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+---
+license: cc0-1.0
+task_categories:
+  - tabular-classification
+language:
+  - en
+tags:
+  - sports
+  - wrestling
+  - wwe
+  - aew
+  - wcw
+  - ecw
+  - match-data
+  - relational
+pretty_name: Ringside Analytics — Pro Wrestling Match Archive
+size_categories:
+  - 100K<n<1M
+configs:
+  - config_name: matches
+    data_files: matches.parquet
+  - config_name: match_participants
+    data_files: match_participants.parquet
+  - config_name: wrestlers
+    data_files: wrestlers.parquet
+  - config_name: events
+    data_files: events.parquet
+  - config_name: promotions
+    data_files: promotions.parquet
+  - config_name: wrestler_aliases
+    data_files: wrestler_aliases.parquet
+  - config_name: titles
+    data_files: titles.parquet
+  - config_name: title_reigns
+    data_files: title_reigns.parquet
+  - config_name: alignment_turns
+    data_files: alignment_turns.parquet
+---
+
+# Ringside Analytics — Pro Wrestling Match Archive
+
+A relational snapshot of professional wrestling history from 1980 to the present:
+**292K matches, 611K wrestler-match participations, 35K events, and 12.8K
+wrestlers** across WWE, AEW, WCW, ECW, NXT, TNA, and others. Sourced from
+public Cagematch.net scrapes and the alexdiresta profightdb dump, normalized
+into a Postgres schema, and exported as parquet files that preserve the
+relational structure (one file per table, joinable by `id`).
+
+This is the source-of-truth companion to the trained model at
+[theodorerubin/ringside-analytics-match-winner](https://www.kaggle.com/models/theodorerubin/ringside-analytics-match-winner).
+If you want to train your own model, reshape the features, or just explore
+40+ years of booking patterns — start here.
+
+## Files
+
+| File | Rows | Description |
+|---|---:|---|
+| `matches.parquet` | 292,780 | One row per match. Type, stipulation, duration, title match flag, Cagematch rating. |
+| `match_participants.parquet` | 611,515 | One row per wrestler-per-match. `result` is the label for outcome prediction. |
+| `wrestlers.parquet` | 12,814 | Ring name, real name, gender, debut date, status. |
+| `wrestler_aliases.parquet` | 13,230 | Alternate ring names with active-period bounds. |
+| `events.parquet` | 35,064 | Event name, date, venue, city, country, event type. |
+| `promotions.parquet` | 6 | WWE, AEW, WCW, ECW, NXT, TNA with founding / defunct dates. |
+| `titles.parquet` | 121 | Championship belts per promotion. |
+| `title_reigns.parquet` | 1,753 | Reign start/end + number of defenses. |
+| `alignment_turns.parquet` | 631 | Face / heel / tweener transitions per wrestler. |
+| `manifest.json` | — | Export manifest: row counts, columns, UTC timestamp. |
+
+## Schema (join keys)
+
+```
+promotions.id ─┬─< wrestlers.primary_promotion_id
+               ├─< events.promotion_id
+               ├─< titles.promotion_id
+               └─< wrestler_aliases.promotion_id
+
+wrestlers.id ──┬─< match_participants.wrestler_id
+               ├─< wrestler_aliases.wrestler_id
+               ├─< title_reigns.wrestler_id
+               └─< alignment_turns.wrestler_id
+
+events.id ─────┬─< matches.event_id
+               └─< alignment_turns.event_id  (nullable)
+
+matches.id ────── match_participants.match_id
+
+titles.id ─────── title_reigns.title_id
+```
+
+## Starter queries
+
+```python
+import pandas as pd
+
+matches = pd.read_parquet("matches.parquet")
+participants = pd.read_parquet("match_participants.parquet")
+wrestlers = pd.read_parquet("wrestlers.parquet")
+
+# Every match The Rock has wrestled, with opponents
+rock_id = wrestlers.query("ring_name == 'The Rock'")["id"].iloc[0]
+rock_matches = participants[participants["wrestler_id"] == rock_id]
+```
+
+```sql
+-- If you load these into DuckDB:
+SELECT w.ring_name, COUNT(*) AS wins
+FROM match_participants mp
+JOIN wrestlers w ON w.id = mp.wrestler_id
+WHERE mp.result = 'win'
+GROUP BY 1
+ORDER BY 2 DESC
+LIMIT 20;
+```
+
+## Provenance
+
+- **Cagematch.net** (public HTML scrape, non-commercial use): the bulk of
+  match-level data for 1990-present.
+- **alexdiresta/all-wwe-and-wwf-matches** Kaggle dataset (profightdb dump):
+  cross-validation + pre-1990 coverage.
+- **Normalization + dedup**: entity resolution on wrestler names,
+  match-type classification into a fixed ENUM, and natural-key deduplication
+  to collapse records across sources.
+
+The ETL code and scraper are open source at
+[tedrubin80/wrastlingfirst](https://github.com/tedrubin80/wrastlingfirst).
+
+## Caveats
+
+- **Kayfabe, not athletics.** Pro wrestling is scripted. A `result` field
+  records *who was booked to win*, not who would win an athletic contest.
+- **Temporal coverage is uneven.** 2000-present is well-covered; 1980s are
+  thinner, especially for regional/territory promotions.
+- **Gender imbalance.** Women's division sample size is smaller — expect
+  wider confidence intervals for any women's-division model.
+- **Ratings are crowd-sourced** (Cagematch user ratings). They're a proxy
+  for match quality as perceived by Internet wrestling fans — biased toward
+  work-rate and away from entertainment/story.
+
+## License
+
+Released under **CC0 1.0** (public domain dedication). Attribution is
+appreciated but not required. Note that the underlying sources
+(Cagematch.net, profightdb) have their own terms; this archive is a
+derivative work made available for research and entertainment.
+
+## Citation
+
+```bibtex
+@dataset{ringside_analytics_2026,
+  author = {Rubin, Theodore},
+  title  = {Ringside Analytics: Pro Wrestling Match Archive (1980--present)},
+  year   = {2026},
+  url    = {https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/theodorerubin/ringside-analytics}
+}
+```

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+{
+  "generated_at": "2026-04-19T19:44:10.971094+00:00",
+  "source": "postgresql://ringside (local)",
+  "tables": {
+    "promotions": {
+      "rows": 6,
+      "columns": [
+        "id",
+        "name",
+        "abbreviation",
+        "founded",
+        "defunct",
+        "parent_org",
+        "created_at",
+        "updated_at"
+      ],
+      "file": "promotions.parquet",
+      "size_mb": 0.01
+    },
+    "wrestlers": {
+      "rows": 12814,
+      "columns": [
+        "id",
+        "ring_name",
+        "real_name",
+        "gender",
+        "birth_date",
+        "debut_date",
+        "status",
+        "primary_promotion_id",
+        "brand",
+        "billed_from",
+        "image_url",
+        "created_at",
+        "updated_at"
+      ],
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+      "size_mb": 0.27
+    },
+    "wrestler_aliases": {
+      "rows": 13230,
+      "columns": [
+        "id",
+        "wrestler_id",
+        "alias",
+        "promotion_id",
+        "active_from",
+        "active_to",
+        "created_at"
+      ],
+      "file": "wrestler_aliases.parquet",
+      "size_mb": 0.35
+    },
+    "events": {
+      "rows": 35064,
+      "columns": [
+        "id",
+        "name",
+        "promotion_id",
+        "date",
+        "venue",
+        "city",
+        "state",
+        "country",
+        "event_type",
+        "cagematch_id",
+        "created_at",
+        "updated_at"
+      ],
+      "file": "events.parquet",
+      "size_mb": 0.71
+    },
+    "matches": {
+      "rows": 292780,
+      "columns": [
+        "id",
+        "event_id",
+        "match_order",
+        "match_type",
+        "stipulation",
+        "duration_seconds",
+        "title_match",
+        "rating",
+        "cagematch_id",
+        "created_at",
+        "updated_at"
+      ],
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+      "size_mb": 2.87
+    },
+    "match_participants": {
+      "rows": 611515,
+      "columns": [
+        "id",
+        "match_id",
+        "wrestler_id",
+        "team_number",
+        "result",
+        "entry_order",
+        "elimination_order",
+        "created_at"
+      ],
+      "file": "match_participants.parquet",
+      "size_mb": 5.65
+    },
+    "titles": {
+      "rows": 121,
+      "columns": [
+        "id",
+        "name",
+        "promotion_id",
+        "established",
+        "retired",
+        "active",
+        "created_at",
+        "updated_at"
+      ],
+      "file": "titles.parquet",
+      "size_mb": 0.01
+    },
+    "title_reigns": {
+      "rows": 1753,
+      "columns": [
+        "id",
+        "title_id",
+        "wrestler_id",
+        "won_date",
+        "lost_date",
+        "defenses",
+        "won_at_event_id",
+        "lost_at_event_id",
+        "created_at",
+        "updated_at"
+      ],
+      "file": "title_reigns.parquet",
+      "size_mb": 0.04
+    },
+    "alignment_turns": {
+      "rows": 631,
+      "columns": [
+        "id",
+        "wrestler_id",
+        "from_alignment",
+        "to_alignment",
+        "turn_date",
+        "event_id",
+        "description",
+        "source",
+        "created_at"
+      ],
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+    }
+  }
+}

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