WWE Crown Jewel match times stats breakdown

WWE’s Crown Jewel lasted for 3 hours, 42 minutes, and 54 seconds (3h 42m 54s). Here is a breakdown of the timing for every single second of the show, in chronological order.

The matches are in bold. The “pre-match” segments include video packages, entrances, ring introductions, and any verbal promos that occur right before a match officially begins. The “post-match” segments include any celebrations, replays, angles, attacks, or promos that occur right after a match is finished.

Match Times

The 11 matches combined for a total time of 1h 45m 34s. This means that 47.4% of the show was devoted to bell-to-bell action. This is the 76th highest percentage in this category out of the 81 WWE pay-per-view (PPV) events in my data set, which begins with Royal Rumble 2013.

Here is the sorted list of match times for Crown Jewel. This also includes where each match time ranks out of all 597 matches in my data set.

• 27m 49s: D-Generation X vs. Brothers of Destruction (31st longest out of 597 matches)
• 13m 05s: Seth Rollins vs. Dolph Ziggler (266th)
• 11m 10s: Rey Mysterio vs. The Miz (337th)
• 11m 10s: AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe (337th)
• 10m 32s: The Bar vs. New Day (365th)
• 8m 15s: Kurt Angle vs. Dolph Ziggler (457th)
• 6m 58s: Jeff Hardy vs. The Miz (504th)
• 5m 25s: Seth Rollins vs. Bobby Lashley (548th)
• 5m 25s: Rey Mysterio vs. Randy Orton (548th)
• 3m 16s: Brock Lesnar vs. Braun Strowman (569th)
• 2m 29s: Shane McMahon vs. Dolph Ziggler (576th)

Triple H’s injury occurred at roughly 5m 34s after his match began, and the match continued for another 22m 15s beyond that point. Triple H did remain outside the ring mostly lying in the rubble of a broken table for about nine minutes of that remaining time.

The main thing that stands out to me in the above table is that 9 of the 11 matches finished below the 50th percentile for match time in my data set, out of 597 total matches. The main event was more than twice as long as any other match at Crown Jewel.

Pre-match Segments

The pre-match segments combined for a total time of 1h 16m 49s, which is 34.5% of the show. This is now the highest percentage in this category out of the 81 events in my data set, breaking the previous high mark of 33.7% at WrestleMania 34.

Here is the sorted list of pre-match segment time for all 11 matches. For some context, keep in mind that the median pre-match segment time in my data set is 5m 57s and the average time is 6m 26s.

• 15m 56s: D-Generation X vs. Brothers of Destruction
• 10m 37s: Shane McMahon vs. Dolph Ziggler
• 7m 49s: AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe
• 6m 17s: The Bar vs. New Day
• 6m 17s: Brock Lesnar vs. Braun Strowman
• 6m 04s: Rey Mysterio vs. Randy Orton
• 5m 57s: Jeff Hardy vs. The Miz
• 5m 02s: Kurt Angle vs. Dolph Ziggler
• 4m 38s: Rey Mysterio vs. The Miz
• 4m 37s: Seth Rollins vs. Bobby Lashley
• 3m 35s: Seth Rollins vs. Dolph Ziggler

Two matches received the special treatment of a dedicated video package right before superstar entrances. The video packages for HBK’s match (4m 50s) and Samoa Joe’s match (2m 50s) combined to take up 7m 40s of the total pre-match segment time at Crown Jewel.

The pre-match segment for the main event was longer than the individual match times for the other 10 matches on the card.

Post-match Segments

The post-match segments combined for a total time of 24m 44s, which is 11.1% of the show. This is the 19th highest percentage in this category out of the 81 events in my data set.

Here is the sorted list of the post-match segment time for all 11 matches. For some context, keep in mind that the median post-match segment time in my data set is 1m 59s and the average time is 2m 27s.

• 4m 03s: Rey Mysterio vs. Randy Orton
• 3m 23s: Shane McMahon vs. Dolph Ziggler
• 2m 59s: Brock Lesnar vs. Braun Strowman
• 2m 51s: Seth Rollins vs. Dolph Ziggler
• 2m 30s: D-Generation X vs. Brothers of Destruction
• 1m 42s: AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe
• 1m 41s: Kurt Angle vs. Dolph Ziggler
• 1m 41s: Rey Mysterio vs. The Miz
• 1m 23s: Seth Rollins vs. Bobby Lashley
• 1m 19s: Jeff Hardy vs. The Miz
• 1m 12s: The Bar vs. New Day

Miscellaneous Segments

That leaves about 7.1% (15m 47s) of the show for everything else. This is the 80th highest percentage in this category out of the 81 events in my data set. The only event with a lower percentage in this category is Night of Champions 2014.

Most of these miscellaneous segments are crammed into the time after one post-match segment ends and before the next pre-match segment begins. Crown Jewel included seven different blocks of miscellaneous segments. Here is how long each block lasted, in chronological order:

• Block 1: 9m 14s (Opening hype video; Hogan is the host)
• Block 2: 0m 28s (Ad for Survivor Series 2018)
• Block 3: 1m 33s (Hype for remaining matches; Ad for WWE Shop)
• Block 4: 1m 07s (Hype for WrestleMania 35)
• Block 5: 0m 31s (Ad for WWE 2K19)
• Block 6: 1m 39s (Hype for Survivor Series 2018)
• Block 7: 1m 15s (Ad for WWE Network)

Summary

The overall run time for Crown Jewel was 3h 42m 54s, and this ranks 16th longest out of all 81 events in my data set.

Here is a listing of how much total show time was allocated for each match when you add up all 3 components: pre-match time, match time, and post-match time. This list also includes where each total time ranks among the 597 entries in my data set.

• 46m 15s: D-Generation X vs. Brothers of Destruction (25th longest out of 597 entries)
• 20m 41s: AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe (293rd)
• 19m 31s: Seth Rollins vs. Dolph Ziggler (322nd)
• 18m 01s: The Bar vs. New Day (358th)
• 17m 29s: Rey Mysterio vs. The Miz (375th)
• 16m 29s: Shane McMahon vs. Dolph Ziggler (404th)
• 15m 32s: Rey Mysterio vs. Randy Orton (428th)
• 14m 58s: Kurt Angle vs. Dolph Ziggler (444th)
• 14m 14s: Jeff Hardy vs. The Miz (462nd)
• 12m 32s: Brock Lesnar vs. Braun Strowman (500th)
• 11m 25s: Seth Rollins vs. Bobby Lashley (531st)

Now here is a look at the “Match Time Percentage” for each match. For any given match, this percentage shows how the match time compares to the combined pre-match and post-match segment time. For some context, it’s good to know that the median result here since 2013 is 61.9%.

(Here’s an example calculation: an entry with a match time of 6m 00s, pre-match time of 3m 00s, and a post-match time of 1m 00s has a score of 60.0%, because the match time of 6m 00s is 60% of the total sum of 10m 00s for all three components.)

• 67.0%: Seth Rollins vs. Dolph Ziggler
• 63.9%: Rey Mysterio vs. The Miz
• 60.1%: D-Generation X vs. Brothers of Destruction
• 58.5%: The Bar vs. New Day
• 55.1%: Kurt Angle vs. Dolph Ziggler
• 54.0%: AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe
• 48.9%: Jeff Hardy vs. The Miz
• 47.4%: Seth Rollins vs. Bobby Lashley
• 34.9%: Rey Mysterio vs. Randy Orton
• 26.1%: Brock Lesnar vs. Braun Strowman
• 15.1%: Shane McMahon vs. Dolph Ziggler

Five of the eleven matches on this card didn’t even reach 50% in this metric. For some context, 490 out of the 597 matches in my data set have reached at least 50% in this metric.

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Final Results for Crown Jewel

Match - 47.4% - 1h 45m 34s

Pre-match - 34.5% - 1h 16m 49s

Post-match - 11.1% - 24m 44s

Miscellaneous - 7.1% - 15m 47s