UWA World Women's Tag Team Championship
The UWA World Women's Tag Team Championship (in Japanese: UWA世界女子タッグ王座) was a professional wrestling tag team title defended in the Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) from 1992 to 1995, then revived in 2001. It was the primary female wrestling tag team title in the promotion and was defended in both Mexico and Japan. The belts themselves were brought back in 2001 when the previous champions Etsuko Mita and Mima Shimoda won them in tournament on the Japanese Independent circuit, but the belts have not been defended since the tournament.
| UWA World Women's Tag Team Championship | |||||||||
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| Details | |||||||||
| Promotion | Universal Wrestling Association Japanese Independent circuit | ||||||||
| Date established | January 19, 1992 | ||||||||
| Date retired | 2003 | ||||||||
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As it was a professional wrestling championship, the championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers.[a] On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline,[b] or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship,[c] or leaving the company.[d]
Title history
edit| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||
| 1 | Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada | January 19, 1992 | Live event | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | [e] | Defeated Lady Apache and KAORU to become the first champions. | [f][6] |
| — | Vacated | 1993 | — | — | — | — | Championship vacated for undocumented reasons. | [f][6] |
| 2 | Yumiko Hotta and Takako Inoue | September 5, 1993 | Live event | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 206 | Defeated Akira Hokuto and Suzuka Minami to win the vacant titles. | [f][6] |
| 3 | Las Cachorras Orientales Etsuko Mita and Mima Shimoda |
March 30, 1994 | Live event | Naha, Japan | 1 | 521 | [f][6] | |
| — | Vacated | September 2, 1995 | — | — | — | — | Titles vacated and abandoned shortly afterwards. | [f][6] |
| 4 | Las Cachorras Orientales Etsuko Mita and Mima Shimoda |
November 15, 2001 | Live event | Chiba, Japan | 2 | 1 | Defeated Rie Tamada and GAMI to win the titles following its revival. | [6] |
| — | Deactivated | N/A N/A, 2003 | — | — | — | — | The championship deactivated somewhere in year 2003. | |
Footnotes
edit- ^ Hornbaker (2016) p. 550: "Professional wrestling is a sport in which match finishes are predetermined. Thus, win–loss records are not indicative of a wrestler's genuine success based on their legitimate abilities – but on now much, or how little they were pushed by promoters"[1]
- ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 271, Chapter: Texas: NWA American Tag Team Title [World Class, Adkisson] "Championship held up and rematch ordered because of the interference of manager Gary Hart"[2]
- ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 20, Chapter: (United States: 19th Century & widely defended titles – NWA, WWF, AWA, IW, ECW, NWA) NWA/WCW TV Title "Rhodes stripped on 85/10/19 for not defending the belt after having his leg broken by Ric Flair and Ole & Arn Anderson"[3]
- ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201, Chapter: (Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title "Vacant on 93/01/18 when Spike leaves the USWA."[4]
- ^ The exact date the championship was vacated has not been documented, which means that Toyota and Yamada's title reign lasted between 57 days and 594 days.
- ^ a b c d e Duncan & Will (2000) p. 399, Chapter: MEXICO: UWA World Women's Tag Team Title [Flores, Mora] [5]
See also
editReferences
edit- Hornbaker, Tim (2016). "Statistical notes". Legends of Pro Wrestling - 150 years of headlocks, body slams, and piledrivers (Revised ed.). New York, New York: Sports Publishing. ISBN 978-1-61321-808-2.
- Duncan, Royal; Will, Gary (2000). Wrestling title histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present. Waterloo, ON: Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
- ^ Hornbaker 2016, p. 550.
- ^ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 271.
- ^ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 20.
- ^ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 201.
- ^ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 399.
- ^ a b c d e f "U.W.A. Women's World Tag Team Title". Wrestling Titles.com. Retrieved June 16, 2015.