Invading and Evading: The Buffalo-Themed Disgruntled's Real Tag Team Champions - Part 5

*Blog written on February 10, 2020.

The Daily Buffalo Resolution winded up costing me $100 this past weekend. You cannot just go to Slim Chicken's on 50-cent wing day and just go back home for the rest of the weekend.

Were any of the items stuff I should have passed up. Maybe the Wii U copy of "Bayonetta 2" (with the original "Bayonetta") would qualify, but when most places charge 20 bucks for that combo, how do I resist 10? It also seemed to be the perfect accompanyment to the Nick Fury with Goose Funko Pop.

On the opposite end of the comic spectrum, perhaps I should have just stuck with Volume Two of "Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity" instead of committing to Volume Three as well, but we do not want Warner Bros screwing with those characters again. Any purchase towards Gotham's criminal royalty should stop that, right?

I guess I cannot blame Slim Chicken's for the Bloomington trip the next day. And, it ended up being a good trip when I found the $40 yellow-soled, pastel tye-dyed All-Stars to replace the black ones that are still mudcaked from Riot Fest. What else would be appropriate for my fuschia pair to match with?

In the end, the only thing worth bitching about is that 20 wings were not enough. I rarely feel like a glutton, but there were no leftovers. It felt like I was placed in a tough spot. You do not want to advertise yourself as a fat ass by ordering 40 and then have a seat to dine. With only four TV's, behaving like it's a Hooters is wrong.

Oh how I miss Hooters. Why did I not just drive to Springfield instead? The better quarter likes to see new places.

At least there was no complaining about the one who is second to Eva the Cat. The shoes and underwear (Super Mario from H&M) she lead me to makes it seem like we are a good team. We are at least a better arrangment than the post WCW/ECW scene that follows.

The 72nd Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Brothers of Destruction (Kane and The Undertaker) - 4/1/01 to 4/29/01

The idea behind the title change was to set up the two main event heels to hold all of the championships at one time, so they were getting the most exposure possible (far more than the NWA's Bad Attitude [David Young and Rick Michaels] and Heavenly Bodies [Chris Nelson and Vito DeNucci]). It would also tease the Hardy Boyz as main eventers.

The 73rd Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Two-Man Power Trip (Triple H and Steve Austin) - 4/29/01 to 5/21/01

The 74th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Chris Benoit and Chris Jericho - 5/21/01 to 6/19/01

The 75th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Dudley Boyz (7) - 6/19/01 to 7/9/01

The 76th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's The Acolytes Protection Agency (Ron "Farooq" Simmons and "JBL" Bradshaw) - 7/9/01 to 8/7/01

The 77th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Diamond Dallas Page and Kanyon - 8/7/01 to 8/19/01

The 78th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Brothers of Destruction (2) - 8/19/01 to 9/17/01

Also the WCW Tag Team Champions at the time.

The 79th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Dudley Boyz (8) - 9/17/01 to 10/22/01

The 80th Real Tag Team Champions:

WCW Champions: The Hardy Boyz (4) - 10/22/01 to 10/23/01

The Dudleys dropped their belts to feed into The Rock's and Jericho's feud over the WCW World Championship. They in turn lost the belt to Booker T and Test (WCW's top star and the turncoat). So, no real teams held the WWF belts until the Hardys regained them.

The 81st Real Tag Team Champions:

WCW Dudley Boyz (9) - 10/23/01 to 1/7/02

The Dudleys would win the WWF titles from the Hardys. When the Alliance was forced to disband, they were recognize only as the WWF champions.

The 82nd Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Spike Dudley and Tazz - 1/7/02 to 2/19/02

The 83rd Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF/WWE's Billy Gunn and Chuck Palumbo - 2/19/02 to 5/19/02

The 84th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWE's Rico and Rikishi - 5/19/02 to 6/4/02

The 85th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWE's Billy Gunn and Chuck Palumbo (2) - 6/4/02 to 7/2/02

The 86th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWE's Hulk Hogan and Edge - 7/2/02 to 7/21/02

The 87th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWE's Un-Americans (Lance Storm and Christian) - 7/21/02 to 9/23/02

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The 88th Real Tag Team Champions:

NWA's America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris and James Storm) - 9/23/02 to 11/13/02

The WWE had only one tag team title at the time, and they decided to use it only to put over Kane in his main event jobber role to Triple H. "The Hurricane" Gregory Shane Helms was his partner and proved to not be needed when Kane won a TLC match to defend the titles on his own.

And Total Nonstop Action Became the American Wrestling Association

And you wonder where the joke promotion reputation came from. TNA/Impact's heavyweight division is primarily the reason for that, which is sad when the undercard was at least trying to innovate. Like Verne Gagne's AWA, the promoter (Jeff Jarrett) seemed to start the promotion to get himself over at the expense of everything else. It is kind of poetic that Jarrett only has daughters. Grandma Jarrett never tried to do that shit.

Cesaro Needs a "No Holds Barred" Sequel/AAW One Twisted Christmas

It’s tough to be humorous at the end of the year. I suppose we’ve burned through all the humor by the twelve-month point. Hence, at a milestone like that, we find it best to just put out our year in review. Thus, the initial thought for this blog was to write “10 Things from 2014 that were worse than ‘No Holds Barred,’” but it wouldn’t be a compare and contrast. It would just be me bitching about:

• The idiocy of having a feud between two people with the exact same of DNA (I bet one has highlighted hair so the E! News talking heads could tell them apart).
• The “Ryback Isn’t that Dangerous” PR tour (and Chris Jericho’s hypocrisy).
• How come an injured champion was stripped of their title for failing to defend it in two months while a healthy one doesn’t have to defend theirs for four (I already have the kayfabe answer, but that’s like stating why there were obviously black stormtroopers)?

Aside from one liners, there wouldn’t be much creativity. And my voice maybe a little too flat for sound bytes with punctual impact.

Then fear sets in because, from my experience, the start of the year is also tough humor wise. We all sit back and remind ourselves of where we fell short, remember the dead comedians from the prior year, and wonder how we can laugh it off. Last year, I tried with satire and comparing my existence to “Schrodinger’s Cat,” but dark humor doesn’t seem to work when everyone is in a dark place. Oh the number of friends and family I had to block on Facebook and Twitter for failing to understand my plight or at least chuckle at it. If people didn’t understand or smirk, were the blogs alive or dead?

Trying to relate “No Holds Barred” to the indie show I saw last weekend, “AAW Presents: One Twisted Christmas” seemed like a daunting task. All that immediately had come to mind was comparing the promos of the legitimately injured to the crippling of Randy, and that’s distasteful. That, and this show was awesome. Mismanaged in terms of time and booking placement, but much better than the well structured Mr. Hogan’s Opus.

I’d still like to review the event in this blog, so when you get to the italic font, you’ll know the satirical stuff has ended and the indie wrestling insight begins.

Fortunately, I remembered that I had just finally gotten around to watching “Jackie Brown,” starring Tiny “Zeus” Lister, instead of drinking in downtown P-Town, fearing the concept of making conversation with old high school relations I never had anything in common with.

Sorry Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, but only Peoria, Illinois, can claim to be the one and only P-Town. It was Kurt Angle who noted on the April 23, 2002 taping of “Smackdown” that the city’s name sounds like a urinary (a pee) infection. Since a Yinzer made the argument, my hometown claim shant be disputed.

Why Haven’t We Gotten the Next Tiny Lister?

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The Days of E&C and TLC: The Disgruntled Real Tag Team Champions - Part 4

The non-highlighted was written on February 6, 2020.

Well, I appreciate all the news coverage that allowed me to stay occupied the vast majority of my shift, but I definitely could have waited one more week. In other words, trying to develop an argument to convince my mom to abandon the Grand Old Party is what is on my mind. Not to say that witnesses would have changed the result, but one would have to at least appreciate the effort put into the cover up.

There has been enough news that some decent conversations have been held at the day job. Margot Robbie's amateur tattoo stories have come out filled the pop culture and its influence on college kids and impulsive soon to be 40 somethings (If she and Jeff Hardy can own machines, why not I?). The Christian Right (and white) Facebook opinions about the Super Bowl halftime allowed for a common ground with the more religious types in the office.

The Religious: You know how much I love Jesus, but whoa. And the stupid Bible verses to defend her stance.

Me: Did she go straight to Leviticus?

The Religious(s): Ha!

I suggested to both to just use the "unfollow" option on Facebook, but my manager said she needs that craziness every now and then, so she prefers to let them snooze for 30 days. That is where I went to bat for Twitter (@maineventzombie) and stated if I need that insanity, I will just go and troll Tomi Lahren (whom I should have immediately tagged in my "If you are Generation X or younger and support the GOP, you are a sellout." tweet). Turns out, that is when you can get the religious on your side

The Religious: She's such a hypocrite.

Me: Actually, no.

This was a place to say that the religious one was not necessarily conservative by explaining the separate approach to it. Lahren uses personal freedom to justify the stuff that she did not agree with. My goal was to show I understood the religious, but why she may want to avoid calling herself conservative. She even acknowledged that the success of religious conservatism would be replacing god.

Of course, she is a millenial. I do not know if telling my mom to shun the GOP cunts (broad use of the noun, not about the GOP's broads) so that you can start a new with a conservative party instead of depending on the power-hungry. If Dad was not so fluid in his political acceptance, he would be a good teammate in this argument. Life is all about good teammates, like:

The 54th Real Tag Team Champions: ECW's Impact Players (Justin Credible and Lance Storm) - 1/9/2000 to 2/26/2000

Credible and Storm were two guys that Paul Heyman wanted to keep looking strong until the right time came to elevate them to the main event. Essentially, this reign was to keep them in a holding pattern, so when it came to wrestlers not named Jerry Lynn, they were the top. And because of the attention they garnered, they would be in the main event picture anyhow...too the point that when the reign ended, the titles were diluted.

The 55th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's New Age Outlaws (2) - 2/26/00 to 2/27/00

ECW's belts were swapped twice in a matter of weeks with a couple of makeshift teams (Masato Tanaka and Tommy Dreamer; Raven and Mike Awesome). WCW's tag division fell off once the Russo Era began. The Outlaws were not as over as they once were, but they were the top team and represented the past of WWF best. It was just about time for the division to finally go to the future.

The 56th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Dudley Boyz (4) - 2/27/00 to 4/2/00

It ended in the Triple-Threat Tag Team Ladder Match at WrestleMania 2000 (16).

The 57th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Edge and Christian - 4/2/00 to 5/29/00

The 58th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Too Cool (Grand Master Sexay and Scotty 2 Hotty) - 5/29/00 to 6/25/00

I really wanted to place the titles on KroniK (Brian Adams and Bryan Clark). They were the last memorable WCW team and Brian Christopher and Scott Taylor should not be a match for them. Unfortunately, Shawn Stasiak and Chuck Palumbo needed to get over faster than their talent's growth.

The 59th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Edge and Christian (2) - 6/25/00 to 9/24/00

During this reign, they successfully retained the titles in the first Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match.

The 60th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Hardy Boyz (Matt and Jeff Hardy) - 9/24/00 to 10/22/00

The 61st Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Los Conquistadores/Edge and Christian (3)- 10/22/00 to 10/23/00

The 62nd Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Los Conquistadores/Matt and Jeff Hardy (2) - 10/23/00 to 11/6/00

The 63rd Real Tag Team Champions:

ECW's Full Blooded Italians (Tony Mamaluke and Little Guido Maritato) - 11/6/00 to 12/3/00

I had forgotten, or perhaps failed to remember, the reign of Right to Censor (Bull Buchanon and The Goodfather). This faction did not work because everyone in it (with the exception of Stevie Richards) felt like a retread. WCW's titles were being swapped on a weekly basis at this time. After the Impact Players disbanded, this was the only lengthy ECW title reign recorded.

The 64th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Edge and Christian (4) - 12/3/00 to 12/18/00

The ECW titles had their last title change (Danny Doring and Roadkill) before they became inactive.

The 65th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Rock and Undertaker - 12/18/00 to 12/19/00

This was part of another Edge and Christian angle that helped build up the main event scene (Kurt Angle being the guest referee in their only defense) and lasted a night, so no harm done to the legacy of the belts.

The 66th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Edge and Christian (5) - 12/19/00 to 1/21/01

The 67th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Dudley Boyz (5) - 1/21/01 to 3/5/01

The 68th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Hardy Boyz (3) - 3/5/01 to 3/19/01

The 69th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Edge and Christian (6) - 3/19/01

Edge and Christian's chicanery will always be forgiven for any short WWF reigns they played a part in. After stealing the Dudley Boyz title shot, it was determined that they needed to defend them the same night against the rightful number one contender.

The 70th Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Dudley Boyz (6) - 3/19/01 to 4/01/01

The 71st Real Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Edge and Christian (7)

Robschamberger.com - Edge and Christian

Clint Howard for Raw GM and How the WWE is “No Holds Barred”

Can there ever be too much irony? I’m leaning towards yes as the answer. Alanis Morissette made sure she didn’t feature much of it in her hit single and M. Night Shyamalan hasn’t been able to sell us on any of his twists since “The Village.” Perhaps he exchanged his sixth sense for the topic when he cast Bryce Dallas Howard in his films. Their first collaboration was a lot like “10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife,” and Howard coincidentally looks like her Dad.

The latter part of that assessment may seem a bit harsh. I should have used reminds me of Richie Cunningham. You can blame the movie poster of “Lady in the Water” for the association. You are going to need to visit the IMDB page because I don’t want the poster to be the random image that gets posted on Facebook when I send out my advertising tweets (from @MainEventZombie) for this blog. When you look at it and see the Howard name, tell me you don’t see Opie Taylor? Then you see Paul Giammati’s billing, you can’t help but add his hairline to her ginger face. The answer to the equation is Ron Howard.

Revisiting this thought process to justify waiting for the “Happening” to reacquaint myself with M. Night’s work (I’m kidding, I haven’t gotten caught up) has made me forever grateful that I have yet to see any of the ginger girls that I’ve screwed around with in a ball cap. Girls must know that. You do not see any celebs of the female gender, pale complexion and hair that nature gave up on bleaching 10 minutes into the process sporting the look. Well, I imagine Lindsay Lohan has, and she probably showed that Ron Howard isn’t the worst case scenario.

In the end (I need to get back to the ironic theme), at least I’m not reminded of Clint Howard when I think about actresses with traditional a traditional “Annie”-base. Then again, wouldn’t Clint be more suited to play the role of a lead scientist in a played out dinosaur movie franchise? His age may make him more authoritative. WWE needs a likable authority figure. And I needed a title that draws greater interest than “John Cena has one too many syllables to be Rip.”

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