{"id":92903,"date":"2020-02-07T17:03:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T23:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=92903"},"modified":"2020-02-07T19:14:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T01:14:53","slug":"sports-of-pro-wrestling-booking-the-elite-cody-kenny-omega-hangman-page-and-the-young-bucks-each-have-different-paths-to-success-in-aew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/02\/07\/sports-of-pro-wrestling-booking-the-elite-cody-kenny-omega-hangman-page-and-the-young-bucks-each-have-different-paths-to-success-in-aew\/","title":{"rendered":"SPORT OF PRO WRESTLING: Booking The Elite \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Cody, Kenny Omega, Hangman Page, and The Young Bucks each have different paths to success in AEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3692216465\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p><em>Professional wrestling\u2019s in-ring performance is most often quantified using star ratings or other subjective metrics, but there are many statistics and metrics that can be used to objectively analyze a wrestler\u2019s performance. Each week in this column I\u2019ll take a look at the sport of pro wrestling including in-ring statistics, trends, streaks, and advanced aggregate calculations of wrestlers in U.S.-based professional wrestling companies.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This was not a good week for The Elite. Four-fifths of the group took a loss against a randomly assembled foursome on Dynamite, and Cody took ten lashes with a leather belt from his former protege, MJF. The Elite\u2019s futility this week isn\u2019t drawing the same criticism from the professional wrestling community as it did at the inception of All Elite Wrestling because, when it comes to high stakes wins and losses and championships, The Elite hasn\u2019t delivered the way many anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>The expectation that Kenny Omega, considered by some to be the best in-ring performer in the world, would achieve immediate greatness in AEW was essentially a forgone conclusion. Cody had an early penchant for\u00a0building conflict-based matches with a new group of wrestlers. Matt and Nick Jackson were primed to finally dominate a stable tag team division that they had hand selected all while Adam Page had a clear sight to contention to be the face of All Elite Wrestling for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>All Elite Wrestling\u2019s flagship group began their tenure in the new league with a microscope placed directly over their in-ring results. Cody, Kenny Omega, and The Young Bucks\u2019 front office positions were sure to influence their performance in the ring, but we had very little history to reference when it came to this group consistently wrestling against a roster with this variety of talent. Would they be distracted by their EVP responsibilities? Would they be motivated to impress masses of new viewers? Would they buckle under the pressure of wrestling meaningful matches weekly?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1888\" src=\"https:\/\/sportofprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ELITE-Overall-Records.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1887\" src=\"https:\/\/sportofprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ELITE-Match-Type.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"138\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Elite haven\u2019t been dominant in AEW by any stretch of the imagination; they\u2019re collectively 57-33-1 overall for a .629 winning percentage. That\u2019s enough to keep themselves in the conversation for top tier matchups, but it\u2019s not good enough to demand title shots or main event opportunities much longer as other wrestlers hit their stride and establish themselves to the league. Collectively, they\u2019ve come up short in significant matches, they haven\u2019t held the championships they were expected to, and they\u2019ve had more success making others into stars than putting their new brand on their own backs.<\/p>\n<p>But even without win-loss dominance, The Elite touts some of the best secondary metrics in All Elite Wrestling. \u00a0Most notably, they\u2019ve dominated ring time. The company\u2019s top four wrestlers in Total Match Length are Kenny Omega, Nick Jackson, Matt Jackson, and Adam Page. Unsurprisingly for those familiar with his time in New Japan Pro Wrestling, Omega dominates this metric with a league leading six hours and twenty-three minutes of ring time over a company high twenty-two matches. That\u2019s an hour-and-a-half more than Nick Jackson, who lands second in this metric. Omega hasn\u2019t spent much time with a microphone to define his character to his new audience, but he has somewhat quietly been one of AEW\u2019s most valuable in-ring assets. If Omega can keep his stamina and rack up some meaningful singles victories, it\u2019s a near certainty that he\u2019ll build towards an AEW championship opportunity when the opponent is right.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1890\" src=\"https:\/\/sportofprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ELITE-Ring-Time.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The only member of The Elite that doesn\u2019t land on top of the Total Match Length list is Cody. Cody\u2019s ring time has been a little more limited, landing 10th\u00a0in the metric, but he is taking the most competitive bookings. Cody\u2019s Average Match Length is second longest in AEW at 16:23. He has the best win-loss differential at +10:11, mostly because it takes a very long time for opponents to put Cody away successfully; his average losing match time is the longest in AEW at 23:43. Cody may not be able to compete for the AEW Championship due to his loss to Chris Jericho at Full Gear, but he has shown that he will continue to take the most competitive bookings AEW has to offer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1886\" src=\"https:\/\/sportofprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ELITE-Match-Stakes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matt and Nick Jackson, The Young Bucks, have been true to their word. At AEW\u2019s onset, they were determined to bring tag team wrestling to the forefront of the professional wrestling landscape, and while they have the least impressive statistics of any of their Elite unit-mates, they have appeared in over a quarter of the company\u2019s main events. The tag team division in All Elite Wrestling is one of the strongest in all of professional wrestling, but aside from the two teams that have held the AEW Tag Team Championships, no team has been able to stretch together a meaningful winning streak. Currently, only SCU, Omega &amp; Page, and The Dark Order have any sort of win streak in the tag team division, and none are longer than three matches. If The Young Bucks can link together even a few wins, they\u2019ll rise through the ranks for an AEW Tag Team Championship opportunity with ease. If they can time it correctly to take on a less seasoned team (i.e. their friends and current champions Kenny Omega and Adam Page), they\u2019ll have their sights set on the AEW Tag Team Championships in no time.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-2233258697\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1889\" src=\"https:\/\/sportofprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ELITE-Participating.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"160\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adam Page is currently one half of the AEW Tag Team Champions, but his actions show that that isn\u2019t really where he wants to be. The Hangman couldn\u2019t capitalize to become the inaugural AEW World Champion earlier this year, and he has mostly floundered in the middle of the card as a singles competitor since. Page\u2019s 6-4 all time singles record is deceiving. His wins include two battle royals and a four-way match against Jimmy Havoc, Jungle Boy, and MJF. His one-on-one singles match victories include Kip Sabian, Sammy Guevara, and Pac. The victory over Pac would be impressive, but Page has also lost to Pac twice. Hangman will need to work his way up the card with one on one victories to work himself into the championship picture. The dissention between The Hangman and Kenny Omega could be Page\u2019s best strategy to get himself booked into a very meaningful singles match against the top tier Omega.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1885\" src=\"https:\/\/sportofprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ELITE-2019-2020.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen a significant shift from Kenny Omega, Cody, Adam Page, and The Young Bucks since the calendar turned to 2020 and The Elite seems to be hitting their in-ring stride now. The group had produced a .592 winning percentage since All Out, essentially league average for competitors with over five matches. They seemingly traded wins and losses through the tail end of 2019 and none of them could string together a significant win streak.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1884\" src=\"https:\/\/sportofprowrestling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ELITE-30-90-180.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"146\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2020\u2019s reset has been especially good Omega, Cody, and Page. They entered their eight-man tag on Feb. 5 undefeated, but Omega and Page took a loss in the match. The Young Bucks are .500 on the year so far, so they still need to turn a corner to build a championship r\u00e9sum\u00e9. The Elite is currently riding a .714 winning percentage on the new year and prior to their loss to The Blade, The Butcher, and The Lucha Brothers, their winning percentage was a staggering .882. If momentum holds up, the statistics are lining up for 2020 to be an establishing year for All Elite Wrestling\u2019s flagship group.<\/p>\n<p>Omega, Page, Cody, and the Jackson brothers are all capable of dominating All Elite Wrestling eventually. The main event scene is currently in good hands without them, occupied by recent WWE departures Chris Jericho and Jon Moxley. If The Elite continues to play their role well by taking only the most competitive bookings and building a cache of secondary statistics to point to when the time is right, they\u2019ll open the doors of opportunity when they can fully capitalize.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>All Elite Wrestling\u2019s leadership team put a microscope on their booking tendencies before they even booked a match and I\u2019ve taken on the task of curating and quantifying detailed AEW in-ring metrics at sportofprowrestling.com\/aew. I\u2019ve aggregated metrics including ring time, fall differential, strength of schedule, match stakes, match placement, participating match type, recency and many more to paint a clear statistical picture of each AEW wrestler\u2019s in-ring performance.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>RECOMMENDED:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/01\/28\/sport-of-pro-wrestling-if-wins-and-losses-matter-everything-else-does-too-ideas-to-deepen-the-layers-of-how-aew-computes-wrestler-success\/\">SPORT OF PRO WRESTLING: If Wins And Losses Matter, Everything Else Does Too \u2013 Ideas to deepen the layers of how AEW computes wrestler success<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1068834766\"><div id=\"pwtor-954670991\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Professional wrestling\u2019s in-ring performance is most often quantified using star ratings or other subjective metrics, but there are many statistics and metrics that can be used to objectively analyze a wrestler\u2019s performance. Each week in <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/02\/07\/sports-of-pro-wrestling-booking-the-elite-cody-kenny-omega-hangman-page-and-the-young-bucks-each-have-different-paths-to-success-in-aew\/\" title=\"SPORT OF PRO WRESTLING: Booking The Elite \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Cody, Kenny Omega, Hangman Page, and The Young Bucks each have different paths to success in AEW\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,27,6432],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opnionandanalysis","category-specialists","category-sport-of-pro-wrestling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-07-at-4.55.13-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92917,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92903\/revisions\/92917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}