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.

It's My Life: Employment Drama and the #TagTeam Power Rankings.

 *This blog was started on January 18, 2022.

We are going on eight interviews in one week. So far, Three of them were for "NinetyForChill - The Podcast". Two have been for a job that is too good to be true. Tomorrow will be for a couple of jobs and hopefully one will be with an IDES agent to appeal my previous, primary employer protest's of my unemployment claim. Needless to say, I am stressed out.

The stress is more from just wanting my drama with that employer to end. I have so much to say about getting screwed over for expressing what they were doing wrong which creates poor morale and how to resolve this. I think I am going to have to invite the interviewee to visit MainEventOfTheDead.com...but I might be exposing too much of my life.

What I am disappointed in right now is that I have not found a goofy sounding song title to give this blog post. I say that, and I think of Talk Talk. Don't you forget.

Here is to hoping the next blog will be "Hella Good". I have a feeling No Doubt lead to fuzzy memories.

I am on an emotional edge. My retailer is treating me great, but I need a guaranteed 40-hour week. After my previous employer's treatment, it just leads me to feel my life is just bound to be hopeless. It really sucks that I got muzzle my emotions.

I am not ashamed of who I am and I cannot afford therapy. Again, resolution of the drama with my past employer would be nice to elaborate past realities. This was and hopefully still is my emotional outlet. Sorry that I do not make friends easily. And yet again, I got to stop and not elaborate until my fight ends. The cruelty to have to fight.

It is ironic that real life is where I have to stand up for myself. When I was in the wrestling locker rooms before AAW, all the fighting is outside the ring via verbal jarring while I could count on one hand the Peorians on the top of the card who could actually be a challenging physical fight. You can say that wrestling is more of an art than sport, but it is frustrating being a Mid-South Pink Slip. Things would be so much better off if it still needed to be "real (to me)" damnit.

I guess that is a good enough means to transition to something fun to talk about. Something that is obvious to place in the title. How would anyone think that I was even trying to break confidentiality when the past six months of blogs could not indicate anything about any employer who was not Tony Khan or Vince McMahon?

The Disgruntled's Real Men's Tag Team Power Rankings (01/18/2022)

The Number 1 Tag Team in the World:
SmackDown Tag Team Champions:
The Usos: Jimmy and Jey Uso (Up 2 Spots)

• They had successfully retained their championship against WWE's greatest tag team, The New Day, to start the year.
• The SmackDown Tag Team Championship has been previous recognized as the Disgruntled's Real World Tag Team Championship.
• The Lucha Brothers losing to Jurassic Express left the division with a lot of dream tag team bouts unfulfilled (Young Bucks rematch, Santana and Ortiz, redDRagon, Sting and Allin, etc.).

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The Number 2 Tag Team in the World:
AEW World Tag Team Champions:
Jurassic Express: Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus (Up 5 Spots)

• The AEW World Tag Team Championship was the most recent DRCW Real World Tag Team Championship.
• This was well booked, but it is a team with a Shawn and Marty vibe. They will need to beat all comers (the dream opponents for the Lucha Bros.) to make this reign stand the test of time.

The Number 3 Tag Team in the World:
ROH World Tag Team Champions:
The Briscoes: Jay and Mark Briscoe (Down 1 Spot)

• They also hold the Game Changer Wrestling Tag Team Championship.
• The ROH World Tag Team Championship was previously recognized as the DRCW Real World Tag Team Championship.
• They are working towards a program with FTR, former AEW Tag Team Champions and current AAA Tag Team Champions.

*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.

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End ROH's Relevance. A Conclusion to the Disgruntled's Tag Team Champs

When I originally wrote my series of blogs about who "The Disgruntled Real World Heavyweight Champion" is/was, 35 years of wrestling was covered within five blogs (1983 to 2018). With my current blog series about the tag team championship, 19 years had been covered in five blogs (1983 to 2002). The number of champions proclaimed in this series is the same as its predecessor (88), two belts are still recognized at that point (WWE World Tag Team Championship and the current incarnation NWA World Tag Team Championship), and the Ring of Honor and WWE Tag Team Championship are about to be introduced. This makes me wonder, if I should backtrack from the best tag team champions currently (January 28, 2019. I am leaning towards The New Day.), but there may even be more variables to consider.

Can TNA/Impact still be looked over? Has New Japan's influence come into play like it eventually did with the original World Heavyweight Championship? I shall not forget All Elite Wrestling.

I guess we are going into spoiler territory, but let me get to the idea of the "End is the Beginning is the End". That sounds more fun than transcribing my review for the too bad for Netflix Streaming "Skeleton Crew".

Championships that Will Qualify for the List:

• National Wrestling Alliance World Tag Team Championship - When WWE was building up Kane to be the ultimate babyface jobber for Triple H, he was the tag team champion with The Hurricane. Too prove how strong he was, Kane successfully defended the championship in a four-team TLC match only to lose the belts with his partner the next week. Because of its history of being fought over in WCW, the NWA title was still "relevant" and was getting coverage when it was shown on TNA. Christopher Daniels and Donovan Morgan became the inaugural ROH Tag Team Champions two days before America's Most Wanted captured the NWA title, but AMW was going to be the more memorable team. Here is hoping for a reunion like the Rock 'n' Roll Express on NWA Powerrr.
• Ring of Honor Tag Team Championship - The title got its legs when WWE was trying to establish the WWE Tag Team Championship on Smackdown. If you consider that WWE all but forgot about tag team wrestling when the Alliance angle first gave them multiple championships, there will definitely be points when ROH can claim to have the more worthy championship.
• WWE Tag Team Championship - If you are a fan of history, this has the lineage of the World Tag Team Championship.
• WWE Smackdown Tag Team Championship - It all depends of the booking when it comes to which WWE Tag Team Championship is more meaningful.
• All Elite Wrestling Tag Team Championship - Their first tag team champions, Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky ended up defeating all of what had to be the most stacked tag team division at the time. The recognition may just be a blip because losing the championships to a team that is building for a Mega Powers Explosion may take some luster off the belts.

The Current (1/29/2020) Real Tag Team Champions: The Smackdown Tag Team Champions: The New Day (Big E., Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods) - Reign began on January 22, 2020:

It has been established for nearly two years that the dream opponents for The New Day was the six-person team of The Elite. That version of The Elite does not feature Adam Page.

The Last Real Tag Team Champions: 

AEW Tag Team Champions: So Cal Uncensored (Scorpio Sky and Frankie Kazarian): 12/13/2019 to 1/22/2020

The ROH Tag Team Champs lost the belt to a non-established tag team in Jonathan Gresham and Jay Lethal. I would refer to Super ACH when it comes to why Lethal got that spot.

2nd to Last Real Tag Team Champions:

ROH Tag Team Champions: The Briscoe Brothers (Mark and Jay) - 7/20/19 to 12/13/19

Since December of 2012, Ring of Honor had the titles only be won by established tag teams, most of whom would end up becoming champs in the WWE or AEW. WWE then goes to abuse the tag teams by letting their talents put over singles competitors.

The Guerillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tango Loa) - 4/6/19 to 7/20/19

Villain Enterprises (PCO and Brody King) - 3/15/19  to 4/6/19

The Briscoe Brothers (2) - 12/14/2018 to 3/15/19

So Cal Uncensored (Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky) - 10/14/18 to 12/14/18

The Briscoe Brothers (3) - 3/9/18 to 10/14/18

The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Saban) - 9/22/17 to 3/9/18

The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson) - 4/1/2017 to 9/22/17

The Broken Hardys (5) [Broken Matt and Brother Nero] - 3/4/17 to 4/1/17

The Young Bucks (2) - 12/18/2016 to 3/4/2017

12th to Last Real Tag Team Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions: The New Day (2) - 9/18/2015 to 12/18/16

The WWE only had a single tag team championship at the time. Once they needed to establish a faction, The Shield, they realized that tag team wrestling was important again.

13th to Last Real Tag Team Champions:

ROH Tag Team Champions: The Addiction (Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian) - 4/4/15 to 9/18/15

The New Day had traded their tag team titles to try and get The Prime Time Players over. WWE was not quite ready to pull the trigger on Kingston, Woods, and Big E.

14th to Last Real Tag Team Champons:

reDRagon (Kyle O'Reily and Bobby Fish) - 9/21/2014 to 4/4/15

15th Last Real Tag Team Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions: The Usos (Jimmy and Jey) - 3/3/14 to 9/21/14

ROH's champs were the Young Bucks, but I would say it was after Wrestle Kingdom 9 (1/4/15) that they put themselves on the map.

The New Age Outlaws (3) - 1/26/14 to 3/3/14

Cody Rhodes and Goldust - 10/14/13 to 1/26/14

The Shield (Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins) - 5/19/13 to 10/14/13

20th to Last Real Tag Team Champions:

Team Hell No (Kane and Daniel Bryan) - 10/14/2012 to 5/19/13

This is WWE's best example of rivals becoming champions, so it deserves to remembered for that and bringing back tag team relevance after the two previous championships were merged.

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TNA Is Worth Noting: The Disgruntled's Real Tag Team Championship History (Part 7)

IF ONLY I RECEIVED HATEFUL EMAILS AND TWEETS (@mainventzombie).

I am not saying that Impact is not a World Championship.

I am leaning to saying that it is not, but The Pride and The Powerful and the Lucha Bros both had a cup of coffee there. And when it comes to Total Nonstop Action, the Dudleys had shown they had showcased the importance of three championships already.

As I reviewed that statement in my last blog, it turn out my assumption was false. It surprised me how little contract disputes have not booked Ring of Honor into corners (and that is post Gabe Sapolsky). Sadly, it did not surprise me WWE just forgot to book these titles after they consolidated their titles with a admirable history. Admirable, unless you see it as an Attitude Era Redux. After  Carlito and Primo held them, only The Miz was established in the time of TV-PG.

21st to Last Real World Tag Team Champions:

TNA Tag Team Champions: The World Tag Team Champions of the World (2) [Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian] - 6/28/12 to 10/14/12

Ring of Honor's tag team renascence has a few months before it begins. I had forgotten that The Colons (Primo and Epico) were even WWE champions for three months. Sandwiching their reign was Kofi Kingston and midcard weight R-Truth and Evan Bourne. The NWA had seeming dominant world champions, but it seemed like that was a result of not booking the championship rather than defending it successfully.

No IWGP?

If you tag with Karl Anderson, the West will want you back. But, there has never been a time when New Japan tried to show that their belts were more important than the Ring of Honor version. Having their World Champion defend his title successfully against the ROH's is why I considered that belt to be part of American wrestling. I cannot recall when the tag team title was booked in the same manner.

22nd to Last Real World Tag Team Champions:

TNA Tag Team Champions: Kurt Angle and AJ Styles - 6/10/12 to 6/28/12

This is definitely a match up question. Would you rather have two multiple-time world champions or Kofi Kingston and a mid-card weight?

23rd to Last Real World Tag Team Champions:

TNA Tag Team Champions: The World Tag Team Champions of the World - 5/13/12 to 6/10/12

Magnus and Samoa Joe - 5/12/12 to 5/13/12

26th to Last Real World Tag Team Champions:

ROH Tag Team Champions: The Briscoe Brothers (4) - 12/23/2011 to 5/12/12

Before Nick "Magnus" Aldis and Samoa Joe were champions, the belts belonged to Matt Morgan and Crimson. ROH had Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team (Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas) as champions during the majority of Joe and Aldis's reign, but their last reign had a stipulation where they could lose the titles via disqualification. They lost them to The All Night Express (Rhett Titus and Kenny King) who would vacate them over a contrast dispute. It just was not the ideal conclusion to WGTT's run with the company.

27th to Last Real Tag Team Champions:

ROH Tag Team Champions: Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team (Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin) - 4/1/11 to 12/23/2011

The Kings of Wrestling (Claudio Castagnoli and Chris Hero) - 9/19/2010 to 4/1/11

29th to Last Real World Tag Team Champions:

Unified WWE Tag Team Champions: The Hart Dynasty (Tyson Kidd and Davey Boy "DH" Smith Jr.)" - 4/26/10 to 9/19/10

Until the creative genius of Team Hell No and the need to establish The Shield, this was the end of WWE's most recent attempt at giving tag team championship its due. Of course, before the conclusion and establishment of this double championship's time, main event talent was the only talent featured.

30th to Last Real World Tag Team Champions:

Unified WWE Tag Team Champions: ShoMiz (The Big Show and The Miz) - 2/8/10 to 4/26/10

Degeneration X (Triple H and Shawn Michaels) - 12/19/2009 to 2/8/10

33rd to Last Real World Tag Team Champions:

ROH Tag Team Champions: The American Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) - 6/28/09 to 12/19/09

Chris Jericho is listed as having two reigns as a unified champion as he was forced to replace his original partner, the injured Edge, with The Big Show. That team never truly won the titles.

34th to Last Real World Tag Team Champions:

Unified WWE Tag Team Champions: The Colons (Carlito and Primo) - 10/27/2008 to 6/28/09

The Colons did unify the WWE Tag Team Championship and the World Tag Team Championship to allow for the highlighting of WWE's Tag Team Division.

to Last Real World Tag Team Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions: The Edge Heads (Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder) - 6/20/08 to 10/27/08

John Morrison and The Miz - 12/30/2007 to 6/20/08

37th to Last Real World Tag Team Champions:

ROH Tag Team Champions: The Briscoe Brothers (5) - 4/17/07 to 12/30/07

Montel Vontavious Porter (MVP) and Matt Hardy's partnership focused on Hardy wanting MVP's US Championship. The tag team was a method of adding drama to the other title.

38th to Last Real World Tag Team Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions: Brian Kendrick and Paul London 5/21/2006 to 4/17/07

This reign was nearly a year long while WWE's other championships was being used to justify The Spirit Squad having a role in the main event picture. The main event revolved around Vince McMahon, so the World Tag Titles were definitely no held in high regard.

39th to Last Real World Tag Team Champions:

MNM (Joey Mercury and Johnny "Nitro" Morrison) - 12/27/2005 to 5/21/2006

In the end, it may have been a means of solely putting over Nitro and Melina over, but they were the most over and commanding tag team of 2005.

40th to Last Real World Tag Team Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions: Rey Mysterio and Batista - 12/13/05 to 12/27/05

MNM (2) - 11/1/05 to 12/13/05

42nd to Last Real World Tag Team Champions:

World Tag Team Champions: Trevor Murdock and Lance Cade - 10/5/05 to 11/1/05

Do we really want to document the Heidenreich version of the Legion of Doom?

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