This month saw a first since I started doing the pay per view columns for By the Numbers. Each company provided the same amount of wrestling with 91 minutes each on their three hour programs. While they had the same amount of wrestling, the averages were not the same because WWE only had five matches on the Elimination Chamber show while TNA had nine matches at Against All Odds.

As a result of the two elimination chamber matches on the show, the top three match times are held by matches from World Wrestling Entertainment.

I will have a brief column later this week taking a look Beyond the Numbers of the Elimination Chamber Pay Per View.

Since there is no pay per view from the WWE in March, the next By the Numbers Pay Per View edition will be after Wrestlemania. Extreme Rules will go head to head with Lockdown while the May edition will have the second offering from WWE.

Even though WWE has had one more pay per view during this period, TNA was the first company to eclipse the one hundred match barrier.

I am including the Robbie E versus Max Buck versus Jeremy Buck match because the referee did make the ten count to get the win.

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)

Total Wrestling Time:
TNA Genesis: 91 Minutes in 9 Matches (Last Month 100 Minutes)
WWE Elimination Chamber: 91 Minutes in 5 Matches (Last Month 116 Minutes)

WWE Elimination Chamber

Alberto Del Rio versus Kofi Kingston: 10 Minutes
Elimination Chamber Match: Edge versus Rey Mysterio versus Wade Barrett versus Kane versus Drew McIntyre versus Big Show : 31 Minutes
Santino Marella and Vladimir Kozlov versus Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel: 5 Minutes
Jerry Lawler versus Miz: 12 Minutes
Elimination Chamber Match: Sheamus versus John Morrison versus Randy Orton versus John Cena versus R Truth versus CM Punk: 33 Minutes

TNA Against All Odds

Robbie E versus Max Buck versus Jeremy Buck: 1 Minute
Robbie E versus Frankie Kazarian: 7 Minutes
Scott Steiner, James Storm, and Robert Roode versus Rob Terry, Gunner, and Murphy: 10 Minutes
D’Angelo Dinero versus Samoa Joe: 9 Minutes
Mickie James versus Madison Rayne: 8 Minutes
Rob Van Dam versus Matt Hardy: 13 Minutes
Bully Ray versus Brother Devon: 9 Minutes
Jeff Jarrett versus Kurt Angle: 16 Minutes
Ken Anderson versus Jeff Hardy: 18 Minutes

Wrestling Per Hour
WWE Elimination Chamber: 30.33 Minutes (Last Month 38.67 Minutes)
TNA Against All Odds: 30.33 Minutes (Last Month 33.33 Minutes)

Average Length of Matches:
WWE Elimination Chamber: 18.2 Minutes (Last Month 29 Minutes)
TNA Against All Odds: 10.11 Minutes (Last Month 11.11 Minutes)

Longest Matches:
Elimination Chamber Match: Sheamus versus John Morrison versus Randy Orton versus John Cena versus R Truth versus CM Punk: 33 Minutes (WWE Elimination Chamber)
Elimination Chamber Match: Edge versus Rey Mysterio versus Wade Barrett versus Kane versus Drew McIntyre versus Big Show: 31 Minutes (WWE Elimination Chamber)
Ken Anderson versus Jeff Hardy: 18 Minutes (TNA Against All Odds)

Shortest Matches:
Robbie E versus Max Buck versus Jeremy Buck: 1 Minute (TNA Against All Odds)
Santino Marella and Vladimir Kozlov versus Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel: 5 Minutes (WWE Elimination Chamber)
Robbie E versus Frankie Kazarian: 7 Minutes (TNA Against All Odds)

Total Wrestling Time

WWE: 1,238 Minutes
TNA: 1,164 Minutes

Total Number of Matches

WWE: 92 Matches
TNA: 102 Matches

Wrestling Per Hour
TNA: 32.33 Minutes (up from 32.52 Minutes)
WWE: 30.95 Minutes (down from 31 Minutes)

Average Length of Matches:
WWE: 13.46 Minutes (up from 13.18 Minutes)
TNA: 11.41 Minutes (down from 11.54 Minutes)

Longest Matches:
Royal Rumble: 70 Minutes (WWE Royal Rumble 2011)
Team WWE (John Cena, Bret Hart, John Morrison, R Truth, Daniel Bryan, Chris Jericho, and Edge) versus Nexus (David Otunga, Skip Sheffield, Darren Young, Heath Slater, Justin Gabriel, Wade Barrett, and Michael Tarver): 35 Minutes (WWE SummerSlam)
Elimination Chamber Match: Sheamus versus John Morrison versus Randy Orton versus John Cena versus R Truth versus CM Punk: 33 Minutes (WWE Elimination Chamber)

Shortest Matches:
Magnus versus Rob Terry: 1 Minute (TNA Destination X)
Sting versus Jeff Jarrett: 1 Minute (TNA Sacrifice)
Kane versus Rey Mysterio: 1 Minute (WWE Money in the Bank)
Robbie E versus Max Buck versus Jeremy Buck: 1 Minutes(TNA Against All Odds 2011)

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