The Pit Bull Bible 2014 Dog of the Year
In a landslide voting victory, Face 2 Face & El Solo's Gr Ch El Titere (7xW) earned the very first Pit Bull Bible Official DOY Award ever given. Our decision to create our own DOY title was prompted by the fact that a popular international magazine did not give this award to Titere, which so outraged us (and the rest of the APBT community), that once again we had to step up with our usual "If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself" attitude, and so we did ... and thus The Pit Bull Bible Official DOY Award title is born, and Gr Ch El Titere is its first recipient.
This fine animal has been underrated for most of his career, taking names and earning numbers as he went along, and building an incredible record every step of the way. In the year of 2014, Titere achieved THREE incredible accomplishments, each of which (by itself) placed him in line for DOY Candidacy, and when added-up together simply made him *the* choice, period, and by a country mile. These three incredible accomplishments are: (1) Becoming a 7xW, (2) Beating a Grand Champion while being a Grand Champion, and (3) Beating a DOY while being a DOY
Any one of these accomplishments made Titere a favorite, but when you put them all together it isn't even a contest. The title of Grand Champion (5xW) is a tough title to earn, but realistically the sport is filled with them. Happens all the time. The bridge to become a 6xW Grand Champion, and then a 7xW Grand Champion, is an exponentially more difficult bridge to cross ... separating Titere from all all the other Candidates ... doubly-so while facing fellow-Champions/Grand Champions, and the previous-year's DOY, while doing this
For every twenty 5x winners, there is only one 7xW ... and when you get into 7xW territory, you are now walking on Holy Ground
And when you're going this while beating fellow Chs/6xWs/DOYs to get there, you are truly in Uncharted Territory
Titere did all this and didn't even struggle: he made it look easy. Titere's accomplishments this year are simply unprecedented, literally unequaled in gamedog history, and not only earn El Titere our first DOY Title, but make him a shoe-in for Greatest Dog of the Decade, and possibly even Greatest Dog of All Time. Seriously, you will not be able to find a more accomplished résumé in the history of our sport. Our first choice for DOY simply could have been no other ...
That said, the difficult part of our first DOY selection wasn't in choosing the winner, it was in choosing who are the runners-up? There will only be 3, and there were more than 3 other great Candidates for the 2014 DOY Title, candidates who were voted on by the community and analyzed by myself. These dogs deserve Honorable Mention and Runner-Up status too. Without disrespecting the other dogs, because they're all great in their own way, we have chosen the following 3 Runners-Up:
2014 First Runner Up
2The Neck Kennels' Ch April II (3xW)
I am going against the voting a bit here, because (1) most people think "vote male" for DOY and (2) most people are thinking "Grand Champion" or "beat a Grand Champion" for their list of accomplishments, but in our opinion Ch April had arguably the most impressive year of 2014, which was beating TWO Champions and going 3:15 for the last one. Remember, the DOY title has to do with the most impressive year for the subject calendar year, and that is one helluva year folks: stopping Blood Bond's 4xW from making Grand Champion and beating another Champion and winning a 3:15 war to do it
Hats off to this great bitch
2014 Second Runner Up
Triangle Gang's Gr Ch Grip (5xW)
This was a tough call between Gr Ch Grip (5xW) and Gr Ch Capoeira (5xW), both earning the title of Grand Champion for winning 5. Ultimately, I favored Gr Ch Grip because he defeated Searge's Ch Redman (8xW, 1xL). While a great accomplishment, its significance was diminished slightly because Redman was 8 years old at the time of his defeat. Therefore, great as this accomplishment was, it did not quite equal Ch April defeating 2 prime Champions, nor Titere's defeating a prime 6xW/DOY in Homer Balboa ... that was 2 lb bigger and a fellow DOY. Nonetheless, Gr Ch Grip made history in becoming a 5xW and beating a Grand Champion to do it.
2014 Third Runner Up
Corner 2 Corner's Gr Ch Capoeira (5xW, 2x BIS)
Gr Ch Capoeira (5xW, 2x BIS) is arguably *the* baddest dog of the lot, winning 5x (earning 2 BISs in the process), and never being taken over the :30 min mark (:10, :26, :27, :27, :24). Widely-considered the baddest bitch alive right now, Gr Ch Capoeira deserves Honorable Mention for DOY Candidacy ... but in our opinion no single accomplishment of hers is quite at the level of the others mentioned above ... though her devastating achievement is definitely worthy of considerable admiration and respect by bulldog fanciers worldwide. So hats off to her and her camp.
So there you have it, folks, The Pit Bull Bible Online APBT Database's first DOY Awards
We have given our choices, and stated our reasons, with valuable input from you, our community of voters
You are more than welcome to post your approval, disapproval, or to make general comments ... but THESE VOTES STAND as of today
Jack*
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I truly like this dog. Good deal,
