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Where the data comes from
Everything published here is compiled from the sources below and cross-checked between them. No figure is copied from a single source and presented as settled.
- WWE
Cited by 9 matches, primary for 9
Official, and canon for the nine matches it has published a stats article for. The only source giving elimination credit in both directions, which is what the validator's mirror check needs. It publishes no elimination order, so even a WWE-canon match takes that from elsewhere.
- Wikipedia
Cited by 48 matches, primary for 39
Primary for every match WWE has not published. Per-entrant tables giving draw, elimination order, eliminator and time in match. Text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Darren's Win/Loss Records
Cited by 48 matches
Every entrant of every year in a single table, which makes it the best bulk cross-check. Thorough but unverified, so it is never primary here — it is the source the archive is checked against, and 384 of 1,440 records carry a dispute recorded from that comparison.
- Pro Wrestling History
Cited by 1 match
One page covering 1988 to 2019, clean and easy to parse. It transposes 1988's first two entrants, so it is never trusted alone on entry order.
- Smark Out Moment
Not currently cited
Aggregate records rather than per-entrant data. Used only where the others cannot answer a question.
Each match page lists the sources that specific match drew on, and which one was treated as primary.
How the data was checked
Sources disagree constantly, and that is a finding rather than a problem to tidy away. Cross-checking the archive against a second source produced 384 disagreements across 1,440 entrant records — 224 elimination orders, 115 eliminator lists and 7 identities. The time differences are spread from one second to over two minutes, which is real editorial disagreement rather than a systematic offset that could be corrected away.
Where sources disagree, both figures are recorded and neither is averaged. Averaging two published times produces a number no source asserts, that a reader cannot verify and this site cannot cite. The primary source’s figure is shown; the other is kept alongside it with the source it came from.
Entry and elimination timestamps are derived, not recorded. No source publishes them. Every source gives a time in the match, an entry number and an elimination order, so the position of each bar on a match timeline is solved from those — and each match declares how precise its timings are. A match whose timings are estimated is marked as such rather than presented with a precision the data does not have.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, it may well be — please get in touch. Knowing which source you are reading from helps a great deal.