versus Matt Morgan, Winter, and Angelina Love: 1 Minute (TNA Impact March 17)
Miz versus Great Khali: 1 Minute (WWE Raw March 14)
Cody Rhodes versus JTG: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown March 11)
Layla versus Kaitlyn: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown March 11)
Kane versus Wade Barrett: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown March 11)
Sheamus versus Daniel Bryan: 1 Minute (WWE Raw March 7)
Jack Swagger versus JTG: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown March 4)
Big Show versus Kane: 1 Minute (WWE Smackdown March 4)
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