NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship

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The NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship is the tag team title currently defended in the National Wrestling Alliance's NWA Mid-Atlantic territory. The championship was originally created in the summer of 1968 and was originally named the NWA Atlantic Coast Tag Team Championship. During this time, the title was the primary tag team championship that was defended in Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling owned by Jim Crockett, Sr. and later by his son, Jim Crockett, Jr.. While the current Mid-Atlantic promotion operates primarily out of the same area as the Crockett promotion, they aren't the same as Jim Crockett, Jr. sold his territory to Ted Turner in November 1988. This promotion would then be renamed World Championship Wrestling. The title was relegated to serve as the secondary tag team championship in Crockett's territory after Mid-Atlantic created its own territorial version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship in January 1975 and was used until sometime in 1985 when it was abandoned. In 2000, the title was revived for the Mid-Atlantic territory.

Title history

Silver areas in the history indicate periods of unknown lineage. {| class="wikitable" width=100% !style="background: #e3e3e3;" width=27%|Wrestler: !style="background: #e3e3e3;" width=5% |Times: !style="background: #e3e3e3;" width=13%|Date: !style="background: #e3e3e3;" width=15%|Location: !style="background: #e3e3e3;" width=40%|Notes: |- |colspan=5 style="background: #ccddcc;" align=center|NWA Atlantic Coast Tag Team Championship |- |Rip Hawk and Swede Hanson |1 |June 1968 |Washington, DC |Awarded. Defeat Édouard Carpentier and Miguel Perez in a fictitious match. |- |Johnny Weaver and George Becker |1 |May 1, 1969 |Winston-Salem, NC | |- |Rip Hawk and Swede Hanson |2 |February 17, 1970 |Raleigh, North Carolina | |- |Johnny Weaver and George Becker |2 |March 17, 1970 |Raleigh, North Carolina | |- |Gene and Ole Anderson |1 |March 26, 1970 |Greensboro, NC | |- |Paul Jones and Nelson Royal |1 |September 22, 1970 |Raleigh, North Carolina | |- |Rip Hawk and Swede Hanson |3 |December 9, 1970 |Raleigh, North Carolina | |- |Johnny Weaver and George Becker |3 |June 3, 1971 |Greensboro, NC | |- |Rip Hawk and Swede Hanson |4 |September 25, 1971 |Hampton, VA | |- |Johnny Weaver and George Becker |4 |September 27, 1971 |Fayetteville, NC | |- |Larry Hamilton and Brute Bernard |1 |October 12, 1971 |Raleigh, North Carolina | |- |Johnny Weaver (5) and Art Neilson |1 |March 31, 1972 |Greensboro, NC | |- |Gene Anderson and Ole Anderson |2 |November 6, 1972 |Charlotte, North Carolina | |- |Johnny Weaver (6) and Art Nielson (2) |2 |November 13, 1972 |Charlotte, North Carolina | |- |Gene and Ole Anderson |3 |March 3, 1973 |Winston-Salem, NC | |- |Jerry Brisco and Thunderbolt Patterson |1 |May 29, 1973 |High Point, NC | |- |Gene and Ole Anderson |4 |July 5, 1973 |Greensboro, NC | |- |Sandy Scott and Nelson Royal (2) |1 |October 2, 1973 |Raleigh, North Carolina | |- |colspan=5 style="background: #ccddcc;" align=center|Renamed NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship |- |Brute Bernard and Jay York |1 |November 26, 1973 |Raleigh, North Carolina
Brute and York managed by Beauregarde.
|- |Gene and Ole Anderson |5 |December 26, 1973 |Columbia, SC | |- |colspan=5 style="background: #aaaaaa;"| |- |Gene and Ole Anderson |6 |March 9, 1974 |Spartanburg, SC |Defeat Johnny Weaver and Bob Bruggers. |- |Paul Jones (2) and Bob Bruggers |1 |April 8, 1974 |Fayetteville, NC | |- |Rip Hawk (5) and Ric Flair |1 |July 4, 1974 |Greensboro, NC | |- |Paul Jones (3) and Tiger Conway, Jr. |1 |December 6, 1974 |Charleston, SC |Defeat Flair and Brute Bernard, subbing for Hawk. |- |Gene and Ole Anderson |7 |February 20, 1975 |Greensboro, NC |Title vs. Title match. Titles immediately vacated since the Andersons are the reigning NWA World Tag Team Champions (Mid-Atlantic version). |- |Dino Bravo and Tim Woods |1 |November 3, 1976 |Raleigh, North Carolina |Defeat Sgt. Jacques Goulet and Mike "The Judge" DuBois in tournament final. |- |The Hollywood Blonds

|1 |January 17, 1977 |Greenville, SC | |- |Dino Bravo (2) and Tiger Conway, Jr. (2) |1 |April 10, 1977 |Charlotte, North Carolina |- |Greg Valentine and Ric Flair (2) |1 |July 6, 1977 |Anderson, SC |Awarded. |- |Paul Jones (4) and Ricky Steamboat |1 |August 22, 1977 |Greensboro, NC |Steamboat and Jones win NWA World tag team title on April 23, 1978, and hold the titles concurrently. |- |Ric Flair (3) and Big John Studd |1 |October 30, 1978 |Greenville, SC | |- |Paul Jones (5) and Ricky Steamboat (2) |3 |November 5, 1978 |Greensboro, NC | |- |Big John Studd (2) and Ken Patera |1 |January 1979 |? | |- |Dino Bravo (3) and Ricky Steamboat (3) |4 |1979 |? | |- |colspan=5 style="background: #aaaaaa;"| |- |Masked Superstar and Masked Superstar 2 (3) |1 |March 26, 1980 |? |Title Vacant sometime in 1980. |- |Matt Borne and Buzz Sawyer |1 |June 2, 1980 |Greenville, SC |Defeat The Iron Sheik and Jimmy Snuka in tournament final. |- |The Sheepherders

|1 |September 28, 1980 |Charlotte, North Carolina | |- |Dewey Roberston and George Wells |1 |December 12, 1980 |Richmond, VA | |- |Genichiro Tenryu and Mr. Fuji |1 |February 7, 1981 |Greensboro, NC | |- |Dewey Robertson and Johnny Weaver (7) |1 |1981 |? | |- |Chris Markoff and Nikolai Volkoff |1 |June 27, 1981 |Charlotte, North Carolina | |- |Jay Youngblood and Johnny Weaver (8) |1 |November 27, 1981 |Appalachia, VA | |- |Ox Baker and Carl Fergie |1 |1981 |? | |- |Jay Youngblood (2) and Porkchop Cash |1 |c.March 1982 |? | |- |Carl Fergie (2) and David Patterson |1 |1982 |? | |- |Jay Youngblood (2) and Porkchop Cash |2 |? |? | |- |Don Kernodle and Pvt. Jim Nelson |1 |c.May 1982 |? | |- |Porkchop Cash (2) and Iceman Parsons |1 |1982 |? | |- |Don Kernodle and Jim Nelson |2 |June 17, 1982 |Roanoke, VA | |- |Ricky Steamboat (4) and Jay Youngblood (3) |1 |August 22, 1982 |Toronto, Ontario |Title vacated sometime in 1983. |- |One Man Gang and Kelly Kiniski |1 |May 23, 1983 |Greenville, SC |Defeat Mike Rotunda and Rufus R. Jones in tournament final. |- |Rufus R. Jones and Bugsy McGraw |1 |July 20, 1983 |Emporia, VA |Title vacated in August 1983. |- |Ron Bass and Black Bart |1 |August 25, 1984 |? |Titles retired sometime in 1985. |- |colspan=5 align=center|Titles abandoned |- |colspan=5 style="background: #ccddcc;" align=center|Revived NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship |- |Triple X

|1 |March 17, 2000 |? |Awarded. Titles vacated in September when Dawson leaves wrestling. |- |The Midnight Express

|1 |January 2003 |Asheville, NC |Defeated the Road Warriors. Titles vacated sometime in 2004. |- |Dusty Rhodes and Buff Bagwell |1 |January 22, 2005 |Seoul, South Korea |Defeat Terry Taylor and Rikki Nelson. Titles vacated sometime in 2005. |- |Rick Steiner and Terry Taylor |1 |September 24, 2005 |Concord, NC |Defeat Tommy Gunn and Ricky Morton. Titles vacated sometime in 2006. |- |colspan=5 style="background: #aaaaaa;"| |- |The Steiner Brothers

|1 |December 9, 2006 |Easley, SC |Defeat Chris Hamrick and Rikki Nelson. |- |}

See also

  • National Wrestling Alliance
  • Jim Crockett Promotions

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