Paid Members Up Chuck Posted February 20, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted February 20, 2012 Right, so Elimination Chamber was a bit underwhelming, but the Road to Wrestlemania is kicking into high gear from now on, so it’s time to start looking forward! And what better way to do that than with another WWE PPV stats thread? That’s right, featuring more inconsequential figures and possibly even more long-forgotten names than the Royal Rumble version, it’s the… SOME IMPORTANT THINGS: This has been a lot of fun, but it’s also been very hard work at times, and I may have made a few mistakes. Please feel free to correct any errors you spot and I’ll cheerfully amend them. All percentages are rounded to 2 decimal points. Yes, I do have tiger_rick’s blessing to Chilli Dog his idea. Anyway, let’s get on with it! First up… The events! Wrestlemania 31st March 1985 Madison Square Garden, New York, NY Tagline: The Greatest Wrestling Event of All Time! Theme song: Attendance: 19,121 Broadcast time: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted February 20, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted February 20, 2012 WrestleMania V fact from the F4Wonline: (Hogan and Savage drew) perhaps the most impressive WWE buyrate of all time at WrestleMania V. That might not sound overly impressive today, but keep in mind that at that time the available PPV universe was 20 million homes. Today it is 100 million. If you extrapolate that out, 700,000 domestic buys in a 20 million universe would be the equivalent of WrestleMania today doing about 3 million buys domestic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Up Chuck Posted February 20, 2012 Author Paid Members Share Posted February 20, 2012 Two excellent additions there. I could add the PPV buyrates in next year, actually. Wonder if the Closed Circuit ticket sales are available anywhere... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobra_gordo Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Cracking read that fella, exellent work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEWM Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Brill read this, cheers. I enjoyed some of those trivia notes when you were compiling this in chat the other week too. To join Ian on the boxer/wrestler kick, remember when we nearly got Lesnar/Lewis too? That would have been a fun one. One stat I love is that John Cena has only ever wrestled in title matches at Wrestlemania, and all bar one were for the big belts. As great as it is he's fighting The Rock, I'm sad that one's going the way of the Funkasaurus this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted February 20, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted February 20, 2012 I think you've done an ace job with this "opcws". Terrific stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted February 20, 2012 Moderators Share Posted February 20, 2012 Is Tito Santana's record of 1-7 still the worst? Seven losses in a row must be a record of some kind as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Up Chuck Posted February 20, 2012 Author Paid Members Share Posted February 20, 2012 Cheers guys. I'm pretty proud of this, so it's nice to get positive feedback. Is Tito Santana's record of 1-7 still the worst? Seven losses in a row must be a record of some kind as well. Depends how you measure it, I guess. If you do it like goal difference and subtract losses from wins, I think that's probably the worst, although hilariously it's only one worse than Shawn Michaels. Conversely, I was going to try and do the win-loss records in more detail (including possibly a top and bottom 10) but that'd require an insane amount of work and there was no way I'd have got it done before Wrestlemania. Something like it may make an appearance next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted February 20, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted February 20, 2012 Wasnt Tito's only victory a dark match, though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members FLips Posted February 20, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted February 20, 2012 What a fantastic read, thanks for that. Small correction though regarding Wrestlemania games never being on any version of the Playstation Sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Up Chuck Posted February 20, 2012 Author Paid Members Share Posted February 20, 2012 Nope. Beat The Executioner in the opener of Wrestlemania I. EDIT: Well spotted, AAA. Cheerfully withdrawn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted February 20, 2012 Moderators Share Posted February 20, 2012 I dunno if you'd say this record's a notable one (I would because he fucking rules, and is a legit legend) but Terry Funk is 1-1. Here's another nice little one as well. All of Big John Studd's Wrestlemania appearances (I,II,V) involved Andre the Giant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Up Chuck Posted February 20, 2012 Author Paid Members Share Posted February 20, 2012 I've got Funk down in the "undefeated other than 'Taker" bit as 2-0, when did you think he'd lost? I might've missed it. Dory Jr's 1-0, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted February 20, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted February 20, 2012 He technically lost at WrestleMania 14, I believe. The decision was reversed the following night (if memory serves me right). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Up Chuck Posted February 20, 2012 Author Paid Members Share Posted February 20, 2012 Ah. Good job I didn't put down my Michael-Cole-only-person-to-win-by-reversed-decision stat then! I'll check out the episode of Raw in question sometime this week and see what I make of it, just because I've LOVE Funk to be undefeated. Still, at least Dory's flying the flag for his family on that front! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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