In a perfectly timed match, the final buzzer (signaling Big Show's entrance) would have gone off 42m 00s after the start of the match. The median waiting period was between 96 and 97 seconds, and the average time was 98 seconds. None of the waiting periods fell under 90 seconds or above 2 minutes.Ģ2 of the 28 waiting periods were under 1m 40s. How well did WWE stick to that claim? Here are the waiting times between all 28 buzzers, in chronological order:ġ3 of the 28 waiting periods came within 5 seconds of the 90-second goal. Justin Roberts stated that there would be 90-second waiting intervals between each entrant. There was a brief staredown with Kozlov that extended Triple H's entrance time by a few seconds. It turned out that JTG used a double-sided coin to cheat his way into the match. That means that for about 13.9% of the match, at least one superstar was in the midst of his entrance.Ĭryme Tyme came out together and flipped a coin to see which member of their team would enter the match.
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These numbers add up to about 8m 09s of entrance time out of the entire 58m 37s match. The first two entrants (Mysterio, Morrison) are excluded because their entrances took place prior to the start of the match. This is the amount of time that passed between an entrance buzzer going off and when the superstar finally stepped foot into the actual ring. Here are the entrance times for each superstar involved. This list includes Santino, Kendrick, Ziggler, Goldust, and Miz.
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This match included 5 wrestlers who did not survive long enough to make it to the next buzzer. There's a chance that it might even be just a tick more than 2 seconds. I replayed this one over again several times and I am confident that Santino's survival time is closer to 2 seconds than 1 second. However I clocked Santino's survival time at 2 seconds, whereas WWE claims that he lasted 1 second. Santino's brief survival time did indeed break Warlord's record from 1989. In other words, there was never a point in the match where Punk had one of the 9 highest survival times out of all the active wrestlers in the ring. The 9 wrestlers who finished ahead of him were all active for the entirety of Punk's time in the match. 12 of the 30 men in the 2009 Royal Rumble match accomplished this feat.ĬM Punk's survival time of 22m 29s was the 10th highest. In last year's Royal Rumble match, only 3 of the 30 men lasted longer than 16m 59s. The average survival time of 16m 59s is absurdly high. Most lower card guys don't manage to last for 32m 43s in a Royal Rumble match. Out of those 10 longest survivors, the name Mike Knox sticks out like a sore thumb.
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That is one of the reasons why the 2009 Royal Rumble contained a whopping 10 participants who survived for over 20 minutes. The story of this match pretty much required that Orton, Triple H, DiBiase, and Cody would all need to survive until the end of the match.
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Here is the full list of survival times for all 30 superstars: The average superstar survival time for the 2009 Royal Rumble match was 16m 59s and the median survival time was 10m 46s. This does not include the time it takes for a superstar to make his way from the entrance ramp down to the actual ring. My definition of the Survival Time for a superstar is the time that lapses between the point when a superstar steps foot into the ring and the time that the superstar's feet hit the floor to signal elimination. And if you really want to dig deeper, the graphic also includes time stamps for when each wrestler stepped foot into the ring as well as time stamps for each wrestler's elimination.įor comparison's sake, here are other versions of this graphic for Royal Rumble matches from 1988, 1992, 1999 ( version 1, version 2), 2003, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2015. The graphic provides a quick visual way to understand which wrestlers dominated the 2009 Royal Rumble match as time progressed, as well as seeing how crowded the ring was at any given point. Here is a text graphic that displays much of the information discussed below, including a chronological listing of who the longest lasting men were at any given point in the match. This match featured Triple H's uphill battle against the three members of Legacy, as well as Santino Marella setting a record for the shortest survival time in Royal Rumble history. The 2009 Royal Rumble match lasted 58 minutes and 37 seconds (58m 37s).