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The IWA World Tag Team Championship was the top
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from 1966 through 1971. Although a part of WCW, the championship carried the IWA initials, for the ''International Wrestling Alliance'', WCW's sanctioning body for its championships. WCW joined the
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in August 1969, but still recognized this title as its world title. In 1971, the title was abandoned and the
NWA Austra-Asian Tag Team Championship The NWA Austra-Asian Tag Team Championship was the top tag team professional wrestling title in the Australian World Championship Wrestling promotion from 1972 through the promotion's 1978 closure. WCW joined the National Wrestling Alliance in ...
was established as WCW's new top tag team title. 37 different teams held the championship, combining for 50 individual title reigns.


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World Championship Wrestling World Championship Wrestling, Inc. (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion founded by Ted Turner in 1988, after Turner Broadcasting System, through a subsidiary named Universal Wrestling Corporation, purchased the assets of Nation ...


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