Our brilliant contributor from the lovely (and wrestling-obsessed) subcontinent of India, Arul Kannan recently brought to our site a brand-new concept that is now ready to launch: an app that allows our readers to select a wrestler's name and automatically generate a "Wrestler Card" – an algorithmically generated scouting report based on stats on match quality, card position, attendance, and wins & losses scraped from CAGEMATCH. Go here for a step-by-step how-to with pictures

Good artists copy, great artists steal." Several times since his return, CM Punk has been noted for using spots from classic matches...

...In Page's case "mind games" refers primarily to involving the audience: firing them up, and taking a boost from their cheers...

Quick Analysis: In what may be an unsurprising development, there was no movement in or out of the Top 10 on the Men’s and Women’s Rosters in the last week; this is because Combined Metrics is an all-time cumulative measure of AEW statistics, meaning it will be a while until the high-profile recent arrivals (Punk, Danielson, Cole, Soho, etc.) find their way into the upper tier. Even so, it stands as a good example how the overall total evolves on a weekly basis. Further, as i

“Wins and Losses Matter.” This straightforward four-word slogan, spoken by EVP Cody Rhodes at the initial AEW press conference in January 2019, quickly became the maxim and driving force for my interest in All Elite Wrestling. In the two-plus years and more than 2000 matches since, this has held up as true to varying degrees. About ten months ago I began developing a system that set out to prove or disprove the above guiding principle because it became clear from anyone who

The introduction to this series, available at One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: The Journey Away From NXT - Introduction (prowrestlingmusings.com), only came out a week ago and yet in that time it feels like we've seen the death knell of what we currently know to be NXT. So as Vince and John Laurinaitis finally get their teeth into dismantling any sense of 'indie-ness' within WWE, what better time to be looking at the success, or otherwise, of those wrestlers who made the mov

N X T Those three letters have been on one hell of a journey since February 2010 when the Black and Gold brand made it's debut. From weird game show, to even weirder game show, through a stage as a genuine developmental brand before becoming a critically acclaimed super-indie, NXT now seems to have found itself on Vince McMahon's naughty step after its failure to see off that pesky little AEW once and for all. Even in the good old days though, the general mantra around NXT wa

...Red Velvet, on the other hand, seems to change up her offense practically every time we see her without any discernable rhyme or reason..

Some claim that Orange Cassidy is a "special attraction" because the nature of his gimmick doesn't lend itself to frequent matches.

...a formula that can grow tiring and stretch the bounds of credulity. But I feel that specific to Darby, it's important to acknowledge...

...despite the fact that that Tay Conti has fallen to the Beast Bomb in both of her previous attempts to defeat Nyla Rose, she continues to

For reasons that I've never entirely understood, wrestling fans get very very upset when it comes to discussing match ratings

Craig's Pro Wrestling Musings #1 Wrestling Storytelling with Statistics - Relationship between Offence Difference and Win/Lose Records. Does getting the lion's share of the total match offence correlate with actually picking up the 'W'? Today we use data from AEW's Male Singles division to find out. The dataset we are using is from all traditional rules 1v1 matches in this division in 2020. W/L is the competitors win/Loss record in this match type, determined by wins mi

Check out the Wrestling with Statistics Pod via Hit the Books on Monday. Essentially the companion podcast to this article! This week's Dynamite was an eventful one featuring a vile assault featuring a bag of oranges. In the ring FTR debuted and Cody defended the TNT Championship for the second time. AEW Dynamite - Big Matches This graph lets us know who is using submission holds effectively and those that are using a failing strategy. Jimmy Havoc, Kip Sabian and PAC

This is an analysis of the differences in quality between the world's biggest wrestling promotions. To compare and contrast the different companies we are going to focus on their biggest shows of 2020. Therefore we will look at Wrestlemania 36 and Takeover: Portland from WWE, AEW Revolution and NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 14. Match Quality First we will very simply look at the match quality as quantified by Grappl app users. The Grappl app is a mobile app where users give matches

Below you will find my booking bracket for the AEW TNT Championship Tournament. The Entrants These have been selected by using wrestlers 2020 singles records. Wrestlers have been omitted if they are embroiled in other championship pictures, Hager and Omega, or if they have not wrestled enough, Luther, Cabana and Brodie Lee. This leaves Cody, MJF, Havoc, Sabian, PAC, Darby and Janela as having the best records out with those already omitted. I have also decided to inc

This article contains AEW Tag team's statistics from 2v2 tag matches in 2020. To provide a reasonable sample size, teams who have not wrestled at least 20 minutes have been excluded from this piece of analysis. Shorter wrestling times mean wrestlers have sold less in their matches leading to an inflated rate of offence. To see the full statistics click this link to go to the Office 365 Excel document containing all the information. This document can be sorted to compare ea

In the article below you will find statistics on the AEW women's division in 2020. These statistics are gathered from 1v1 matches only. Only the top 6 women in terms of ring time, have been displayed in the charts. Find full statistics here Analysis in this article is based around per hour rates. For offence totals in 1v1 matches in 2020 or average offence per match in 1v1 matches in 2020, click the link above. An average rate of offence is more illustrative than totals or