Day: December 16, 2005

short road trips

(Let me ease into this.) It occurred to me this week that there’s quite a bit of intra-IL College Basketball going on. Loyola’s played Western, Bradley (who’ll be good this year), and will play Lake Forest (which might be an exhibition game) this Saturday, besides the conference games with UIC. (You could even include Purdue … Continue reading “short road trips”

(Let me ease into this.)

It occurred to me this week that there’s quite a bit of intra-IL College Basketball going on.

Loyola’s played Western, Bradley (who’ll be good this year), and will play Lake Forest (which might be an exhibition game) this Saturday, besides the conference games with UIC. (You could even include Purdue in here.)

UIC’s played (and lost!) to Chicago State, beaten Northwestern, and has a game versus NIU this Saturday. Both Horizon schools played Exhibition games versus Robert Morris as well.

In addition to UIC, NIUs also played Aurora University (how did I miss THAT) and DePaul. Depaul’s also played Bradley, who’ve also found a way to squeeze Chicago State into their schedule.

Illinois plays…uh, no one. Right. (Same thing with SIU.)

It used to be (if I’m recalling right) that these schools – especially ‘big-time’ NU, Illinois and DePaul – would rather step in vomit than play each other and especially play the smaller schools. You could see the logic; they’re fighting for the same kids, they don’t want other schools to point out negative head to head records; Illinois beating Loyola is meaningless for UofI, but Loyola beating UofI is tangible proof something can be built there.

As a fan, it’s much neater to see area teams play each other – not that I bother to go, but you can quickly figure out who’s actually got something this year. I

WWE Title Reigns, updated

Following up on the World Title Lengthes post from September 19. This time, I went thru the complete WWWF/WWF/WWE history for all title lengths. As usual, all title information from Wrestler-Titles 2803 – Bruno Sammartino 1474 – Hulk Hogan 1237 – Bruno Sammartino [2] 1027 – Pedro Morales 763 – Bob Backlund [3] 677 – … Continue reading “WWE Title Reigns, updated”

Following up on the World Title Lengthes post from September 19. This time, I went thru the complete WWWF/WWF/WWE history for all title lengths. As usual, all title information from Wrestler-Titles

  1. 2803 – Bruno Sammartino
  2. 1474 – Hulk Hogan
  3. 1237 – Bruno Sammartino [2]
  4. 1027 – Pedro Morales
  5. 763 – Bob Backlund [3]
  6. 677 – Bob Backlund [2]
  7. 648 – Bob Backlund
  8. 371 – Randy Savage
  9. 364 – Hulk Hogan [2]
  10. 358 – Diesel
  11. 296 – Superstar Billy Graham
  12. 293 – Ultimate Warrior
  13. 280 – Hunter Hearst Helmsley [2]
  14. 280 – John Bradshaw Layfield
  15. 280 – Yokozuna [2]
  16. 257 – John Cena
  17. 257 – Dave Batista
  18. 248 – Bret Hart [2]
  19. 248 – Hulk Hogan [3]
  20. 231 – Shawn Michaels
  21. 175 – Steve Austin [5]
  22. 174 – Bret Hart
  23. 154 – Chris Benoit
  24. 152 – Brock Lesnar [3]
  25. 149 – Randy Savage [2]
  26. 140 – Shawn Michaels [3]
  27. 133 – Bret Hart [3]
  28. 133 – Eddie Guerrero
  29. 133 – The Undertaker [2]
  30. 126 – Kurt Angle
  31. 122 – Buddy Rogers
  32. 119 – Brock Lesnar [2]
  33. 119 – The Rock [5]
  34. 118 – Hunter Hearst Helmsley [3]
  35. 105 – Kurt Angle [3]
  36. 98 – Chris Jericho
  37. 98 – Bret Hart [5]
  38. 91 – Steve Austin
  39. 91 – Hunter Hearst Helmsley [3]
  40. 90 – Steve Austin [2]
  41. 84 – Hunter Hearst Helmsley [5]
  42. 84 – Bill Goldberg
  43. 84 – Brock Lesnar
  44. 78 – Hunter Hearst Helmsley [4]
  45. 77 – Ric Flair
  46. 76 – Hunter Hearst Helmsley
  47. 70 – Hulk Hogan [5]
  48. 64 – Sgt. Slaughter
  49. 63 – The Undertaker [4]
  50. 63 – Sycho Sid
  51. 62 – Steve Austin [6]
  52. 56 – Steve Austin [3]
  53. 55 – Steve Austin [4]
  54. 51 – vacant
  55. 51 – Kurt Angle [4]
  56. 50 – The Big Show (Paul Wight)
  57. 49 – Hunter Hearst Helmsley [2]
  58. 49 – vacant (pinned by Undertaker and Kane)
  59. 46 – vacant (Tuesday in Texas)
  60. 44 – Rocky Maivia
  61. 41 – vacant (Edge and Benoit double pin)
  62. 41 – Ric Flair [2]
  63. 41 – Rocky Maivia [3]
  64. 36 – The Undertaker [3]
  65. 35 – The Rock [6]
  66. 35 – The Rock [7]
  67. 35 – Hunter Hearst Helmsley [4]
  68. 35 – Hunter Hearst Helmsley [5]
  69. 35 – vacant (title mistakenly held up after Backluand vs Valentine)
  70. 34 – Sycho Sid [2]
  71. 28 – Randy Orton
  72. 28 – Shawn Michaels
  73. 28 – The Big Show [2]
  74. 28 – Hulk Hogan [6]
  75. 28 – Iron Sheik
  76. 26 – Mankind
  77. 25 – Shawn Michaels [2]
  78. 22 – Hunter Hearst Helmsley
  79. 21 – The Rock
  80. 21 – Ivan Koloff
  81. 20 – Mankind [2]
  82. 15 – Kurt Angle [2]
  83. 12 – Antonio Inoki
  84. 9 – Stan Stasiak
  85. 6 – Vince McMahon
  86. 6 – The Undertaker
  87. 6 – Vacant
  88. 3 – Bob Backlund [4]
  89. 3 – vacant (lost smile)
  90. 2 – Rocky Maivia [2]
  91. 1 – Kane
  92. 1 – Mankind [3]
  93. 1 – Bret Hart [4]
  94. 1 – Hulk Hogan [4]
  95. 0 – Andre the Giant
  96. 0 – Yokozuna

Upcoming milestones:

John Cena
New Year’s Revolution (elimination chamber): 280 days
Royal Rumble: 301
WrestleMania: 364
Backlash: 392

Dave Batista
Armageddon (no defense): 259
Royal Rumble: 301
No Way Out: 322
WrestleMania: 364

Dates they’ll tie the person currently in the place:

  • 13th: 01/08/06
  • 12th: 01/21/06
  • 11th: 01/24/06
  • 10th: 03/27/06
  • 9th: 04/02/06
  • 8th: 04/09/06
  • 7th: 01/11/07
  • 6th: 02/09/07
  • 5th: 05/06/07
  • 4th: 01/25/08
  • 3rd: 08/22/08
  • 2nd: 04/16/09
  • 1st: 12/05/12

Just so future me can remember what I was thinking now, I expect both these guys to last till WrestleMania. It’d probably be too deflating for both to lose, and since they’re priming Orton for a run on SmackDown, Cena’s going to be the one to slip past Savage and get into 8th place. There doesn’t seem to be a chance for Backlund to be caught.