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USWA World Tag Team Championship

The USWA World Tag Team Championship was the primary professional wrestling tag team championship promoted by the Memphis, Tennessee-based United States Wrestling Association (USWA). The Continental Wrestling Association and World Class Wrestling Association (WCWA) merged in 1989 to form the USWA.[1] In the merger the USWA replaced both the WCWA World Tag Team Championship and the CWA Tag Team Championship with the USWA version.[a][b] The promotion awarded Cactus Jack and Scott Braddock the championship after they won the WCWA championship on August 4, 1989. The USWA closed in 1997, with PG-13 (J. C. Ice and Wolfie D) as the final champions. There were a total of 116 reigns in the eight year lifetime of the championship.[c]

The final champions, PG-13, holds the record for most championship reigns as they held the belts on 15 different occasions across the years, in addition each member also held the championship with a different partner, making them tied for most overall reigns for an individual.[c] The Moondogs (Spot and Spike) reign as champions lasted between 123 and 152 days, the longest of any championship team. In April 1992 Moondog Cujo replaced Spike, but records are unclear as to what date the change was made.[d] The teams of Jim and Ron Harris,[e] Tommy Rich and Doug Gilbert,[f] and Flash Flanagan and Nick Dinsmore, all lost the championship on the same show that they won the championship,[g] tying them for the shortest reign.[4]

As it is a professional wrestling championship, the championship was won not by actual competition, but by kayfabe to a match determined by the bookers and match makers.[h] 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,[i] or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship,[j] or leaving the company.[k]

Belt designs

The original belts to represent the title were the WCWA World Tag Team Championship belts.

In 1990, the WCWA belts were replaced by the old USA Tag Team Championship belts that was originally used in the short-lived USA Championship Wrestling promotion in 1988, before Continental Wrestling Federation used them to replace the NWA Continental Tag Team Championship belts to represent their title. In 1996, USWA changed the red straps to black and repainted the red design on the centerpiece and the blue design on the sideplates to black.

Title history

Team reigns by combined length

Individual reigns by combined length

USWA Tag Team Championship Tournament (1989)

The USWA Tag Team Tournament was a one-night single elimination tag team tournament held in Dallas, Texas on December 1, 1989, for the vacant USWA World Tag Team Championship.[13]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Duncan & Will (2000) pp. 271–273 Chapter: "Texas: WCWA World Tag Team Title [Von Erich]" [2]
  2. ^ Duncan & Will (2000) pp. 203–204 Chapter: "(Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: CWA Tag Team Title [Lawler, Jarrett]" [3]
  3. ^ a b Duncan & Will (2000) pp. 200–202 Chapter: "(Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title" [Lawler, Jarrett][4]
  4. ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201 "Moondogs [2] 1992/04" [5]
  5. ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201 "Jimmy Harris & Ron Harris 1994/12/26 Memphis, TN - PG-13 [4] 1994/12/26 Memphis, TN" [5]
  6. ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201 "Tommy Rich & Doug Gilbert 1995/01/09 Memphis, TN - PG-13 [5] 1995/01/09 Memphis, TN" [5]
  7. ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 202 "Moondogs [2] 1992/04" [6]
  8. ^ 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"[7]
  9. ^ 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"[8]
  10. ^ 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"[9]
  11. ^ Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201, Chapter: (Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title "Vacant on 93/01/18 when Spike leaves the USWA."[5]
  12. ^ The exact date the championship was vacated has not been documented, which means that the reign lasted between 33 and 62 days.
  13. ^ The exact date that the Cujo replaced Spike is uncertain, which means that this version of the Moondogs held the championship between 123 and 152 days.
  14. ^ The exact date that the Cujo replaced Spike is uncertain, which means that this version of the Moondogs held the championship between 60 and 89 days.
  15. ^ The exact date the championship was vacated is uncertain, which means that the championship reign lasted between 14 and 29 days.
  16. ^ The exact date that the championship was abandoned has not been documented, which means that this title reign lasted between 62 and 91 days.

References

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  2. ^ Duncan & Will 2000, pp. 271–273.
  3. ^ Duncan & Will 2000, pp. 203–204.
  4. ^ a b Duncan & Will 2000, pp. 200–202.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co Duncan & Will 2000, p. 201.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Duncan & Will 2000, p. 202.
  7. ^ Hornbaker 2016, p. 550.
  8. ^ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 271.
  9. ^ Duncan & Will 2000, p. 20.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Duncan & Will 2000, p. 200.
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