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a winning percentage, which will determine a wrestler’s position on the card. EVOLVE’s website claims that ‘There will be much more revealed about the importance of individual records as EVOLVE grows’. Hopefully this will be clarified soon otherwise it undermines the whole meaning of a result based percentage table.

Another flaw with this current system is that if a winning record determines your place on the card, then the third EVOLVE show that took place May 1st should have been headlined by Jimmy Jacobs, Kyle O’Reilly and Brad Allen as they were all 2-0-0, and boast the best records after the first two EVOLVE events. This was not the case though as Jacobs defeated Allen in a battle of the undefeated and TJP beat O’Reilly.

Without meaning to disrespect Allen and O’Reilly, they are hardly the sort of guys who should be headlining.

Although in its infancy, EVOLVE will also have

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to work out a way to tone down the importance of foreign imports, if it is not to hurt the overall focus of win/loss percentages. This may also haunt EVOLVE later down the line; if they have held twenty events and a wrestler has a record of 15-4-1 and is not at the top of the card, because they bring back in the likes of Ikuto

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