Legit, Two Legit, Too Legit, and Most Legit: 1990's Men's Doubles World Championships

It has only been a day since I was at a keyboard, and aside from Lio Rush announcing his retirement, there has not been any excitement. This is going to be a wordy blog post anyhow, so may as well get right into the sequel to the DRCW Gnarly Men's Doubles World Championship.

DRCW's Legit Men's Doubles World Championship

The 1st DRCW's Legit Men's Double's World Champions

NWA World Tag Team Champions

Arn Anderson and Larry Zbyszko (9/5/1991 to 11/19/1991):

 

Since Andre the Giant and King Haku are also part of the Disgruntled's Real World Tag Team Championship lineage, I suppose we could bump the birth of this title to a later date. Demolition traded the tag team championship with The Colossal Connection. In the meantime, the NWA had five title changes between teams.

The tag TEAM warfare ended in the NWA when Scott Steiner got injured in July of 1991. To fill in their vacancy, they had a tag team tournament with a final of hodge podge teams. Larry Zbyszko is not Tully Blanchard and the World's Strongest Man Bill Kazmaier is not Scott Steiner...regardless of similar alleged steroid histories. This makes The Enforcers the best place to start.

The 2nd Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

NWA World Tag Team Champions

Ricky Steamboat and Dustin Rhodes (11/19/1991 to 1/16/1992)

The 3rd Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

NWA World Tag Team Champions

Arn Anderson (2) and Bobby Eaton (1/16/92 to 5/3/92)

 

DRCW's Two Legit Men's Doubles World Championship

With the Steiners and the Miracle Violence Connection being the next NWA champions, it seems that we are still in the golden age of team wrestling. I did look at the what the Global Wrestling Federation and United States Wrestling Association had to offer to continue the 1990's version of the Men's Doubles Championship. USWA had the belt on The Moondogs (Spot and Cujo). It takes commitment to be one of them, so that is a TEAM. As for the GWF, Steve Dane and Gary Young were champions and neither have a Wikipedia page. The best course of action is to continue with the MC Hammer joke.

The 1st Two Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

WCW/NWA World Tag Team Champions

Barry Windham and Dustin Rhodes (9/21/1992 to 11/18/1992)

The 2nd Two Legit Men's Doubles World Champions

WCW/NWA World Tag Team Champions:

Ricky Steamboat and Shane Douglas (11/18/1992 to 3/27/1993)

The 3rd Two Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

USWA World Tag Team Champions

Scotty (Raven) Flamingo and Brian Christopher (3/27/93 to 3/29/93)

I threw in the USWA title in to give this belt a little more mass. Unfortunately, with the Moondogs (Spot and Splat), The Hollywood Blondes, Money, Inc. and the Steiners being the top acts, there are just too many months between Douglas and Steamboat to Arn Anderson and Paul Roma. We can debate their legitimacy as a team since they are not the Hall of Fame Horsemen, but if you can swap out Moondogs, why not Horsemen.

DRCW Too Most Legit Men's Doubles World Championship

The 1st Most Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

WCW World Tag Team Champions

Cactus Jack (Mick Foley) and Kevin Sullivan (5/22/1994 to 7/17/1994)

 

I did my damnedest to give 1-2-3 Kid and Marty Jannetty the belts. WWF is still a couple months away from turning the belt solely into a prop with Shawn Michaels and Diesel. That is probably the inspiration for David Shoemaker's suggestion of a Doubles division.

The 2nd Most Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

WCW World Tag Team Champions

Paul Roma and Paul Orndorff (7/17/94 to 9/25/94)

 

Also held the DRCW Disgruntled's Real World Tag Team Championship (from The Public Enemy). This is why I have called the belt the most Legit Men's Double's World Championship.

The 3rd Most Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

ECW World Tag Team Champion

Cactus Jack and Mikey Whipwreck (9/25/94 to 11/5/94)

 

The title unification ended when the Public Enemy won the DRCW Disgruntled's Real World Tag Team Championship.

The 4th Most Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

WCW World Tag Team Champion (11/5/94 to 11/16/94)

Paul Roma (2) and Paul Orndorff (2) 

The 5th Most Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

WCW World Tag Team Champion

Marcus Alexander (Buff) Bagwell and The Patriot (11/16/94 to 12/8/94)

 

Curse The Moondogs (Spot and Rex this time). ECW had their championship on their first hot act, The Public Enemy. Harlem Heat has emerged in WCW. The Dudes with Attitudes have vacated the WWF championship. My only way to keep this going is to revamp these titles is to try and figure out if the Miracle Violence Connection (Terry Gordy and Steve Williams) lost of the All Japan World Tag Team Championships to some thrown together gaijins during their WCW run. That does not workout.

DRCW Too Legit Men's Doubles Championship:

Because of the adjective (not verb Kevin Nash), I think I have allowed myself a loophole into being more lenient in what qualifies as two guys instead of a team. Not until the Monday Night Wars are being won by the WWF, do we really see a time when their title being used as a prop.

 

The 1st Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWF World Tag Team Champions

1-2-3 Kid and Bob Holly (1/22/1995 to 1/23/1995)

The 2nd Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

USWA World Tag Team Champions

Tommy Rich and Dough Gilbert (1/23/95 to 3/13/95)

The 3rd Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

ECW World Tag Team Champions

Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko (3/13/95 to 4/8/95)

The 4th Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWF World Tag Team Champions

Owen Hart, Yokozuna, and Davey Boy Smith (4/8/95 to 9/25/95)

Hart and Yokozuna (officially) had also won the DRCW Disgruntled's Real World Tag Team Championship (from Harlem Heat). You cannot say they were inferior to the Nasty Boys. This cannot be considered the a "most legit" since they will not lose them to a fellow doubles unit.

 

The 5th Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

WCW World Tag Team Champions

Alexander Marcus Bagwell and Scotty Riggs (9/25/95 to 9/27/95)

 

The 6th Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

USWA World Tag Team Champions

J.C. Ice (James Dundee) and Wolfie D (Slash) (9/27/95 to 10/28/95)

I know these two gentlemen will be remembered best as PG-13, hence using the adjective "too".

The 7th Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

ECW World Tag Team Champions

2 Cold Scorpio and The Sandman (10/28/95 to 12/29/95)

 

The 8th Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

ECW World Tag Team Champions

Cactus Jack and Mikey Whipwreck (12/29/1995 to 2/3/1996)

 

The 9th Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

WCW World Tag Team Champions

Sting and Lex Luger (2/3/96 to 6/24/96)

 

This duo is another unit that won the Disgruntled's Real World Tag Team Championship. They did the Crockett Cup to warrant that reign. Again, that title would be lost to a TEAM.

The 10th Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

USWA World Tag Team Champions

Flex (The Rock) Kavana and Bart Sawyer (6/24/96 to 7/1/96)

 

The 11th Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

USWA World Tag Team Champions

Jerry Lawler and Bill Dundee (7/1/96 to 7/8/96)

 

The 12th Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

USWA World Tag Team Champions

Flex Kavana (2) and Bart Sawyer (2) (7/8/96 to 7/15/96)

The 13th Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

USWA World Tag Team Champions

Brickhouse Brown and Reggie B. Fine (7/15/96 to 8/5/96)

 

The 14th Too Legit Men's Doubles World Champions:

NWA World and W*ING World Tag Team Champions

Mr. Gannosuke and Tarzan Goto (8/5/96 to 9/22/96)

 

And the Moondogs (Spot and Rover) screw everything up again. Maybe I just made this task too troublesome for myself. The IWA Japan Duo won a tournament on 12/9/95 to become NWA champions. If I was not looking for another belt to bolster this lineage, six champions would have been lost.

 

The current incarnation of the NWA championship is part of the DRCW Disgruntled's Real World Tag Team Championship so it needed to be considered at some point. This was the first chance to do so.

 

The 15th Too Legit Men's Doubles Champions

WWF World Tag Team Champions

Owen Hart (2) and Davey Boy Smith (2) (9/22/1996 to 5/26/1997)

 

This is the first team to hold both the DRCW Disgruntled's Real World Tag Team Championship and the Too Legit Championship twice. Again, the tag team champions were a team (The Outsiders), so the most legit title is off the table.

 

The 16th Too Legit Men's Doubles Champions:

WWF World Tag Team Champions

Shawn Michael and Steve Austin (5/26/97 to 7/14/97)

 

The 17th Too Legit Men's Doubles Champions:

WWF World Tag Team Champions (7/14/97 to 9/7/97)

Manking (Mick Foley)(2) and Steve Austin (2)

The 18th Too Legit Men's Doubles Champions:

USWA World Tag Team Champions

J.C. Ice (2) and Wolfie D (2) (9/7/97 to 10/18/97)

There is hope that we can keep the Too Legit Men's Doubles Championship's lineage going to the Invasion angle. With the USWA folding, do I have enough belts to make it to that point? Also, since this belt is Too Legit, is there away to connect them with lesser tag teams. That will be something to keep me busy, and that sounds like a win for me.

Unless my eyes start slipping into comment sections/replies on Twitter. With Marty Scurll not being invoked, I do not see that as likely. But I do need to visit Peoria this weekend. An earful of right wing bullshit might be the cost of laundry.