In this podcast, Mike and Darren look back at the best of everything that wasn't a movie (TV, music and games) of 2018!
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Another 12 months of cinema passes, and another inevitable tide of numerical criticism awaits your face. 2018 was a pretty decent year for films, but aimed more toward the middling 'it was OK' ground than swinging for the big seats. Ordering a top ten was extremely tentative this year, as I was constantly waiting for something to shake things up and totally alter my lists. However, like a bullet train up Everest, most of the entries reached their peak quite quickly. Here are my mostly static best and worst movies of the year.   Welcome to the 2018 WWE Statistics Series! Over the past 12 months, I’ve compiled stats on every single show WWE produced. I have no real explanation as to why I started, outside of a vague notion that combining my love of spreadsheets (don’t judge me) with WWE may help me re-engage with the product that I had spent most of 2017 avoiding entirely. And while I’m still not a regular viewer of Raw and Smackdown, collating these stats has certainly helped me keep up.
On day 1 we covered brand specific wins and losses, on day 2 we took a look at the overall numbers, day 3 highlighted the versus records, and yesterday we shifted gears by looking at the months of the year. And now we reach our final article, looking at title reigns. I’ll explain some of the nuances of the stats as we go (you can explore the entire spreadsheet on Google Docs), but I’d first like to thank Cagematch.net for their exhaustive record keeping that helped me start, maintain and double check this mammoth undertaking. Also everyone on ProWrestling.Net for the easy to skim TV reports, which I used in place of watching the shows when my free time was short. And now, the breakdown. The following stats are, to the best of my knowledge, accurate. They were taken from every televised WWE show between episode 1284 of Raw on January 1st and episode 1336 of Raw on December 31st. Matches were only counted if they aired on TV or the WWE network, and only if they aired during 2018 (this discounts any events taped in 2018 that won’t air until 2019). Also, any wins or losses that occurred whilst a wrestler wasn’t under WWE contract were not counted (this largely effects NXT UK talent). They had to appear on the roster pages of either the WWE website or Wikipedia (or both) to be counted. If you wish to quote these statistics on your own website, please give proper credit to Foul Entertainment, and include a link to our site. Reigns In total, 58 members of the roster held titles in 2018. Only one non-contracted person held gold, which may sound odd, but then you remember that it was Nicholas at WrestleMania. This means a surprisingly high 25% of the roster tasted gold over the course of the year. And of these 58 men and women, only one is no longer with the company - one time Cruiserweight champion and full time desperate hack Enzo Amore. Below, you’ll see a breakdown of reigns by length of days. I’d like to clarify two things. Firstly, we’re only counting days within the calendar year of 2018. Title reigns like Pete Dunne’s and AJ Styles’ were obviously much longer as they started in 2017, but we’re omitting any days before January 1st 2018. Also, we’re going by taping date, not airing date, for titles that changed hands on pre-taped shows. So British Strong Style had a longer reign on TV than they did in real life.  Welcome to the 2018 WWE Statistics Series! Over the past 12 months, I’ve compiled stats on every single show WWE produced. I have no real explanation as to why I started, outside of a vague notion that combining my love of spreadsheets (don’t judge me) with WWE may help me re-engage with the product that I had spent most of 2017 avoiding entirely. And while I’m still not a regular viewer of Raw and Smackdown, collating these stats has certainly helped me keep up.
On day 1 we covered brand specific wins and losses, on day 2 we took a look at the overall numbers, and yesterday we looked at “who beat who”, with our versus statistics. Today, we’re shifting gears by looking at the months of the year. I’ll explain some of the nuances of the stats as we go (you can explore the entire spreadsheet on Google Docs), but I’d first like to thank Cagematch.net for their exhaustive record keeping that helped me start, maintain and double check this mammoth undertaking. Also everyone on ProWrestling.Net for the easy to skim TV reports, which I used in place of watching the shows when my free time was short. And now, the breakdown. The following stats are, to the best of my knowledge, accurate. They were taken from every televised WWE show between episode 1284 of Raw on January 1st and episode 1336 of Raw on December 31st. Matches were only counted if they aired on TV or the WWE network, and only if they aired during 2018 (this discounts any events taped in 2018 that won’t air until 2019). Also, any wins or losses that occurred whilst a wrestler wasn’t under WWE contract were not counted (this largely effects NXT UK talent). They had to appear on the roster pages of either the WWE website or Wikipedia (or both) to be counted. If you wish to quote these statistics on your own website, please give proper credit to Foul Entertainment, and include a link to our site. 100%-ers Here are the marathon men and women that managed to wrestle at least one match a month for the entirety of 2018. That may not sound like a lot, but of the 231 members of the WWE roster in 2018, only 37 of them managed this feat - a lowly 16% of the total roster. This point is best driven home by the fact that not a single NXT superstar managed it. Kairi Sane fell at the last hurdle in December, and only Dakota Kai (March) and Roderick Strong (September) can match her 11 months out of 12. Raw  Welcome to the 2018 WWE Statistics Series! Over the past 12 months, I’ve compiled stats on every single show WWE produced. I have no real explanation as to why I started, outside of a vague notion that combining my love of spreadsheets (don’t judge me) with WWE may help me re-engage with the product that I had spent most of 2017 avoiding entirely. And while I’m still not a regular viewer of Raw and Smackdown, collating these stats has certainly helped me keep up.
On day 1 we covered brand specific wins and losses, and yesterday we took a look at the overall numbers. Today we’re looking at “who beat who”, with our versus statistics. I’ll explain some of the nuances of the stats as we go (you can explore the entire spreadsheet on Google Docs), but I’d first like to thank Cagematch.net for their exhaustive record keeping that helped me start, maintain and double check this mammoth undertaking. Also everyone on ProWrestling.Net for the easy to skim TV reports, which I used in place of watching the shows when my free time was short. And now, the breakdown. The following stats are, to the best of my knowledge, accurate. They were taken from every televised WWE show between episode 1284 of Raw on January 1st and episode 1336 of Raw on December 31st. Matches were only counted if they aired on TV or the WWE network, and only if they aired during 2018 (this discounts any events taped in 2018 that won’t air until 2019). Also, any wins or losses that occurred whilst a wrestler wasn’t under WWE contract were not counted (this largely effects NXT UK talent). They had to appear on the roster pages of either the WWE website or Wikipedia (or both) to be counted. If you wish to quote these statistics on your own website, please give proper credit to Foul Entertainment, and include a link to our site. Brand Members Beaten The numbers below account for wins over individuals on the wrestler's own brand (going off the final roster for 2018). And whether a wrestler beat someone once or 10 times, it only counts each individual opponent as one (more on that later). Not included are non-contracted opponents such as enhancement guys, and battle royals. I decided to take these out of contention, as this would have meant Asuka and Shinsuke would have instantly got 29 individual victories for winning the Rumble, giving them an almost insurmountable lead before the end of January in the overall stats. On the spreadsheet, you’ll see either “BR” or “RR” to denote people who the wrestler in question “defeated” in a battle royal or Royal Rumble, so if you like you can convert them to 1’s to see how that would have impacted things.  Welcome to the WWE 2018 Statistics Series on Foul Entertainment!
In conjunction with ProWrestling.net, we're publishing stats covering everything WWE in 2018. From wins and losses to title reigns and more, it's your one stop shop for knowing who came out on top over the last 12 months. You can see the spreadsheet these articles are pulled from on Google Docs, or click below to see the individual articles. There's 5 in total, being published on here between January 6th -10th 2018, so keep checking back! If you wish to quote these statistics on your own website, please give proper credit to Foul Entertainment, and include a link to our site.  Welcome to the 2018 WWE Statistics Series! Over the past 12 months, I’ve compiled stats on every single show WWE produced. I have no real explanation as to why I started, outside of a vague notion that combining my love of spreadsheets (don’t judge me) with WWE may help me re-engage with the product that I had spent most of 2017 avoiding entirely. And while I’m still not a regular viewer of Raw and Smackdown, collating these stats has certainly helped me keep up.
Yesterday we covered brand specific wins and losses, and today we’re going to look at the overall numbers. This collates and contrasts every win, loss and no-contest between Jason Jordan vs. Cesaro opening the first Raw of the year, to Ronda Rousey and Natalya vs. Nia Jax and Tamina closing out the last episode of Raw of 2018. I’ll explain some of the nuances of the stats as we go (you can explore the entire spreadsheet on Google Docs), but I’d first like to thank Cagematch.net for their exhaustive record keeping that helped me start, maintain and double check this mammoth undertaking. Also everyone on ProWrestling.Net for the easy to skim TV reports, which I used in place of watching the shows when my free time was short. And now, the breakdown. The following stats are, to the best of my knowledge, accurate. They were taken from every televised WWE show between episode 1284 of Raw on January 1st and episode 1336 of Raw on December 31st. Matches were only counted if they aired on TV or the WWE network, and only if they aired during 2018 (this discounts any events taped in 2018 that won’t air until 2019). Also, any wins or losses that occurred whilst a wrestler wasn’t under WWE contract were not counted (this largely effects NXT UK talent). They had to appear on the roster pages of either the WWE website or Wikipedia (or both) to be counted. If you wish to quote these statistics on your own website, please give proper credit to Foul Entertainment, and include a link to our site. Total matches (Brands) As with yesterday, we’ll first look at the stats broken down by each individual show. So Finn Balor had 46 Raw matches this year, but his overall amount of matches is higher as this doesn’t count PPVs etc.. Also, for a full breakdown of what constitutes a “Network Special” and what constitutes a “PPV”, please see the lists at the very bottom of this article.
In this review, Mike and Darren look back on the films of 2018, review all the movies we missed and count down their top ten movies of the year!
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