*Blog post started on September 30, 2021.

I Miss Sunday Night Heat & More of the Best Men's Doubles of All Time.

Professional wrestling eventually brought the excitement to my week. Where would the business be if it was not for AEW?

In Japan of course. I kind of wish it was that way just to justify my NJPW World subscription. The G1 Climax tournament's A Block has kept me busy the past week, but now that the schedule is picking up, I ponder how many shows that I am behind. At least the B Block being filled with matches that are easy to recall (Tanahashi vs. Okada), means I will not have much to catch up on.

I guess my problem with AEW being established (before the Forbidden Door was open) was that NJPW was the one stop for the best wrestling in the world. My blog "The Disgruntled's $200 Wrestling War and Its Current Champions" told you how expensive wrestling fandom is, provided you are not an Xfinity customer. That price point was wrong because I did not include the approximately $10 a month for access to NJPW. But with all their gaijins moving back stateside, is NJPW now in the same boat WWE is? Do I really only need the service for Wrestle Kingdom?

The answer is that I need more friends who think the WWE is the end all be all. That way, I could just pull up some classic Okada and Great Muta to see if the reluctant can be saved. It is a lot easier than pulling out my indie DVDs.

Well, I say it is easier, but the lack of streaming apps and the joys of WiFi can make using Chromecast a chore.

Of course, the last person I was trying to sell that there was better wrestling beyond Vince McMahon's narrative was the most insecure asshole in Morton, Illinois. I knew that guy for 30 years before I had enough of his bullshit, so it maybe wise not to let people like that into my life. A WWE preference may be a red flag.

How can you even have a WWE preference now? After AEW established that you can run for two years and only have two disqualifications on TV, how can anyone support a promotion with a DQ finish and a ring malfunction that determined the outcome of you main event. At least AEW waits till the action had concluded to leave the crowd questioning their television production.

Jungle Boy versus Adam Cole and Sammy Guevara capturing the TNT Championship gave us the excitement that WWE withheld from us. With that said, is Sammy Guevara not only the TNT Champion, but the holder of the DRCW OCHO Championship?

The 154th and Current DRCW OCHO Champion:

(WWE and IWGP United States, Intercontinental, National, X Division, Television, North American, TNT)

AEW TNT Champion Sammy Guevara.

The TNT Championship is the premier secondary title because we know that it will be defended most often. Unless WWE goes back to having secondary shows for their brands, there is no time for four titles over two hours. If they had "Heat" and "Velocity", they would have championships that would be the focus of a brand's extra hour. They would also be able to use all the talent they have. I think it is the only way to justify maintaining the brand split.

Fox owns Tubi. Give the platform a show (Samantha Bee has made it clear there is no reason to know of the app, unless you have a movie podcast that requires a source of films to binge.). You just need to tolerate the conservative commercials and you can have your own podcast like the excellent "NinetyForChill.com - The Podcast".

 

With that said, boycott Blue Chew. If men can have tele-medicine and women cannot, you hurt women by taking something to encourage a higher pregnancy rate while not allowing women to cancel that out.

 

Comcast/Universal has Peacock, and every pay platform needs some free content to draw viewer in. Why not put Sunday Night Heat back on during the last hour of Fox's "Game of the Week"?

As for other contender to Sammy Guevara, Hiroshi Tanahashi cannot defend while competing in the G1. Jay White could introduce a new title to the OCHO with the NEVER Openweight Championship, but being on Impact and NJPW Strong will probably not offer those opportunities.

Suggesting another NJPW addition to the OCHO's lineage is intriguing. Can we add the Rev Pro's Undisputed British Heavyweight Championship? Because of the promotion's out of date website, I am leaning toward no.

Of course, with the possibility that Guevara may just be holding the championship for Miro to regain, this could lead to AEW losing this DRCW championship. At least this exercise has reminded me that WWE's United States and Intercontinental Championships are not necessarily the immediate successors.

Now to the title that I think WWE will always have a stranglehold on.

The Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Championship:

The 102nd Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champion:

WWE Tag Team Champions

Justin Gabriel (aka as PJ Black) (3) and Heath Slater (3) (2/21/2011 to 4/19/2011)

 

The 103rd Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions:

"The Big Show" Paul Wight (4) and Kane (6) (4/19/11 to 5/23/11)

The 104th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions:

Michael McGillicutty (aka Curtis Axel) and David Otunga (5/23/11 to 8/22/11)

The 105th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE World Tag Team Champions:

Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne (aka Matt Sydal) (8/22/2011 to 1/15/2012)

The 106th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

TNA World Tag Team Champions:

Crimson and Matt Morgan (2) (1/15/12 to 2/12/12)

Primo and Epico are brothers so you cannot downgrade that relationship to doubles.

The 107th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

TNA World Tag Team Champions:

Magnus (aka Nick Aldis) (2) and Samoa Joe (2/12/12 to 5/13/12)

The 108th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

Kofi Kingston (2) and R-Truth (2) (5/13/12 to 9/16/12)

Bad Influence (Daniels and Kaz) won the TNA championship.

The 109th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

ROH World Tag Team Champions

Steve Corino and Jimmy Jacobs (2) (9/16/12 to 12/16/12)

The best two guys who cannot stand each other since RVD and Sabu was Team Hell No. They had just won the WWE championship.

The 110th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

TNA World Tag Team Champions

Chavo Guerrero Jr. and Hernandez (2) (12/16/2012 to 1/25/2013)

The Briscoe Brothers won the ROH championship.

The 111th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

TNA World Tag Team Champions

Bobby Roode and Austin Aries (1/25/13 to 4/11/13)

The 112th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

TNA World Tag Team Champions

Chavo Guerrero J. (2) and Hernandez (3) (4/11/13 to 6/2/13)

The 113th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

TNA World Tag Team Champions

Gunner and James Storm (6/2/13 to 10/20/13)

The 114th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

TNA World Tag Team Champions

Robbie E (Robert Stone) and Jessie Godderz (10/20/2013 to 2/23/2014)

This is really a great time for tag team wrestling. Everyone had established acts as champions. BroMans just happened to be the lesser of all them.

The 115th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

NWA World Tag Team Champions

Rob Conway (2) and Jax Dane (2/23/14 to 4/16/14)

The American Wolves had won the TNA championship.

The 116th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

GHC Tag Team Champions

Maybach Taniguchi and Takeshi Morishima (4/16/14 to 5/31/14)

TNA's tag team scene would center around the Wolves while the NWA championship was playing second to the IWGP.

The 117th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

Open the Twin Gate Champions

Akira Tozawa and Shingo Takagi (2) (5/31/14 to 7/20/14)

The 118th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions

GHC Tag Team Champions

Masato Tanaka (2) and Takashi Sugiura (7/20/2014 to 1/10/2015)

I am kind of disappointed to miss out on Miz and Mizdow, but the Miz element is what held that team together.

The 119th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions

IWGP Tag Team Champions

Katsuyori Shibato and Hirooki Goto (1/10/15 to 2/11/15)

The 120th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions

Open the United Gate (Dragon Gate USA) Champions

Tony Neese, Caleb Konley, and Trent (Baretta) (2/11/15 to 4/18/15)

The 121st Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions

WWE Tag Team Champions

Cesaro and Tyson Kidd (4/18/15 to 4/26/15)

Now this list is about to become a nightmare. We are approaching the longest WWE...World...Tag Team...Championship reign with the New Day. And of course, DGUSA has to close up to further limit my options.

 

Prepping the #Podcast for #October: Don't Go in the House

 *Blog post was started on September 29, 2021.

I am doing my best to enjoy these slow times at the bank. With Republicans threatening to let this country default on its debts me technically being a government contractor, it is more important than ever to enjoy every moment. 

That is definitely tricky when your mom has to be COVID-free to head to London this weekend. It is bad enough that I have not heard any news on what the bank will do about the unvaccinated who surround me for nine hours a day. My visit this past weekend had hopes of checking out the Peoria bar scene, but that kind of exposure could ruin my mom's next three weeks. I would never here the end of that.

Which is why I need help from my readers and friends. "NinetyForChill.com - The Podcast" needs guests and I need something to keep me inside. For October, the natural thing to do is to focus on horror movies and I will acknowledge, my experience with many of the slasher franchises is lacking. Almost all the franchises have at least one feature that clocks in between 74 and 99 minutes. If you want to be my expert, send an email to russthebus07@gmail.com and we can set up a time for a Zoom meeting. Each episode needs to be recorded by Sunday before the Tuesday that it is to be released. Thanks.

If you cannot be a guest, I am still in need of suggestions for horror features to watch. Which Jason and Freddy flicks are worth the time. Are there any good "Halloween" sequels beyond "2", "H2O" and "2018"? Are "Child's Play" and "Seed of Chucky" all I need to know where the cool doll-based gore is because last night, I went for a "Video Nasty". Unfortunately, it sure felt like the UK cut of "Don't Go in the House".

Don't Go in the House (1979)

Donny has an obsession with fire. This stems from his father abandoning the family when he was five. Deeming that man as evil, thus anyone spawned from him must be the same, Donny's mother was determined to burn the evil out of her son, literally. The fear instilled into Donny has lead to him never having the nerve to leave her, so he has essentially been her live-in nurse his entire life. His only relief is being mesmerized by the flames at the incinerator he works at.

One night, he returns from work to find that his mother has died. When he is about to call the authorities, voices manifest telling him to celebrate the new found freedom instead. Unfortunately for Donny, these are not the only voices that he hears. His mother is still demanding that he be an obedient and good child. The new found friends suggest that the answer is purifying his mother's corpse with flames.

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Of course, when your only relationship with any women is your mom, you may rationalize that all women are the same as her. With a flamethrower and his newly installed steel-walled room, he will bring purity to this world, one woman at a time.

"Don't Go in the House" lays some great groundwork for eventually banned by Great Britain films like "Maniac" when it comes to the story. Unfortunately, it is all suggestions of imagery instead of actually delivering the brutality. Just because it had been associated with the video nasties, I was kind of disappointed that there is only one scene of genuine terror and no spectacular gore.

The overbearing mother trope obviously dates back to "Psycho", but late 70s' early 80s' horror elevated the psychopathic notions. I think there are well written scenes in this feature that explore how a nutcase would handle living around corpses with a need for interactions. Much of the time, this film comes across as a one-man show. Dan Grimaldi does not quite have the charisma or chops to carry those scenes. Without people to interact with, his performance appears lost.

The lack of an outstanding performance without a large amount of gore results in a lot of real-time research temptations. There are great odes to Italian horror movies with some sequences of the charred corpses coming to life, but it just reminds you that this is not a messed up giallo film. I liked the ending proving that Proud Boys are not hard to make, but it is not enough a reward for the time that has passed.

"Don't Go in the House" has a strong enough script for an interesting movie, but the lack of actual horror holds this feature back. It is not a waste of time because it lays out a nice prototype for what the genre was to become, but this lacks the bells and whistles to be regarded as ready to be released to the public. If you want to see the history that leads up to over the top mayhem, you may get something from this feature. Otherwise, just skip to "Maniac's" uber misogyny.

 

 

NinetyForChill - The #Podcast: #Dogs - Sacrifices for Sincere #Cinema

Films Researched for this Podcast: Teenagers from Outer Space (1959), Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), Flash Dance (1983), Independence Day (1996), and I Am Legend (2007)

NinetyForChill.com: The Podcast

Episode 37: Dogs - Sacrifices for Sincere Cinema
(It's Easy to Keep a Good Dog Down).

A comedy of errors has left us with a brief installment to NinetyForChill. Inspired by George Miller's means to make Mel Gibson feel something in "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior", Cool Movies Darth addresses how you rarely go wrong by killing a dog on the big screen.

 

With the rushed nature of this episode, I would like to apologize to Stacia Hardin for failing to recognize her influence on the show and all the people who she touched.

 

It turns out that I missed my window for getting Andras from the Ta2squid Podcast on the podcast this month. Serves me right for screwing up the time zones the prior week. It looks like he is keeping up the quality content with a guest from "Ye Olde Crime Podcast". The two episodes prior were fun with his display of nerd culture, a guest from "Wheel of Horror" and an examination of "Poltergeist" with a genuine medium. What I am getting at is, I would like to have him on the show, and with my most recent episode coming in under 10 minutes, you should give his show a listen with the hour twenty I have freed up for you.

My back up plan was to see where Letterboxd stalking my big sister, ThePoeticCritic would take me. With my nephew's soccer game Saturday, I did not get the chance to binge a variety of movies the evening and morning prior to my visit. Thus, the only movie I managed to get in was "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior". She liked the movie, but action is not her favorite genre, so she did not have much to offer when I brought up the technical aspects of the feature. Pardon me for not referring to "Happy Feet", the only George Miller film the two of us had seen in theaters, to further inspire conversation.

We did have a good conversation about documentaries and plans on what spooky stuff we will be watching for October. Intercourse Freeform's "31 Nights of Halloween" was a consensus. I may drop that conversation as a bonus episode. It does get goofy with discussing inanimate object horror movies, but I decided to see if I could get even goofier about one of my "Road Warrior" bullet points for this week's episode.

Statistically speaking, unless the pooch is the villain, your movie cannot help but benefit from a dog's demise. It gave us the second act of "John Wick". How would "I Am Legend" get to its third act? Were we too involved with Boomer escaping a fireball in "Independence Day", a movie that laid the groundwork for Rifftrax?

Pardon my callous nature, but until cats get better treatment on film, it is tough for me to not want the canine to be the heart string puller. I would have traded the brave ant from "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" for Quark.

With that said, my Twitter account is @catbusruss. This is where I want your hate to be directed if you disapprove of my stance. Otherwise, positive feedback would be best displayed as subscriptions to my podcast and five-star reviews. Lets work that algorithm.

As for this month, I am looking for people who want to chat about horror movies for October. If you think you have a film or franchise that you are an expert on. Send an email to russthebus07@gmail.com. Most franchises have at least on feature that will qualify for NinetyForChill. The runtime just needs to be between 74 and 99 minutes. We have four episodes to fill.

 

I have been asking for weeks for assistance in composing an episode dedicated to vampire features like "The Lost Boys" trilogy, "Near Dark", and the "Underworld" movies. Here is to hoping that this bunch of critiques will stir up some inspiration in my audience to step up and hold off on the garlic. If this is a topic you up for discussing, feel free to send an email to russthebus07@gmail.com. All I need is a half hour on Zoom to get this done.

I hope I am impressing or at the very least amusing you with this podcast and I am open to any and all criticism. My biggest want is more guests and more suggestions on what to chat about (@catbusruss, russthebus07@gmail.com@coolmoviesdarth). If we can get 3 hours out of "Little Nicky", the possibilities are endless. Thanks for visiting.

 

After WrestleMania Backlash, I will tell you that we need to take zombie pro wrestling back. My suggestion is that we finally get my low-budget zombie movie, "Main Event of the Dead" off the ground. The script lacks a lumberjack match, so you know it has got to be better than the "Army of the Dead" advertisement. Ask for a treatment or give me suggestions on how to get it to a crowd-sourcing stage with an email to russthebus07@gmail.com.

 

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Double Feature: It Came from Another World! (2007) and Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)

These movie reviews' first drafts were written in 2010.

It Came from Another World! - Full Stops Should Not Be Part of a Title

Irony is so easily abused. Just because you can make a perfect recreation of a 50s' sci-fi flick, does not mean you should. "It Came from Another World!" forgets that parody and homage are two totally different things.

A meteorite crashes in Northern Wisconsin. Dr. Franklyn Farnsworth is the only man who can investigate this seismic event. Immediately upon arriving on the scene, he is over taken by an alien entity. Now it is up to Professor Danny Jackson, Farnsworth's best friend, and the canoe cops to stop the King of the Cosmos from resurrecting his queen by way of Jackson's true love, Julian St. Marie.

Does one have to appreciate the effort put in to "It Came From Another World!"? It is only as good as Ed Wood features that you would expect Tom Servo and Crow would make a career in mocking.

The costumes are authentic, absurd attitudes are present, and it is probably the best B-movie Z-movie I have seen. My problem with the feature is that despite how great it looks, they do not realize that we can just watch a bad sci-fi movie to have the same experience. Its humor can only be taken in small doses (usually done in Stewie Griffin's voice). If you are sober when watching this, it will become painful to watch.

"It Came from Another World!" is a seemingly endless "Family Guy" cut away with characters who can only be handled if brief stints. This was made to be riffed which I think kind of defeats the point of making a bad movie. If it had its own sense of humor, this could have been brilliant. Instead, I was left pissing about them using the ending of "The Naked Gun" to close this picture...without O.J. Simpson or Ricardo Montalbon being hurled of a balcony.

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Teenagers from Outer Space - A Wasted Porno Concept

Horror/sci-fi guru Lord Blood-Rah asked the crowd to get drunk for the second half of the September 28, 2010 edition of the Drunken Zombie Deadly Double Feature because he claimed "Teenagers from Outer Space" maybe the worst film ever made. I was left pondering if he had ever seen "Manos: The Hands of Fate" or anything from Coleman Francis's filmography.

Looking back at this review 11 years later, I think I must have taken the Lord's advice. This review must have been written at the screening because I have no recollection of this experience.

An alien race is looking for a new planet to raise their food supply, carnivorous giant lobsters called gargons. They decide that Earth would be the ideal spot, but when crew member Derek realizes that the planet is "civilized", he decides he must stop this relocation from happening. When reason fails, he is forced to flee and finds refuge with Earthling Betty and her grandfather. Unbeknownst to Derek, he is the heir to his race's king. The visitors find imperative that he is prevented from rallying the humans to his side.

What is more disappointing about "Teenagers from Outer Space"? Everything about the film or the fact that it would make for a great porn premise. The lead actor is David Love. There are confused teenage girls and nurses and a spaceship that is shaped like a screw. This is in the public domain, so I better start this production I guess.

If that is not a good enough premise for you, I also have a Z-movie , zombie-comedy script called "Main Event of the Dead". For more details like a treatment or to provide me with suggestions on how to get this production out of development hell, email russthebus07@gmail.com.

"Teenagers" did not know how to be camp. No one over acts. No one tries period. It is absolutely pathetic and the giant lobsters could not save it. A giant anything can at least soften the mental beat down of any film (like the giant syringe in "The Amazing Colossal Man").

Effort is necessary to justify any film that being made. It can be bad or creepy. It can have a low or no budget. As long as the audience can see effort, they may hate it, but it at least qualifies as cinema.

"Teenagers form Outer Space" is the "Manos: The Hands of Fate" of sci-fi. The lack of creepiness at least makes it laughable.

Damn Teenagers! 

Teenagers From Outer Space - The League of Dead Films

 

WWE "Allegedly" Paying Google Off and a Brief Men's Doubles Installment

*Blog post was started on September 23, 2021.

It has been a slow week. I was debating if I should put another movie review from my 2010 notebook, but if we can keep it more wrestling themed for Disgruntled's Real Championship Wrestling, that is the more appropriate way to go.

This means I should get back to the Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles Championship title lineage. It was kind of disappointing that I could not declare that when I listed the current champions in The Disgruntled's $200 Wrestle War.

And I will say, after Sting and Darby Allin defeated FTR last night at Grand Slam Dynamite, the doubles scene may become more interesting than the tag team. Tony Khan is a mark, so would it not be cool to have Sting immortalized with your brand?

The Bloodline is not really doing anything with the belts on Smackdown while Randy Orton and Riddle need to at least be kept busy. Here is to hoping Omos is still too green to break from A.J. Styles.

Speaking of slow, Blogger is having difficulty even proccessing the list. Is WWE paying attention to my lack of repsect towards Roman Reigns that they are paying Google off to prevent my influence on the Internet Wrestling Community? I should tag all those conservative assholes just to show them how to come up with a feasible conspiracy.

 

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The Unified Gnarly Men's Double World Championship

The 92nd Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE Unified World Tag Team Champions

Chris Jericho (2) and The Big Show: Paul Wight (2) (9/17/09 to 12/13/09)

 

The 93rd Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

TNA World Tag Team Champions

Doug Williams and Brutus Magnus (b.k.a. Nick Aldis) (12/13/2009 to 1/17/2010)

Everyone wants to think of D-Generation X as a tag team, or at least Triple H does. Eddie Edwards and Davey Richards were essentially what the Rockers should have been after their break up.

The 94th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

TNA World Tag Team Champions

and Hernandez (1/17/10 to 4/5/10)Matt Morgan

The 95th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE Unified World Tag Team Champions

and The Big Show (3) (4/5/10 to 4/26/10) The Miz

Matt Morgan and Hernandez split while champions.

The 96th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

GHC Tag Team Champions

and Bison Smith (4/26/10 to 9/10/10)Keith Walker

Both of these gents need to be recognized because Smith was not too much longer for this world and the reign ended because Walker chose to lose his job to pay his respects to his father.

 

The Hart Dynasty were the WWE Tag Team Champions. Ring of Honor was under the reign of the Kings of Wrestling. Yujiro Takahashi and Tetsuyo Naito were the IWGP champions, but having been IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions prior to this, I would consider them to be a team instead of a set of doubles.

 

The 97th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

Open the Twin Gate Champions

K-ness and Susumu Yokosuka (9/10/10 to 11/23/10)

Keith Walker was one-half of the NWA Champions, but the lenght of The Skullkrushers' reign indicated too much chemistry. The IWGP's Bad Intentions (Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson) would have a 500+ day reign, so again, to close. The Motor City Machine Guns were on top of TNA.

The 98th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions

Justin Gabriel (b.k.a. PJ Black)and Heath Slater(11/23/10 to 12/6/10)

The title returns to the States in this lineage because WWE is about to go into a dead period when it comes to actual teams being champions. Gabriel and Slater were the go to "team" for the Nexus/Corre, but that is a case of creative has nothing for them.

The 99th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions

Santino Marella and Vladimir Kozlov (12/6/2010 to 2/20/2011)

 

The 100th Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions

Justin Gabriel (2) and Heath Slater (2) (2/20/11 to  2/21/11)

 

The 101st Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions

and The Miz (2) (2/21/11)John Cena (2)

The 102nd Unified Gnarly Men's Doubles World Champions:

WWE Tag Team Champions

Justin Gabriel (3) and Heath Slater (3) (2/20/11 to  2/21/11)

 

 

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