I always attributed the trend to the sport's general insecurities. And neither player would be 30 years old! Match introductions often pitted "seven-time world champion" against "nine-time world champion". The result, of course, was that every player's resume was freckled with world titles. What were essentially regional events with $4,000 top prizes were routinely dubbed "World All-Around" or "World 9-Ball". When I started covering the sport in the early '80s, promoters added "World" to their tournament titles about as freely as they added the term "based on entries" to their payout lists. (Of course this is fictional! You had to ask? But you see where I'm going with this, right?) Outside of perhaps boxing, no other sport obsesses with the word "world" more than pool. I now have a plaque declaring me "2015 World Writing Champion". I think they even got an entry from Sweden or Norway one of those Scandanavian countries. Entries came in from around the state and a few from other states in the U.S. The publisher called it "The World Writing Championships".
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