From Podcast to Realizing There Are 75 Million American Napoleons

*Blog post was started on June 22, 2021.

From Podcasts to Realizing There Are 75 Million American Napoleons

With this week's "NinetyForChill dot Com - The Podcast" lacking a theme, it seems that I let out a lot of my ideas that I would usually rant and rave about in the hour conversation with ThePoeticCritic. Putting that episode up left me feeling that I had pretty much addressed my issues with the "Morbidly Macabre" co-host Mitchell Whitt who took five minutes of his podcast saying I was out of line for sharing a link to the show on Facebook while also pointing out the shortcomings of the episodes for wrestling fans.

It was not that they got their info about the focus of the episode, Chris Benoit, wrong because they did not. Their beliefs on what the wrestling business was/is and how it operates were. Anyone who listens to wrestling podcasts would be rolling their eyes or yelling at their player for their misconceptions. In the end, saying that I was upset because they did not state the flavor of Benoit's essence is the primary host just being bitter.

Read the rest of this blog and other stories at Main Event of the Dead.com and determine if this thought process can be translated into a B-movie comedy about pro-wrestling 

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Saw 3D (The Final Chapter): Star Trek of Horror?

"Saw" had just reached the same number of "Star Trek (Original Series)" films. With an open ending that may introduce a new character to focus on (Antagonist or protagonist is dependent upon you interpretation of John Kramer's mission.) like "Star Trek: Generations", a new series maybe created. But what makes "Saw" most like "Trek" is that there maybe a number curse to the series (This review was written after seeing this film in theaters.) That is a bit of a stretch since "Saw" and "Saw 5" are worthwhile, but with the quality of this feature, Twisted Pictures may as well called this one "Saw 7"

Det. Hoffman is still carrying on Kramer's work, but vengeance clouds his mind. I suppose having half your face ripped open by Jill Tuck, Kramer's wife and fellow game practitioner, will do that. While Bobby, a man who has become famous by claiming to be a Jigsaw survivor, is being tested, Jigsaw's last known apprentice is planning to settle his score with Tuck and a rival detective from internal affairs.

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 *This blog post was started on June 17, 2021.

Lance Storm is the Too Legit (Men's Duo Championship) Legend

Is Wizard World in Chicago being bumped to October the start of inconveniences to come? Has not needing to work 10-13 days in a week just made me more tolerant of what troubles me? I say all this knowing that the LIBERTARIAN coworker will have two hours to charge up their discontent about how millennials are soft (except for them) and how the fascists are running the White House when I come into work tomorrow. On the bright side, they will only be here for two hours of my shift.

With all that said, my restraint should be admired for not snapping on them about their preaching how "three strikes and you're out" made the turn of the century safer than today and immediately following that up with turning on a video that endorsed the big lie. It does make me think about mom suggesting that Caterpillar in Morton is hiring again. Dad did advise her that I did that for the better part of two years and not liking it, so that should place that out of her mind. But they do have my little brother's house to get rid of in West Peoria and my coworker does make me think about job openings at the Bloomington branch.

To wrap up my rewind, I may be getting too old to get into too much trouble. My debauchery in Champaign/Urbana is nigh. When I spent the weekend in Morton for my little brother's diaper party (Mom did not appreciate my dyed pink hair for the occasion.), the energy to go out to Downtown Peoria was not there. Thus, there is a bit of an existential crisis. With my most recent ex announcing her engagement, the world seems to be passing me by. Now, I lack the energy to keep up.

Thank the gods then for a quiet wrestling scene. It allows me to focus on DRCW's fun championships instead of WWE refusing to do anything fun with theirs. Discussing the past championships might actually drive salt into my disdain for the current scene, or make me realize the more things change, the more they stay the same. We are just talking about prop titles any how.

There is no True Legit Duo's Championship of the 1990's.

This image should indicate that it is pointless to want to fudge my beliefs that the Hollywood Blondes, Money Incorporated, and the Miracle Violence Connection cannot be considered to be true teams. I suppose we could combine the Legit and the Two Legit championships, but there goes the gimmick of my last wrestling blog post.

When it comes to the last Men's Duos World Championship, The Too Legit, we can continue this lineage. Here is to hoping that we can make it to A.J. Styles and Omos.

The 19th Too Legit Men's Duos World Champions:

ECW World Tag Team Champions

Tracy Smothers and Little Guido Maritato (October 18, 1997 to December 5, 1997)

James Maritato's true FBI was with Tony Mamaluke, so I think we can say that any tag team before that union in a faction where any non-Italian can claim Mediterranean heritage can be considered a hodge podge pairing.

The 20th Too Legit Men's Duos World Champions:

ECW World Tag Team Champions

Doug Furnas and Phil LaFon (12/5/97 to 12/6/97)

 

I know the Can-Am Express had been teaming since 1989 across four major promotions, but this is just a one-day reign, so I think it is fine for a Tag Team to be transitional champions when it comes to a Duos title.

The 21st Too Legit Men's Duos World Champions:

ECW World Tag Team Champions

Chris Candido and Lance Storm (December 6, 1997 to June 27, 1998)

 

The tag team titles in ECW were a prop since the angle was, "The team cannot break up as long as they are champions. If one betrayed the other, they would be fired." It allowed for some very clever match construction that needs to be held in very high regard. I feel fine with them holding both the Too Legit Men's Duos World Championship and the Disgruntled's Real World Tag Team Championship.

The 22nd Too Legit Men's Duos World Champions:

WWF World Tag Team Champions

Steve Austin (3) and The Undertaker (6/27/98 to 8/10/98)

Rob Van Dam and Sabu were tied at the hip since coming to ECW. Their dynamic was much like that of Canido and Storm, but when they would get a second run four months later. Their chemistry is too great to call them a duo.

The 23rd Too Legit Men's Duos World Champions:

WWF World Tag Team Champions

Kane and Mankind (Mick Foley)(3) (8/10/98 to 8/30/98)

The 24th Too Legit Men's Duos World Champions:

WCW World Tag Team Champions

Scott Hall and The Giant (Paul Wight) (8/30/98 to 10/25/98)

The 25th Too Legit Men's Duos World Champions:

WCW World Tag Team Champions

Rick Steiner and Buff Bagwell/Kenny Kaos (October 25, 1998 to January 7, 1999)

The 26th Too Legit Men's Duos World Champions:

WWF World Tag Team Champions

Ken Shamrock and The Big Boss Man (1/7/99 to 1/25/99)

The 27th Too Legit Men's Duos World Champions:

WWF World Tag Team Champions

Owen Hart and Jeff Jarrett (1/25/99 to 4/5/99)

 

The 28th Too Legit Men's Duos World Champions:

WWF World Tag Team Champions

Kane (2) and X-Pac (2) (4/5/99 to 5/25/99)

 

The 29th Too Legit Men's Duos World Champions:

WCW World Tag Team Champions

Raven and Perry Saturn (5/25/99 to 5/31/99)

 

The 30th Too Legit Men's Duos World Champions:

WCW World Tag Team Champions
Diamond Dallas Page, Chris Kanyon, and Bam Bam Bigelo (5/31/99 to 6/8/99)

The 31st Too Legit Men's Duos World Champions:

WCW World Tag Team Champions

Chris Benoit (2) and Perry Saturn (2) (6/8/99 to 6/13/99)

The 32nd Too Legit Men's Duos World Champions:

WCW World Tag Team Champions
Diamond Dallas Page (2), Chris Kanyon (2), and Bam Bam Bigelo (2) (6/13/99 to 8/14/99)

 

The 33rd Too Legit Men's Duos World Champions:

ECW World Tag Team Champions

Balls Mahoney and Little Spike Dudley (8/14/99 to 9/3/99)

 

This duo also held the Disgruntled's Real World Tag Team Championship.

 

The 34th Too Legit Men's Duos World Champions:

WWF World Tag Team Champions

The Rock and Mankind (4) (8/14/99 to 9/9/99)

 

The 35th Too Legit Men's Duos World Champions:

ECW World Tag Team Champions

Tommy Dreamer and Raven (September 9, 1999 to January 9, 2000)

 

This duo also held the Disgruntled's Real World Tag Team Championship. Paul Heyman may be the best tag team booker of the modern era.

 

Evangelion 1.01: You Can(not) Overlook

 Am I crazy for entertaining the concept of reinventing the "Star Wars" trilogy? Trekkies gave into J.J. Abrams's concept and ended up embracing it, and the flaws of Lucas's scripts are quite prevalent.

Blasphemy. Well, we would all like to reboot the "Saga". No one can deny that, but when it comes to near perfection (with the exception of "Return of the Jedi"), why bother?

It is because we are starved for greatness and we will take our chances. That is why Hideaki Anno's reboot of "Evangelion" captured the world of anime's attention.

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Legit, Two Legit, Too Legit, and Most Legit: 1990's Men's Doubles World Championships

It has only been a day since I was at a keyboard, and aside from Lio Rush announcing his retirement, there has not been any excitement. This is going to be a wordy blog post anyhow, so may as well get right into the sequel to the DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Championship.

DRCW's Legit Men's Doubles World Championship

The 1st DRCW's Legit Men's Double's World Champions

NWA World Tag Team Champions

Arn Anderson and Larry Zbyszko (9/5/1991 to 11/19/1991):

 

Since Andre the Giant and King Haku are also part of the Disgruntled's Real World Tag Team Championship lineage, I suppose we could bump the birth of this title to a later date. Demolition traded the tag team championship with The Colossal Connection. In the meantime, the NWA had five title changes between teams.

The tag TEAM warfare ended in the NWA when Scott Steiner got injured in July of 1991. To fill in their vacancy, they had a tag team tournament with a final of hodge podge teams. Larry Zbyszko is not Tully Blanchard and the World's Strongest Man Bill Kazmaier is not Scott Steiner...regardless of similar alleged steroid histories. This makes The Enforcers the best place to start.

The 2nd Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

NWA World Tag Team Champions

Ricky Steamboat and Dustin Rhodes (11/19/1991 to 1/16/1992)

The 3rd Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

NWA World Tag Team Champions

Arn Anderson (2) and Bobby Eaton (1/16/92 to 5/3/92)

 

DRCW's Two Legit Men's Doubles World Championship

With the Steiners and the Miracle Violence Connection being the next NWA champions, it seems that we are still in the golden age of team wrestling. I did look at the what the Global Wrestling Federation and United States Wrestling Association had to offer to continue the 1990's version of the Men's Doubles Championship. USWA had the belt on The Moondogs (Spot and Cujo). It takes commitment to be one of them, so that is a TEAM. As for the GWF, Steve Dane and Gary Young were champions and neither have a Wikipedia page. The best course of action is to continue with the MC Hammer joke.

The 1st Two Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

WCW/NWA World Tag Team Champions

Barry Windham and Dustin Rhodes (9/21/1992 to 11/18/1992)

The 2nd Two Legit Men's Doubles World Champions

WCW/NWA World Tag Team Champions:

Ricky Steamboat and Shane Douglas (11/18/1992 to 3/27/1993)

The 3rd Two Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

USWA World Tag Team Champions

Scotty (Raven) Flamingo and Brian Christopher (3/27/93 to 3/29/93)

I threw in the USWA title in to give this belt a little more mass. Unfortunately, with the Moondogs (Spot and Splat), The Hollywood Blondes, Money, Inc. and the Steiners being the top acts, there are just too many months between Douglas and Steamboat to Arn Anderson and Paul Roma. We can debate their legitimacy as a team since they are not the Hall of Fame Horsemen, but if you can swap out Moondogs, why not Horsemen.

DRCW Too Most Legit Men's Doubles World Championship

Event Horizon - Inspiration for Gory Bastardized Remakes?

 *Blog was post started on June 8, 2021.

Event Horizon - Inspiration for Gory Bastardized Remakes?

I am now on a leave of absence from my retail job, so I am acting like I have more energy. Too bad I am in the midst of a final 10-day work week. It might just be me feeling like I am on a winning streak. Dad already had some free VPN promos so I might have reduced my primary entertainment bill to just $85. That is for Internet and AEW Plus.

...

"Event Horizon" is a 1990's horror classic, but I do not even know if it is Anderson's best movie. The man operates from derivatives, so nothing is ever expected of him. But, he is the only director that you expect cool 3-D from, so there is at least a niche he is filling and thus some talent. This leaves me to ponder if that was even present with his first American non-established IP film.

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The Disgruntled's Real 1980's Men's Doubles Championship and the WWE Releases 2021 ver 3.0

Where to start when it comes to wrestling post "Double of Nothing"? Because there was another large show (Pardon me for avoiding the pun.), did WWE instinctively release talent?

I did not bother to read the Wrestling Inc article about King Baron Corbin responding to fans who thought it should have been him who was released rather than the larger or greater talents (Braun Strowman and Aleister Black to name one from each respective category). If you are going to sell the company, what is the new owner suppose to think of the decision to cut just one of these over talents instead of the one  WrestleTalk established as a talent-sucking mid-card vortex? On top of this, these cuts can definitely help out the competition at least in the short run.

With this kind of decision making, it easy to accept that the Disgruntled's Real World Women's Championship is not going over to WWE despite the best match of the biggest pay-per-view of the year. I am sorry, when you have 12 pay-per-views a year, your most important one should end with the babyface on top.

The 48th and Current Disgruntled's Real Women's World Champion: AEW World Champion Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D. (Won from Hikaru Shida on May 30, 2021).

Aside from her being known as the EST, where is the depth to Smackdown's Women's Champion Bianca Belair? Never mind the fact that Sasha Banks did not have any wars between winning that championship from Bayley and her classic at WrestleMania 37?

Every high profile match with Shida is a war. After the Thunder Rosa match gained the entire wrestling world's attention during the middle of a week, Baker was more than prepared for wars. Her preparedness goes all the way back to her pandemic battle with Shida in which she left as the evil equivalent to Becky Lynch.

Every sentence I have just written about Baker are answers. Every sentence that I wrote about Belair were questions. Belair is probably the stronger and her talent maybe at Baker's level, but poor decisions from WWE continue to make their competitor look wiser.

And it looks like they have booked their way into falling behind in whatever I think they have going for them. Who is Sheamus going to lose the United States title to? Ricochet, Humberto Carillo, Xavier Woods? Kofi Kingston is the only person who comes to mind that makes sense, but someone has to wrestle R-K-Bro. The belt is in a holding pattern being on a man who will not soon be in the primary title picture. It is making me regret my lack of foresight in never recognizing Darby Allin as the OCHO Champion.

The 152nd and Current DRCW OCHO Champion:

WWE United States Champion Sheamus. (Second Reign)

*The OCHO represents the Intercontinental (1), WWE United States (2),  The North American (3), Television (4), X Division (5), National (6), TNT (7), IWGP United States (8).*

AEW and NJPW make me further regret my presumption that Sheamus was the most proven commodity when it came to secondary champions. Jon Moxley has been bringing his United States' Championship back to relevance.

The 48th and Current DRCW Modern Poser Champion:

Universal Champion Roman Reigns (Second Reign).

 

The 90th and Current Disgruntled's Real Men's World Champion:

AAA Mega, TNA World, Impact World, and AEW World Champion Kenny Omega (Second Reign).

 

The 148th and Current Disgruntled's Real World Tag Team Champions:

The Young Bucks - Nick and Matt Jackson (Third Reign).

AEW's superior booking and unscripted promos brought us the first real threat to the Jackson Brothers claim to being the greatest tag team of all time. Eddie Kingston and Jon Moxley had the chemistry of a team, but that was based on history and their current anti-ELITE angle. We do not expect them to stick to being a tag team, but I think we would have all been fine if they ended the Bucks' reign. The Bucks could keep winning them back like Express was in their name. It is just a testament to the long term planning that AEW has and that WWE lacks to convince us that we would be cool with this change.

The tag team division in AEW remaining in its current form brings me to a suggestion made my Ringer writer and author David Shoemaker who suggested that a tag team wrestling division be created for these hodge podge units like Moxley and Kingston. This is something WWE might want to jump on just to differentiate their tag team product from AEW's. It might allow them to further downplay the importance of team wrestling, so it would serve both the fans and Vince McMahon's prerogative. All we need is a champion.

The Current/Tentative DRCW Men's Doubles World Championship: Raw Tag Team Champions AJ Styles and Omos.

As the title history is established, they may not be the combination to be the champs to beat. Still, they defeated whom WWE is trying to make us believe is the greatest tag team in pro-wrestling at WrestleMania 37 and establish a new and very green talent in Omos. It honestly further elevates the New Day to have done this. And it shows that Cody Rhodes is getting lazy when it comes to creating new superstars. After exposing Anthony Ogogo, it make me wonder if AEW should be developing talent now that they are the destination for the best/most over talents in the United States.

I wanted to start this title history, like all of the title histories, at the first closed circuit wrestling event (the basis of pay-per-view) Starrcade 1983. This would have placed Soul Patrol in this spot because of their single reign and their documented lack of chemistry. With AWA's Ken Patera and Jerry Blackwell are the first "Real Tag Team Champions", I think the tag team wrestling was not strong enough at this time to warrant separate championships. AWA had the best division, but no real tag teams. It was not until the Road Warriors hit the scene that two individual wrestlers as a tag team were most noticeable. Thus this title history starts when the Road Warriors defeated Baron Von Raschke and the Crusher.

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