*Blog post was started on July 13, 2021.

The 2005 Men's Doubles Wrestling Scene: A Reason for One WWE Men's Tag Team Championship

It has been a tougher week so far. Sunday was England's defeat in the finals of Euro 2020. My biggest issue is that I think teams are now playing to get to penalty shoot outs. I suppose I cannot be too upset because they have at least made penalty taking a strategy thus eliminating luck, but why not give them during the game? Why swallow the whistle because of a "questionable" call determining the result in the prior round?

Twitter may consider themselves lucky that I did not go on a pro Super League rant to get away from the corruption of EUFA and FIFA. This suggests that the world cater to me in terms of entertainment that I can drink to. I doubt I was still conscious two hours after the game concluded. How long will I last after "Money in the Bank" Sunday?

I could go on about the further destruction of my body in an attempt to make my blood work look good Wednesday, but that is a good enough transition to get me talking about wrestling with this post. It seems better than trying to wax nostalgic about Paul Orndorff. There needs to be a WWE DVD about his career. He was one of the greats who never needed a championship and that is an art that is underappreciated.

Then there was his WCW run. He did not need championships there. They just needed more creative booking. I should not be too harsh on Eric Bischoff (It would be another story if it was Bill Watts.) because at least he allows me to recognize Orndorff on this blog. He is one of the few who had the talent to be both a Disgruntled's Real World Tag Team Champion and a DRCW Most Legit Men's Doubles World Champions.

Out of the despair of the past two days, we should have a good wrestling week for bloggers. Sheamus will probably unsuccessfully defend his United States Championship to Damien Priest, so I will have to determine the new DRCW OCHO Championship. In the meantime, lets get back to the Hella Good Men's Doubles World Championship title lineage. Was 2004 a simpler time?

The 17th Hella Good Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions

Billy Kidman and Paul London (August 7, 2004 to September 7, 2004)

 

I think we will always remember London best for his team with fellow Texas Wrestling Academy graduate Brian Kendrick. Kidman was the youthful American face of the cruiserweight division. Their tag team was very quick to feud, so their continuity is solely based around their use a the shooting star press.

The 18th Hella Good Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions

Kenzo Suzuki and Rene Dupree (9/7/04 to 12/7/04)

The 19th Hella Good Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions

Rob Van Dam (2) and Rey Mysterio (December 7, 2004 to January 11, 2005)

 

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The 20th Hella Good Men's Doubles World Champions:

World Tag Team Champions

William Regal (2) and Eugene (1/11/05 to 1/16/05)

 

Bobby Roode and Eric Young just look to good together with the Team Canada gimmick to call them hodge podge. They even haled from the same country unlike the past three championship combos.

The 21st Hella Good Men's Doubles World Champions:

World Tag Team Champions

Sylvain Grenier and Robert Conway (1/16/05 to 2/4/05)

They were another multi-national team who were also the DRCW Real World Tag Team at the time.

The 22nd Hella Good Men's Doubles World Champions:

World Tag Team Champions

William Regal (3) and Yoshihiro Tajiri (2/4/05 to 5/1/05)

The 23rd Hella Good Men's Doubles World Champions:

ROH World Tag Team Champions

Jimmy Jacobs and B.J. Whitmer (5/1/05 to 7/9/05)

I suppose The Hurricane and Rosey could be considered a doubles unit instead of a tag team, but the tag team was the payoff to the angle. Jacobs and Whitmer had to defeat Samoa Joe and Jay Lethal to win the recently vacated titles (which was taken away from Whitmer's team [Dan Maff was his partner.]). MNM would soon be feuding with a make shift LOD and NWATNA was all about The Naturals vs AMW.

 

The 24th Hella Good Men's Doubles World Champions:

World Tag Team Champions

Rosey and The Hurricane (2) (7/9/05 to 9/18/05)

There were not many teams when Ring of Honor was established, but H.C. Loc and Tony DeVito were one as the Carnage Crew.

The 25th Hella Good Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions

Animal and Heidenreich (9/18/05 to 10/25/05)

 

If there was ever a combination that should not have been tag team champions...

The 26th Hella Good Men's Doubles World Champions:

ROH World Tag Team Champions

Sal Rinauro and Tony Mamaluke (10/25/05 to 12/17/05)

 

MNM won back the WWE championship. Trevor Murdoch and Lance Cade seemed attached at the hip. Kudos to them for nailing the matching gimmicks.

The 27th Hella Good Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions

Bautista (2) and Rey Mysterio (2) (12/17/05 to 12/27/05)

They were also the DRCW Real World Tag Team at the time.

 

The 28th Hella Good Men's Doubles World Champions:

World Tag Team Champions

Kane (2) and The Big Show (Paul Wight) (Dec. 27, 2005 to April 3, 2006)

This is solely the result of lazy booking. Kane and Big Show were voted into this position on Taboo Tuesday and they would not lose the belts until the emergence of The Spirit Squad. In the meantime, ROH is out to define their tag team division with Austin Aries and Roderick Strong vs. Claudio Castagnoli and Chris Hero. On Smackdown, a high-flying feud would soon commence between Johnny Nitro and Joey Mercury vs. Brian Kendrick and Paul London. In other words, Vince McMahon is not going to book two titles that he cannot stand.

And that is the end of another Duo's Championship lineage.

America's Most Wanted would not lose the NWA championship to A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels until June 2006, over two months since Mikey, Nicky, Kenny, Johnny and Mitch ended Kane and Show's reign. Aries and Strong would not lose their title to the Kings of Wrestling for another five months. Brian Kendrick and Paul London would not defeat NMN until a month and a half into the Squad's reign.

 

It can be proposed that this title could be picked back up again in November of 2006 under similar circumstances to how Kane and Show ended it. I think we have a definitive end to the Hella Good Men's Doubles World Championship and an appropriate beginning to the next incarnation of the division. Otherwise it is back to the drawing board on trying to warrant one long lineage instead of seven (at the very least).

 

Exercises in Futility: As a Cubs and Newcastle fan for nearly four decades, I can work with that. Trying to fix the lineage sounds easier than late 00's slang.