Manic Monday: @CMPunk (bka CM Skunk) & The Current Disgruntled's Real Pro-Wrestling Champions

*This blog post was started on September 4, 2023.

I know, the title is a simple association. My attempts to be Penn Jillette clever can be weak at times. But, if you have read "Sock" by Jillette, his little pop song references can be too subtle for their own good.

It is a bit ironic to use the word manic in the blog post title for myself. My head feels like it screwed on fairly well right now. I say that as I wonder if I sent the wrong emoji to a girl that I have been chatting with the past week from Bumble. She has COVID right now, so obviously, to get immediate responses should not be expected. Ghosting has not occurred with this lass, but, has the corona virus ever been used to get out of a date? Times have only been made weirder since the Trump administration killed the study of infectious disease.

These odd times might be getting to me. If I do something that comes off as stupid, I can see a customer losing their cool and insulting me as a customer service representative. Being "felt sorry for" because I wear a mask and am triple boosted by a moron from Tuscola, Illinois (Wouldn't you know that the big city Angie Zindars group up near and Marissa Embry found work), who does not know how to read receipts expecting me to wait patiently on really got on my nerves recently. It makes me consider wearing my lanyard that has my keys to the building around my neck. "Ask me my pronouns," would at least make that cocksucker (Jillette says this word either represents an awful man or an awesome woman.) genuinely uncomfortable.

To be insulted, $25 an hour seems to be a fair wage. That is the price of a lap dance at Big Al's in Peoria, my preferred strip club. Sadly, my friends from that industry can attest to the treatment they receive.

I wonder if I still have any friends in that industry. Perhaps my attempt to out grow Peoria has finally concluded. There are rumors that I have been chasing down about good friends who are still in the industry, but the last couple of visits, there are hardly any girls dancing on stage (Two shows in one hour was the rate last time.). To the Al's credit, a double Johnny Walker Black on the rocks only costs $12 before 2 am on Sundays.

I have kind of scattered my mind talking about employment. But after this weekend in wrestling, the transition between my employment and that industry is fairly easy.

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The Current Disgruntled's Real Pro-Wrestling Champions

Title Histories from April 16, 2023 Forward.

Before I get going, I kind of wish that Cody Rhodes would have defeated Roman Reigns back at WrestleMania XXXIX. If I would have known that asshole CM Punk would try to claim that he was undeservingly stripped of the AEW World Championship, he may have been able to claim the DRCW Modern Poser Championship.

I was working (obviously) on Saturday, September 2, when CM Punk was terminated from All Elite Wrestling. Not wanting to deal with the crowd (and maybe not spending money so extravagantly), resulted in me deciding to watch the show from home. If my little brother was more forthcoming that he was attending the show, my decision would have been different. No date for Monday (which she has since responded to this morning's text), energy was not something I would need for today.

When I found out that was his plan, we discussed Punk a bit. Basically, I determined that he was the most insincere person in the wrestling industry, dating all the way back to 2011. Returning to WWE after the pipe bomb promo essentially ruined indie wrestling until the Bullet Club was formed. Lets face it, it was Being the Elite starting in the middle of 2016 that made Americans look for WWE alternatives. Maybe Jeff Jarrett started that ball rolling in 2015 by allowing for the American broadcast of Wrestle Kingdom 9, but having dealt with a friend who just would not put the effort to find indie wrestling, I do not give that much weight.

Punk should have stayed away from WWE until he worked somewhere else. WWE could not afford that. Punk knew this and took a payday and headaches for it. He was right to walk out of WWE, but he had no intention to put in any effort to save the business like he implied when returning to WWE in the first place. If anything, "The Art of Wrestling" podcast was an attempt to burn television wrestling down to benefit the UFC. When he realized he had to pay to do that, it resulted in him throwing his best friend under the bus.

I did not care if CM Punk ever returned to wrestling. Was I happy that he did? Yes. It showed how influential AEW was becoming. But did I feel like it was a slap in the face of all the indie talent he spat on when I was very active in the business? Yes. Did I expect him to continue doing that? Yes. Did I want him to be the face of the company? Fuck no.

He was a man who thought the business should revolve around him. Great matches is the reason that I watch AEW Collision. A man who has never been humble a day in his life deserves no eyes on him.

After all of this venting, I guess it is a good thing that Reigns went over in April's main event. We can forget that the Real World Championship ever existed.

Time (Clock of the WWE Undisputed Universal Championship) and the Disgruntled's Real World Champions

  *This blog post was started on April 16, 2023.

It is funny. As I typed that time disclaimer, the number pad on my new HP laptop was not used. I guess that I have played around with my Chromebook enough that I do not need the extra inches. If only the ladies would agree to that.

Resisting cheap humor like that can be tough. I am confident in my equipment, but have to swing at softballs. Lets get off away from my joys of using double entendres. We are here for wrestling chatter that have been lacking from my writing since the new Reign of Terror had started.

Try and focus Russ. Quit being impressed by having a PC with speed to optimize your Spotify playlists. But mentioning Spotify, their Spotify for Podcasters product (formerly Anchor) has been working out fairly well. You have to be careful with the Apple app (nearly over wrote...well I did...one of my episodes, but was quick to restore it), but quality is there and easier to connect to other podcast apps.

That should be enough of me bullshitting about my life without mentioning much of it. Anyhow, I need something to fill in the space of my podcast blogs, so best save it for then. But speaking of podcasts, it was "Wednesday Worldwide" on The Ringer Network (also a Spotify product), that put further emphasis on a need to write this blog.

For my sanity sake, and to coincide with the upcoming WWE Draft, they may be better served to break up The Ringer Wrestling Show feed. There is only one must listen to podcast, "The Masked Man Show". As long as Peter Rosenberg is hosting "Cheap Heat" instead of Stat Guy Greg, that show is solely for WWE shilling. It is bad enough that The Ringer give Ariel Helwani a platform. But, to the Wednesday crew, I can appreciate their hot takes on the other shows' hot takes. Of course, if their take about Roman Reign's was correct, I would not constantly allow my 2Do app on my iPhone to keep the reminder to write this blog.

On "Cheap Heat", weeks before WrestleMania 39 (perhaps even before the Elimination Chamber), Bryan Diperstein made the comment that the length of Roman's reign does not matter. Since Brock Lesnar held the Universal Title for over 500 days to spite CM Punk (Who deserved it, but that was not Vince McMahon's place.), I whole heartedly agree.

As a kid who grew up on Hulkamania, I can see the counter argument, but that reign also made professional wrestling what it is today or, at the very least, put it in a position to be that. Once the one day title reigns became a thing, WWE titles are just props.

I think we all know that Triple H (hopefully just him) wants the 1000-day reign, but when you have a part-time champion (like Lesnar was), we should all know that the legitimacy of the title is fake. Sadly, the least appreciated team of The Ringer dropped the ball and challenged the reasonable to create their own hot take.

The problem with this blog will be that his reign is still continuing. It should not be surprising since Cody Rhodes, the man who tried to usurp WWE's reign on the business, lost on the grandest stage of them all. I really need to pay for NJPW pay-per-views to help them reinstate Wrestle Kingdom as that stage.

Again, WWE decides to just tell the Disgruntled Wrestling fans to shag off. Because of this, I am not afraid to declare these champions regardless if they have built the resumes greater that Stamford's product.

The Current Disgruntled Real Champions of Professional Wresting (As of April 16, 2023)

The 103rd Unified Disgruntled's Real Men's World Champion
AEW World Champion:
MJF - Maxwell Jacob Friedman

His reign started on Jan. 4, 2023 when Switchblade Jay White was defeated by Kazuchika Okada for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship.

The problems with ranking MJF's title reign above Reigns was he lacks the big televised wars. His feud with Punk was great, but when it came to winning the title, we knew he would walk away from his first challenger Ricky Starks in what I think was an under-booked affair.

Nobody expected him to lose without at least one pay-per-view defense. We were all frustrated that it was going to be Bryan Danielson because what good would the championship do for the challenger. But, the feud was brilliantly booked and his 65-minute iron match was awesome. More importantly, none of Reigns's defenses can match it.

The 50th Disgruntled's Real Women's World Champion
Raw Women's Champion: Bianca Belair

Her reign began on September 4, 2022. She was awarded it from AEW World Champion Thunder Rosa vacating her title.

We are definitely in the "Belair Wins LOL" era, but there is no one that is as athletically gifted as she is in the ring. Her WrestleMania matches (I have not seen 39) were or close to the best that the shows had to offer. The problem is that her story has no adversity. As long as she is champ, the Raw Women's division lacks interest (unless they do something great with the tag team titles).

If they are working towards Rhea Rhipley as her next Mania opponent (Bayley needs to leave WWE because she deserved a Mania angle with Belair.), we should have another banger, provided she is not the champion.

The 48th Modern Poser Champion
Undisputed WWE Universal Champion: Roman Reigns

His second reign began on August 30, 2020, winning it from Bray Wyatt.

The length of his reign is only there to cover up the fact that as a performer, he does not really work. I would say creative deserves the credit for interesting television (not interesting enough for me to dedicate time to it), not his in ring ability. If he did not have Paul Heyman, he would not be worth anything.

The 152nd Real World Tag Team Champions
Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions: Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens

Their reign began on April 1, 2023 when they defeated The Bloodline: Jimmy and Jey Uso.

I really want to put FTR in this spot, but the means a Gunns title reign. They are nowhere ready for that.

It would be easy to declare Zayn and Owens the Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles Champions, but that would ignore their history of breaking into the business together. They are essentially brothers, so they are a true team, not two guys holding the straps.

The 159th OCHO: The Secondary Champion
Ring of Honor World Television Champion: Samo Joe

His third reign began on April 25, 2022. He was awarded it from AEW TNT Champion Scorpio Sky.

He is coming up on a year. It is a pity that he will probably never get to another Real World Championship, but his existence as champion keeps ROH relevant. He might get back there once Eddie Kingston dethrone Claudio Castagnoli. It would be great to give Mark Briscoe win this belt in his rematch.

The 166th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles Champions: GHC Tag Team Champions: Masa Kitamiya and Daiki Inaba

Their reign began when they defeated Takashi Sugiura and Satoshi Kojima on February 12, 2023.

Kitamiya has held the GHC Tag Team Title with four other partners, thus a good hand to support other talent.

The 167th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles Champions: Impact World Tag Team Champions: Ace Austin and Chris Bey

They were awarded the championship on April 16, 2023, when Kitamiyan and Inaba lost their GHC championship to Takashi Sugiura.

Austin and Bey defeated the Motor City Machine Guns to gain the title. That will put you ahead of most team 6 out of 7 days a week.

It is about midnight on April 16th, and it feels like a very productive day. I got to see "John Wick: Chapter 4", got my parents tech needs resolved, and wrote a blog. This shows me that I have no excuse when it comes to writing blogs.

So, anime next week? Or, how about a movie podcast? If you want to record one with me, send an email to russthebus07@gmail.com with a movie, director, actor, or theme. Just try to focus on sub 100-minute movies to fry up a slice of gold.

New Year's Day: Easy U2 Reference, Difficult Championship Declarations

 *This blog post was started on January 5, 2023.

Right now I am trying to get caught up on the wrestling scene. I am still a bit ashamed that I missed AAW Wrestling's year end show. It is tough acknowledging that I am getting older, and of course today I realize year 43 is less than two months away. This leaves me to ponder if I am going to have the strength to handle all the events I am taking time off for.

This month is Joe's on Weed St's Trivia Tournament of Champions. Next month is B-Fest. The line up has not been issued. AAW in running back in their base building in Berwyn after B-Fest closes. That will be a challenge to sneak into the venue like the good old days. After the raffle at B-Fest, the features were very much skippable, so I might be able to swing it.

But, what if ThePoeticCritic wants to come along? When will I get to be the indie mark that I fancy myself as?

I guess I need to get into better shape to be able to manage this frantic life. The lease does not run up till May, so moving to the Windy City is not the ideal shortcut. If I got up there, everything would be nearby. With that, the drives home will not be that depressing. There is no time to sulk about my loneliness.

It feels like a pipedream, but if a friend who I never met in person can get people like myself to help with spur of the moment moving expenses, maybe there is hope. And there is always cashing out my retirement. I am in retail and not retail management. What is retirement?

So, that is where my head is at. Aside from seeing my current funds dissipate this week to pay them bills, there is no real pressure on me. I suppose I should just appreciate that. Perhaps I can resolve to write something every week beyond my blogs to promote "NinetyForChill: The #Podcast". It would be considered more appropriate than eating something Buffalo flavored daily or partaking in Snoop Dogg's philosophy (Smoke Weed Everyday). Then again, quit being so judgmental. If I will not let a god tell me how fucked I am, why am I doing that?

The Current Disgruntled's Real Champions of Professional Wrestling (As of January 3, 2023):

Let me be upfront. I am writing this as the preshow of Wrestle Kingdom 17 is playing in my peripheral. That is my biggest getting old moment of the past two weeks. Skipping a trip to Chicago for wrestling due to a hangover, that could be considered a fiscally wise move. Failing to watch WK17 because of the joy of sleep sounds kind of pathetic to me. Again, quit being such a harsh judge.

Please believe me, I made my best effort to watch it live. My workday for January 4 would start at 7:30 am. The January 3 agenda was to leave work, make dinner, smoke a bowl, and go to sleep. I was in bed at 6 pm. If I would have slept uninterrupted to wake up at 1 am, that would be seven hours of quality sleep. Too bad I woke up at 10 pm.

Another bowl was partaken, and I probably went back to sleep around 11:30 pm. I guess I was still stoned by 1:00, so bed sounded better than Omega vs. Ospreay. WrestleTalk said otherwise.

We are just getting through the match rundown for WK17. Honestly, kind of a lesser all around card than usual. Or, it only being one night limited the opportunities to be on the main card. Did we need the Keiji Mutoh match on the primary card? Jushin Thunder Liger was limited to the preshow. Give me LIJ challenging The House of Torture for the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship.

I love the sheer amount of championships in New Japan Pro-Wrestling. This means to be on the Tokyo Dome show, you have to be of championship caliber. If UFC can have 12 championships (excluding interim belt holders), why complain about eight in AEW (14 if you include ROH)?

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Spellbound: The Wizard and the Disgruntled's Real World Championships

*This blog post was started on November 2, 2022.

This blog post should serve as evidence as a proper, productive day. Oil change done, fat thawing out to fry up some wings therefore ending my four-day chicken fast, and my health benefits for the next year have been fulfilled. Hell, it seems I managed to stop Eva the Queen Kitty from licking her allergic wounds. What protein should she change to from chicken?

As I say that, she is taking another go at her scabby backside. It is like I am ironically writing that in to fruition.

If you want to know where my head is out, you best check out the blogs at MainEventOfTheDead.com. Hopefully, those rants will lead you to NinetyForChill: The Podcast.

But, with my Eva observation, I may as well bring up another coincidence. Driving to get my errands done, my iPhone decided to play Siouxsie and the Banshees instead of "Scream Drafts: High School Horror Mini Mega Draft". The song was "Spellbound". Spells are magic, and witches and wizards are masters of that. Here is hoping by the time I finish this post, the Disgruntled's Real World Championship maintains an association with wrestling's warlock. Otherwise, Alanis Morissette may as well have wrote this.

The Disgruntled's Current Real Champions (11/06/2022):

The 101st Disgruntled's Real Men's World Champion:
ROH World Champion Chris Jericho (3)
Reign began September 21, 2022.

So I had my issues getting back to the keyboard since the last Dynamite. My trivia excursion was a success on Thursday. As for Friday, it was difficult enough having the energy to make it to Rampage after the successful trivia night. Saturday was dedicated to paying my bills and then visiting my folks. That maybe a common theme with Mom heading to England, and Dad may enjoy the company.

After all of this, it is quite the relief from a blogger standpoint that Colt Cabana failed to defeat Jericho on Wednesday.

Do I have a bias against the WWE? Yes. If I did not, I would not have this blog maintain. AEW has had the best product from their inception until the Triple H regime took over. When I only have so much time to watch professional wrestling, do you think I would change my focus because Hunter is rearranging the board while maintaining the same pieces?

You can argue that Roman Reigns is currently the biggest star in the business. That is to WWE's detriment. He is rarely on TV and takes every other pay-per-view off. Turning him into a movie star will not help your company. WCW worked because of Hogan's failure.

Chris Jericho has defended his championship in less than two months enough times to equal half of Reign's challenges in the past two years. And with the number of defenses, he is the most active world champion.

You can say the AEW World Championship is more important, but it does not have the history of Ring of Honor and Moxley is focused on drama. This is a blog about praising wrestling over narrative. I am an indie wrestler. With a show a month, the wrestling better be good. Jericho is doing that biweekly and still delivers the drama.

The 49th Disgruntled's Real Women's World Champion:
AEW World Champion
Thunder Rosa (Her reign began on March 16, 2022)

Non-Murderous, Undisclosed Desires and the Current Disgruntled's Wrestling Champions

 *This blog post was started on May 31, 2022.

Nothing seems to be going right in starting this post. I looked up songs by The Smiths to come up with a title for the personal part of the blog only to look at my previous posts to find that two posts ago was called "Pick Your Smiths Songs". That is a real kick in the teeth because "Suffer Little Children" would be fitting for the past week.

If it is any consolation for us Americans who have compassion instead of homicidal desires (Are these what Matt Bellamy was singing about?) and the need to defend their past, Twitter has not been too bad. Prior to Uvalde, I was still getting some gun nuts coming out of the woodwork in regards to my call for them to practice their aim instead of buying semi-automatic weapons. Those tweets were sent during WrestleMania weekend. Did those cunts just get out of Twitter jail and had to catch up on whatever those who are more careful in their echo chamber had to disparage?

They are probably just laying low right now because the cowards they voted for are taking the heat for the bullshit they would spout in their stead. If being in power cannot stop you from being an embarrassment, what can your anonymous ass do? Once the house passes their legislation, they will probably express their paranoia again because racist assholes like Rodney Davis had failed them, so red state senators cannot.

I thought I would get around to writing about my own struggles (like trying to find something to enjoy that is not dependent on the influence of others per my therapist), but after naming an incompetents racist, memories of his anti-woman stance come to mind. It has been so long since I wrote for the sake of writing, I did not get to express my anger over Roe v. Wade's inevitable overturning. Should I be writing just to get my rage out? If Mom cracks down on the therapy bills, that maybe my only option.

There is a part of me that thinks I maybe adding even more stress into my life by going to therapy. We are developing a good report, but can it help me? I think that I maybe focusing more on my problems, so that I will have them to talk about. Hence, my troubles seem like they are on my mind more now. With rent going up $60 and a credit card interest coming do, working short shifts with few friends leaves me focused on the lack of money. Sticking around before/after my shift was scheduled to begin/end may help the pocketbook, but it is only more time to think about how few pages are in it.

When it comes to finding outlets to be social, my big sister finds it in Twitter. With her personality, it is easy to see why. She gets to chat with fellow ignored souls. To cope with the assholes she had to endure, being ignored meant a good day. I suppose my problem is that I cannot stand just being ignored.

And the world's problem is not developing a thick skin where they can ignore silly statements. I have probably left people more upset by calling Johnny Depp menacing and claiming that people who ignore their dogs on walks to focus on their phones are closet cat people. People want to be heard, but not interacted with. How dare anyone make them think of the trivial (and occasional dim) things they have said.

Then you get assholes like @daykyle who want to remind me how Cody Rhodes return to WWE is improving rating for McMahon's promotion while the needle only moved once for CM Punk's return to wrestling. I guess this blog will piss him off. Maybe it will get him to write blogs because 280 characters cannot offer him an argument.

The Current Disgruntled's Real Wrestling Champions (May 31, 2022)

With that said, we already know who is going to be named the Men's World Champion. How is Cody going to top the CM Punk story? He is not going to be the guy to unseat the DRCW Interim Champion. Winning Money in the Bank and then cashing in after Roman Reigns beats The Rock is the only way I think his story can be better than what Punk's comeback has been.

He might get a brief reign before WrestleMania, but unless McMahon is going to make the turncoat their top guy and abandon the 10-year build of the Chris Hero stand in, it is not going to mean a damn thing. A reign where Roman just gets the belt(s) back is nothing more that a shallow means to claim that WWE has shown the upmost respect to The American Dream.

Does Being Goldberg Free Mean Too Much Prestige?: Disgruntled's Modern Poser Championship - Part 3

*Blog post started on September 23, 2020.

It has been a tough couple of days, but I think I am over all the obstacles. My fingers are crossed that I will get a day off next weekend at my retail gig, but I should not set my expectations too high.

Saturday featured a flat tire that barely survived the drive to my nine-hour shift at the retailer. I did not account on the time that would be lost. When I attempted to change the tire during my lunch, the screw securing the spare would not budge. So a nine-hour shift with no food turned into a 10 and a half hour ordeal. Here is to hoping roadside assistance will forgive me the $95 service call I had arranged, which I cancelled a half hour later after my manager's tire tech friend volunteered to save the day.

Needless to say, Sunday was a long day since the ex-girlfriend must visit Skimble before noon, I had to get the tire replaced, and time was needed to be reserved for the laundromat. Thankfully the NuEra Dispensary is next door to the laundry. But between that and the exhaustion, I failed to notice one of the SnapChat girls I have been flirting with waiting to be picked up at the laundromat.

Monday was just a wash because I had to try and look good for my practitioner appointment on Tuesday. It was not an overly attentive ordeal, which left me without showing her notes asking about self pleasure affects blood sugar. Some new pills were assigned to me and I was given a flu shot. Then I decided to drive to Morton to fix my sister's Fire TV Stick and any other electronic malfunctions my family faced. As this is being typed, the aches from the shot and drive are finally wearing off.

I would like to blame my worn out state of TNT and the debut of "AEW Late Night Dynamite". Of course the NBA programming did not end when it should have. With the 22nd being "National Voter Registration Day", it is nice to know the NBA is doing its damnedest to get Trump out, but the post game could have been 10 minutes shorter. My DVR will only record the scheduled time slot. When I caught on to the show running late, the knowledge that I had to watch it live sank in. That is not a great way to end the day that started an extra two hours earlier than normal.

Especially when there was not a major draw for the show. Matt Sydal versus Shawn Spears was a good main event, but with none of The Elite or a title holder, I just do not think it is the time filler TNT was looking for. It almost makes me wish we had more tertiary titles to make the show seem significant. That is why there were European and Television titles right?

The NWA still needs to get back on its feet, so a blog about unnecessary championships seems like a fools errand at this time. Tertiary titles lack an impact at this time, unlike the poser championships that claim to be the end all be all.

The Disgruntled's Modern Poser Championship (2015 to 2020)

The 34th Modern Poser Champion:

Evolve Champion Timothy Thatcher (10/4/2015 to 2/25/2017)

This is a tough spot to figure out in the lineage. The TNA Championship was vacated in October 2015. With the Universal Championship established in August 2016, I though bigger names were going to be left out if we let Timothy Thatcher carry the title despite it was established as the DGUSA placeholder. In the end, only one name gets left out if we use the Evolve Championship in the lineage since Fin Balor only held the newest belt for a day.

The 35th Modern Poser Champion:

WWE Universal Champion Kevin Owens (2/25/17 to 3/5/17)

Owens won this title after it was declared vacant, but was able to hold on to this championship for six months. Bobbly Lashley had only just won the Impact Wrestling World Heavyweight Championship a month prior. The biggest problem for Impact at the time, a side from dealing with Jeff Jarret's GFW, was the Hardys had taken attention away from the title when the Broken Universe was established. If you do not care about a championship, where is its importance.

Zack Sabre Jr. was the man who ended Thatcher's reign, but he was established as a cruiserweight stateside.

If Christopher Nolan Was a Blogger an The Modern Poser Championship Part 2

*Blog post started on September 16, 2020.

The writing was supposed to begin with a blog about "Persona 4: The Animation", but I think I ran a little long with the introduction. I find my life to be interesting enough, but my posts are not suppose to be the story of me (for the most part). It is suppose to be about my insights into entertainment mediums to establish trust wit my reader that I have obviously written a great B-movie screenplay about zombie and indie wrestlers, "Main Event of the Dead". If you trust me, either ask for a script treatment or provide me suggestions on how to get this feature out of development hell. My email is russthebus07@gmail.com.

So, I just stuck my 1:15 minute video review of the Mark Dacascos's vehicle "One Night in Bangkok". It is like "Collateral" if the assassin had a conscience and a lack of mobility. John Wick must have taken all of the fight out of The Chairman.

The worst thing about writing the blog to accompany the video was having a great transition to my review for "Persona 4's" first three episodes involving video games. I guess I will come back to that. My most pressing problem is The Disgruntled's Real Championship Wrestling blog needs a wrestling blog entry between two non-wrestling posts meant for MainEventOfTheDead.com. To make matters worse, I do not have any more bullshit to use as an intro.

This will be posted after the "Toxicity and Mark Dacascos in "One Night in Bangkok"" review, so I guess I can update you about getting the funds to avoid an overdraft after HostGator attacked my PayPal with little notice. Lunch was rushed once I got back from lunch hour and my visit to Disc Replay. It took 20 minutes to tell me they could not take my Zapper, which I am cool with. How about "Captain N" cosplay for C2E2 2021? My presumption is that it did not work, but do they have a tube TV in the back to test it out with? They also gave me back an original NES controller, so the likelihood is that the Zapper gone bad.

Now it just makes me want to find a NES Max just to have as a prop. I do miss the one I sold seven years ago. On the plus side, that will be something which is more affordable on eBay to look for. That hunt will serve as a distraction from me looking at old championship wrestling belts.

With segues like that, how can you not trust me to have written a brilliant script?

The Disgruntled's Modern Poser Championship (2010 to 2015)

This may get tricky because the WWE's ECW Championship was retired at the end of "Naked White Cops, WWE's ECW, and The Modern Poser Championship". There were six years between this belt's retirement and the establishment of the WWE Universal Championship. You know there will definitely be vacancy or two in the TNA/GFW/Impact title history. As established in the past Modern Poser blog, I could just go and use the IWGP Heavyweight Championship to fill the holes like the original ECW Heavyweight Championship. It will eventually get elevated out of the poser status. Puroresu fans should not be pissed.

The 16th Disgruntled's Modern Poser Champion:

TNA World Champion AJ Styles (2/16/2010 to 4/19/2010)

17th: Rob Van Dam (2) (4/19/10 to 8/19/10)

The 18th Disgruntled's Modern Poser Champion:

DGUSA Open the Freedom Gate Champion BxB Hulk (8/19/2010 to 1/28/2011)

I think I have dodged a bullet here. Dragon Gate USA was the first Gabe Sapolsky promotion after he left Ring of Honor, so I feel this title deserves discussion since it would also be recognized in Sapolsky's final promotion, Evolve (Now on the WWE Network). Since this is the top belt for the American sister of Dragon Gate, I do not think this should piss off puroresu fans.

Rob Van Dam would need to vacate the TNA championship due to having too few dates on his contract. Sorry to shun the kayfabe injuries. Hulk's reign will only leave Jeff Hardy out in the cold, but 2010 Hardy was not the best Hardy.

The 19th Disgruntled's Modern Poser Champion:

TNA World Champion Mr. Anderson...Anderson (1/28/11 to 2/13/11)

I am in the camp that WWE should have stuck with running him up to the main event at some point and despised the politics that led to Mr. Kennedy's WWE departure. It is good to recognize his potential which I think is more pressing than promoting puroresu in the States.

20th: Jeff Hardy (1) (2/13/11 to 3/3/11)

The 21st Disgruntled's Modern Poser Champion:

DGUSA Open the Freedom Gate Champion Yamato (3/3/11 to 11/13/11)

This is when Eric Bischoff did not see any money in TNA's homegrown talent. Hardy would drop his belt to Sting, who would drop it to Anderson, who would drop it back to Sting, who would drop it to Kurt Angle who lost a retirement match the prior year.

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The 22nd Disgruntled's Modern Poser Champion:

TNA World Champion Bobby Roode (1) (11/13/2011 to 7/8/2012)

Johnny Gargano was not ready to be a "World" champion. After Bobby Roode's NXT run, you know that he carries himself as a champion at all times.

Naked White Cops, WWE's ECW, and The Modern Poser Championship

*Blog post started on September 9, 2020.

The lack of traffic at the bank maybe the primary reason I want Congress to resolve the COVID-19 relief bill. That is hyperbole, but with my blog being my primary way of killing time, it typically means I best watch something or have something meaningful to say before I go to bed. To come in to work without anything to say, a strain on the brain is inevitable.

Labor Day weekend definitely had its moments. An impromptu trip to Peoria on Friday was amusing, but something I paid for the following day. That will happen when one finds a beer arcade that serves five-dollar cocktails and five-dollar shots of Malort. Top that with a strip club which seems to permit their talent to provide weed to the customers, making it through visiting my late best friend's grave in Pekin, buying everything one could need for a cook out, and watching AEW All Out could be seen as an accomplishment.

AEW has bailed me out at least in terms for a blog topic, but after this one, subjects maybe trickier to come by. I wish I could save the next story, but do not know if I can get three page downs of length.

Last night, I was watching some "True Blood" while finishing off my vodka mixer. After I undressed to go to bed, there was a knock on my door. It was an officer with the Urbana Police Department. Call it white privilege, but he did allow me time to put on some pants.

All that was done to explain to me the thin walls in my building, which no one had called me out on all the previous nights with my music at 80% volume, advise me that this was not a warning, and document my name and phone number. When I went to finish the show, I found the volume was at 30% from the TV. Obviously, all the 4K is in the living room, so can I really watch TV at a certain hour?

Do I need to watch the volume as I watch AEW? The cable box seems to need the volume to be over 50 (60 to 70 is ideal). I suppose I can cast the Xfinity app over my bedroom Chromecast to not bug anyone. Should I have told the officers the volume was based on the noise around me?

Really, the biggest problem is having to put all my stuff in the bedroom into closets instead of leaving the room as storage space. It is just so nice to have baskets of clothes laying everywhere instead of making sure cats are not stuck in the closets after I change for work. Think of the kitties.

A lesser problem is not being able to joke about the potential of having to deal with the cops while nude. Since I am white, there is not need to worry about getting treated like a naked minority. Perhaps a universal fear of the blue cunts is needed. America has just go to quit skipping over white people when it comes to mistreatment. It is fucked up equality to say let the cops beat the shit out of everyone, but its satire.

If you want to delve further into my sense of humor, you may be interested in a treatment of my B-movie screenplay, "Main Event of the Dead". Just drop me an email at russthebus07@gmail.com. I also would not mind any advice on how to get this project about indie wrestlers versus zombies out of development hell.

I have been thinking about trying to pursue All Elite Wrestling with this script. Every pro-wrestling promotion needs its own film studio, right?

The Current (147th) Disgruntled's Real World Champions:
AEW Tag Team Champions FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) (Reign started on September 5, 2020)

The WWE Main Roster Tag Team Division has not had any prestige since The New Day's 483-Day reign. When you remember that is only five days longer than Demolition, the previous record, the tag team division was either pretty thin and/or poorly booked. I believe it is the latter because The Revival should have been a part of this title history.

If only NXT Tag Team Champions had proven that belt's worth at last years Survivor Series. With Vince McMahon's pen, who knows if the third brand will get a chance this year.

McMahon's attempts to please NBC Universal and Fox instead of the fans may have resulted in the worse booked "world" championship since the Monday Night Wars. TNA/Impact may have brought fake world championships back, but for the most part they at least create a narrative to make the belt seem important. The WWE Universal Championship on the other hand seems to be the Super Heavyweight Championship we never wanted and with Brock Lesnar's dominance of its short history, wondered if we really had. The only thing I can praise about this title is that it at least allows me to revisit what Jerry Lawler previous dominated, the Disgruntled's Poser Championship lineage.

The Disgruntled's Modern Poser Championship

With USWA going out of business in 1997, there was not a championship with any major promotional history that was trying to prove its importance until TNA split from the NWA. With 10 years between the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship dissolvement and the establishment of the TNA World Championship, I believe the titles are separate from each other.

As I was verifying all of this, I could actually tie the lineage of the Original Poser Championship with the Real World Championship. If you include ECW as a poser championship from 1994 to 1997. It would end when Shane Douglas's third reign began as ECW World Champion which was then elevated to a Real World Championship when the WCW title was held up after Sting/Hogan and Shawn Michael not being a legitimate heavyweight champion after the Montreal Screw Job.

The Final Disgruntled's Original Poser Champion:

ECW World Champion Shane Douglas (11/30/1997 to 12/28/1997)

Also through my research, I might have found a WWE produced championship that beats TNA to the fake world championship.

The Inaugural Disgruntled's Modern Poser Champion:

WWE's ECW World Champion Rob Van Dam (6/13/2006 to 7/4/2006)

Bryan Danielson became the Real World Champion after Edge cashed in his Money in the Bank contract on WWE Champion John Cena and Bautista forfeited the World Heavyweight Championship. He would go on to defend the ROH Championship till the end of that year. Rob Van Dam won a valid championship in the WWE Championship and was awarded the ECW Championship for doing so.

At no point did the ECW Champion ever get the chance to outshine the other two heavyweight champions in WWE. If only Chris Benoit did not go nuts, perhaps this belt would be more than a prop.

The 2nd Disgruntled's Modern Poser Champion:

The Big Show (7/4/06 to 12/3/06)

The 3rd Disgruntled's Modern Poser Champion:

Bobby Lashley (12/3/06 to 4/29/2007)

The 4th Disgruntled's Modern Poser Champion:

Mr. McMahon (4/29/07 to 6/3/07)

The 5th Disgruntled's Modern Poser Champion:

Inoki Genome Federation IWGP Champion Brock Lesnar (6/3/07 to 6/29/07)

Bobby Lashley was stripped of the ECW championship upon being drafted to Monday Night Raw. I guess that is a good thing for the title since WWE was still considering ECW to be a separate promotion. The TNA World Championship had been established and won officially by Kurt Angle submitting Sting in a triple-threat match, but was immediately held up because Christian may have pinned Sting before he tapped. The title was left vacant for a month.

When Antonio Inoki left New Japan Pro Wrestling, he needed a champion and wanted a legitimate badass. Lesnar won NJPW's heavyweight champion in 10/8/05, but was stripped of the belt because circumstances prevented a defense on 7/15/06. Since he was not beaten for the title, Inoki decided to just continue Lesnar's reign despite the IWGP's decision.

The 6th Disgruntled's Modern Poser Champion:

TNA World Champion Kurt Angle (6/29/07 to 10/14/07)

Angle would actually defeat Lesnar and hold both championships. Since he defeated the IWGP champion and was the TNA champion, the belt he held first gets priority as he only defended the IGF prize twice.

The 7th Disgruntled's Modern Poser Champion:

WWE's ECW World Champion CM Punk (10/14/2007 to 1/22/2008)

This is all about performers in their prime. Angle would lose his championship to Sting who was essentially a decade removed from his peak.

The 8th Disgruntled's Modern Poser Champion:

WWE's ECW World Champion Chavo Guerrero (1/22/08 to 3/30/08)

The 9th Disgruntled's Modern Poser Champion:

WWE's ECW World Champion Kane (3/30/08 to 6/29/08)

The 10th Disgruntled's Modern Poser Champion:

TNA World Champion Samoa Joe (6/29/08 to 10/12/08)

Hall of Pain Mark Henry was still a year away. Also, this is when the ECW World Championship title was replaced by the ECW Championship title belt.

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The 11th Disgruntled's Modern Poser Champion:

WWE's ECW Champion Matt Hardy (10/12/2008 to 1/12/2009)

Sting was again the TNA Champion.

The 12th Disgruntled's Modern Poser Champion:

WWE's ECW Champion Jack Swagger (1/12/09 to 4/26/09)

The 13th Disgruntled's Modern Poser Champion:

WWE's ECW Champion Christian (4/26/09 to 6/7/09)

The 14th Disgruntled's Modern Poser Champion:

WWE's ECW Champion Tommy Dreamer (6/7/09 to 7/26/09)

The 15th Disgruntled's Modern Poser Champion:

WWE's ECW Champion Christian (2) (7/26/2009 to 2/16/2010)

I try to avoid title swaps in the DRCW title lineages, but Kurt Angle regained the TNA championship from Mick Foley. We know the demons that Angle was dealing with at the time, so Christian was probably the stronger performer to choose as a champion.

I barely got out of this list without a vacancy, but being two years until the establishment of the NXT territory, can TNA book well enough to prevent that from occurring? It may require some clever story telling, but I think I should be able to pull this off without offending to many puroresu marks.