This was a regional NWA championship based in Japan. For the version of this title that was promoted in NWA All Star Wrestling in Canada, see NWA International Tag Team Championship (Vancouver version).
| NWA International Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||
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| Promotion | Japan Wrestling Association (1966-1973) Western States Sports (1973-1975) All Japan Pro Wrestling (1975-1988) Western States Sports | ||||||||||
| Date established | 1959 | ||||||||||
| Date retired | June 10, 1988 | ||||||||||
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The NWA International Tag Team Championship was a National Wrestling Alliance-sanctioned title contested in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) and Western States Sports. Prior to being used in AJPW, the title was defended in the Japan Wrestling Association (JWA). The title lasted from 1962 through 1988. It is now part of the World Tag Team Championship, also known as the "Double Cup".[1]
Title history
edit| No. | The overall championship reign |
| Reign | The reign number for the specific wrestler listed. |
| Event | The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title changed hands |
| N/A | The specific information is not known |
| — | Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign |
| No. | Champions | Reign | Date | Days held | Location | Event | Notes | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Fabulous Kangaroos (Al Costello and Roy Heffernan) |
1 | 1962 | [Note 1] | N/A | N/A | Recognized as first champions; may have held the title as early as 1959. | |
| 2 | The Flying Scotts (George Scott and Sandy Scott) |
1 | January 1963 | [Note 1] | N/A | Live event | ||
| 3 | Karl and Kurt Von Stroheim | 1 | July 1964 | [Note 2] | Texas | Live event | ||
| 4 | Bull and Fred Curry | 1 | July 20, 1964 | [Note 3] | Fort Worth, Texas | Live event | ||
| 5 | Karl and Kurt Von Stroheim | 2 | February 1966 | [Note 4] | Texas, United States | Live event | ||
| 6 | Fritz Von Goehring and Mike Padosis | 1 | September 1966 | [Note 5] | Texas, United States | Live event | ||
| 7 | Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura | 1 | November 5, 1966 | 335 | Tokyo, Japan | Live event | Established the title in Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance. | |
| 8 | Tarzan Tyler and Bill Watts | 1 | October 6, 1967 | 25 | Fukushima, Japan | Live event | ||
| 9 | Giant Baba (2) and Antonio Inoki | 1 | October 31, 1967 | 69 | Osaka, Japan | Live event | ||
| — | Vacated | — | January 8, 1968 | — | N/A | N/A | Title held up when Inoki no-shows a scheduled defense against Crusher Lisowski and Dr. Bill Miller in Hiroshima, Japan due to heavy snow. | |
| 10 | Giant Baba (3) and Antonio Inoki | 2 | February 3, 1968 | 341 | Tokyo, Japan | Live event | Defeated Crusher Lisowski and Bill Miller in rematch to win the held up title. | |
| 11 | Danny Hodge and Wilbur Snyder | 1 | January 9, 1969 | 26 | Hiroshima, Japan | Live event | ||
| 12 | Giant Baba (4) and Antonio Inoki | 3 | February 4, 1969 | 188 | Sapporo, Japan | Live event | ||
| 13 | Dick the Bruiser and Crusher Lisowski | 1 | August 11, 1969 | 2 | Sapporo, Japan | Live event | ||
| 14 | Giant Baba (5) and Antonio Inoki | 4 | August 13, 1969 | 846 | Osaka, Japan | Live event | ||
| 15 | The Funks (Dory Funk, Jr. and Terry Funk) |
1 | December 7, 1971 | 164 | Los Angeles, California | Live event | ||
| 16 | Giant Baba (6) and Seiji Sakaguchi | 1 | May 19, 1972 | 111 | Tokyo, Japan | Live event | ||
| — | Vacated | — | September 7, 1972 | — | N/A | N/A | Baba left the JWA to found All Japan Pro Wrestling. | |
| 17 | Kintarō Ōki and Seiji Sakaguchi (2) | 1 | December 2, 1972 | 82 | Tokyo, Japan | Live event | Defeated Bobo Brazil and Gene Kiniski to win the vacant title. | |
| 18 | Killer Karl Krupp and Johnny Valentine | 1 | February 22, 1973 | 12 | Osaka, Japan | Live event | [2] | |
| 19 | Kintarō Ōki (2) and Umanosuke Ueda | 1 | March 6, 1973 | 43 | Nagoya, Japan | Live event | ||
| 20 | Killer Karl Krupp (2) and Fritz Von Erich | 1 | April 18, 1973 | [Note 6] | Yaizu, Japan | Live event | ||
| 21 | Killer Karl Krupp (3) and Karl Von Steiger | 1 | April 1973 | [Note 7] | N/A | N/A | The JWA closed on April 20, 1973. Von Erich forfeited his half of the title and Krupp chose Karl von Steiger as his new partner to defend the title in Western States Sports. | |
| 22 | The Funks (Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk) |
2 | May 26, 1973 | 92 | Amarillo, Texas | Live event | ||
| 23 | Killer Karl Kox and Ciclon Negro | 1 | August 26, 1973 | [Note 8] | Lubbock, Texas | Live event | ||
| 24 | The Funks (Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk) |
3 | October 1973 | [Note 9] | Texas | Live event | ||
| 25 | Giant Baba (7) and Jumbo Tsuruta | 1 | February 5, 1975 | 631 | San Antonio, Texas | Live event | Returned to All Japan Pro Wrestling with the championship | |
| 26 | Kintarō Ōki (3) and Kim Duk | 1 | October 28, 1976 | 42 | Tokyo, Japan | Live event | ||
| 27 | Giant Baba (8) and Jumbo Tsuruta | 2 | December 9, 1976 | 333 | Tokyo, Japan | Live event | ||
| 28 | Kintarō Ōki (4) and Kim Duk | 2 | November 7, 1977 | 185 | Seoul, South Korea | Live event | ||
| 29 | Giant Baba (9) and Jumbo Tsuruta | 3 | May 11, 1978 | 519 | Tokyo, Japan | Live event | [3] | |
| 30 | Abdullah the Butcher and Ray Candy | 1 | October 12, 1979 | 7 | Tokyo, Japan | Live event | ||
| 31 | Giant Baba (10) and Jumbo Tsuruta | 4 | October 19, 1979 | 1,271 | Tokyo, Japan | Live event | ||
| 32 | Ron Bass and Stan Hansen | 1 | April 12, 1983 | 5 | Matsuyama, Japan | Live event | ||
| 33 | Giant Baba (11) and Jumbo Tsuruta | 5 | April 17, 1983 | 100 | Nagasaki, Japan | Live event | [4] | |
| 34 | Tiger Jeet Singh and Umanosuke Ueda (2) | 1 | July 26, 1983 | 6 | Fukuoka, Japan | Live event | ||
| 35 | Giant Baba (12) and Jumbo Tsuruta | 6 | August 1, 1983 | [Note 10] | Tokyo, Japan | Live event | ||
| — | Vacated | — | May 1984 | — | N/A | N/A | Baba was injured | |
| 36 | Genichiro Tenryu and Jumbo Tsuruta (7) | 1 | September 3, 1984 | 520 | Hiroshima, Japan | Live event | Defeated Jerry Blackwell and Bruiser Brody to win the vacant title. | [5] |
| 37 | Riki Choshu and Yoshiaki Yatsu | 1 | February 5, 1986 | 365 | Sapporo, Japan | Live event | ||
| 38 | Genichiro Tenryu (2) and Jumbo Tsuruta (8) | 2 | February 5, 1987 | 35 | Sapporo, Japan | Live event | ||
| 39 | The Road Warriors (Animal and Hawk) |
1 | March 12, 1987 | 456 | Tokyo, Japan | Live event | ||
| 40 | Jumbo Tsuruta (9) and Yoshiaki Yatsu (2) | 1 | June 10, 1988 | 0 | Tokyo, Japan | Live event | [6] | |
| — | Unified | — | June 10, 1988 | — | N/A | N/A | Unified with the PWF Tag Team Championship to form the World Tag Team Championship, also known as the "Double Cup". |
List of combined reigns
editBy Team
editBy wrestler
edit| Rank | Team | # Of Reigns | Combined Days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giant Baba | 12 | 5,017 |
| 2 | Jumbo Tsuruta | 9 | 3,662 |
| 3 | Antonio Inoki | 4 | 1,444 |
| 4 | Dory Funk Jr | 3 | 749 |
| Terry Funk | 3 | 749 | |
| 5 | Genichiro Tenryu | 2 | 555 |
| 6 | George Scott | 1 | 547 |
| Sandy Scott | 1 | 547 | |
| 7 | Bull Curry | 1 | 529 |
| Fred Curry | 1 | 529 | |
| 8 | Animal | 1 | 456 |
| Hawk | 1 | 456 | |
| 9 | Al Costello | 1 | 365 |
| Roy Heffernan | 1 | 365 | |
| Riki Choshu | 1 | 365 | |
| Yoshiaki Yatsu | 2 | 365 | |
| 10 | Kintarō Ōki | 4 | 352 |
| 11 | Michiaki Yoshimura | 1 | 335 |
| 12 | Karl Von Stroheim | 2 | 263 |
| Kurt Von Stroheim | 2 | 263 | |
| 13 | Kim Duk | 2 | 227 |
| 14 | Seiji Sakaguchi | 2 | 193 |
| 15 | Fritz Von Goehring | 1 | 66 |
| Mike Padosis | 1 | 66 | |
| 16 | Umanosuke Ueda | 2 | 49 |
| 17 | Danny Hodge | 1 | 26 |
| Wilbur Snyder | 1 | 26 | |
| 18 | Tarzan Tyler | 1 | 25 |
| Bill Watts | 1 | 25 | |
| 19 | "Killer" Karl Krupp | 3 | 23 |
| 20 | Johnny Valentine | 1 | 12 |
| 21 | Abdullah the Butcher | 1 | 7 |
| Ray Candy | 1 | 7 | |
| 22 | Tiger Jeet Singh | 1 | 6 |
| 23 | "Killer" Karl Kox | 1 | 5 |
| Ciclon Negro | 1 | 5 | |
| Ron Bass | 1 | 5 | |
| Stan Hansen | 1 | 5 | |
| 24 | Dick the Bruiser | 1 | 2 |
| Crusher Lisowski | 1 | 2 | |
| 25 | Fritz Von Erich | 1 | 0 |
See also
edit
Footnotes
edit- ^ a b The length of the championship reign is too uncertain to calculate.
- ^ The exact date the championship was won and lost is uncertain, which means that the championship reign lasted between 1 day and 19 days.
- ^ The exact date the championship was won and lost is uncertain, which means that the championship reign lasted between 1 day and 72 days.
- ^ The exact date the championship was won and lost is uncertain, which means that the championship reign lasted between 1 day and 71 days.
- ^ The exact date the championship was won is uncertain, which means that the championship reign lasted between 766 days and 795 days.
- ^ The exact date the championship was won is uncertain, which means that the championship reign lasted between 1 day and 12 days.
- ^ The exact date the championship was won and lost is uncertain, which means that the championship reign lasted between 1 day and 11 days.
- ^ The exact date the championship was lost is uncertain, which means that the championship reign lasted between 36 days and 66 days.
- ^ The exact date the championship was won is uncertain, which means that the championship reign lasted between 462 days and 492 days.
- ^ The exact date the championship was lost is uncertain, which means that the championship reign lasted between 274 and 304 days.
References
edit- ^ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
- ^ Hoops, Brian (February 22, 2017). "Daily pro wrestling history (02/22): Sting defeats Hogan to win vacant WCW title". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
- ^ Hoops, Brian (May 11, 2015). "On this day in pro wrestling history (May 11): Von Erichs vs. Verne & Don Leo Jonathan, Shane Douglas vs 2 Cold Scorpio". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved March 21, 2020.
- ^ Hoops, Brian (April 17, 2020). "Daily pro wrestling (04/17): WCW Spring Stampede 1994". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
- ^ Hoops, Brian (September 3, 2015). "On this day in pro wrestling history (Sept. 3): Ric Flair Vs. Terry Funk Texas Death Match, Great Muta Vs. Sting, Ted DiBiase and Stan Hansen win AJPW Tag titles". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
- ^ F4W Staff (June 10, 2015). "On this day in pro wrestling history (June 10): Harley Race beats Ric Flair for NWA title, Jerry Blackwell turns babyface". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
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