What's The Pay Window All About?
What's The Pay Window All About?

Seeing how pro wrestling seems to be the only "sport" where no one keeps tracks of the athletes' win-loss records, I thought it might be interesting. If nothing else, it gives you some insight into who's getting the biggest push, who's getting the most visibility on TV, etc.
Figuring out who to do this and how to interpret this is more difficult than you might think.
For years prior to 1997, I am using results sent to me by Nicolas Seafort. Nicolas does weekly updates that get posted on RSPW and he was nice enough to send his volumes of information to me. He has kept a stat list going for WCW since 1995 and, since then, has gone back and retroactively put together rankings for WCW/NWA back to 1987, using magazine reports and wrestling tapes from his archives. As a result, the farther you go back, the thinner they become; however, even it those early years you can extrapolate. His records were compiled as follows: Starting in 1998, Alex S. has taken over the thankless job of keeping the statistics for me. (Note that it's only a thankless job if no one thanks him.) Here's how Alex does it for the DDT Digest listings for the last part of 1996 and beyond (T-Bo also used this scheme for the 1995 win/loss records he sent me):
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