Time for a pro wrestling Q&A
We will take care of some backed up pro wrestling questions from fans this week while diving into this week鈥檚 news.
Fans send questions in weekly and I try to answer them in this column or through replying to emails, but several this week were based on current pro wrestling news, so let鈥檚 focus on those questions.
n Tommy from Connellsville wants to know why the Royal Rumble was so long and was that the reason entrants came to the ring in shorter and longer times than they were supposed to.
The Rumble was a hot mess when it came to times and all over the place as well. WWE ran five title matches plus the two Rumbles, and that is why the show took so long.
Most people don鈥檛 have the attention span to focus on something for five hours, and this wasn鈥檛 the first time WWE has had five-hour events. The last few WrestleMania鈥檚 have also been that long.
The announced time for the intervals of the introductions in each match was 90 seconds, yet each match only had one interval at 90 seconds.
Let鈥檚 start with the women鈥檚 match since it was on earlier in the show.
The average length of intervals was just under two minutes at 119.55 seconds, with the longest interval 174 seconds, or two minutes and 54 seconds, between Sonya Deville and Alexa Bliss.
Charlotte Flair led the way with 4.5 eliminations and 17 different women had eliminations.
Natalya had the longest time in the match with 56 minutes and two seconds of the 1:11:24 it took to complete the match. Liv Morgan had the shortest time in at 40 seconds.
The average length of the intervals in the men鈥檚 Rumble was 98.72 seconds, with the longest interval between entrants being 141 seconds, or two minutes and 21 seconds.
Six intervals were under 90 seconds, while 22 were over.
Braun Strowman had the most eliminations with 4.5 and 16 different wrestlers had an elimination.
Seth Rollins had the longest time at 43 minutes and 28 seconds, while No Way Jose had the shortest run at 43 seconds. With Rollins鈥� time, 11:59 was spent outside the ring after being choke-slammed through a table.
Five different male wrestlers were in the Rumble for less than a minute.
n Samantha from Uniontown wants to know if WWE is having Ronda Rousey wrestle every female wrestler on the main roster so she can be remembered as having a successful career if she does indeed plan to leave after Mania to start a family.
I wouldn鈥檛 say that WWE is having her wrestle everyone in case she leaves, however, it does concern me that she has run through most of the female wrestlers on Raw so quickly.
Why burn through potential money-making feuds?
Had the Rousey versus Banks match been built better and had Banks not lost so many matches the last six months, the match would have been much bigger of a deal than it was.
But no, I don鈥檛 think WWE is having her face everyone just in case she has a baby.
If Rousey takes time off, it will freshen things up and when she returns, it would be a bigger deal as fans would not have to go through Rousey fatigue like they have had to do with stars like John Cena and Roman Reigns.
n Ron from Perryopolis wants to know if the All Elite Wrestling PPV in May will be the start of monthly PPVs for the company.
At the current time, it is the only event that AEW has scheduled and fans have to realize that it is going to take time for the company to get things off the ground.
The promotion has to make sure its foundation is set before it starts touring and even though it is working on a TV deal, it is going to take time to get things moving in the right direction.
Fans who are looking for another alternative to WWE will have to be patient with AEW, although all signs point to the financial backers looking to be in it for the long haul.
n Bryan from California wants to know if AEW can become competition for WWE.
It isn鈥檛 smart to put the cart before the horse, but AEW could force WWE to pay attention to it more than any other promotion has since WCW was bought out and ECW folded.
The key is money, and AEW has bigger pockets than TNA/Impact or Ring of Honor has ever had.
n On This Day 鈥�
In 1993, Ric Flair makes the last appearance of his first WWE run when he loses a WWE title match to Bret Hart in Dortmund, Germany.
On the January 25, 1993, edition of Raw, that was taped a week earlier, Flair lost a Loser Leaves the WWE match to Mr. Perfect.
Flair continued to wrestle house shows for another month despite not wrestling on TV.
This is something that could not happen in today鈥檚 world.