AEW's Average Women's Division Match Time Has Increased Only 2 Seconds In 2 Years (AEW News)
Women's division matches on AEW Dynamite averaged 8:01 in 2024...identical to 2023, zero growth.
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Critics of the AEW women’s division - the investment behind it, more specifically, and not the talented roster - echo the same complaints. And, since the booking pattern is very rarely disrupted, this refrain is echoed frequently.
There’s just one women’s match on Dynamite. This is limiting, obviously. The less experienced wrestlers are unable to improve much for lack of reps. Meanwhile, the wrestlers who do get over fade from view too often, since they “can’t” wrestle every week, returning only to push that boulder up the hill all over again. That there is just one women’s match on Dynamite - invariably butchered with a long commercial break - furthers the idea that the division is not prestigious, informing apathetic reactions when the bell rings.
And so on.
X user @AdamWilton4 has taken a deep-dive into the data. The results are not merely depressing: they are an indictment of the process. In 2024, the average length of a women’s match on Dynamite was 8:01. That in itself is less than ideal for a promotion that expressly promotes itself as ‘Where The Best Wrestle’.
It gets worse: this, incredibly, was the exact same average match length for 2023.
To reiterate: the average length for a women’s match on Dynamite (or more accurately, the women’s match on Dynamite) was eight minutes and one second in both 2024 and 2023. The exact same time.
It, somehow, gets even worse:
The average length for the AEW women’s match on Dynamite, in 2022, was seven minutes and 59 seconds.
The average match length has grown two seconds in two years. Keep this up, and in 2026, the one women’s match on Dynamite will last eight minutes and three seconds.
This remarkable and thoroughly bleak stat underscores, italicises and puts in bold the reality that AEW’s women’s division is the victim of an inflexible, careless and repetitive approach.
Thanks again to @AdamWilton4 for sharing his findings.