How much wrestling actually happened at WWE SummerSlam 2016?

WWE featured 9 total matches on the main card of SummerSlam last night (Sun., Aug. 21, 2016) in Brooklyn.

The main card of this pay-per-view (PPV) lasted 4 hours, 3 minutes, and 34 seconds (4h 3m 34s). Here is a sorted list of the bell-to-bell times for the 9 matches that took place during this 4 hour event:

• 23m 11s: John Cena vs AJ Styles
• 19m 24s: Finn Balor vs Seth Rollins
• 15m 18s: Dean Ambrose vs Dolph Ziggler
• 13m 50s: Sasha Banks vs Charlotte
• 12m 08s: Enzo and Cass vs Jericho and Owens
• 11m 45s: Brock Lesnar vs Randy Orton
• 11m 02s: Becky, Naomi, Carmella vs Natalya, Alexa, Nikki
• 9m 05s: The New Day vs The Club
• 5m 39s: The Miz vs Apollo Crews

These times add up to 2h 01m 22s, which is roughly 49.8% of the show. For comparison’s sake, the overall match time percentage for all WWE PPV’s since the start of 2013 is 53.7%.

Are you surprised by any of these results, Cagesiders? Which of these matches received less (or more) time than you hoped for?

Don’t forget to keep it here at Cageside Seats for a full breakdown of the timing for the entire WWE SummerSlam 2016 PPV later this week!