The ACW Tag Team Championship was the top professional wrestling tag team championship title in the American independent promotion Assault Championship Wrestling. The first champions were Heavy Artillery (Apollo and Gunner) who defeated Mind and Matter in the finals of a championship tournament held in Meriden, Connecticut on November 30, 2001. The championship was regularly defended throughout the state of Connecticut, most often in Meriden, Connecticut, until the promotion closed in early-2004.[1]
| ACW Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||||
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| Details | |||||||||||||
| Promotion | Assault Championship Wrestling | ||||||||||||
| Date established | November 30, 2001 | ||||||||||||
| Date retired | March 21, 2004 | ||||||||||||
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Kappa Tappa Kegga (Curt Daniels and Andy Jaxx) holds the record for most reigns as a 2-time champion. The team's second reign, lasting 287 days, is the longest in the title's history; their first reign, which lasted only 35 days, was the shortest in the history of the title. There have been a total of 14 recognized individual champions and 7 recognized teams, who have had a combined 8 official reigns, with two vacancies.[1]
Title history
edit- Key
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| N/A | The information is not available or is unknown |
| Days | Number of days held |
| — | Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign |
Reigns
edit| No. | Wrestlers | Reign | Date | Days held |
Location | Event | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apollo and Gunner (Heavy Artillery) |
1 | November 30, 2001 | 85 | Meriden, CT | Live event | Defeated Mind and Matter in a tournament final. | [1] |
| 2 | Curt Daniels and Andy Jaxx (Kappa Tappa Kegga) |
1 | February 23, 2002 | 35 | Waterbury, CT | Live event | [1] | |
| 3 | Dylan Kage and Fred Curry, Jr. | 1 | March 30, 2002 | 71 | Meriden, CT | Live event | [1] | |
| 4 | Redneck From Hell #1 and #2 (The Rednecks From Hell) |
1 | June 9, 2002 | 62 | Meriden, CT | Live event | [1] | |
| 5 | Avil Graves and Del Tsunami | 1 | August 10, 2002 | N/A | Pikesville, CT | Live event | [1] | |
| — | Vacated | — | October 2002 | — | Meriden, Connecticut | N/A | Vacated when Tsunami turns on Graves during a title defense. | [1] |
| 6 | Trent Acid and Johnny Kashmere (The Backseat Boyz) |
1 | November 3, 2002 | 131 | New Britain, CT | Live event | This was a Gauntlet match involving Eddie Edwards/DC Dillanger, Bo/Jeff Douglas, The Panther Brothers, Kappa Tappa Kegga, The Rednecks From Hell, The Mutilators, and Red Hot Russ/Mike Xylas. | [2] |
| — | Vacated | — | March 14, 2003 | — | East Hartford, Connecticut | N/A | [1] | |
| 7 | Matt Striker and Scotty Charisma (The New Strike Force) |
1 | March 14, 2003 | 86 | East Hartford, CT | Live event | Defeated Red Hot Russ and Mike Xylas to win the vacant titles. | [3][4][5] |
| 8 | Curt Daniels and Andy Jaxx (Kappa Tappa Kegga) |
2 | June 8, 2003 | 287 | Waterbury, CT | Live event | [6] | |
| — | Deactivated | — | March 21, 2004 | — | N/A | N/A | ACW holds its last show on March 21, 2004. | [1] |
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Tsakiries, Phil (2004). "ACW Tag Team Title History". Solie's Title Histories.
- ^ Kreikenbohm, Philip (November 3, 2002). "ACW November Pain". Cagematch - The Internet Wrestling Database. Retrieved January 27, 2021.
- ^ Kreikenbohm, Philip (March 14, 2003). "ACW 2nd Annual Dave Vicious Memorial Cup". Cagematch - The Internet Wrestling Database. Retrieved January 27, 2021.
- ^ "March 14, 2003: Assault Championship Wrestling (ACW)". Results: 2003. The New England Independent. March 2004. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
- ^ Assault Championship Wrestling (Producer) (March 14, 2003). 03/14/2003 Assault Championship Wrestling: East Hartford, CT (VHS). East Hartford, Connecticut: TCTapes.net.
- ^ Kreikenbohm, Philip (June 8, 2003). "ACW Road To Damnation". Cagematch - The Internet Wrestling Database. Retrieved January 27, 2021.