Raw vs. SmackDown Live: Which show included more wrestling (August 08 - 09)?

It’s a new era in WWE, and there is an ongoing competition between the Raw and SmackDown Live brands. This column is focused on how much televised wrestling content is seen on each brand when commercial time is removed from the equation.

Televised match times

Here is the amount of television time given to each match on the August 8th edition of Raw:

• 7m 40s: Chris Jericho vs Enzo Amore (1 commercial break)
• 0m 50s: Braun Strowman vs Jorel Nelson
• 1m 58s: Darren Young vs Titus O'Neil
• 7m 56s: Cesaro vs Sheamus (1 commercial break)
• 5m 19s: Neville and Sin Cara vs Dudley Boyz
• 2m 42s: Sasha Banks vs Dana Brooke
• 1m 32s: Kofi Kingston vs Luke Gallows
• 9m 36s: Rusev vs Cesaro

Here is the amount of television time given to each match on the August 9th edition of SmackDown Live:

• 1m 13s: American Alpha vs Vega and O'Shea
• 2m 36s: Becky Lynch vs Alexa Bliss (began during commercial)
• 9m 12s: Randy Orton vs Alberto Del Rio (1 commercial break)
• 3m 04s: Rhyno vs Heath Slater
• 4m 07s: Carmella vs Natalya
• 6m 54s: Ambrose and Ziggler vs Wyatt and Rowan (1 commercial break)

Results for Week 3

Raw total televised content: 2h 16m 14s
Raw televised wrestling time: 37m 33s (8 matches)
Raw wrestling time percentage: 27.6%

SmackDown Live total televised content: 1h 21m 58s
SmackDown Live televised wrestling time: 27m 06s (6 matches)
SmackDown Live wrestling time percentage: 33.1%

Overall results for the brand split

Here are the overall results for the brand split thus far, which began on July 25th:

Raw total televised content: 6h 41m 45s
Raw televised wrestling time: 2h 10m 20s (26 matches)
Raw wrestling time percentage: 32.4%

SmackDown Live total televised content: 4h 06m 38s
SmackDown Live televised wrestling time: 1h 15m 01s (14 matches)
SmackDown Live wrestling time percentage: 30.4%

Combined total televised content: 10h 48m 23s
Combined televised wrestling time: 3h 25m 21s (40 matches)
Combined wrestling time percentage: 31.7%