BTN: Elimination Chamber and PPV Trends

While it isn’t on the scale of the Royal Rumble match, there is a unique feature to the Elimination Chamber matches that even the most masochistic person can elicit a column. In addition to the Elimination Chamber matches, I also want to point out a few trends from the first two months of the year in pay per views from World Wrestling Entertainment and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. It is time once again to go Beyond the Numbers so get your Fruity Pebbles out of your Mongo McMichael Commemorative Halliburton and sit back and see where the numbers take you.

The Elimination Chamber Matches

Length of Matches:
Raw Elimination Chamber: 33:20
Smackdown Elimination Chamber: 31:28

Amount of time wrestlers were in the match:

John Morrison: 32:50 (Raw)
Edge: 31:28 (Smackdown)
Rey Mysterio: 31:28 (Smackdown)
Sheamus: 25:16 (Raw)
John Cena: 20:31 (Raw)
Randy Orton: 17:30 (Raw)
Wade Barrett: 14:31 (Smackdown)
Kane: 14:14 (Smackdown)
CM Punk: 14:00 (Raw)
Drew McIntyre: 7:51 (Smackdown)
Big Show: 3:40 (Smackdown)
R Truth: 1:14 (Raw)

Number of Eliminations

Edge: 2 (Kane and Rey Mysterio)
Kane: 2 (Big Show and Drew McIntyre)
CM Punk: 2 (Randy Orton and John Morrison)
Big Show: 1 (Wade Barrett)
John Cena: 1 (CM Punk)
John Morrison: 1 (Sheamus)
Sheamus: 1 (R Truth)

Unofficial Eliminations

1 CM Punk pinned by Randy Orton

Multiple Entrances in Match

CM Punk 2

Amount of time for CM Punk’s individual segments in the match

First Segment: 1:06
Second Segment: 12:54

Pay Per View Trends

R Truth has maximized his time on pay per view. He has been in the Royal Rumble and an Elimination Chamber Match but has only been in the ring for 2:24 (1:10 in the Royal Rumble and 1:14 in the Elimination Chamber).

Jerry Lawler was the only person to wrestle at the Elimination Chamber pay per view who did not wrestle at the Royal Rumble.

Forty-Six people wrestled at the Royal Rumble while only twenty people wrestled at the Elimination Chamber.

Of the nineteen men who wrestled at the Royal Rumble and Elimination Chamber:
10 wrestled more at Elimination Chamber than at Royal Rumble
8 wrestled less at Elimination Chamber than at Royal Rumble
1 wrestled the same amount of time at both pay per views

The greatest increase in time wrestling from Royal Rumble to Elimination Chamber: John Morrison 19 Minutes
The greatest decrease in time wrestling from Royal Rumble to Elimination Chamber: CM Punk 14 Minutes

Elimination Chamber 2011 was the first WWE Pay Per View not to have a Women’s match on the show since SummerSlam 2009 (There was a 15 Diva Battle Royal as a Dark Match).

John Cena has wrestled the most on WWE pay per views in 2011: 55 Minutes

Nineteen people wrestled at Genesis while twenty-two people wrestled at Against All Odds.

Twelve people wrestled on both TNA pay per views this year.

Two people ‘wrestled’ at Against All Odds without even being in the State of Florida (Max Buck and Jeremy Buck)

Bully Ray and Brother Devon wrestled on both pay per views and each match was 9 minutes.

5 Wrestled more at Against All Odds than at Genesis
5 wrestled less at Against All Odds than at Genesis
2 wrestled the same amount at both pay per views

The greatest increase in time wrestling from Genesis to Against All Odds: Jeff Jarrett and Kurt Angle: 12 Minutes
The greatest decrease in time wrestling from Genesis to Against All Odds: Robert Roode and James Storm: 8 Minutes

Ken Anderson has wrestled the most on the first two TNA pay per views in 2011: 42 Mintues. That total would put him eighth if he was in the WWE (John Cena [55], Edge [52], Rey Mysterio [50], CM Punk [49], John Morrison [47], Randy Orton [47], and Sheamus [43])

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