Craig's Pro Wrestling Musings #2 The AEW Women's Division - The Biggest Opportunity in Women's Wrestling? 10 Wrestlers That Could Capitalise on the AEW Women's Division The AEW Women's Division is a much discussed issue often pointed to as a failure of wrestling's new mega-power. This is harsh, before injuries to Britt Baker and Kris Statlander the AEW Women's Division was going places and in Hikaru Shida they have a top class wrestler who can be the Ace of the division as it

A slight twist to Power Rankings and this site's stats based content, a ranking of AEW wrestler's fluctuating star power, presence and aura week to week. 1. Jon Moxley An ex-WWE Champion that won over the smarks in Japan and currently holds the already prestigious AEW Championship. Absence makes the heart grow fonder but killer promos and a big match feel certainly helps. Defending the title in the main event is the cherry on top. 2. Cody Rhodes The lack of crowd hurts

Offence Breakdown Adam Cole & Keith Lee walked into The GAB knowing that history would be made. For the first time ever, the NXT and North American titles would be on the line in a winner take all match to crown NXT's first ever double champion (something the WWE has become very fond of as of late). Its always difficult to believably book a man of Keith Lee's stature and power as the underdog against a smaller heel; especially without a genuine crowd to feed off of but with t

in Orange Cassidy, AEW have someone that the fans adore. And when he can put on a match like this, who can bloody blame them.

AEW POWER RANKINGS Post-July 8 Folks thanks so much for reading the first official ProWrestlingMusings.com power rankings for AEW! And what better time to start? While Fyter Fest is aired on free TV, there’s no doubt it’s a pay-per-view quality card. And we all know we get our best indication of the lay of the land post-pay per view. Our power rankings will be the classic combination of eye-test and advanced statistics. The idea here is to present the clearest indication of

After a landscape shattering couple of days it is time to analyse the NJPW landscape and take stock of who holds the power in Japan's biggest wrestling company. 1. EVIL Unranked in the post-New Beginnings Power Rankings as he was in the Post Wrestle Kingdom Power Rankings. EVIL bursts right to the top of the Power Rankings as the undoubtably most powerful man in New Japan after besting the historic and first Double Crown Champion. Now 8-1 in 2020, having just defeated S

In July 2018, I sat on the same couch and watched a highly anticipated main event in New Japan Pro Wrestling. It was my recently new...

Teamwork makes the dream work...for now. How long will that last?

Offence breakdown On Wednesday night we finally witnessed the long awaited return of 'The Boss' Sasha Banks to the black & gold brand for the first time in 5 years with tag partner & BFF Bayley in her corner. Banks last match in NXT was a celebrated 30 minute Iron man match with Bayley for the NXT Woman's title; a title now held by her opponent, the Genius of the Sky- Io Shirai. Bank's homecoming was everything you'd expect from The Boss as she rolled into NXT on a muscle car

In this article we will look at how the 3 title matches at Fyter Fest Night 1 will unfold based on the past statistics of the wrestlers involved. To do this we will use their rates of offence, which measures how much a wrestler relies on a form of offence based on how often they use it in an hour of wrestling. To get tis number totals of each offence type are multiplied up to an hourly rate or divided down to an hourly rate depending on ring time. The numbers in this ar

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