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.
I, "The Student of the Game" Russ Stevens, will be giving my opinions about pro wrestling as someone who the Downstate Illinois scene did away with when I was tired of playing "wrestler" and was locked out for calling out the socially unacceptable behavior. While pursuing the dream, I missed Ruthless Aggression. Thus, my indie tape/DVD library and indie attendance became the basis of what I like in. This blogger hopes to educate/correct you about what you should expect from wrestling today.
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Thursday, June 10, 2021
Legit, Two Legit, Too Legit, and Most Legit: 1990's Men's Doubles World Championships
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)
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
WCW World Tag Team Champions
Cactus Jack (Mick Foley) and Kevin Sullivan (5/22/1994 to 7/17/1994)
I
did my damnedest to give 1-2-3 Kid and Marty Jannetty the belts. WWF is
still a couple months away from turning the belt solely into a prop
with Shawn Michaels and Diesel. That is probably the inspiration for David Shoemaker's suggestion of a Doubles division.
The 2nd Most Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:
WCW World Tag Team Champions
Paul Roma and Paul Orndorff (7/17/94 to 9/25/94)
Also held the DRCW Disgruntled's Real World Tag Team Championship (from The Public Enemy). This is why I have called the belt the most Legit Men's Double's World Championship.
The 3rd Most Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:
ECW World Tag Team Champion
Cactus Jack and Mikey Whipwreck (9/25/94 to 11/5/94)
The title unification ended when the Public Enemy won the DRCW Disgruntled's Real World Tag Team Championship.
The 4th Most Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:
WCW World Tag Team Champion (11/5/94 to 11/16/94)
Paul Roma (2) and Paul Orndorff (2)
The 5th Most Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:
WCW World Tag Team Champion
Marcus Alexander (Buff) Bagwell and The Patriot (11/16/94 to 12/8/94)
Curse
The Moondogs (Spot and Rex this time). ECW had their championship on
their first hot act, The Public Enemy. Harlem Heat has emerged in WCW.
The Dudes with Attitudes have vacated the WWF championship. My only way
to keep this going is to revamp these titles is to try and figure out if
the Miracle Violence Connection (Terry Gordy and Steve Williams) lost
of the All Japan World Tag Team Championships to some thrown together
gaijins during their WCW run. That does not workout.
Because
of the adjective (not verb Kevin Nash), I think I have allowed myself a
loophole into being more lenient in what qualifies as two guys instead
of a team. Not until the Monday Night Wars are being won by the WWF, do
we really see a time when their title being used as a prop.
The 1st Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:
WWF World Tag Team Champions
1-2-3 Kid and Bob Holly (1/22/1995 to 1/23/1995)
The 2nd Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:
USWA World Tag Team Champions
Tommy Rich and Dough Gilbert (1/23/95 to 3/13/95)
The 3rd Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:
ECW World Tag Team Champions
Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko (3/13/95 to 4/8/95)
The 4th Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:
WWF World Tag Team Champions
Owen Hart, Yokozuna, and Davey Boy Smith (4/8/95 to 9/25/95)
Hart and Yokozuna (officially) had also won the DRCW Disgruntled's Real World Tag Team Championship (from
Harlem Heat). You cannot say they were inferior to the Nasty Boys. This
cannot be considered the a "most legit" since they will not lose them
to a fellow doubles unit.
The 5th Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:
WCW World Tag Team Champions
Alexander Marcus Bagwell and Scotty Riggs (9/25/95 to 9/27/95)
The 6th Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:
USWA World Tag Team Champions
J.C. Ice (James Dundee) and Wolfie D (Slash) (9/27/95 to 10/28/95)
I know these two gentlemen will be remembered best as PG-13, hence using the adjective "too".
The 7th Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:
ECW World Tag Team Champions
2 Cold Scorpio and The Sandman (10/28/95 to 12/29/95)
The 8th Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:
ECW World Tag Team Champions
Cactus Jack and Mikey Whipwreck (12/29/1995 to 2/3/1996)
The 9th Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:
WCW World Tag Team Champions
Sting and Lex Luger (2/3/96 to 6/24/96)
This
duo is another unit that won the Disgruntled's Real World Tag Team
Championship. They did the Crockett Cup to warrant that reign. Again,
that title would be lost to a TEAM.
The 10th Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:
USWA World Tag Team Champions
Flex (The Rock) Kavana and Bart Sawyer (6/24/96 to 7/1/96)
The 11th Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:
USWA World Tag Team Champions
Jerry Lawler and Bill Dundee (7/1/96 to 7/8/96)
The 12th Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:
USWA World Tag Team Champions
Flex Kavana (2) and Bart Sawyer (2) (7/8/96 to 7/15/96)The 13th Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:
USWA World Tag Team Champions
Brickhouse Brown and Reggie B. Fine (7/15/96 to 8/5/96)
The 14th Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:
NWA World and W*ING World Tag Team Champions
Mr. Gannosuke and Tarzan Goto (8/5/96 to 9/22/96)
And
the Moondogs (Spot and Rover) screw everything up again. Maybe I just
made this task too troublesome for myself. The IWA Japan Duo won a
tournament on 12/9/95 to become NWA champions. If I was not looking for
another belt to bolster this lineage, six champions would have been
lost.
The current incarnation of the NWA championship is part of the DRCW Disgruntled's Real World Tag Team Championship so it needed to be considered at some point. This was the first chance to do so.
The 15th Too Legit Men's Doubles Champions
WWF World Tag Team Champions
Owen Hart (2) and Davey Boy Smith (2) (9/22/1996 to 5/26/1997)
This is the first team to hold both the DRCW Disgruntled's Real World Tag Team Championship
and the Too Legit Championship twice. Again, the tag team champions
were a team (The Outsiders), so the most legit title is off the table.
The 16th Too Legit Men's Doubles Champions:
WWF World Tag Team ChampionsShawn Michael and Steve Austin (5/26/97 to 7/14/97)
The 17th Too Legit Men's Doubles Champions:
WWF World Tag Team Champions (7/14/97 to 9/7/97)Manking (Mick Foley)(2) and Steve Austin (2)
The 18th Too Legit Men's Doubles Champions:
USWA World Tag Team Champions
J.C. Ice (2) and Wolfie D (2) (9/7/97 to 10/18/97)
There
is hope that we can keep the Too Legit Men's Doubles Championship's
lineage going to the Invasion angle. With the USWA folding, do I have
enough belts to make it to that point? Also, since this belt is Too
Legit, is there away to connect them with lesser tag teams. That will be
something to keep me busy, and that sounds like a win for me.
Unless
my eyes start slipping into comment sections/replies on Twitter. With
Marty Scurll not being invoked, I do not see that as likely. But I do
need to visit Peoria this weekend. An earful of right wing bullshit
might be the cost of laundry.
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