cff-version: 1.2.0
title: "Ringside Analytics: Pro Wrestling Match Archive (1980–present)"
message: "If you use this dataset, please cite it as below."
type: dataset
authors:
  - family-names: Rubin
    given-names: Theodore
    email: ted@theorubin.com
abstract: >-
  A relational snapshot of professional wrestling history from 1980 to the
  present: 482K matches, 731K wrestler-match participations, 35K events, and
  12.8K wrestlers across WWE, AEW, WCW, ECW, NXT, and TNA. Provided as nine
  joinable parquet/CSV tables, a denormalized match_view, and a 35-feature
  ML-ready feature_matrix. Sourced from public Cagematch.net scrapes and the
  alexdiresta profightdb dump, normalized into a Postgres schema.
keywords:
  - pro wrestling
  - sports
  - tabular
  - classification
  - relational data
license: CC0-1.0
date-released: 2026-04-19
version: "1.1.0"
url: "https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/theodorerubin/ringside-wrestling-archive"
repository-code: "https://github.com/tedrubin80/wrastlingfirst"
identifiers:
  - type: url
    value: "https://huggingface.co/datasets/datamatters24/ringside-analytics"
    description: Hugging Face mirror
preferred-citation:
  type: dataset
  authors:
    - family-names: Rubin
      given-names: Theodore
  title: "Ringside Analytics: Pro Wrestling Match Archive (1980–present)"
  year: 2026
  url: "https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/theodorerubin/ringside-wrestling-archive"