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BTN: Looking at February
When looking at the totals for the year, Ring of Honor and WWE Raw had the luxury of having five episodes during January so they have a slight advantage over the other shows.
Here is a look back at the last month of wrestling on television from WWE, TNA, and ROH and the pay per view offerings from WWE and TNA. With two fewer shows (and two fewer hours [the episode of Raw with the Rock’s return was considered a three hour show for purposes of this column]), there was almost two hundred fewer minutes of wrestling in fifteen fewer matches.
The average match times were down by almost an entire minute from January and there was almost a three and a half minute per hour difference from January to February. Maybe the ‘three hour’ Raw affected that number because it dragged down the average for Raw from 11 minutes per hour to 9.78 minutes per hour. That did bring the monthly average per hour down by a third of a minute per hour.
When it came down to the absolute numbers, Ring of Honor was able to beat two of the three shows that are two hours in length, falling fourteen minutes short of Smackdown. As I mentioned in my By The Numbers column for the pay per views, this month saw WWE and TNA have the same amount of wrestling for the month.
With four shows every week as well as a pay per view, it was expected that the top spots for the month would be filled by WWE wrestlers. The top four spots and seven of the top ten totals for the month were held by WWE wrestlers. Jeff Hardy and Ken Anderson were the TNA wrestlers who made the top ten. The final spot was filled by a man who averaged almost fourteen minutes a match in his three appearances on Ring of Honor television. That man also had the highest total for any individual show. That man is Kenny King.
When it came to individual match totals, the multiple WWE shows were definitely a factor because the top seventeen spots were held by WWE wrestlers. Then we had four TNA wrestlers join eight more WWE wrestlers with four matches. Then in thirtieth place, Kenny King joined people with three matches during the month.
Kenny King also had the greatest increase in the amount of wrestling between January and February with almost a half hour more wrestling in February. On the other side of the spectrum, Alberto Del Rio wrestled almost an hour less than he did in January. There were a total of seven people whose totals dropped by more than a half hour.
Number of Shows by Brand
WWE Raw: 4
Ring of Honor: 4
WWE NXT: 4
WWE: Superstars: 4
TNA Impact: 4
WWE Smackdown: 4
TNA Pay Per View: 1
WWE Pay Per View: 1
Total Amount of Wrestling Per Show in February
WWE Smackdown: 107 Minutes
Ring of Honor: 93 Minutes
WWE Raw: 88 Minutes
TNA Impact: 86 Minutes
WWE Superstars: 76 Minutes
WWE NXT: 44 Minutes
Total Amount of Wrestling on Television: 494 Minutes
WWE Pay Per View 91 Minutes
TNA Pay Per View: 91 Minutes
Total Amount of Wrestling on Pay Per View: 182 Minutes
Total Amount of Wrestling for Month: 676 Minutes
Wrestling Per Show for Year to Date
WWE Raw: 248 Minutes
WWE Smackdown: 236 Minutes
Ring of Honor: 228 Minutes
TNA Impact: 174 Minutes
WWE Superstars: 167 Minutes
WWE NXT: 102 Minutes
Total Amount of Wrestling on Television: 1,155 Minutes
WWE Pay Per View: 207 Minutes
TNA Pay Per View: 191 Minutes
Total Amount of Wrestling on Pay Per View: 398 Minutes
Total Amount of Wrestling for 2011: 1,553 Minutes
Total Number of Matches by Show in February
WWE Smackdown: 23
WWE Raw: 20
TNA Impact: 18
WWE Superstars: 14
Ring of Honor: 11
WWE NXT: 8
Total Number of Matches on Television: 94
TNA Pay Per View: 9
WWE Pay Per View: 5
Total Number of Matches on Pay Per View in February: 14
Total Number of Matches in February: 108
Total Number of Matches in 2011
WWE Raw: 47
WWE Smackdown: 46
TNA Impact: 36
Ring of Honor: 28
WWE Superstars: 28
WWE NXT: 18
Total Number of Matches on Television: 203
TNA Pay Per View: 18
WWE Pay Per View: 9
Total Number of Matches on Pay Per View: 27
Total Number of Matches in 2011: 230
Average Match Length for February
Ring of Honor: 8.45 Minutes
WWE NXT: 5.5 Minutes
WWE Superstars: 5.43 Minutes
TNA Impact: 4.78 Minutes
WWE Smackdown: 4.65 Minutes
WWE Raw: 4.4 Minutes
Average Match Length on Television: 5.26 Minutes
WWE Pay Per View: 18.2 Minutes
TNA Pay Per View: 10.11 Minutes
Average Match Length on Pay Per View: 13 Minutes
Overall Average Match Length for Month: 6.26 Minutes
Average Match Length for Year to Date
Ring of Honor: 8.14 Minutes
WWE Superstars: 5.96 Minutes
WWE NXT: 5.67 Minutes
WWE Raw: 5.28 Minutes
WWE Smackdown: 5.13 Minutes
TNA Impact: 4.83 Minutes
Average Match Length on Television: 5.69 Minutes
WWE Pay Per View: 23 Minutes
TNA Pay Per View: 10.61 Minutes
Average Match Length on Pay Per View: 14.74 Minutes
Overall Average Match Length for 2011: 6.75 Minutes
Wrestling per hour in February
Ring of Honor: 23.25 Minutes
WWE Superstars: 19 Minutes
WWE Smackdown: 13.38 Minutes
WWE NXT: 11 Minutes
TNA Impact: 10.75 Minutes
WWE Raw: 9.78 Minutes
Average Amount of Wrestling Per Hour on Television: 13.35 Minutes
WWE Pay Per View: 30.33 Minutes
TNA Pay Per View: 30.33 Minutes
Average Amount of Wrestling Per Hour on Pay Per View: 30.33 Minutes
Total Average Amount of Wrestling Per Hour in Month: 15.72 Minutes
Wrestling per hour Year to Date
Ring of Honor: 25.33 Minutes
WWE Superstars: 20.88 Minutes
WWE Smackdown: 14.75 Minutes
WWE Raw: 13.05 Minutes
WWE NXT: 12.75 Minutes
TNA Impact: 11 Minutes
Average Amount of Wrestling Per Hour on Television: 15.20 Minutes
WWE Pay Per View: 34.5 Minutes
TNA Pay Per View: 31.83 Minutes
Average Amount of Wrestling Per Hour on Pay Per View: 33.17 Minutes
Total Average Amount of Wrestling Per Hour Year to Date: 17.65 Minutes
Number of Ten Minute Matches by Show in February
Ring of Honor: 4
WWE NXT: 2
WWE Raw: 1
WWE Smackdown: 1
WWE Superstars: 1
TNA Impact: 1
Total Number of Ten Minute Matches in February: 10
Number of Ten Minute Matches by Show Year to Date
Ring of Honor: 10
WWE Raw: 6
WWE Smackdown: 6
WWE Superstars: 3
TNA Impact: 3
WWE NXT: 2
Total Number of Ten Minute Matches: 30
Number of One Minute Matches in February
WWE Smackdown: 2
WWE Raw: 1
TNA Impact: 1
Ring of Honor: 0
WWE NXT: 0
WWE Superstars: 0
Total Number of One Minute Matches: 4
Number of One Minute Matches Year to Date
WWE Smackdown: 5
WWE Raw: 4
TNA Impact: 3
Ring of Honor: 0
WWE NXT: 0
WWE Superstars: 0
Total Number of One Minute Matches in 2001: 12
Number of Twenty Minute Matches on Pay Per View in Month
WWE: 2
TNA: 0
Number of Twenty Minute Matches on Pay Per View in 2011
WWE: 5
TNA: 0
Number of Five Minute Matches on Pay Per View in Month
WWE: 1
TNA: 1
Number of Five Minute Matches on Pay Per View in 2011
WWE: 2
TNA: 2
Greatest Amount of Wrestling for February (overall including pay per views)
Edge: 67 Minutes [WWE]
John Cena: 66 Minutes [WWE]
Rey Mysterio: 66 Minutes [WWE]
John Morrison: 55 Minutes [WWE]
Jeff Hardy: 48 Minutes [TNA]
Sheamus: 47 Minutes [WWE]
Miz: 45 Minutes [WWE]
Ken Anderson: 45 Minutes [TNA]
CM Punk: 42 Minutes [WWE]
Kenny King: 41 Minutes [ROH]
Greatest Amount of Wrestling for Month on Television(by Show)
Ring of Honor: Kenny King 41 Minutes
WWE Smackdown: Edge 36 Minutes
WWE Raw: John Cena 34 Minutes
WWE Pay Per View: John Morrison 33Minutes
TNA Impact: Jeff Hardy 30 Minutes
WWE NXT: Derrick Bateman 28 Minutes
WWE Superstars: Tyler Reks 21 Minutes
TNA Pay Per View: Ken Anderson and Jeff Hardy 18 Minutes
Greatest Number of Matches in February (Overall)
John Cena: 7 Matches [WWE]
Justin Gabriel: 7 Matches [WWE]
Edge: 6 Matches [WWE]
Heath Slater: 6 Matches [WWE]
R Truth: 6 Matches [WWE]
Santino Marella: 6 Matches [WWE]
CM Punk: 5 Matches [WWE]
Daniel Bryan: 5 Matches [WWE]
Drew McIntyre: 5 Matches [WWE]
Eve Torres: 5 Matches [WWE]
John Morrison: 5 Matches [WWE]
Kane: 5 Matches [WWE]
Kofi Kingston: 5 Matches [WWE]
Miz: 5 Matches [WWE]
Rey Mysterio: 5 Matches [WWE]
Vladimir Kozlov: 5 Matches [WWE]
Wade Barrett: 5 Matches [WWE]
Highest Total for TNA: Jeff Hardy, Ken Anderson, Rob Van Dam, Robbie E 4 Matches (Tie for 18th)
Highest Total for ROH: Kenny King 3 Matches (Tie for 30th)
Greatest Amount of Matches in February (by Show)
WWE Smackdown: Edge 5 Matches
WWE Raw: John Cena 5 Matches
WWE NXT: Derrick Bateman and Brodus Clay 4 Matches
WWE Superstars: Tyler Reks 4 Matches
TNA Impact: Jeff Hardy, Ken Anderson, Rob Van Dam, and Sarita 3 Matches
Ring of Honor: Kenny King 3 Matches
TNA Pay Per View: Robbie E 2 Matches
WWE Pay Per View: 20 People with 1 Match
Highest amount of time on television without wrestling on pay per view in WWE and TNA
Johnny Curtis: 41 Minutes [WWE]
David Hart Smith: 39 Minutes [WWE]
Primo: 39 Minutes [WWE]
Brodus Clay: 38 Minutes [WWE]
Sarita: 31 Minutes [TNA]
Curt Hawkins: 30 Minutes [WWE]
Trent Barreta: 28 Minutes [WWE]
Jimmy Uso: 26 Minutes [WWE]
Jey Uso: 26 Minutes [WWE]
Velvet Sky: 25 Minutes [TNA]
Total Number of People to wrestle for each company in February
World Wrestling Entertainment: 63
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling: 42
Ring of Honor: 19
Number of People who wrestled on each show in February
WWE Pay Per View: 20
WWE Raw: 31
Ring of Honor: 19
TNA Impact: 37
WWE Smackdown: 32
WWE Superstars: 24
TNA Pay Per View: 22 (Includes Max and Jeremy Buck who did not physically appear in the Impact Zone, but were part of the opening match)
WWE NXT: 8
Greatest Difference in Wrestling Totals between January and February [positive]
Kenny King: 29 Minutes [ROH]
Kurt Angle: 27 Minutes [TNA]
Jeff Hardy: 25 Minutes [TNA]
Heath Slater: 23 Minutes [WWE]
Justin Gabriel: 19 Minutes [WWE]
Derrick Bateman: 17 Minutes [WWE]
Jay Briscoe: 16 Minutes [ROH]
Mark Briscoe: 15 Minutes [ROH]
Robbie E: 13 Minutes [TNA]
Jeff Jarrett: 12 Minutes [TNA]
Gunner: 12 Minutes [TNA]
Murphy: 12 Minutes [TNA]
D’Angelo Dinero: 12 Minutes [TNA]
Samoa Joe: 12 Minutes [TNA]
Greatest Difference in Wrestling Totals between January and February [negative]
Alberto Del Rio: 54 Minutes [WWE]
Randy Orton: 45 Minutes [WWE]
Dolph Ziggler: 41 Minutes [WWE]
Ted DiBiase: 38 Minutes [WWE]
Chris Sabin: 36 Minutes [TNA]
Alex Shelley: 31 Minutes [TNA]
Eddie Edwards: 31 Minutes [ROH]
Robert Roode: 28 Minutes [TNA]
James Storm: 28 Minutes [TNA]
Tyson Kidd: 27 Minutes [WWE]
Before I get to the show by show breakdowns, here are some interesting things that I noticed:
John Cena was the only person to wrestle on each episode of Raw in February.
Nobody wrestled on each episode of Ring of Honor in February.
Brodus Clay and Derrick Bateman wrestled on each episode of NXT in February.
Tyler Reks was the only person to wrestle on each episode of Superstars in February.
Nobody wrestled on each episode of Impact in February.
Drew McIntyre, Edge, Kane, Kofi Kingston, Rey Mysterio, and Wade Barrett wrestled on each episode of Smackdown in February.
R Truth has wrestled at the Royal Rumble and Elimination Chamber pay per views, but has only wrestled for a total of two minutes on those shows.
Nobody wrestled on each WWE television show during February.
Ring of Honor has had a ‘Ten Minute Match’ on every show this year.
The following people wrestled the same amount in January and February: Winter [TNA], Michael Elgin [ROH], Jack Swagger [WWE], Layla [WWE], Alicia Fox [WWE], Great Khali [WWE].
Edge (68 Minutes on Smackdown and 52 Minutes on Pay Per View), John Cena (62 Minutes on Raw and 55 Minutes on Pay Per View), and Rey Mysterio (76 Minutes on Smackdown and 50 Minutes on Pay Per View) are the only people who have wrestled more than fifty minutes on any two types of shows in WWE.
Ken Anderson (49 Minutes on Impact and 42 Minutes on Pay Per View) is the only person to break the forty minute barrier on Impact and Pay Per View in TNA.
Four people who wrestled for WWE in February made their debuts in 2011. They were Rosa Mendes (Smackdown), Evan Bourne (Raw), Vickie Guerrero (Smackdown), and Tamina (Raw and Superstars).
Fourteen people who wrestled for WWE in January did not wrestle during the month of February. There were four people who only wrestled on pay per view (Hornswoggle, Booker T, Kevin Nash, and Ezekiel Jackson), two people who are not contracted WWE wrestlers (Seth Allen and Mike Stevens), two other people who only wrestled on Smackdown (Cody Rhodes [injury storyline] and Kaitlyn), one person who only wrestled on Superstars (Darren Young), three wrestlers who only wrestled on NXT (Conor O’Brian, Jacob Novak, and Ricardo Rodriguez), one person who only wrestled on Raw (Husky Harris [injury storyline]), and one person who wrestled on more than one show in January (William Regal [Superstars and Pay Per View])
Fifteen people made their 2011 debuts for TNA in February: Robbie E, D’Angelo Dinero, Samoa Joe, Scott Steiner, Rosita, Jeremy Buck, ODB, Brian Kendrick, Eric Young, Jesse Neal, Orlando Jordan, Shannon Moore, Suicide, Hernandez, and Magnus.
Five people who wrestled for TNA in January did not wrestle in February: Chris Sabin, Alex Shelley, Abyss, Amazing Red, and Tommy Dreamer.
Four people made their television wrestling debuts for Ring of Honor in February.
Eighteen people who wrestled for Ring of Honor did not wrestle in February.
Scott Steiner is the only person in TNA who has wrestled on a pay per view, but not on Impact through the end of February.
Three wrestlers in WWE have wrestled on pay per view in 2011, but have not wrestled on television this year (Hornswoggle, Booker T, and Diesel).
Nineteen wrestlers in TNA have wrestled on Impact, but have not wrestled on pay per view in 2011.
Thirty wrestlers in WWE have wrestled on television so far in 2011, but have not wrestled on a pay per view.
Great Khali has wrestled the same amount of time on WWE television and WWE Pay Per View this year.
The following people have only wrestled on Raw this year: Nikki Bella, Evan Bourne, and Brie Bella.
The following people have only wrestled on NXT this year: Johnny Curtis, Brodus Clay, Derrick Bateman, Byron Saxton, Jacob Novak, Conor O’Brian, and Ricardo Rodriguez.
The following people have only wrestled on Superstars this year: David Hart Smith, Primo, Curt Hawkins, and Darren Young.
The following people have only wrestled on Smackdown this year: Cody Rhodes, Kelly Kelly, Beth Phoenix, Vickie Guerrero, Mike Stevens, Seth Allen, Rosa Mendes, and Kaitlyn.
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