The PWA Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team championship in Pro Wrestling America (PWA). It remained active until 1996 when PWA began running occasional events.
| PWA Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||||
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| Details | |||||||||||||
| Promotion | Pro Wrestling America | ||||||||||||
| Date established | January 15, 1985 | ||||||||||||
| Date retired | 1996 | ||||||||||||
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The inaugural champions were The Terminators (Riggs and Wolf), who defeated The Warlord and Teijo Khan in Anoka, Minnesota on January 15, 1985 to become the first PWA Tag Team Champions. At 609 days, The Terminators' second reign was the longest while the team's third and final reign was the shortest lasting only 2 days. With three reigns, The Terminators also held the most reigns as a tag team and individually. Overall, there were 19 reigns.
Title history
edit- Key
| # | Order in reign history |
| Reign | The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed |
| Event | The event in which the title was won |
| — | Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign |
| N/A | The information is not available or is unknown |
| + | Indicates the current reign is changing daily |
Reigns
edit| # | Wrestlers | Reign | Date | Days held |
Location | Event | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Terminators (Riggs and Wolf) |
1 | January 15, 1985 | 92 | Anoka, Minnesota | Live event | Riggs and Wolf defeated The Warlord and Teijo Khan to become the first PWA Tag Team Champions; may have defeated Mad Dog Vachon and Jim Gagnon in River Falls, Wisconsin. | [1] |
| 2 | Miami Vice Defenders (Savannah Jack and Ed Roberts) |
1 | April 17, 1985 | 176 | Barron, Wisconsin | Live event | ||
| 3 | The Terminators | 2 | October 10, 1985 | 609 | Somerset, Wisconsin | Live event | ||
| 4 | Top Guns (Ricky Rice and Derrick Dukes) | 1 | June 11, 1987 | 64 | Minneapolis, Minnesota | Live event | [2] | |
| 5 | The Terminators | 3 | August 14, 1987 | 2 | Winnipeg, Manitoba | Live event | ||
| 6 | The Fantastics (Tommy Rogers and Bobby Fulton) | 1 | August 16, 1987 | N/A | Fridley, Minnesota | Live event | ||
| — | Vacated | — | 1987 | — | N/A | N/A | The championship is vacated when The Fantastics leave the territory. | |
| 7 | Johnny Love and Tommy Ferrera | 1 | November 16, 1987 | 485 | Fridley, Minnesota | Live event | Love and Ferrera defeated The Masked Maniacs to win the vacant title. | |
| 8 | Matt and Bret Derringer | 1 | March 15, 1989 | 101 | Fridley, Minnesota | Live event | ||
| 9 | Maximum Overdrive (Hunter and Silencer) | 1 | June 24, 1989 | 450 | Minneapolis, Minnesota | Live event | ||
| 10 | The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott Steiner) | 1 | September 17, 1990 | 14 | Atlanta, Georgia | Live event | This was a World Championship Wrestling television taping; match was not billed as a title bout. | [3] |
| — | Vacated | — | October 1, 1990 | — | N/A | N/A | The championship is vacated when The Steiner Brothers leave the territory. | |
| 11 | The Punishers (Sledge and Hammer) | 1 | April 11, 1991 | 262 | Stillwater, Minnesota | Live event | Sledge and Hammer defeated The Wild Boys (Tim Hunt and Steve Berg) to win the vacant title. | |
| 12 | Baron von Raschke and Ken Patera | 1 | December 29, 1991 | 6 | St. Paul, Minnesota | Live event | ||
| 13 | The Punishers | 2 | January 4, 1992 | 21 | N/A | Live event | Awarded title. | |
| 14 | Baron von Raschke and Brad Rheingans | 1 | January 25, 1992 | N/A | Annandale, Minnesota | Live event | ||
| — | N/A | — | N/A | — | N/A | N/A | ||
| 15 | The Lightning Kid and Jerry Lynn | 1 | March 2, 1993 | N/A | Fridley, Minnesota | Live event | Defeated Tony Denucci and Tommy Ferrera. | [4][5] |
| — | N/A | — | N/A | — | N/A | N/A | ||
| 16 | The Storm Troopers (Storm Trooper I and Storm Trooper II) | 1 | N/A (prior to June 1994) | N/A | N/A | N/A | [6] | |
| 17 | Charlie Norris and Sam Houston | 1 | August 15, 1994 | N/A | Red Lake, Minnesota | Live event | [7][8] | |
| 18 | The Storm Troopers | 2 | N/A (prior to August 1995) | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| 19 | Thunderblood (Charlie Norris and Derrick Dukes) | 1 | N/A (prior to June 1996) | N/A | N/A | N/A | [2][7] | |
| — | Deactivated | — | 1996 | — | N/A | N/A | PWA began running occasional events after 1996 and the title was eventually abandoned. |
List of combined reigns
edit| <1 | Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day. |
| Rank[N 1] | Wrestler | # of reigns | Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riggs and Wolf (The Terminator) |
3 | 995 |
| 2 | Johnny Love and Tommy Ferrera | 1 | 485 |
| 3 | Hunter and Silencer (Maximum Overdrive) |
1 | 450 |
| 4 | Sledge and Hammer (The Punishers) |
2 | 273 |
| 5 | Savannah Jack and Ed Roberts (Miami Vice Defenders) |
1 | 176 |
| 6 | Matt and Bret Derringer | 1 | 101 |
| 7 | Ricky Rice and Derrick Dukes (Top Guns) |
1 | 64 |
| 8 | Rick and Scott Steiner (The Steiner Brothers) |
1 | 14 |
| 9 | Baron von Raschke and Ken Patera | 1 | 6 |
Footnotes
edit- ^ Each reign is ranked highest to lowest; reigns with the same number mean that they are tied for that certain rank.
References
edit- General
- "P.W.A. Tag Team Title". Wrestling-Titles.com. Puroresu Dojo. 2003. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
- Palma, Richard. "PWA Tag Team Title History". Wrestling Title Histories by Gary Will and Royal Duncan. Solie.org. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
- Gary Will and Royal Duncan (2000). "(Minnesota) PWA Tag Team Title". Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
- Specific
- ^ Hoops, Brian (January 15, 2019). "Pro wrestling history (01/15): Big John Studd wins 1989 Royal Rumble". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved January 18, 2019.
- ^ a b "Wrestler Profiles". Online World of Wrestling.
- ^ "Wrestler Profiles". Online World of Wrestling.
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- ^ Gerweck, Steve (October 14, 2009). "Jerry Lynn". Gerweck.net. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
- ^ Kreikenbohm, Philip. "German Storm Troopers". Tag Teams Database. Cagematch.de. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
- ^ a b "Wrestler Profiles". Online World of Wrestling.
- ^ "Wrestler Profiles". Online World of Wrestling.