The NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team Championship was the main tag team championship in

Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling Continental Championship Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion based in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Dothan, Alabama from 1985 until 1989, owned by Ron Fuller. The promotion evolved out of the NWA-affiliated Southeastern Championship Wr ...

or NWA Gulf Coast. The Gulf Coast tag team championship is the successor for GCCW's version of the NWA Southern Tag Team Championship that was promoted in the

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and

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region from 1955 until 1967 where it was replaced by the "NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team Championship. The Gulf Coast Tag Team championship was promoted from 1967 until 1978 where

Southeast Championship Wrestling Continental Championship Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion based in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Dothan, Alabama from 1985 until 1989, owned by Ron Fuller. The promotion evolved out of the NWA-affiliated Southeastern Championship Wr ...

took control of the title renaming in back to the "NWA Southern Tag Team Championship" and promoted it in its "Southern Division" in 1978 and 1979. In 1980 the Southern Division was abandoned and the Northern Division of the

NWA Southern Tag Team Championship The NWA Southern Tag Team Championship is any of a group of professional wrestling tag team championship titles in the National Wrestling Alliance. Specific titles include: * The NWA Southern Tag Team Championship (Florida version) * The NWA South ...

became the main title of SECW.

Title history

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NWA Southern Tag Team Championship (Gulf Coast version)

NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team Championship

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NWA Southern Tag Team Championship (Southern Division)

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Bob Armstrong Joseph Melton James (October 3, 1939 – August 27, 2020) was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, "Bullet" Bob Armstrong. In the course of his career, which spanned five decades, Armstrong held numerous championship ...

, reign=1 , date={{dts, October 1978 , location= , notes=Order of title holders not 100% verified , ref= , days=N/A , event=SCW show {{Professional wrestling title history middle , number=5 , champion={{sort, Carson, Don Carson and Assassin , reign=1 , date={{dts, October 1978 , location= , notes=Order of title holders not 100% verified , ref= , days=N/A , event=SCW show {{Professional wrestling title history middle , sort number=5.5 , type=unrecorded , reign=N/A , date=N/A , location= , notes= , ref= , days=N/A , event=SCW show {{Professional wrestling title history middle , number=6 , champion={{sort, Fields, , Ricky Fields and Terry Latham , reign=1 , date={{dts, May 1979 , location= , notes= , ref= , days=N/A , event=SCW show {{Professional wrestling title history middle , number=7 , champion={{sortname, The, Wild Samoans
{{small, Afa and Sika , reign=1 , date={{dts, May 11, 1979 , location=Dothan, Alabama , notes= , ref= , days={{age in days, May 11, 1979, May 18, 1979 , event=SCW show {{Professional wrestling title history middle , number=8 , champion={{sort, Fields, , Ricky Fields and Terry Latham , reign=2 , date={{dts, May 18, 1979 , location=Dothan, Alabama , notes= , ref= , days={{age in days, May 18, 1979, June 1, 1979 , event=SCW show {{Professional wrestling title history middle , number=9 , champion={{sortname, The, Wild Samoans
{{small, Afa and Sika , reign=2 , date={{dts, June 1, 1979 , location=Dothan, Alabama , notes= , ref= , days={{age in days, June 1, 1979, June 22, 1979 , event=SCW show {{Professional wrestling title history middle , number=10 , champion={{sort, Dargan, The Dargan Twins , reign=1 , date={{dts, June 22, 1979 , location=Dothan, Alabama , notes= , ref= , days={{age in days, June 22, 1979, July 11, 1979 , event=SCW show {{Professional wrestling title history middle , number=11 , champion={{sort, Assassins, The Assassins , reign=3 , date={{dts, July 11, 1979 , location=Mobile, Alabama , notes= , ref= , days={{age in days, July 11, 1979, November 6, 1979 , event=SCW show {{Professional wrestling title history middle , number=12 , champion={{sort, Fuller, Robert, Robert Fuller and

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, reign=1 , date={{dts, November 6, 1979 , location=Pensacola, Florida , notes= , ref= , days={{age in days, November 6, 1979, November 22, 1979 , event=SCW show {{Professional wrestling title history middle , number=13 , champion={{sort, Mongolians, The Mongolians , reign=1 , date={{dts, November 22, 1979 , location=Mobile, Alabama , notes= , ref= , days={{age in days, November 22, 1979, February 5, 1980 , event=SCW show {{Professional wrestling title history middle , number=14 , champion={{sort, Fuller, Robert, Robert Fuller and Ed Boulder , reign=1 , date={{dts, February 5, 1980 , location=Mobile, Alabama , notes= , ref= , days=N/A , event=SCW show {{Professional wrestling title history middle , sort number=14.5 , type=unrecorded , reign=N/A , date=N/A , location= , notes= , ref= , days=N/A , event=SCW show {{Professional wrestling title history middle , number=15 , champion={{sort, Fuller, Robert, Robert Fuller and Ron Fuller , reign=1 , date={{dts, March 18, 1980 , location=Dothan, Alabama , notes= , ref= , days={{age in days, March 18, 1980, May 13, 1980 , event=SCW show {{Professional wrestling title history middle , number=16 , champion={{sortname, Norvell, Austin and

Randy Rose Randall Alls (born July 19, 1956) is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Randy Rose. Professional wrestling career Randy Rose began his career in 1974 in Tennessee. In 1980, Rose formed a tag team with Denn ...

, reign=1 , date={{dts, May 13, 1980 , location=Mobile, Alabama , notes= , ref= , days=N/A , event=SCW show {{Professional wrestling title history middle , sort number=16.5 , type=unrecorded , reign=N/A , date=N/A , location= , notes= , ref= , days=N/A , event=SCW show {{Professional wrestling title history middle , number=17 , champion={{sortname, Bob, Armstrong and Charlie Cook , reign=1 , date={{dts, June 22, 1980 , location= , notes= , ref= , days={{age in days, June 22, 1980, June 24, 1980 , event=SCW show {{Professional wrestling title history middle , number=18 , champion={{sortname, Ron, Bass, Ron Bass (wrestler) and

, reign=1 , date={{dts, June 24, 1980 , location=Mobile, Alabama , notes= , ref= , days={{age in days, June 24, 1980, May 13, 1980 , event=SCW show {{Professional wrestling title history middle , number=19 , champion={{sortname, Norvell, Austin and

, reign=1 , date={{dts, May 13, 1980 , location=Mobile, Alabama , notes= , ref= , days={{age in days, May 13, 1980, August 19, 1980 , event=SCW show {{Professional wrestling title history middle , number=20 , champion={{sortname, Jos, LeDuc and Bob Armstrong , reign=1 , date={{dts, August 19, 1980 , location=Mobile, Alabama , notes= , ref= , days=N/A , event=SCW show {{Professional wrestling title history middle , number=21 , champion={{sort, Big Cs, The Big Cs
{{small, #1 and #2 , reign=1 , date={{dts, September 1980 , location= , notes= , ref= , days=N/A , event=SCW show {{Professional wrestling title history middle , number=22 , champion={{sort, Spears, , Billey Spears and The Assassin , reign=1 , date=N/A , location= , notes= , ref= , days=N/A , event=SCW show {{Professional wrestling title history middle , number=23 , champion=deactivated , reign=N/A , date=N/A , location= , notes= , ref= , days=N/A , event=SCW show {{BundleEnd The following teams are also credited with holding the NWA Southern Tag Team championship but no specific time period has been documented. *Ricky Gibson and Robert Gibson *Rip Tyler and Eddie Sullivan * Ron Fuller and Robert Fuller *

and Charlie Cook * Ron Fuller and Terry Gibbs

References

{{Reflist {{Southeastern Championship Wrestling Championships National Wrestling Alliance championships Continental Championship Wrestling championships Tag team wrestling championships Regional professional wrestling championships

Title history

NWA Southern Tag Team Championship (Gulf Coast version)

NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team Championship

NWA Southern Tag Team Championship (Southern Division)

See also

References