Raw vs. SmackDown Live: Which show included more wrestling (Dec. 12 - 13)?

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 December 12, 2016 edition of Raw:

• 8m 32s: New Day vs Cesaro/Sheamus vs Club (1 commercial break)
• 1m 14s: Curtis Axel vs Braun Strowman
• 2m 32s: Lince Dorado vs Ariya Daivari
• 5m 33s: TJ Perkins vs Brian Kendrick (1 break)
• 2m 45s: Bayley vs Alicia Fox
• 3m 25s: Sami Zayn vs Jinder Mahal
• 16m 03s: New Day vs Jeri-KO vs Rollins/Reigns (1 break)

Here is the amount of television time given to each match on the December 13, 2016 edition of SmackDown Live:

• 5m 14s: Natalya vs Carmella (1 break)
• 10m 26s: Tag Team Battle Royal (1 break)
• 4m 32s: Alexa Bliss vs Becky Lynch
• 15m 35s: Miz vs Ambrose vs Ziggler vs Harper (1 break)

Results for Week 21

Raw total televised content: 2h 09m 51s
Raw televised wrestling time: 40m 04s (7 matches)
Raw wrestling time percentage: 30.9%

SmackDown Live total televised content: 1h 19m 41s
SmackDown Live televised wrestling time: 35m 47s (4 matches)
SmackDown Live wrestling time percentage: 44.9%

44.9% is the highest percentage that SmackDown Live has ever recorded in a single week, and it only trails the first Raw episode of the new era, which clocked in at 45.1%.

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: 46h 54m 43s
Raw televised wrestling time: 15h 14m 00s (163 matches)
Raw wrestling time percentage: 32.5%

SmackDown Live total televised content: 28h 43m 42s
SmackDown Live televised wrestling time: 9h 03m 42s (98 matches)
SmackDown Live wrestling time percentage: 31.5%

Combined total televised content: 75h 38m 25s
Combined televised wrestling time: 24h 17m 42s (261 matches)
Combined wrestling time percentage: 32.1%