Talk:WCW World Tag Team Championship

Corrected factual error

While it's still up for debate whether Eric Bischoff re-issued the WCW World Championship belt as RAW's World Heavyweight Championship, it isn't in dispute that the modern-day World Tag Team Title and the WCW World Tag Team Title are two different things.

The current World Tag Team Title is actually the original WWF/E Tag Team Title, brought over from SmackDown! by Lance Storm and Christian. When Stephanie McMahon announced that SmackDown would hold a tournament to crown new SD!-exclusive tag-team champions, the new title was named the WWE Tag Team Championship, while the original title was renamed the World Tag Team Championship.

At no point were the WCW World Tag Team Title belts returned to television. They were unified into the WWF Tag Team Title at Survivor Series 2001 and that's the last time they were seen.

Second Factual Error

Someone typed that Doom are regarded as the first WCW World Tag Team Champions. This is incorrect as the Steiner Brothers are generally regarded in most publications and history as the first WCW World Tag Team Champions as they were the last NWA World Tag Team Champions when all NWA belts were renamed WCW belts around March, 1991. If any one remembers, the NWA Tag Team belts were brought back to WCW for a brief time in 1992 where they were unified with the WCW World Tag Team Championships thereafter to create the "Unified World Tag Team Championships." Each champion would have 1 NWA and 1 WCW World Tag Team Championship. This continued until WCW fully withdrew from the National Wrestling Alliance on September 1, 1993. As a result, the National Wrestling Alliance withdrew recognition of the NWA World Tag Team Championships (during Arn Anderson's/Paul Roma's reign) from World Championship Wrestling, forcing World Championship Wrestling to rename the Unified World Tag Team Titles, the WCW World Tag Team Titles once again. At this point, only 1 NWA Tag Team Championship belt (despite the fact the NWA was officially gone from WCW at this point) and 1 WCW World Tag Team Championship belt were used to represent the WCW World Tag Team Championships. Please see the posted picture to understand what I'm referring to as you can see that Brian Pillman is holding on to the NWA World Tag Team belt, while Steve Austin is holding on to the WCW World Tag Team belt but the duo were known as the WCW World Tag Team Champions during their reign.

The titles were used in this manner all the way up to mid-1994 or so where WCW drop the use of the NWA Tag Team Championship belt and used their own WCW Tag Team Championship belts to recognize the WCW World Tag Team Champions.

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You need to go back and look through the title history again. Doom were the first team to be called WCW World Tag Team Champions. The former Crockett "NWA" titles were renamed in January 1991 (the same time WCW created their own world heavyweight title), not March, and Doom just happened to be the World Tag Champions at that time. I don't know what publications or history you've read, but it's wrong. As for Austin & Pillman, they were both WCW & NWA World Tag Team Champions. They (actually Austin & Lord Steven Regal filling in for an injured Pillman)lost both titles to Anderson & Roma. As for the belts themselves, the pair that debuted for the 1992 tournament (on black leather) were different then the two blue leathered pairs used from 1987-1991. My guess is WCW paid for the belts as they kept them. I have seen pics of The Nasty Boys with both NWA World Tag belts despite the fact that The Nasty Boys were never champs as WCW was gone from the NWA by the time the Nasty Boys became WCW Champs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.123.53.88 (talk) 14:37, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Judy Bagwell

"The only female to hold the WCW Tag team titles was Judy Bagwell, though she never actually participated in a single match."

I always read the history of WCW and WCW titles, but I never saw that Judy Bagwell had the WCW World Tag Team title. Proof ? (22/12/2006) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.198.219.173 (talk) 22:49, 22 December 2006 (UTC).

Considering Wikipedia doesn't list her in the title history, I'll remove the reference. Jeff Silvers 04:35, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

She was chosen as Rick Steiner's championship partner at the Nov 9, 1998 Nitro (replacing former partner Kenny Kaos). Here's just one link from a Nitro recap as evidence. http://slashwrestling.com/nitro/981109.html The likely reason she's not listed in most histories is that Kaos himself was just chosen as Steiner's partner after he won the titles alone, and shortly after Judy replaced Kaos, Steiner went out with an injury and the titles were vacated. But she was absolutely a holder of the title for a breif period of insanity.69.216.124.114 06:38, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

List of Champions and List of Reigns by Length

Those 2 articles are a mess and need to be cleaned up. The list of champions has the Outsiders' 1st reign ending on 1/26/97 and the 2nd reign ending on 2/23/97, yet the lists of reigns by length lists them as having the longest reign from 10/27/96 to 10/13/97, even though it wasn't. And this, the main article, has them as the longest reigning champions. Why would it show them having lost the belts on 2 occasions if they didn't lose them, seriously, someone needs to sort that out. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.73.240.187 (talk) 03:46, 13 May 2007 (UTC).

What about ...

• The oldest champion?
• The youngest champion?
• The heaviest champion?
• The lightest champion?

--KingOfDX (talk) 23:57, 13 April 2008 (UTC)