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Showing posts with label champions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label champions. Show all posts

Thursday, 18 January 2018

Let's Celebrate 200 Posts!

WOO HOO! 200 POST'S HAVE BEEN MADE! Let's celebrate by looking back on the past 100 and the most popular ones from last year 2017, hey what about a list a top 10 to go with it? LET'S DO IT!

Also click on the titles to go read that blog post in full! The view count is as of writing 16/1/2018!

Perhaps the most heartfelt superhero genre movie ever made and a hell of a send off for one actors portrayal of a character after 17 years! The story of the animal outcast to the last warrior. For my full review click on the title!

Perhaps one of the most shocking and saddest moments last year is the legendary Undertaker's retirement....HOWEVER he is going to be on RAW 25 on Jan 22nd so i wonder why he will be there and what he will have to say or do. I can not thank the Undertaker enough for his hard work and dedication to the business. He is a hero of mine and has been since i first discovered wrestling when i was merely 6 years old. There will never be another Phenom. Click the title to be taken to my full dedicated post to The Undertaker!

Back in November last year i made it a goal to make it a month to remember after the old ECW ppv i decided to make a month of wrestling related posts and no surprise they were quite popular and this is the first on this list. TNA has had some phenomenal talent over the years and the teams on this list are no joke. For more click the title to be linked to the page in full!

In 2017 i have seen over 40 films in the cinema easily and that's a lot of hours spent on films! So check out this post for the list of my fave top 10 movies i have seen last year!

Here's a film which did not impress me much uh uh uh or however the song goes but anyway Spiderman Homecoming was not the MCU Spiderman film i would have wanted but it was ok. Vulture was brilliant and Tom did his best and the suit was neat and all but did not need all the gadgets put in from Stark. For more click the title!

WOOO! Here's another from my November To Remember month, the best of the best in male superstar wrestling talent are here on this list but who takes the crown of my number 1? Click the title to be linked straight to find out!

Slow, Interesting, Complex, Disturbing & Horrifying, is how i summed up this weird biblical film we received last year and it was even stranger i was the only one in the cinema screen watching it. For more click the title!

Here's my review of the second most controversial game of last year from EA and this review also got published into Gamesmaster Magazine but it was condensed down for the mag, however CLICK the title to be taken to the full review!

Let's get this straight people, THERE ARE NO DIVA'S HERE! Only champions!  At number 2 on my most viewed of the past year is this. This is also the last on this list from my November wrestling month. Come see the toughest women on the planet in one list full of champions, it was a challenging list to make. To see who ranked where click the title to be taken right there!

This one is almost a whole year old and looking back at it, it's very weird as the title would suggest and my best attempt at an Edgar Allan Poe type story/poem what ever you wish to call it. I am really shocked it had this amount of views though where did it all come from? To see the post click the title!

If you wish to see the 100th post celebrating my best posts of 2016 and beyond that well click on the word - HERE!

That is all people, oh also.....THANKS FOR 10K VIEWS! OMG THAT IS INSANE GUYS! Last year i wanted to hit 5k before the year was out and 6 months into the year i did it! You guys i love you all so much thanks for all the support and views, you know i don't blog to get paid, i do it because i enjoy it and it's my passion to write. So again wow thanks everyone, wonder what the rest of the year has in store for us.

Monday, 27 November 2017

Top 10 TNA World Heavyweight Champions

The final tna list comes at you now, crossing the line we will find out the top 10 best or my favourite TNA World Heavyweight Champions!
10) Eric Young - Eric Young’s TNA career was great with him playing just about every role in the company. Despite being known for his comedy, Young had great in-ring skills. Eric Young came out of absolutely nowhere to win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship in April 2014 from Magnus. EY had been with TNA since the very beginning and had proved himself a versatile and valuable performer, something that will surely continue in NXT and WWE. He deserved the win and i wish he had more of a run and more runs with the title.


9) Jeff Hardy - He has had his up's and down's but Jeff Hardy was one of the biggest stars in tna and still is a big star hell he has been since the 90s. His first two title runs were lame, so was his heel character as a whole and in the time of immortal he was not sober or clean so that adds negatives but despite all this, his third reign was great and i love Jeff Hardy he is such a great talent.


8) Lashley - His first TNA run was a flop with nothing of note coming. TNA gave him another chance and actually made the right call for once and did him better than WWE. Lashley has been TNA World Champion four times over the past few years. All of his reigns have gone well with him playing the dominant heel champion very well. Lashley changed his game to implement more of his MMA style and it worked perfectly when combined with his power moves.


7) Bully Ray - Bully Ray is one of the most talked-about TNA world champions in companies history and one of the most unlikely. For most of his 22-year career, the tag team specialist Bully Ray was a pudgy tag team wrestler. But when he felt Team 3D had run its course he split up the duo and underwent one of the most drastic transformations wrestling had ever seen. He went on to become a fully heel character the Bully who was the Calf-zilla of wrestling and he went on to loose over 100 pounds to slim down a bit to be in best shape of his life to then go on to "marry" Brooke Hogan in a story and betray the Hogans to win the TNA world title by revealing he was the man behind the Aces & Eights. He is great wrestler in ring and he is also great on the mic and so him winning the championship twice holding it for combined days of 196.


6) Austin Aries - One of TNA's better moments took place when Austin Aries faced off with Bobby Roode for the TNA World Championship at Destination X 2012. Roode was the hated heel with a dominant title reign. Aries blossomed into one of the most popular wrestlers in the company via his X-Division work. The moment of Aries upsetting Roode to win the title delivered a massive pop and a rare feel good title change in TNA. Aries did a solid job as champion but didn’t get a long reign. The few months that he did hold the title things went very well until he lost it to Jeff Hardy in another excellent match. Aries defeating Roode is a moment that will be associated with the better memories of TNA.


5) EC3 - WWE dropped the ball with him as Derrick Bateman. His signing by TNA and new name of EC3 allowed him to showcase his personality. Carter instantly became the most entertaining performer in the company. TNA didn’t mess around and pushed him to the moon as one of the new stars to build the promotion around. EC3 defeated Kurt Angle to win the TNA World Championship for the first time. This was a huge moment for him as he rebounded from never getting a chance in the WWE to being the biggest star in TNA. Carter carried himself very well as a World Champion looking the part. Matt Hardy eventually defeated him twice to end both of his title reigns.


4) Aj Styles - No one is more synonymous with the better moments in TNA than A.J. Styles. The homegrown talent grew into one of the best wrestlers in the world and was quite frankly the face of TNA. Styles only held the TNA World Championship twice in his career showing how TNA dropped the ball with him. Despite that, both of his reigns felt right. Styles being the TNA World Champion felt like John Cena being the WWE World Champion. The visual just made sense and represented the company perfectly. Styles always gave his best effort and took pride in being the World Champion. It's a shame he did not have more reigns and did not stay in TNA for longer.

3) Sting - Sting tried his best to make the company grow. The legend held the TNA World Championship on four different occasions. Maybe TNA should have tried to build new stars with the title instead of continuously going back to Sting, but he provided a safety net of a credible name to attract casual fans. Sting delivered enough good matches and took pride in his work as the champion. If the WWE ever purchases the library of TNA’s content, Sting’s underrated run there will be remembered more fondly.

2) Bobby Roode - The first TNA World Championship win for Bobby Roode came in a completely different fashion than expected. Roode faced off with Kurt Angle at Bound for Glory 2011 as the determined face looking to accomplish his dream. Hulk Hogan publicly buried Roode and changed the finish for Angle to win. Angle lost it to James Storm days later. Roode turned heel by cheating to beat his best friend Storm to finally win the title. The delay was worth it with Roode’s character change being for the best. Roode blossomed into the best heel character in TNA history as the leader of the “selfish generation. “ Fans loathed Roode, but he had quite a few great matches during his title reign. TNA put the title on him again years later and he delivered another solid reign. His NXT tenure is adding new star power to Roode’s name, but his current legacy is as an all-time great TNA World Champion and it is why he is the It factor and so GLORIOUS!

1) Kurt Angle - Kurt Angle joined TNA in 2006 and spent a decade in the company which is longer than his wwe time prior to his return in wwe. His work ethic was inspiring. As a highly paid legend, Angle could have been lazy like Booker T or Rob Van Dam. Instead, he stepped up his game and kept up with the younger stars. Angle had classic title bouts against A.J. Styles, Samoa Joe and countless others. His record breaking six TNA World Championship reigns helped bring in new fans to the program. TNA could not hook the viewers, in but Angle did his job of adding credibility. Angle was actually the first official TNA World Champion when the company ditched the NWA Championship for a title under their own name. Angle had a legendary run in TNA and served as a great World Champion.

And that's the end of this list and my tna champions list, thanks for popping in and having a browse. Remember to come back for more every week!

STAY SHINY!

Friday, 24 November 2017

Top 10 TNA X Division Champions

Get ready to fly, as we enter the high flying risk taking and ground breaking x division stars and ten champions! 15 years ago the title was born and it's gone through a lot of designs and changes over the years but who are the top 10 champs?
10) Amazing Red - Once upon a time, the wrestling world was convinced that Amazing Red was going to be the new Rey Mysterio. Red won the TNA X Division Championship on three occasions, and he always carried the title with grace. His reigns weren't all that memorable, but he was unique in that he was a plucky underdog that was more than capable of getting everything done without relying solely on heart. Red's first X Division Championship run started in April 2003 when he dethroned the notoriously grumpy Kid Kash for the title, but he would hold the belt for just two weeks before dropping it to Chris Sabin. It would be a whole six years before he would hold the gold again, shocking the world in 2009 by defeating Samoa Joe, of all people, for the belt. Red's third and final reign came and went in the blink of an eye, as he picked up the strap from Jay Lethal at a live event in 2010 before losing it back to Lethal just two days later.


9) Petey Williams - Williams was the first man to give the X Division Championship something approaching a true identity in many ways. Having a finishing move as brutal as the Canadian Destroyer certainly helped and it helped both him, title and division out but sadly he only held the title two time but maybe when this list comes out he wins it again for now this list was done a month in advance so who knows.



8) Daniels - Make no mistake about it: Christopher Daniels is the most underrated professional wrestler in TNA's history and a 4 time x division champion. Heck, when all is said and done he will surely go down as one of the best never to perform in WWE. He was the glue in the rivalry which fuelled the famous unbreakable triple threat match between Joe, Aj and Daniels. 



7) Kaz - Kazarian has always been a fine hand in the ring, a credible opponent for anyone, and also an individual who works well regardless of their alignment, as comfortable as a face as they are a heel. Despite this, there always just seemed to be something missing with Kaz. He won the title five times but never had a career-defining run with the belt. Kazarian was never far away from the title picture and do not underestimate him or his reigns as champ. 



6) Low Ki/Senshi - I believe this was the guy who was champ when i first tuned into TNA all those years ago funny enough and he was the second tna x division champion. Low ki has legit been one of the best wrestlers outside wwe in the 21st century. He has won the x division championship five times and most of his title reigns were memorable. Guys like low ki and Aj styles made it a point to showcase the best wrestling on every ppv they were involved in. That concept still holds true in 2017 as his x division title match with sonjay dutt at slamiversary was the best match of the night. Personally, I like low ki cos of his adaptability. He wrestles a more mma style when wrestling against someone like Samoa Joe, a more technical style when he is wrestling someone like Austin Aries and a more highflying style when wrestling against someone like the amazing red. As good as he is, I think he is hugely underrated and deserves to be mentioned on the same plane as the AJ styles and Samoa joes of the world.



5) Samoa Joe - The X Division was long considered a division characterised by its total lack of limit and restrictions, and no champion embodied this more than the Samoan Submission Machine, Samoa Joe. Joe was undefeated for ages after arriving in TNA in 2005, and it was in this same year that the X Division reached its peak thanks to the feud over the title that involved Joe, Christopher Daniels, and AJ Styles. 91 days after one of the greatest matches in TNA history (a 3-way with Daniels and Styles at Unbreakable), Samoa Joe won the X Division Championship for the first time by defeating AJ at Turning Point. Coincidentally, he would hold the title for 91 days himself, before losing it to Christopher Daniels in an Ultimate X match involving,  AJ Styles.



4) Jay Lethal - When Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair came in to the company in 2010 it seemed as though they took a shine to Black Machismo, and Lethal found himself in a number of marquee matches against some of the biggest names in the company. Lethal was an X Division Champion a long time before 2010 however, with his first title win coming in 2007 at Slammiversary. Lethal would go on to have six total reigns as champ, although three of those came in 2010 alone. Lethal’s constant caricature of Macho Man Randy Savage helped propel him and he even got his own Miss Elizabeth in the form of SoCal Val. Whenever Lethal was on TV, you know you were going to be entertained and after he moved on from ‘Black Machismo’ he became Ric Flair! One of the best segments in TNA history features Jay Lethal mimicking Ric Flair right to his face. A six-time X Division champion, Lethal could’ve been much more for TNA, but was still a terrific champion for the Division.



3) Aj Styles - AJ was the very first X Division Champion, overcoming Jerry Lynn, Psicosis, and Low-Ki at the second weekly TNA PPV to win the championship. He would go on to win the belt six times in total (joint second highest), with his reigns covering a total of 272 days. He is phenomenal and regarded a pioneer in the x division and i hope he gets more success in wwe. 



2) Austin Aires - Austin Aries has won the TNA X Division Championship on six different occasions, holding the belt for a cumulative 362 days. This puts him second on the all-time list for days as champion. Five of his reigns only amount to 61 days however, and it his first record-breaking reign that leads to the Greatest Man That Ever Lived featuring here at number four. On 11 September 2011, Austin Aries defeated Brian Kendrick at No Surrender to win the title for the very first time. He would go on to hold the belt for an impressive 301 days, far and away the longest individual reign in the history of the belt. To put that into perspective, no other reign lasted more than 199 days. Aries didn't even lose the belt. Instead, he cashed it in when TNA introduced 'Option C' in 2012, and he went on to defeat Bobby Roode for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship at Destination X. Aries had a second chance with Option C in 2014, but came up short that year against Lashley. I hope since his WWE release he can return to TNA soon. 



1) Chris Sabin - No one has held the X Division more times or for longer than Chris Sabin. Sabin won the title no less than eight times, the first of which came way back in 2003 when he won a 3 way dance that also included then champion Amazing Red and Jerry Lynn. Interestingly enough, Sabin's won many titles from the 3 way dance or triple threat matches.  Sabin's perhaps finest moment with the X Division Championship came in 2013, however. After winning the title in yet another 3-way, Sabin instantly cashed it in for a shot at then-TNA World Heavyweight Champion Bully Ray. Sabin went on to win the title, thanks in part to the Main Event Mafia and Aces & Eights' hammer. After losing the world title Sabin would win the X Division belt two more times, including an Ultimate X win at Bound for Glory in 2013. Along with his eight reigns and 432 days as champion, Sabin is way ahead of the pack when it comes to Ultimate X appearances as he has a record 17 appearances. 



Ok thanks for popping in, remember to come back again for more! 



STAY SHINY!

Friday, 10 November 2017

Top 10 WWE World Heavyweight Champions

This is my penultimate list of top 10 WWE champions with the big gold aka WWE World Heavyweight Championship! Who will outweigh all to become the king of the heavyweights? Let's read on to find out! Funfact i always loved the big gold and want a replica some day.

10) Ric Flair
WOO!!! In at number 10 is the man who made the gold as valuable and respected as it is and that is 505 days 8 time reigning champion of the big gold, Ric Flair! Defeated Sting for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. WCW began recognising Flair as WCW World Heavyweight Champion while still using the NWA belt. WWE recognises this reign as an NWA world title reign (and not a WCW one).

9) Goldberg
Although Goldbergs first wwe run was pretty lame with a forgettable title run his time spent with the title in WCW is memorable and did a lot for him and he did a lot for the title i believe so anyway. Goldberg say what you want about him but he is vicious. 

8) Rey Mysterio 
After winning the 2006 Royal Rumble, Rey Mysterio became World Heavyweight Champion at WrestleMania 22, overcoming Kurt Angle and Randy Orton in a triple threat match. The ultimate underdog or the littlest big man Rey was so good it's a shame wwe did not have much trust in him after his first reign and due to the amount of injuries his skills have diminished a bit but still he is great and still really popular and i hope if he returns to wwe he gets one last title run. 

7) Chris Jericho 
Despite being a three-time champion, Chris Jericho was never given a sustained amount of time with the belt, making all of his title reigns forgettable, with the only real highlight coming from a heated feud with Shawn Michaels in late 2008.

6) John Cena
AND HIS NAME IS......well you know who this guy is, that guy you can't see?  You know leader of the Cenation? Dr of thugonomics? JOOOOOOOHN CENAAAAA!? Yeah see you know who it is. Although Cena has gone for WWE title more than the big gold, Cena the marmite wrestler love him or hate him he puts on entertaining matches and fueds and he is WWE's biggest star!

5) Batista
The animal established himself as the new big star after beating Triple H to win the title at Mania 21, the only man to hold the belt for over 100 days on two separate occasions, as World Heavyweight Champion 'The Animal' became the top star on Smackdown, as well as one as the greatest champions to ever hold the belt.

4) Randy Orton
Randy Orton became the youngest World Heavyweight Champion in history when he captured the belt for the first time at Summerslam 2004, at the age of only 24. 'The Viper' only held the title for four weeks before dropping it to former mentor Triple H at Unforgiven. Following this, Orton would focus his attention on the WWE Title and would not capture another World Heavyweight Championship for nearly seven years. 

3) Undertaker
Taker first won the title 10 years ago back in 2007's Wrestlemania against the animal himself. In October 2009, 'The Deadman' began his third and final reign as champion after besting CM Punk at Hell in a Cell. This would become his longest run yet with the title, holding onto the belt for 140 days before losing it at No Way Out in an Elimination Chamber match, following interference from Shawn Michaels. Despite capturing the belt for two WrestleManias in a row, both title reigns were disappointingly short, before a third run that was slightly more befitting of a legend. If Taker has retired it is a damn shame he did not retire with gold. 

2) Edge
A record 7 title reigns with the big gold has Edge placed here but not only for his accomplishments but of course like any man on this list for their wrestling skills and charisma and their entertainment factor is what made Edge so good and excel at winning the big one. Despite being a record seven-time World Heavyweight Champion, the longest individual reign Edge had with the belt lasted only 105 days. Edge is one of the few stars to retire as a reigning world champion, 'The Ultimate Opportunist' held the belt more times than anyone else, and is rightly remembered as one of the great World Heavyweight Champions.

1) HHH
The first WWE World Heavyweight Champion, the game has held the title 5 times, although the game was first awarded the title does not mean he was just handed it for nothing. Including his eight WWE Championships, Triple H has spent well over 1,000 days as a world champion in the WWE. The company's first World Heavyweight Champion, he could very well be the greatest to ever hold the title!

There we go, that's my top 10 WWE WHC's so who made your list? Let me know!

Thanks for stopping by as ever and i hope you will come back tomorrow for my last champion ranking list where i will be displaying my top 10 WWE Champions!

For now, STAY SHINY!

Thursday, 9 November 2017

Top 10 WWE Womens Champions

Let's get this straight people, THERE ARE NO DIVA'S HERE! Only champions! 
Come see the toughest women on the planet in one list full of champions, it was a challenging list to make and one i hope you will agree with me and enjoy!

10) Charlotte Flair
As of writing she's the only one on the list that won the divas title, nxt womens title and raw womens title and she's a flair which of course means she is one of the best female heels on my list. I’m sure in a few years, Charlotte will easily move up in the list and go down as one of the greatest Women’s Champions in WWE history.

9) Alexa Bliss
The first woman on the list to be the womens champion of Raw and Smackdown she is just pure BLISS! I love her and her accomplishments of those winning those titles put her here on my list. 

8) Ivory
A competitor for more than two decades, Ivory grappled in the short-lived GLOW promotion in the 1980s before arriving in WWE more than a decade later. Disgusted by the prevalence of bikini contests that greeted her when she arrived, Ivory set her sights on cleaning up the Divas division. While her quest for censorship wasn't always successful, the double-tough Diva did win the Women's Championship on three occasions, besting the likes of Fabulous Moolah and Lita in the process. Ivory's views may not have always been popular, but her courage would inspire the likes of Molly Holly and Beth Phoenix.

7) Asuka
The newest womens wrestler on the list she held the NXT womens title undefeated for over a year! She would have held it longer if it had not been due to an injury aswell as the injury HHH and Regal thought there was no one left to challenge they had got into talks with SD live and Raw Gms and it was revealed she will be Debuting under Raw at TLC. WWE officially recognises her reign as having lasted 523 days. Let's hope she debuts and continues to smash the roster being undefeated! 

6) Beth Pheonix
Beth Phoenix retired not too long ago and is often forgotten by many wrestling fans nowadays. However, during her hey-day, she was pretty special and the Chyna of the modern era. After suffering injuries when she first debuted, she became known as the “Glamazon,” a name that truly fit her. She held the Women’s Championship three times. In each reign she looked dominant and stronger and easily over matched her opponents each and every night. She was the second to last Women’s Champion before it was reincarnated. Unfortunately, she retired early. She now has children with former WWE Champion Edge. Phoenix brought a lot more legitimacy to a what was at the time a very weak Women’s Division. It’s a shame Phoenix is no longer around as she would have made a great fit among the current females in WWE.

5) Chyna
The late Chyna, the first time i seen her i was in awe because i have never seen any woman like Chyna in my life. She was so tough she gave the men a run for their money! The Ninth Wonder of the World can lay claim to many accomplishments that no other Diva can touch. A two-time Intercontinental Champion, Chyna was the first woman to compete in the Royal Rumble and the first woman to be considered the No. 1 contender to the WWE Championship. After holding her own with the likes of Chris Jericho and Eddie Guerrero, Chyna simply destroyed every Diva she faced and won the Women's Championship at WrestleMania X-Seven. She held the title until she left WWE in 2001, leaving behind a lasting legacy as the most dominant female competitor of all time. 

4) Mickie James
While some Divas have had the good fortune of entering WWE with little experience in the ring, Mickie James fought and clawed her way from the rough and tumble world of independent wrestling to the very top of WWE. Her unmatched drive netted her four Women's Championship and a Divas Championship in five years time, but it was her awesome attitude that captured the WWE Universe's attention. Perhaps the most popular accomplished female wrestler of the modern era. 

3) Lita
As a member of Team Xtreme with The Hardy Boyz, the high-flying Diva was loved for her wild style and her gravity-defying maneuvers. And then she met Edge. Leaving her boyfriend Matt Hardy for the Rated-R Superstar in 2006, Lita quickly became, perhaps, the most despised Diva of all time. Still, the WWE Universe's hatred couldn't deter her success and by the time she left the ring in 2007, Lita was a four-time Women's Champion. Even her infamous bedroom romp with Edge can't take that away from her.

2) Fabulous Moolah
No athlete has ever held a championship for as long as The Fabulous Moolah. From Sept. 18, 1956 until July 23, 1984, the ferocious Moolah carried the Women's Championship with a steely grasp, defeating every competitor that was placed in front of her for nearly 30 years. Perhaps the most influential female wrestler of all time. Moolah was a hated villain for decades, but in later years, she became a hilarious and beloved fixture on WWE television. Moolah was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 1995: the first woman to receive this honour.

1) Trish Stratus
The three words that define a WWE Diva are "sexy, smart and powerful" and no one woman fits this description better than Trish Stratus. A former fitness model, the stunning Canadian started off in WWE as a manager before bringing her natural athletic ability to the ring. Quickly, Stratus would become the best Diva to ever do it, winning the Women's Championship a record seven times and netting other honours like a Hardcore Championship and the honour of "Diva of the Decade" in 2003. Stratus retired from wrestling in 2006, leaving the WWE as the Women's Champion and the greatest Diva of all time.

Lets hope the women's division continues to flourish and who know's maybe this list will look different the next time you see it! Thanks for visiting, bookmark the page and refresh every week for more, for now STAY SHINY!

Wednesday, 8 November 2017

Top 10 WWE Tag Team Champions

Grab your partner and tag em in because today's list see's us looking at the top 10 WWE tag team champions!

All tag titles under the wwe name are on display here and i will be picking a bunch not all from same era's. I will also not be including teams with the same members in. SO for example DX so if HBK HHH or any of the past members of DX have won tag titles with different partners it wont be on the list sorry.

10) The Brothers Of Destruction
Yep at number 10 falls one of my fave teams the most destructive team on this list maybe is The Undertaker & Kane, THE BROTHERS OF DESTRUCTION! They should have had more reigns and days that they held the titles but they were meant for better bigger titles. The Deadman and The Devil’s Favourite Demon captured three separate tag team titles, and were also the team to unify the WWE and WCW Tag Team Championships, devouring DDP and Kanyon at SummerSlam 2001 inside of a steel cage.

9) Demolition
HERE COMES THE AX AND HERE COMES THE SMASH! I'll be honest i never seen them wrestle much but i got respect for them for their reign being one of the longest in history. Dressed for pure brutality with spiked ring gear and outrageous face paint, the intimidating duo captured the World Tag Team Championships a total of three times — including the single longest tag title reign in WWE history of more than 470 days. Although they were dismissed early as clones of The Road Warriors, the brutes from Parts Unknown made their reputation of pure destruction against elite combination that included The Hart Foundation, The Rockers, The British Bulldogs and The Brain Busters.

8) Rock N Sock Connection
One of the most electrifying teams on the list comes the unlikely weird pairing of THE ROCK and.....Sock? I mean Mankind/Foley the pair had 3 reigns as tag champs but each did not last long sadly but they were highly entertaining and for being entertaining, fun, funny and overall great wrestlers is why they are on my list. Yes there's so many teams that deserve to be on my list i am only limited to 10 so this is all my 10. 

7) DX
ARE YOU READY? I SAID ARE YOU READY!!!?? Here they are i'd say the DX crew are the most entertaining on my list be it under the stable of many or the team of few they dominated gloriously with entertaining antics to boot and with feuds that were gripping to watch. Spanning 13 years, D-Generation X was the brainchild of two best friends, Shawn Michaels and Triple H. In 1997, HBK and The Game brought their backstage friendship in front of the cameras, and the world of sports-entertainment changed forever. DX’s brand of sophomoric humor was a cornerstone of the Attitude Era, and their influence beyond the ring became clear when Mike Tyson was recruited for their group. After eight years apart, the band got back together in 2006. As former multi-time WWE Champions, DX was more powerful than ever, and brandished their logo on the WWE headquarters in Connecticut and on Mr. McMahon’s corporate jet. They returned tag team wrestling to the main event spotlight, dominating pairs including the McMahons, Rated-RKO and Legacy. In 2009, Michaels and Triple H won their first WWE Tag Team Championships together. But D-Generation X wasn’t about the gold — it was about two pals having a blast, dominating competition and revolutionizing entertainment but when they were with New Age Outlaws under their wings they did win more gold but it was just between ASS MAN Billy Gun and the Road Dogg Jesse James. 

6) London & Kendrick
These guys were phenomenal before the phenomenal one joined the WWE. It's a shame they spilt. WWE’s tag team division has often been dominated by powerhouse teams like Legion of Doom, The Natural Disasters, Kane and Big Show and other monstrous Superstars who piled up championship reigns. Paul London and Brian Kendrick set out to change that when they joined forces in 2006. Taking to the skies with a unique brand of high flying offense that few teams could answer, London and Kendrick defeated MNM for SmackDown’s WWE Tag Team Titles in May of that year and successfully defended them for the next 331 days which is a feat which was broken recently by New Day. The aerial experts were drafted to Raw in 2007, where they added a World Tag Team Championship reign to their mantle before the WWE Draft split them up in 2008. 

5) The Legion Of Doom
Legion Of Doom/Road Warriors well wow what a team they had the mean look and the mean wrestling skills that would run you over repeatedly. The most dominant tag team in sports-entertainment history, WWE Hall of Famers The Road Warriors made their WWE debut in 1990 as the Legion of Doom. After battling Demolition, Hawk and Animal faced The Nasty Boys and defeated the disgusting duo for the World Tag Team Championships at SummerSlam 1991. This victory made the L.O.D. the only pairing in history to win tag team titles in the three promotions that dominated sports-entertainment in the 1980s: AWA, NWA and WWE. Although the Legion of Doom was wildly popular in their early days in WWE, they struggled to maintain their success as the years passed. The L.O.D. left WWE in 1992 but returned in 1997 and won the tag team titles. However, after seemingly splitting up and reforming as L.O.D. 2000, the duo was unable to regain their control over the tag division. Hawk and Animal’s time in WWE wasn’t always as fortuitous as their runs in smaller territories, but their popularity and intensity was rarely matched. 

4) The Hardy Boyz
Another one of my fave tag teams in all of wrestling history here, i use to idolise them both but Jeff more and i am still a huge fan of the team, followed their career since the first time i tuned in to a wwf show. An integral part of the tag team renaissance of the early 2000s, Matt and Jeff Hardy were part of the six-headed rivalry (along with Edge & Christian and The Dudley Boyz) that gave birth to the Tables, Ladders and Chairs Match, where they pioneered the modern use of the ladder. The reckless abandon with which they practised their craft won the brothers numerous tag titles as well as several singles championships between them. 

3) Edge & Christian
HOLD THAT POSE FOR 5 SECONDS PLEASE!...........Ok good. Another entertaining, skilled wrestling tag team here. Lifelong best friends, Edge and Christian went from school hallways in Toronto to quite literally climbing the ladder of success in WWE. The pairing undeniably “reeked of awesomeness” – their tongue-in-cheek “five-second poses” and proclamations that “sodas rule” were just earnest enough to earn simultaneous adoration and eye-rolls from the WWE Universe. With their patented Con-Chair-To, Edge and Christian won seven World Tag Team Championships, the first in a Ladder Match against The Hardys at WrestleMania 2000. They defeated both The Hardys and Dudley Boyz in the first-ever TLC Match at SummerSlam, and were victorious in a rematch at WrestleMania X-Seven – hailed by many as the greatest tag team match in WWE history. The longstanding animosity between the three duos consistently resulted in Edge and Christian supremacy, and solidified the team as not just fun and games, but a bona fide force to be reckoned with. Edge and Christian were the arrogant jerks you loved to hate, especially as they revolutionized tag team wrestling for generations to come.

2) The New Day
Although i am not a big fan of them, they are entertaining and the longest modern era reigning tag champions and at least they are here on my list so don't worry and be happy. The New Day are two-time and longest reigning Raw Tag Team Champions at 483 days, as well as having the longest combined reign at 532 days

1) The Dudleys
GET UP GET UP DROP THE BOMBSHELL! Yes number one has the one and only BUBBA Ray and D-Von Dudley, from Dudleyville, THE DUDLEY BOYZ! The Dudley Boyz, who hold the most reigns as a team with 8! They have won titles all over the world in all different companies from ECW, WWF,WWE,TNA, WCW,2CW,Hustle, All Japan,IWGP and are in TNA's Hall Of Fame. The most accomplished tag team on this list for sure and that's why they are numero uno! 

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Tuesday, 7 November 2017

Top 10 WWE Intercontinental Champions


What's up everyone? Back again for more i see? Well the wrestling month continues. You may notice i don't post on the weekends this month. Why? It's so i can have a break is all and you all can catch up if you missed anything :) 
Let's get back to the wrasslin now with a list of the top 10 WWE intercontinental champions! 

10) Pat Patterson
I have only ever seen Pat as one of the stooges or in his hof induction or during anytime he has appeared over the past 20 years in WWE. I never seen the guy wrestle but he is the first intercontinental champion and for that he has to be on my list. 

9) Stone Cold Steve Austin
What can i say about this legend? He won the title first with a broken fricken neck! A two-time Intercontinental Champion, Austin's first title win came at SummerSlam 1997 where a piledriver snapped his neck. Rather than quit, The Bionic Redneck managed to summon the strength to roll up Owen Hart for the victory. This devastating injury caused Austin to vacate the title, but the WWE Hall of Famer would make an amazing return to the ring to capture the championship again that very same year. Expect Austin to feature in more lists down the line...

8) Jeff Hardy
Alright Jeff is one of my all time faves and he is normally the first person who comes to my mind when talking about the IC title. Although he wasn't the biggest man in the WWE locker room, Jeff Hardy was never the kind of Superstar who would back down from a fight. So it should come as no surprise that The Charismatic Enigma defeated dominant competitors like Triple H and Umaga on his way to winning an impressive four Intercontinental Championships. Due to his high-risk style, the majority of Hardy's reigns were brief, but his title matches were always exciting.

7) RVD
RVD is another fave of mine (there are many faves on mine on these lists i do of course). Rob Van Dam's six reigns as Intercontinental Champion are impressive enough, but consider what RVD accomplished with the title and his runs are even more remarkable. In 2002, Mr. Monday Night defeated European Champion Jeff Hardy and Hardcore Champion Tommy Dreamer to unify those two titles with the Intercontinental Championship and bring an even greater legacy to the title. On top of that, his wild Ladder Matches against Eddie Guerrero and Christian were some of the genre’s best. At a time when WWE was inundated with flashy new titles, Van Dam made sure that the Intercontinental Championship — much like himself — remained one of a kind. 

6) HHH
There's more than one reason as to why he is called THE GAME. A five-time champion over the span of a decade, The Game first grabbed the title in 1996 when he was relatively new to the ring. By the time he was the most dominant man in WWE, Triple H reclaimed the Intercontinental Championship in memorable battles with Jeff Hardy and Kane and even defeated The Devil’s Favorite Demon at No Mercy in 2002 to unify Kane's Intercontinental Championship with the World Heavyweight Championship. 

5) The Rock
Just like Triple H, Rocky captured the title when he was new to the scene but this was a clear indicator of a star in the making. He may have been champion, but his nauseating perkiness caused the WWE Universe to chant, "Die, Rocky, die!" which all built up to a change in Rocky Mavia to become....The Rock. An arrogant, eyebrow-raising villain with a bad attitude and a $500 shirt. With this newfound edge, The People's Champion had a second Intercontinental Championship run that lasted for an impressive 265 days and helped establish his reputation as The Most Electrifying Man in All of Entertainment.

4) Shawn Michaels 
The IC title is where HBK first made a name for himself let's be honest. A "Showstopper" even then, HBK's classic Ladder Matches against Razor Ramon are considered some of the best bouts of their era, and his battles against Jeff Jarrett, Diesel and Bret "Hit Man" Hart were just as good. Too often, Michaels' reigns ended in controversy, but his days as Intercontinental Champion were always exhilarating.

3) The Miz
As of writing he is still the IC Champ and his reigns have been damn fine. His talking smack rant was and still is amazing. He makes the title matter again and he is on his seventh reign.

2) The Honky Tonk Man
The man with the longest reign as IC Champ is the one and only Honky Tonk Man at a staggering 454 days! Defeating Ricky Steamboat for the championship in 1987, Honky Tonk Man kept his guitar-strumming fingers on the title for more than a year by any means necessary, including but not limited to getting counted out or disqualified on purpose. It may not have been the noblest reign of all time, but it earned the rock 'n' roller his place in WWE history.

1) Chris Jericho
Quality matches and a quality champion of nine times. No Superstar even comes close to Chris Jericho's record-setting number of Intercontinental Title reigns. First winning the championship from Chyna in winter 1999, Jericho went on to defeat everyone from Jeff Hardy to Rob Van Dam to capture a staggering nine titles over the next decade.

That's it for this list, as i always say please add to bookmarks and come back regularly for new blogs every week! 

Friday, 3 November 2017

Top 10 WWE Cruiserweight Champions

Hey there small fry, we don't do "vanilla midgets" on my blog, BUT what we do here is list up the best wrestlers and champions in my personal opinion and so there are no losers only winners. Even you reading this, yes you, you are a winner! What an odd intro, enough marking out let's get down to the business!
FYI - This list will feature the title's holders and older models of title belt in the list. Before being property of WWE it was a WCW title belt. So names here wont all be from those who won it in WWE.

10) Neville
Most recent entry to the list is THE KING OF TEH CROOSERWEIGHTS HIMSELF SO BOW PEASANTS! Neville made the new cruiserweight title matter and elevated it and himself to a new platform and to a new level, THE NEVILLE LEVEL! Current longest reigning champ of the new DOUBLE U DOUBLE U E CROOSERWEIGHT TITLE.

9) Matt Hardy 
He was dedicated and determined to win hence why V1 cut weight and slapped a tornado through the cruiserweight division at the time to become champ. Hardy lost the title in style, too, dropping it to Rey Mysterio in the main event of the June 5th episode of Smackdown. It was the first time that a Cruiserweight Title match had main evented the blue show and both Mysterio and Hardy did a great job, contesting a dramatic, back-and-forth match. Some forget about Matt Hardy V1's Cruiserweight Title reign but it produced some good television and showed his versatility.

8) Xpac/Syxx
A 1 time champ in wwe and wcw for the cruiserweight title, dont let that put you off. X-Pac is one of only two men to hold both the Light Heavyweight and Cruiserweight titles. Pac was one of the first to hold the Cruiserweight belts (as Syxx) and the last Light Heavyweight champion. As Light Heavyweight champion, X-Pac was one of the few wrestlers who made the designation important. He was also one of the most notable to own it. When he won the Cruiserweight belt from Billy Kidman, he became the only wrestler in history to hold both belts at the same time.

7) Chris Jericho
DRINK IT IN MAAAAAAAN! Long before Fozzy going mainstream, long before JeriKO and the list of Jericho. The Ayatollah of Rock 'n' Rolla was in ECW and WCW and when WCW snapped Y2J up they made him a star and when WWF bought out WCW they brought in Jericho and elevated him to his new level and platform and he proves in the ring why he deserves the respect and level he is on. He first became cruiserweight champ back in 1997 under WCW where he had won the title 4 times. In WWE under the old and current cruiserweight titles he has not won them but should he one day wish to i welcome it!

6) Juventud
Beginning in 1998, Guerrera pinned Último Dragón to win the Cruiserweight Championship on the inaugural edition of Thunder on January 8, 1998. However, he would then lose the title to Rey Misterio, Jr. one week later on the following edition of Thunder. At SuperBrawl VIII, Guerrera challenged Chris Jericho for the Cruiserweight Title in a Mask vs. Title match, in which Guerrera lost forcing him to unmask. After unmasking Guerrera, Jericho would often berate Guerrera for his looks by referring to him as "Quasi-juice" which was in reference to "Quasimodo", the disfigured lead character in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Later in the year, Guerrera defeated Jericho at Road Wild to capture his second Cruiserweight Championship. He retained the belt at Fall Brawl against Silver King, before losing to Billy Kidman the following night on Nitro. Juvented beat Nunzio at No Mercy 2005 to win the title again only to lose it later to Nunzio. On November 25 Juventud regained the title on an edition of SmackDown! from England. Guerrera lost the Cruiserweight title to Kid Kash at Armageddon on December 18, 2005. On January 6, 2006, WWE announced that Guerrera was released from the company due to multiple backstage issues. His final match aired that evening on SmackDown!, a Cruiserweight Title rematch against Kid Kash which Juventud lost. During this match, Juventud would use many high flying moves – despite WWE telling its cruiserweights to tone down dangerous aerial moves – and the 450° splash, a move WWE outright banned due to an earlier match Juventud had with Paul London where he botched the move, and resulting in London suffering several fractured bones in his face. Without the backstage politics i think he would have stuck round longer with another two title reigns possibly more. 

5) Tajiri
He is one of my fave wrestlers, he's amazing in the ring and he is a comedic entertainer out of the ring well i think he is after all those times spent with Regal. Tajiri was actually the first 'WWF Cruiserweight Champion', since he was in possession of the WCW Cruiserweight Title when the WWF won the Invasion after defeating The Alliance at the 2001 Survivor Series. Held the Cruiserweight belt (WWE) three times for 283 total days.

4) Billy Kidman
Billy Kidman held the WCW Cruiserweight Title on five separate occasions but only got his hands on WWE's version of the belt (once it was unified with the Lightheavyweight Title) twice. His reigns were not really that memorable as his WCW reigns but he was good no one can deny that!

3) Chavo Guerrero
Eddie's nephew was always overshadowed by his more famous uncle, but Chavo was a talented performer in his own right and was a pretty damn good Cruiserweight Champion, too. Chavito won his first Cruiserweight Title from Rey Mysterio at No Way Out 2004, thanks to some interference by Chavo Classic. He always put in good matches with number 1 on this list.

2) Hurricane/Greg Helms
Gregory Helms is the longest-reigning WWE Cruiserweight Champion ever, his combined three reigns lasting a whopping 532 days and this is what has him to the top of my list but he's not quite first place because call me biased all you want but the next entry is.....SIMPLY THE BEST!

1) Rey Mysterio
His reigns may not have been as legendary as they were in WCW, but Rey was the best WWE Cruiserweight Champion. The belt just looked like it belonged on him and he always brought it in the ring, having cracking matches with one and all.

This concludes my list today, thanks for reading and stopping by my blog. Remember to stay shiny and add my blog to your bookmarks and pop by again tomorrow for more!