Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2020 0:40:29 GMT -5
I started doing some investigation into various roster sizes. Just as points of interest. I may have a number or two off, but this should be fairly accurate.
AEW -- 58 men, 19 women. 15 Tag team/Trios including Omega/Page, Kip/Havoc, and Sonny/Joey. These numbers include Abadon and Ricky Starks being signed.
RAW -- 30 men, 14 women including becky and Zelina. 4 tag teams, including Ricochet/Cedric
Smackdown -- 37 men, 12 women. 5 tag teams. I found it super interesting that the Smackdown roster was larger despite being on TV for an hour less per week compared to raw.
NXT -- 35 men, 18 women. 6 tag teams.
NJPW lists 78 active wresters, but that includes their ROH crossover guys like Cobb, and the AEW crossovers like Jericho, etc.
It should be noted for all the WWE ones, I am even counting the people who are signed but sit at home, i.e. Bo Dallas, etc.
I didn't bother with NXT UK, it's too small at 1 hour a week to offer meaningful comparison.
Interesting to note that AEW has as many tag teams as all 3 of the WWE rosters combined. This largely explains the difference in size for mens rosters. If you count teams as one person the count would be much closer.
It got interesting to me when considering what the ideal roster size would be for having their second show launching, plus an hour of dark per week.
AEW has more women signed now than any individual WWE brand with the addition of Abadon. I think that should silence any critics of them not taking their women's division seriously. I know they could still use a household name, but those aren't easy to come by in women's wrestling by any stretch.
Thought it was neat. I can't remember if the 2nd show was going to be 1 or 2 hours, but lets assume 1. That would be 4 hours of wrestling per week including dark. I think factoring in the tag team differentials, that would leave them realistically another 10-15 wrestlers max before everyone started losing too much tv time. They could easily run it with the current roster without issue, but they do have a bit of room if there are other people they want to bring in. Some of these 58 aren't really doing much yet either, i.e. Austin Gunn hasn't really wrestled, but he's going to, etc. I was mostly curious about this considering not so much the WWE releases (a few of the AEW guys have kinda already publicly said thanks but no thanks to them), but more all the guys on dark. I figure for the amount of work the enhancement talent has done during the pandemic, we could definitely see a few of them be awarded with actual contracts and roster spots.
I like numbers, so I thought it would be interesting to compare. Take it for what it's worth, which is just a Canadian geeks rambling at near midnight haha.
AEW -- 58 men, 19 women. 15 Tag team/Trios including Omega/Page, Kip/Havoc, and Sonny/Joey. These numbers include Abadon and Ricky Starks being signed.
RAW -- 30 men, 14 women including becky and Zelina. 4 tag teams, including Ricochet/Cedric
Smackdown -- 37 men, 12 women. 5 tag teams. I found it super interesting that the Smackdown roster was larger despite being on TV for an hour less per week compared to raw.
NXT -- 35 men, 18 women. 6 tag teams.
NJPW lists 78 active wresters, but that includes their ROH crossover guys like Cobb, and the AEW crossovers like Jericho, etc.
It should be noted for all the WWE ones, I am even counting the people who are signed but sit at home, i.e. Bo Dallas, etc.
I didn't bother with NXT UK, it's too small at 1 hour a week to offer meaningful comparison.
Interesting to note that AEW has as many tag teams as all 3 of the WWE rosters combined. This largely explains the difference in size for mens rosters. If you count teams as one person the count would be much closer.
It got interesting to me when considering what the ideal roster size would be for having their second show launching, plus an hour of dark per week.
AEW has more women signed now than any individual WWE brand with the addition of Abadon. I think that should silence any critics of them not taking their women's division seriously. I know they could still use a household name, but those aren't easy to come by in women's wrestling by any stretch.
Thought it was neat. I can't remember if the 2nd show was going to be 1 or 2 hours, but lets assume 1. That would be 4 hours of wrestling per week including dark. I think factoring in the tag team differentials, that would leave them realistically another 10-15 wrestlers max before everyone started losing too much tv time. They could easily run it with the current roster without issue, but they do have a bit of room if there are other people they want to bring in. Some of these 58 aren't really doing much yet either, i.e. Austin Gunn hasn't really wrestled, but he's going to, etc. I was mostly curious about this considering not so much the WWE releases (a few of the AEW guys have kinda already publicly said thanks but no thanks to them), but more all the guys on dark. I figure for the amount of work the enhancement talent has done during the pandemic, we could definitely see a few of them be awarded with actual contracts and roster spots.
I like numbers, so I thought it would be interesting to compare. Take it for what it's worth, which is just a Canadian geeks rambling at near midnight haha.
