Paid Members JNLister Posted July 30, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted July 30, 2014 There's plenty of argument about the optimum number of matches to have on a show, but sometimes things go to extremes. Let's hear your Goldilocks tales. Â Fewest I've seen is technically 0 which has happened three times. One show which apparently was never booked (WAW in Warrington, which in hindsight seemed an unlikely venue for a Norwich group), one Premier show where I went to the wrong venue (right town though!) and the GWF show with no ring. Â Fewest actually on a show that happened was El Hijo Del Santo vs Blue Panther at Colchester University which was a show you had to pay to get into, but was funded by the Arts Council and put on as a sort of exhibition. Â Fewest on a "proper" show was Premier Promotions which technically had three, though it was a single, a tag, and then a six-man gauntlet series, so could also be described as a seven match show. Fewest without any caveats is four, which covers quite a few British shows from the likes of All Star. Â The most I can confirm is two RAW tapings in the US in 1997 which each had 13 matches, including a dark match, a Superstars/Shotgun taping, a dark "buffer" match, the live RAW and then a dark main event. Â I did see a show from the Long Island Wrestling Federation (aka a warehouse in Cypress Hill lit by a lamp hooked up to the ring truck battery) that went on forever, but I've no record of how many matches it had. Â Depending on how you split hairs, the most at one event was when GPW put on wrestling at the Macclesfield County Show where they did three sessions with a total of 17 matches, each session ending when the wrestlers got bored or it started raining. You can read about that on a participant's blog: http://83nn0.tumblr.com/post/48157000184/10-macclemania Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freaky Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 If you count the SHIMMER double DVD tapings which happen on a single day as one show, then I've probably seen around 25 matches on a show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted July 31, 2014 Moderators Share Posted July 31, 2014 25 matches in one day is hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Your Fight Site Posted July 31, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted July 31, 2014 25 matches in one day is hell.You’ve obviously never been to a local MMA show. Longest I went to started at 6pm and ended after midnight. There’s just no need for that. Absolutely exhausting and don’t know why the promoter thought it was a good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted July 31, 2014 Moderators Share Posted July 31, 2014 I have. I went at 10pm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reychampion Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Most I think was 12 or 13 at this year's TNA tv tapping in Manchester. Think I've been to a few shows with 5 matches. Average is usually 7 or 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshC Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 If you're including the camps, I remember this one being tremendous about three years ago.  James Mason vs Kade Callous Mikey Whiplash vs Mean Tommy Dean Mason and Little Legs vs Karl Krammer  Sometimes less really can be more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MungoChutney Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I've seen a two match show on the camps which was a decent show. Other than this I've helped promote and organise three events with 4 matches that PBW have run. I actaully think the 4 match format works great for younger audiences, sometimes on the 6/7 match shows kids attention starts to drift and it can be hard to win them back after the interval.  Most would probably be one of the TNA tv tapings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Brooker Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 IYH: Canadian Stampede had four matches, presumably this makes it the big PPV events with the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshC Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Yep. And I'd argue it's one of the best they ever did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bono Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 IYH: Canadian Stampede had four matches, presumably this makes it the big PPV events with the least. Wasnt the iyh running times only two hours then though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melina_mma Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Didn't Wrestlemanian 4 have a rather large amount of matches? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted July 31, 2014 Author Paid Members Share Posted July 31, 2014 Yeah, 16 which is the most on PPV I think. Slamboree 96 had 15 including a lethal lottery with two qualifying rounds. Â Least on PPV would be No Holds Barred: The Movie/The Match, and the CWA in Dallas doing Bodyguards & Bandits which was one match, albeit a 60 minute team affair with US football scoring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted July 31, 2014 Moderators Share Posted July 31, 2014 Would the Inoki island match count? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vamp Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 That CWA one sounds like an intriguing watch, has it ever shown up anywhere? Â Bugger the island death match. I've been tempted to just leave it on in the background before and just sip in and out of it for the aesthetic quality but meh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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