*Blog post was started on June 3, 2021.
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.
@museilluminatus - Pintereset
The 1st DRCW Gnarly** Men's Doubles World Champions:
NWA World Tag Team Champions - Don Kernodle and Ivan Koloff (8/25/84 to 10/20/84)
The 2nd DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:
NWA World Tag Team Champions - Dusty Rhodes and Manny Fernandez (10/20/1984 - 3/18/1985)
The 3rd DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:
WWF World Tag Team Champions - Mike Rotundo and Barry Windham (3/18/85 to 3/31/85)
The
US Express may have been thrown together for some drama when it came to
WrestleMania. They just seemed like the more patriotic team to put up
against Freddie Blassie's foreign menace.
The 4th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:
WWF World Tag Team Champions - The Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff (3/31/85 to 6/17/85)
The 5th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:
WWF World Tag Team Champions - Mike Rotundo (2) and Barry Windham (2) (6/17/85 to 8/24/85)
The 6th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:
WWF World Tag Team Champions - Brutus Beefcake and Greg Valentine (8/24/1985 to 4/7/1986)
I
guess there was a lack of face teams at the time. It was also the time
before Vince McMahon insisted every tag team had a gimmick.
The 7th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:AWA World Tag Team Champions - Scott Hall and Curt Hennig (4/7/86 to 5/17/86)
It
almost feels like that this title should be abandoned until Manny
Fernandez and Rick Rude legitimately won the NWA championship, but if
Pat Patterson got the IC title this way, why dismiss fake wins. WWF is about to hit their first
modern tag team renascence with the British Bulldogs and the Hart
Foundation. The NWA has all of the best Expresses.
The 8th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:
AWA World Tag Team Champions - Doug Somers and Buddy Rose (5/17/1986 to 1/27/1987)
The 9th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:
NWA World Tag Team Champions - Rick Rude and Manny Fernandez (1/27/87 to 5/26/87)
The Midnight Rockers gave the AWA tag division a brief moment of hope.
The 10th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:
AWA World Tag Team Champions - Soldat Ustinov and Boris Zhukov or Doug Somers (2)
(5/26/87 to 10/11/87)
The 11th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:
AWA World Tag Team Champions - Jerry Lawler and Bill Dundee (10/11/87 to 10/19/87)
The 12th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:
AWA World Tag Team Champions - Dr. D aka Carl Styles and Hector Guerrero
(10/19/87 to 10/26/87)
The 13th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:
AWA World Tag Team Champions - Jerry Lawler (2) and Bill Dundee (2) (10/26/87 to 10/30/87)
The 14th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:
WWF World Tag Team Champions - Tito Santana and Rick Martel (10/30/1987 to 3/27/1988)
Strike
Force as they were called was an excuse for a to give air time to a song on "Piledriver".
Both of the performers are famous for being thrown into tag team
championships when needed.
The 15th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:
NWA World Tag Team Champions - Lex Luger and Barry Windam (3) (3/27/88 to 4/20/88)
The 16th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:
AWA World Tag Team Champions - Paul Diamond and Pat Tanaka (4/20/88 to 3/25/89)
I know Badd Company reunited in Eastern Championship Wrestling, but Tanaka was synonymous with the Orient Express in WWF.
The 17th DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:
AWA World Tag Team Champions - Ken Patera and Brad Rheingans (3/25/89 to 9/18/89)
Another
team with a name, The Olympians, but that is a call back to their
resume. The title ended up being vacated due to a legitimate injury to
Patera. Due to the vacancy and Demolition and The Fabulous Freebirds
being our other options, I think we may as well end this lineage and
start it back up in 1990 with the Colossal Connection.
**I figured that it would be better to shorten the 1980's to ancient slang that is not used. Two syllables seemed best.**
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