Bumbers Over Fascist Syndication and The Current Men's Doubles Champions

*This blog post was started on November 3, 2021.

I am coming off of a three-day weekend. Was the time off very productive? If only I would have listened to "Marty and Sarah Love Wrestling" last Friday morning, road trip tales would be told. But come on. How often do you get to sleep in on a weekday?

The Berwyn Eagles club is a venue that I miss, but purse strings are wearing thin. There is still C2E2 to attend (Flood these inboxes at Reed Pop to try and get NinetyForChill.com - The #Podcast a panel [Do not feel guilty. They got my $97.50.] Chris@ReedPop.com; Kristina@ReedPop.com.) and I have a Disney World trip and you know I am planning to grab a custom light saber. If anything, the weekend showed me to appreciate stinginess. Saturday was dedicated solely to the apartment and Sunday just saw me spend $30 on a movie ticket, popcorn, and a D.P. Dough calzone.

That day was a winner because I got a podcast out of it, and I see the D.P. is still doing the punch cards. It is good to know that I can just walk in once again and save five bucks. I hate delivery/carryout apps.

After the weekend, I should at least get more out of the money I currently spend. The NJPW World on my iPhone would not let me use Chromecast and the Airplay was dropping in and out with my Apple TV. So I now have a Fire Stick, Apple TV, and built in Chromecast to my 4K TV (The Fire Stick was a necessary purchase so I am available to troubleshoot everyone I purchased a Fire Stick for.). Saturday this week is my return for the holidays at my retail gig. Perhaps I have just made myself the ideal candidate for the home theater department.

The getting more for my buck is based off of having easy to access NJPW available to me. If I can kick the YouTube habit, I can just place a card on and relax. With the new Pokemon game coming out this month, Young Lion and 10-man tag matches can provide the background noise as I detach the Switch from the dock. My challenge is kicking that YouTube habit. It will be tough.

With TopTenz.net and "Today I Found Out", weird World War II facts are hard to pass up. If only the turn of the century programs on A&E had more British accents, the channel would have never become the shit show it is now. I am sorry to say that about Peter Graves.

Of course the irony of this is that Ring of Honor is going on a hiatus after December. Not to say I was watching much ROH (Fuck the assholes at Sinclair Broadcasting.), but it is sad that the promotion I was striving to work for during my career hay day (I had just come up with a championship for guys who get in the ring every five years. We just need to start up a promotion for it.) possibly vanish.

You cannot make a TV show out of an indie fed. I have seen some OLD ROH TV and I have seen what the local marks have produced for public access. FireFighter is such a silly mark since you do not necessarily have to pay to put stuff on YouTube. It is rare to run into someone who is a self-proclaimed smark who does not display that smart mark is an oxymoron.

It turns out that networks cannot produce wrestling. If history is repeating itself, I would be afraid if I was Impact or AEW. Not only did WCW go down. ECW followed (technically).

In the end, I am amazed that vehicle bumpers are a more lucrative business than syndicated television. Are there that many Toyotas out there? I believe they are supposedly the most popular car in the world, but I know more people who are aware of ROH than own a Toyota. Then again, who is not busting their ass to make Lexus money? Surely the duos below are.

The Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Championship

The 141st Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

Raw Tag Team Champions

Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre (9/3/18 to 10/22/18)

 

*Blog post started on September 30, 2021.

I Miss Sunday Night Heat & More of the Best Men's Doubles of All Time.

Professional wrestling eventually brought the excitement to my week. Where would the business be if it was not for AEW?

In Japan of course. I kind of wish it was that way just to justify my NJPW World subscription. The G1 Climax tournament's A Block has kept me busy the past week, but now that the schedule is picking up, I ponder how many shows that I am behind. At least the B Block being filled with matches that are easy to recall (Tanahashi vs. Okada), means I will not have much to catch up on.

I guess my problem with AEW being established (before the Forbidden Door was open) was that NJPW was the one stop for the best wrestling in the world. My blog "The Disgruntled's $200 Wrestling War and Its Current Champions" told you how expensive wrestling fandom is, provided you are not an Xfinity customer. That price point was wrong because I did not include the approximately $10 a month for access to NJPW. But with all their gaijins moving back stateside, is NJPW now in the same boat WWE is? Do I really only need the service for Wrestle Kingdom?

The answer is that I need more friends who think the WWE is the end all be all. That way, I could just pull up some classic Okada and Great Muta to see if the reluctant can be saved. It is a lot easier than pulling out my indie DVDs.

Well, I say it is easier, but the lack of streaming apps and the joys of WiFi can make using Chromecast a chore.

Of course, the last person I was trying to sell that there was better wrestling beyond Vince McMahon's narrative was the most insecure asshole in Morton, Illinois. I knew that guy for 30 years before I had enough of his bullshit, so it maybe wise not to let people like that into my life. A WWE preference may be a red flag.

How can you even have a WWE preference now? After AEW established that you can run for two years and only have two disqualifications on TV, how can anyone support a promotion with a DQ finish and a ring malfunction that determined the outcome of you main event. At least AEW waits till the action had concluded to leave the crowd questioning their television production.

Jungle Boy versus Adam Cole and Sammy Guevara capturing the TNT Championship gave us the excitement that WWE withheld from us. With that said, is Sammy Guevara not only the TNT Champion, but the holder of the DRCW OCHO Championship?

The 154th and Current DRCW OCHO Champion:

(WWE and IWGP United States, Intercontinental, National, X Division, Television, North American, TNT)

AEW TNT Champion Sammy Guevara.

The TNT Championship is the premier secondary title because we know that it will be defended most often. Unless WWE goes back to having secondary shows for their brands, there is no time for four titles over two hours. If they had "Heat" and "Velocity", they would have championships that would be the focus of a brand's extra hour. They would also be able to use all the talent they have. I think it is the only way to justify maintaining the brand split.

Fox owns Tubi. Give the platform a show (Samantha Bee has made it clear there is no reason to know of the app, unless you have a movie podcast that requires a source of films to binge.). You just need to tolerate the conservative commercials and you can have your own podcast like the excellent "NinetyForChill.com - The Podcast".

 

WWE "Allegedly" Paying Google Off and a Brief Men's Doubles Installment

*Blog post was started on September 23, 2021.

It has been a slow week. I was debating if I should put another movie review from my 2010 notebook, but if we can keep it more wrestling themed for Disgruntled's Real Championship Wrestling, that is the more appropriate way to go.

This means I should get back to the Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles Championship title lineage. It was kind of disappointing that I could not declare that when I listed the current champions in The Disgruntled's $200 Wrestle War.

And I will say, after Sting and Darby Allin defeated FTR last night at Grand Slam Dynamite, the doubles scene may become more interesting than the tag team. Tony Khan is a mark, so would it not be cool to have Sting immortalized with your brand?

The Bloodline is not really doing anything with the belts on Smackdown while Randy Orton and Riddle need to at least be kept busy. Here is to hoping Omos is still too green to break from A.J. Styles.

Speaking of slow, Blogger is having difficulty even proccessing the list. Is WWE paying attention to my lack of repsect towards Roman Reigns that they are paying Google off to prevent my influence on the Internet Wrestling Community? I should tag all those conservative assholes just to show them how to come up with a feasible conspiracy.

 

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The Unified Gnarly Men's Double World Championship

The 92nd Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE Unified World Tag Team Champions

Chris Jericho (2) and The Big Show: Paul Wight (2) (9/17/09 to 12/13/09)

 

The 93rd Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

TNA World Tag Team Champions

Doug Williams and Brutus Magnus (b.k.a. Nick Aldis) (12/13/2009 to 1/17/2010)

Everyone wants to think of D-Generation X as a tag team, or at least Triple H does. Eddie Edwards and Davey Richards were essentially what the Rockers should have been after their break up.

The 94th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

TNA World Tag Team Champions

and Hernandez (1/17/10 to 4/5/10)Matt Morgan

The 95th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE Unified World Tag Team Champions

and The Big Show (3) (4/5/10 to 4/26/10) The Miz

Matt Morgan and Hernandez split while champions.

The 96th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

GHC Tag Team Champions

and Bison Smith (4/26/10 to 9/10/10)Keith Walker

Both of these gents need to be recognized because Smith was not too much longer for this world and the reign ended because Walker chose to lose his job to pay his respects to his father.

 

The Hart Dynasty were the WWE Tag Team Champions. Ring of Honor was under the reign of the Kings of Wrestling. Yujiro Takahashi and Tetsuyo Naito were the IWGP champions, but having been IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions prior to this, I would consider them to be a team instead of a set of doubles.

 

The 97th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

Open the Twin Gate Champions

K-ness and Susumu Yokosuka (9/10/10 to 11/23/10)

Keith Walker was one-half of the NWA Champions, but the lenght of The Skullkrushers' reign indicated too much chemistry. The IWGP's Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson) would have a 500+ day reign, so again, to close. The Motor City Machine Guns were on top of TNA.

The 98th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions

Justin Gabriel (b.k.a. PJ Black)and Heath Slater(11/23/10 to 12/6/10)

The title returns to the States in this lineage because WWE is about to go into a dead period when it comes to actual teams being champions. Gabriel and Slater were the go to "team" for the Nexus/Corre, but that is a case of creative has nothing for them.

The 99th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions

Santino Marella and Vladimir Kozlov (12/6/2010 to 2/20/2011)

 

The 100th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions

Justin Gabriel (2) and Heath Slater (2) (2/20/11 to  2/21/11)

 

The 101st Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions

and The Miz (2) (2/21/11)John Cena (2)

The 102nd Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions

Justin Gabriel (3) and Heath Slater (3) (2/20/11 to  2/21/11)

 

 

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