The WCWA Texas Tag Team Championship was the secondary

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promoted by the

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area-based

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(WCWA). The championship was originally known as the NWA Texas Tag Team Championship from its creation in 1942 until 1981. The championship was revived in 1987 as the WCWA Texas Tag Team Championship, and used until 1990, when it was abandoned as WCWA was merged with the

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(CWA) to become the

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. The name was also used for a title by NWA Southwest from 1998 to 2011, also known as the

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. As it is a professional wrestling championship, it is won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match. The first time a championship was promoted as the "Texas Tag Team Championship" was in 1943 when records indicate that Ellis Bashara and Angelo Cistoldi won the championship. The Texas Tag Team Championship was not mentioned again until 1945 in what would later become the

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's East Texas territory. By 1950 it was promoted by Southwest Sports and was officially recognized by the NWA. The first champions recognized by the NWA was the team of

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and Miguel Guzmán. In 1966,

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bought Southwest Sports and renamed it NWA Big Time Wrestling. In the 1981 the championship was abandoned, with

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and

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as the last champions at the time. The Texas Tag Team Championship was brought back in 1987, with Big Time Wrestling now known as World Class Wrestling Association. The first WCWA Texas Tag Team Champions were

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and Skip Young, who won a one-night single elimination tag team tournament to claim the championship. When WCWA merged with the Tennessee based CWA the title was abandoned, with Steve and Shaun Simpson as the last holders of the championship. In 2012 NWA Wrecking Ball Wrestling reactivated the NWA Texas titles. wreckingballwrestling.com The team of

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and Danny Savich won the championship on six occasions, the most of any team. Keomuka won the championship a total of 16 times, in addition to teaming with Savich he also won it with Ivan Kalmikoff,

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, Don Evans,

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, Tony Martin, Tokyo Joe,

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, and

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. In 1950,

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defeated Keomuka and Savich in a

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, to become the only wrestler to hold the tag team championship singled handedly. Romero and Guzmán's reign from March 3 until November 30, 1950 is the longest confirmed reign of any championship team, a total of 272 days. Based on recorded history there were 153 individual reigns between 1943 and 1989, possibly more since there are periods of time where the championship history is unrecorded.

Title history

Championship tournaments

NWA Texas Tag Team Championship Tournament (1952)

The NWA Texas Tag Team Tournament was a one-night single elimination tag team tournament held in

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on December 1, 1952, for the vacant

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NWA Texas Tag Team Championship Tournament (1967)

The NWA Texas Tag Team Tournament was a one-night single elimination tag team tournament held in

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on May 3, 1967, for the vacant

NWA Texas Tag Team Championship Tournament (1978)

The NWA Texas Tag Team Tournament was a one-night single elimination tag team tournament held in

on October 30, 1978, for the vacant

WCCW Texas Tag Team Championship Tournament (1987)

The WCCW Texas Tag Team Tournament was a one-night single elimination tag team tournament held in

on June 29, 1987, for the vacant WCCW Texas Tag Team Championship.

Footnotes

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wcwa Texas Tag Team Championship World Class Championship Wrestling championships Tag team wrestling championships Professional wrestling in Texas State professional wrestling championships