"Four Trials" "is both an attempt to position Edwards as the little fellow's champion... and a between-the-lines argument against tort reform," Michael Tomasky said in these pages earlier this year.
In the past two decades, however, even those irregular disruptions by powerful interlopers such as Aberdeen, Dundee, Dundee United, Hearts, Hibernian and Kilmarnock - all champions between the end of the Second World War and 1985 - have become extinct.
The following week, a match was held to determine the new WWE Champion between Orton, Triple H, John Cena and The Big Show, which Orton won.
The Centre Court was still applauding, mostly for the winners flowing from defending champion, but between the points there was now a deathly silence.
The third match was a Triple Threat match for the WWE Championship between champion John Bradshaww" Layfield (JBL), The Big Show, and Kurt Angle.
This right was also granted to the defending champions between 1938 and 2002, but was withdrawn from the 2006 FIFA World Cup onward, requiring the champions to qualify.
In the bitter and destructive split over relations with the Liberals that followed, he was the leading champion of merger between the two parties the following year.
The World Heavyweight Championship match between champion The Great Khali and challenger Batista was next.
In Figures 4 and 5, changes in swimming speed for the world champions between 1994 and 2013 are depicted.
