AWA World Tag Team Championship

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The American Wrestling Association (AWA) World Tag Team Championship was professional wrestling world tag team championship in the American Wrestling Association from 1960 until the promotion folded in 1991.

History

When the NWA Minneapolis Wrestling and Boxing Club operated by Verne Gagne withdrew from the National Wrestling Alliance on May 1960, Stan Kowalski and Tiny Mills were the recognized champions of the NWA World Tag Team Championship (Minneapolis version). At the time, the AWA continued to recognize the NWA champions as their World champions. However, by August 1960, and having recently recaptured the NWA Tag Team championships for a second time, Kowalski and Mills were recognized as the first AWA World Tag Team Champions when AWA stopped recognizing NWA champions.

As the promotion grew, the AWA Tag Team Championships became one of the most coveted tag team titles in the United States from the beginning until the late 1980s, when the AWA's talent roster was depleted by the World Wrestling Federation and Jim Crockett Promotions. This led to the retirement of the titles when the AWA closed. .

Title history

{| class="wikitable sortable" width=100% !style="background: #e3e3e3;" width=0%|# !style="background: #e3e3e3;" width=26%|Wrestlers !style="background: #e3e3e3;" width=0% |Reigns !style="background: #e3e3e3;" width=13%|Date !style="background: #e3e3e3;" width=0%|Days held !style="background: #e3e3e3;" width=15%|Location !style="background: #e3e3e3;" width=7%|Event !style="background: #e3e3e3;" width=45% class="unsortable"|Notes |- |}}Murder, Inc.
}}August 1960^†N/AN/A |- |}}Hard Boiled Haggerty and Len Montana / Gene Kiniski}}Minneapolis, Minnesota Live event |- |}}Leo Nomellini and Wilbur Snyder}}Minneapolis, MinnesotaLive event |- |}}Hard Boiled Haggerty and Gene Kiniski}}St. Paul, MinnesotaLive event |- |}}}}0N/ALive event | |- |}}Hard Boiled Haggerty and Bob Geigel}}St. Paul, MinnesotaLive event |- |}}Pat Kennedy and Dale Lewis}}Rochester, MinnesotaLive event |- |}}Bob Geigel and Otto Von Krupp}}^††Rochester, MinnesotaLive event |- |}}Vacated}}January 19620N/AN/A |- |}}Larry Hennig and Duke Hoffman}}St. Paul, MinnesotaLive event |- |}}Bob Geigel and Stan Kowalski }}^††Minneapolis, MinnesotaLive event |- |}}Art and Stan Neilson}}April 1962^†Cincinnati, OhioN/A |- |}}Mr. High and Mr. Low}}St. Paul, MinnesotaLive event |- |}}Ivan and Karol Kalmikoff}}Minneapolis, MinnesotaLive event |- |}}The Crusher and Dick the Bruiser}}Minneapolis, MinnesotaLive event |- |}}Moose Evans and Verne Gagne}}Minneapolis, MinnesotaLive event |- |}}The Crusher and Dick the Bruiser}}St. Paul, MinnesotaLive event |- |}}Larry Hennig and Harley Race}}Minneapolis, MinnesotaLive event |- |}}The Crusher and Verne Gagne }}Minneapolis, MinnesotaLive event |- |}}Larry Hennig and Harley Race}}Minneapolis, MinnesotaLive event |- |}}The Crusher and Dick the Bruiser}}Minneapolis, MinnesotaLive event |- |}}Larry Hennig / Chris Markoff and Harley Race}}Chicago, IllinoisLive event |- |}}Pat O'Connor and Wilbur Snyder }}Chicago, IllinoisLive event |- |}}Mitsu Arakawa and Dr. Moto}}Chicago, IllinoisLive event |- |}}The Crusher and Dick the Bruiser}}Chicago, IllinoisLive event |- |}}Butcher and Mad Dog Vachon}}Chicago, IllinoisLive event |- |}}Red Bastien and Hercules Cortez / The Crusher }}Milwaukee, WisconsinLive event

|- |}}Nick Bockwinkel and Ray Stevens}}Denver, ColoradoLive event |- |}}Verne Gagne and Billy Robinson}}Minneapolis, MinnesotaLive event |- |}}Nick Bockwinkel and Ray Stevens}}St. Paul, MinnesotaLive event |- |}}The Crusher and Billy Robinson }}Green Bay, WisconsinLive event |- |}}Nick Bockwinkel and Ray Stevens}}Winnipeg, ManitobaLive event |- |}}The Crusher and Dick the Bruiser}}Chicago, IllinoisLive event |- |}}Bobby Duncum and Blackjack Lanza}}Chicago, IllinoisLive event |- |}}The High Flyers
}}Winnipeg, ManitobaLive event |- |}}Pat Patterson and Ray Stevens }}N/AN/A |- |}}Verne Gagne and Mad Dog Vachon }}Winnipeg, ManitobaLive event |- |}}The East-West Connection
}}Denver, ColoradoLive event |- |}}The High Flyers}}Green Bay, WisconsinLive event |- |}}The Sheiks
}}Minneapolis, MinnesotaLive event |- |}}|The Crusher and Baron Von Raschke}}Green Bay, WisconsinLive event |- |}}The Road Warriors
}}Las Vegas, NevadaLive event |- |}}Jimmy Garvin and Steve Regal}}St. Paul, MinnesotaLive event |- |}}Scott Hall and Curt Hennig}}Albuquerque, New MexicoLive event |- |}}Buddy Rose and Doug Somers}}Hammond, IndianaAWA All-Star Wrestling |- |}}The Midnight Rockers
}}St. Paul, MinnesotaLive event |- |}}Soldat Ustinov and Boris Zhukov / Doug Somers }}Lake Tahoe, NevadaLive event |- |}}Bill Dundee and Jerry Lawler}}Memphis, TennesseeLive event (Continental Wrestling Association) |- |}}Dr. D. and Hector Guerrero}}Memphis, Tennessee Live event (Continental Wrestling Association) |- |}}Bill Dundee and Jerry Lawler}}Memphis, TennesseeLive event (Continental Wrestling Association) |- |}}The Original Midnight Express
}}Whitewater, WisconsinAWA Championship Wrestling |- |}}The Midnight Rockers}}Las Vegas, NevadaAWA Championship Wrestling |- |}}Badd Company
}}Las Vegas, NevadaAWA Championship Wrestling |- |}}The Olympians
}}Rochester, MinnesotaAWA Championship Wrestling |- |}}Vacated}}0N/AN/A |- |}}The Destruction Crew
}}Rochester, MinnesotaAWA Championship Wrestling |- |}}D.J. Peterson and The Trooper}}^††Rochester, MinnesotaAWA Championship Wrestling |- |}}Title retired.}}January 19910N/AN/A |}

List of top combined reigns

By team

{| class="wikitable sortable" !style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Rank !style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Team !style="background: #e3e3e3;"|# Of Reigns !style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Combined Days |- |1.The Crusher and Dick the Bruiser51,325 |- |2.Nick Bockwinkel and Ray Stevens31,202 |- |3.The High Flyers (Jim Brunzell and Greg Gagne)21,185 |- |4.Harley Race and Larry Hennig / Chris Markoff* 3777 |- |5.Butcher and Mad Dog Vachon1623 |- |6.Verne Gagne and Mad Dog Vachon1410 |- |7.Road Warriors (Animal and Hawk) 1400 |- |8.Mitsu Arakawa and Dr. Moto 1392 |- |9.Badd Company (Paul Diamond and Pat Tanaka)2371 |- |10.Bobby Duncum and Blackjack Lanza1349 |- |11.The East-West Connection (Adrian Adonis and Jesse Ventura)1329 |- |12.The Sheiks (Jerry Blackwell and Ken Patera) 1315 |- |13.The Destruction Crew (Wayne Bloom and Mike Enos) 1314 |} *Chris Markoff replaced Larry Hennig in their third reign.

By wrestler

{| class="wikitable sortable" !style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Rank !style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Wrestler !style="background: #e3e3e3;"|# Of Reigns !style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Combined Days |- |1.The Crusher91,717^† |- |2.Ray Stevens41,458 |- |3.Dick the Bruiser51,325 |- |4.Nick Bockwinkel31,202 |- |5.Jim Brunzell21,185 |- |5.Greg Gagne21,185 |- |7.Mad Dog Vachon21,033 |- |8.Larry Hennig4797 |- |9.Harley Race3777 |- |10.Butcher Vachon1623 |}

References

External links

»AWA World Tag Team Title History

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