WWE featured eight complete matches on the primary card of SummerSlam 2022which came about on July 30 in Nashville, Tennessee.
The primary card of this pay-per-view (PPV) lasted 3 hours, 39 minutes and 37 seconds (3h 39m 37s). Here’s a sorted record of bell-to-bell occasions for the eight video games that came about at this occasion:
- 22m 55s: Roman Reigns vs. Brock Lesnar
- 15m 10s: Bianca Belair vs. Becky Lynch
- 14m 15s: Logan Paul vs The Miz
- 13m 23s: The Usos vs Road Earnings
- 11m 09s: The Mysterios towards the Final Judgment
- 10m 39s: Pat McAfee vs. Comfortable Corbin
- 4m 43s: Bobby Lashley vs Principle
- 4m 34s: Liv Morgan vs. Ronda Rousey
These occasions complete 1h 36m 48s, or about 44.1% of the present. For comparability, the general match time proportion for WWE’s 132 PPVs for the reason that begin of 2013 is 53.6%.
The primary factor that stands out is that Brock Lesnar truly had the longest match of the night time. Final Man Standing matches are anticipated to be lengthy because of the many ten counts constructed into the struggle, however wrestling followers count on Lesnar’s matches to generally not even attain 10 minutes, not to mention 20.
WWE’s weird resolution to tug Rollins vs. Mast Maybe the map riddle was tied to time constraints in spite of everything. Rumor has it that Ronda Rousey’s match was shorter than anticipated resulting from Logan Paul’s match happening a lot earlier within the night time. If WWE was attempting to maintain this card beneath 4 hours, perhaps slicing Rollins vs. Riddle from the present was the easiest way to do it. Nevertheless, the rumored Rollins resolution was made earlier than his angle on Uncooked earlier this week, and I do not know if WWE would have given the time for Slam summer season nearly per week upfront.
WWE stadium occasions usually have much less match time than an ordinary WWE PPV, and that was the case once more right here. There was a really lengthy entry path which contributed to this consequence. Roman Reigns was approaching Undertaker entry time ranges, together with his entrance theme enjoying for round 5:35 earlier than the match. Lesnar’s entrance music performed for 3:36 earlier than the match, together with his tractor journey to the ring. These mixed entrance music occasions (9m 11s) are in the identical ballpark because the mixed match occasions for Lashley and Morgan (9m 17s).
Regardless that prime stars AJ Kinds, Drew McIntyre and Rollins did not wrestle on this present, WWE discovered methods to include them into the occasion. Within the case of McIntyre and Rollins, this included separate segments within the venue between video games.
WWE occasions airing on Peacock additionally embody extra video packages for particular wrestlers, I assume to account for Peacock subscribers who do not pay the additional value to have the adverts utterly eliminated.
These are a number of the the explanation why the general match time for Slam summer season dropped under 50%. The top consequence was rattling near final yr’s Slam summer season map.
Are you stunned by any of those outcomes, Cagesiders? Which of those matches obtained much less (or extra) time than you anticipated?
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