Last Friday’s WWE Smackdown Featured Only Thirteen Minutes Of Wrestling

Wrestling Inc (via Cagematch) reports that last Friday’s episode of WWE Smackdown featured the least amount of wrestling for any episode of Smackdown this year. The amount of in-ring action was 13 minutes and 40 seconds over two hours of the program. The longest match was Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Ludwig Kaiser, which went 6:40.

No other episode this year went under twenty minutes of wrestling, and only three were under 25 minutes: April 8 (21:28), March 4 (24:15), and February 25 (24:00).

The report goes on to note that there were seven individual matches this year that had more wrestling than the entirety of last Friday’s episode. They include: July 1: Battle Royal (14:36); June 17: Roman Reigns vs. Riddle (16:56); June 3: The Usos vs. Shinsuke Nakamura & Riddle (13:41); February 19: Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Sami Zayn (18:15); February 11: Charlotte Flair vs. Naomi (19:55); January 21: The Usos vs. Seth Rollins & Kevin Owens (15:00); January 7: The Usos vs. Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods (17:45).