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Xero
08-05-2010, 07:39 PM
From PWInsider:

Every week for the last twenty-three weeks, I have taken a look back at the six shows from World Wrestling Entertainment, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, and Ring of Honor and compiled the times of the matches on each show. A few weeks ago, I took a look at the overall numbers for the shows. I have kept track of the longest and shortest matches each week

Last week, in my By the Numbers column, I mentioned that we reached a milestone with the shortest matches. They passed the fifty match barrier for matches that did not exceed eighty-nine seconds (in my calculations, I round down any match that is below twenty-nine seconds and round up any match thirty seconds or longer for that minute).

Here is a breakdown of the one minute matches over the first twenty-three weeks. This column will cover from the last week of February when I started By the Numbers through the end of July.

In the first twenty-three weeks, there were 576 total matches. This means that 9.2 percent of the matches that you saw on television were ‘one minute matches’. Raw had 39.6 percent of the total one minute matches, Impact had 20.8 percent of the total one minute matches, Smackdown had 18.9 percent of the total one minute matches, Ring of Honor and NXT had 7.5 percent of the total one minute matches each, and Superstars had 5.9 percent of the total one minute matches.

A total of eighty-eight wrestlers have been fortunate enough to be included in the one minute matches. In addition to the wrestlers whose names you will see below, some of the wrestlers who had one minute matches include Edge, The Undertaker, Sting, Chris Jericho, Rob Van Dam, Chris Hero, and the Briscoe Brothers.

Here is the breakdown of the fifty-three matches that qualify for the one minute matches that you see every week in the composite totals for shortest matches.

One Minute Matches by Month

February: 3 Matches
March: 16 Matches
April: 8 Matches
May: 11 Matches
June: 8 Matches
July: 7 Matches

One Minute Matches by Show

WWE Raw: 21 Matches
Ring of Honor: 4 Matches
WWE NXT: 4 Matches
WWE Superstars: 3 Matches
TNA Impact: 11 Matches
WWE Smackdown: 10 Matches

Weeks with the Most One Minute Matches

8 Matches in Week 2
5 Matches in Week 12
4 Matches in Week 10
3 Matches six times (Most Recent Time in Week 23)

Weeks with the Fewest One Minute Matches

0 Matches in Week 9
0 Matches in Week 15
0 Matches in Week 21
1 Match four Times (Most Recent Time in Week 20)

Types of Matches

Singles Match: 40 Times
Standard Tag Match: 10 Times
Six Person Tag Match: 1 Time
Ten Person Tag Match: 1 Time
Handicap Match: 1 Time

Matches by Gender of Participants

Men’s Matches: 40 Times
Women’s Matches: 13 Times

Wrestlers Who Have Been Involved in the Most One Minute Matches (Overall)

Maryse: 5 Times
William Regal: 5 Times
Rob Terry: 4 Times
Eve Torres: 4 Times
Santino Marella: 4 Times

Wrestlers Who Have Been Involved in the Most One Minute Matches (WWE Raw)

Maryse: 5 Times
Eve Torres: 4 Times
William Regal: 4 Times
Alicia Fox: 3 Times
Santino Marella: 3 Times

Wrestlers Who Have Been Involved in the Most One Minute Matches (Ring of Honor)

Skullcrusher Rashe Brown: 2 Times
Ten Wrestlers: 1 Time

Wrestlers Who Have Been Involved in the Most One Minute Matches (WWE NXT)

Daniel Bryan: 2 Times
Six Wrestlers: 1 Time

Wrestlers Who Have Been Involved in the Most One Minute Matches (WWE Superstars)

Vladimir Kozlov: 2 Times
Rosa Mendes: 1 Time
Beth Phoenix: 1 Time
Ryan Mitchell: 1 Time
Santino Marella: 1 Time

Wrestlers Who Have Been Involved in the Most One Minute Matches (TNA Impact)

Rob Terry: 4 Times
Matt Morgan: 3 Times
Scott Hall: 2 Times
Kevin Nash: 2 Times

Wrestlers Who Have Been Involved in the Most One Minute Matches (WWE Smackdown)

JTG: 2 Times
Shad Gaspard: 2 Times
Kane: 2 Times
Drew McIntyre: 2 Times

My next Behind the Numbers will look at the other end of the spectrum and I will take a look at the matches that exceed 10 minutes in length.

Cool King
08-05-2010, 07:45 PM
My next Behind the Numbers will look at the other end of the spectrum and I will take a look at the matches that exceed 10 minutes in length.

I can't wait.

bigslimjj
08-05-2010, 08:20 PM
lol at Rob terry having as many as maryse and Santino.he really is terrible,but at least they know it.

rated rjo
08-06-2010, 12:35 AM
If a one minute match gives me an excuse to look at Maryse, bring on the matches.