The WCWA World Tag Team Championship was the primary

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promoted by the

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area–based

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(WCWA). The championship was originally introduced as the NWA United States Tag Team Championship in 1967, when the promotion was known as NWA Big Time Wrestling. It was later renamed the NWA American Tag Team Championship in 1969. In 1982 Big Time Wrestling, changed their name to

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and the title became the WCCW American Tag Team Championship. In 1987 WCCW became World Class Wrestling Association and the championship was rebranded as the WCWA World Tag Team Championship. In 1989 the title was won by Cactus Jack and Scott Braddock, where it was transformed into 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

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served as the secondary tag team championship in the promotion from 1950 to 1989. The first confirmed NWA United States Tag Team Champions was The Internationals, the team of

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and

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), with their first confirmed title defense took place in January 1967. The Dynamic Duo (

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and Chris Adams) were the last team to hold the WCCW American Tag Team Championship. When WCCW withdrew from the NWA and was renamed WCWA, the promotion decided to introduce the WCWA World Tag Team Championship as the promotions top title.

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and

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because the first team to hold the WCWA World Tag Team Championship, defeating Chris Adams and

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in the finals of a tournament. Scott Braddock and Cactus Jack were the last team to hold the title as WCWA merged with the

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to form the United States Wrestling Association.

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(

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and

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holds the record for most reigns, with 5 as a team, while Kerry Von Erich held the championship a total of 10 times with various partners. The longest reign lasted 448 days as

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and Fritz Von Erich held the championship from January 30, 1968, to April 22, 1969.

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and Mr. Sakurada held the championship for one day, the shortest of all championship reigns.

Title history

WCCW American Tag Team Championship Tournament (1986)

The main event of the Labor Day Star Wars show was a tag team tournament for the vacant WCCW Tag Team Championship. The title had been vacated by the promotion due to the break up of previous champions Chris Adams and

earlier that year.

Footnotes

References

* {{Portal bar, Texas National Wrestling Alliance championships Tag team wrestling championships World Class Championship Wrestling championships

Title history

WCCW American Tag Team Championship Tournament (1986)

See also

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