BTN: Looking back at TNA and WWE's PPV
This month TNA went back in time with a show that focused on a company that had so many different names because they did not want to get a nasty letter from WWE. On the other side of the pay per view ledger, we had the Wrestlemania of the Summer. Both shows were down by at least ten minutes over last month and the number of matches were also down from previous months.
Even though the amount of wrestling was down, we did see the longest match since March with the elimination match in the main event of SummerSlam between Team Nexus and Team WWE. After a few short matches, WWE also gave us one of their best per match average thanks to a nearly 20 minute WWE Title match between Sheamus and Randy Orton to add to the main event. The three longest pay per view matches over the last half year are now all multiple man matches.
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:
WWE: 87 Minutes in 6 Matches (Last Month 97 Minutes)
TNA: 77 Minutes in 7 Matches (Last Month 93 Minutes)
WWE SummerSlam
Dolph Ziggler versus Kofi Kingston: 7 Minutes
Melina versus Alicia Fox: 5 Minutes
Big Show versus Straight Edge Society: 7 Minutes
Sheamus versus Randy Orton: 19 Minutes
Rey Mysterio versus Kane: 14 Minutes
Team WWE versus Nexus: 35 Minutes
TNA Hardcore Justice
Full Blooded Italians versus Kid Kash, Simon Diamond, and Johnny Swinger: 11 Minutes
Too Cold Scorpio versus CW Anderson: 7 Minutes
P.J. Polaco versus Stevie Richards: 7 Minutes
Al Snow versus Brother Runt versus Rhino: 6 Minutes
Axl Rotten and Kahoneys versus Team 3D: 12 Minutes
Tommy Dreamer versus Raven: 17 Minutes
Rob Van Dam versus Sabu: 17 Minutes
Wrestling Per Hour
WWE: 29 Minutes (Last Month 32.33 Minutes)
TNA: 25.67 Minutes (Last Month 31 Minutes)
Average Length of Matches:
WWE: 14.5 Minutes (Last Month 12.13 Minutes)
TNA: 11 Minutes (Last Month 10.33 Minutes)
Three Longest Matches (and ties):
Team WWE versus Nexus: 35 Minutes (WWE SummerSlam)
Sheamus versus Randy Orton: 19 Minutes (WWE SummerSlam)
Tommy Dreamer versus Raven: 17 Minutes (TNA Hardcore Justice)
Rob Van Dam versus Sabu: 17 Minutes (TNA Hardcore Justice)
Three Shortest Matches (and ties):
Melina versus Alicia Fox: 5 Minutes (WWE SummerSlam)
Al Snow versus Brother Runt versus Rhino: 6 Minutes (TNA Hardcore Justice)
Drew McIntyre versus Kofi Kingston: 7 Minutes (WWE SummerSlam)
Big Show versus Straight Edge Society: 7 Minutes (WWE SummerSlam)
Too Cold Scorpio versus CW Anderson: 7 Minutes (TNA Hardcore Justice)
P.J. Polaco versus Stevie Richards: 7 Minutes (TNA Hardcore Justice)
Total Wrestling Time [6 pay per views]
WWE: 570 Minutes in 47 Matches
TNA: 556 Minutes in 52 Matches
Wrestling Per Hour
TNA: 30.88 Minutes (down from 31.93 Minutes)
WWE: 30 Minutes (down from 30.19 Minutes)
Average Length of Matches:
WWE: 12.13 Minutes (up from 11.78 Minutes)
TNA: 10.69 Minutes (up from 10.64 Minutes)
Three Longest Matches:
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)
Team Flair (Desmond Wolfe, James Storm, Robert Roode, and Sting) versus Team Hogan (Abyss, Jeff Jarrett, Rob Van Dam, and Jeff Hardy): 30 Minutes (TNA Lockdown)
Drew McIntyre versus Kane versus Kofi Kingston versus Dolph Ziggler versus Matt Hardy versus Christian versus Big Show versus Cody Rhodes: 26 Minutes (WWE Money in the Bank)
Three Shortest Matches: (and ties)
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)
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