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NWA World Tag Team Championship (San Francisco version)
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The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) member NWA San Francisco promoted a professional wrestling tag team championship under the name NWA World Tag Team Championship from 1950 until 1961 in and around their local territory until it closed.[1][2] When San Francisco based Big Time Wrestling became a member of the NWA in 1968 they began promoting their version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship as part of their shows until the championship was abandoned in 1979.[3][4] The NWA rules allowed each individual member to promote a championship under that name, which meant there were several NWA World Tag Team Championships promoted across North America at some point between 1950 and 1982, with two different versions being promoted in San Francisco, although not at the same time.[1][3] At one point in 1957 no less than 13 different versions of the NWA World Tag Team Championship were recognized across the United States.[Championships] At least 21 different regional branches of the NWA World Tag Team Championship have identified as being active at some point between 1950 and 1991. In 1992 the NWA Board of Directors sanctioned one main NWA World Tag Team Championship under their control.[5] As it is a professional wrestling championship, it is not won via legitimate competition; it is instead won via a scripted ending to a match or on occasion awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline.[6]
Ray Eckert and Hard Boiled Haggerty are recognized as the first holders of the NWA San Francisco version of the championship, said to have defeated the team of Ron Etchison and Larry Moquin, although no direct record of the match has been found; it was only mentioned on television.[1] Due to gaps in documentation from the era not all championship changes have been record with specific dates, only the general period of time that they happened.[1][2] Due to this it is impossible to say which team held the championship for the shortest period of time although it is unlikely to be shorter than the one-day reign of Mike and Ben Sharpe from January 9 to 10, 1958. The Sharpe Brothers' eighth reign lasted at least 131 days, the longest known reign of any champions. The Sharpe Brothers also hold the record for most reigns, a total of 18, 15 more than any other team.[1][2] In 1957 the San Francisco version of the championship was one of thirteen NWA World Tag Team Championships being promoted in the United States throughout the NWA territories.[Championships] The NWA: San Francisco version of the championship was abandoned in when promoter Joe Malcevicz closed his promotion in 1962.[7]
In 1961 Roy Shire started a rival wrestling promotion in San Francisco called Big Time Wrestling, in direct competition with NWA: San Francisco. Shires' promotion created its own World Tag Team Championship in 1961, with Guy and Joe Brunetti as its first champions.[3][4] Initially Shire was associated with the American Wrestling Alliance, but in 1968 he became a member of the NWA. At that point the Big Time Wrestling tag team championship was given the NWA suffix.[3][4] Big Time Wrestling abandoned the tag team championship in 1979 and two years later the promotion closed.[8] While it is possible that there were shorter reigns, the seven-day reign of the Great Mephisto and Kinji Shibuya in April 1973 is the shortest documented title reign. The Blonde Bombers's (Ray Stevens and Pat Patterson) reign that started in April 1965 was the longest reign on record, a total of 623 days.[3][4]
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Title history
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| No. | The overall championship reign |
| Reign | The reign number for the specific wrestler listed. |
| Event | The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title changed hands |
| N/A | The specific information is not known |
| — | Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign |
| Indicates that there was a period where the lineage is undocumented due to the lack of written documentation in that time period. |
NWA San Francisco history
Big Time Wrestling history
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1977 Championship Tournament
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||
| The Von Steigers (Kurt and Karl Von Steiger | W | ||||||||||
| Jimmy Golden and Don Jackson | [16] | The Von Steigers | W | ||||||||
| Moondog Mayne and Peter Maivia | W | Moondog Mayne and Peter Maivia | [16] | ||||||||
| Hiro Ota and Mr. X | [16] | The Von Steigers | W | ||||||||
| Bob Roop and Keith Franks | W | Jimmy Golden and Kevin Sullivan | [16] | ||||||||
| Pepper Gomez and Chavo Guerrero | [16] | Bob Roop and Keith Franks | [16] | ||||||||
| Bye | Jimmy Golden and Kevin Sullivan | W | |||||||||
| Bye | [16] | ||||||||||
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Footnotes
- The location of the match was not captured as part of the documentation.
- The date when Rice and Von Schact lost the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 206 days.
- The date when Carnera and Szabó won the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 29 days.
- The date where the championship was vacated has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 111 days.
- The date where the championship was vacated has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 10 days.
- The date where Ben and Mike Sharpe won the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 131 and 374 days.
- The date where the championship was vacated has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 51 and 81 days.
- The date where Etchson and Stern lost the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 7 and 34 days.
- The date where Blears and Kiniski won the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 29 days.
- The date where Ben and Mike Sharpe lost the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 3 and 33 days.
- The date where the Duseks won the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 58 days.
- The date where the Baillergeon brothers won the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 47 and 74 days.
- The date where Blears and Sharpe lost the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 22 days.
- The date where Nomellini and Torres won the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 22 days.
- The date where Brazil and Torres lost the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 40 and 64 days.
- The date where Ben and Mike Sharpe won the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 52 and 82 days.
- The date where McKenzie and Torres lost the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 41 and 70 days.
- The date where Kato and Von Schober won the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 13 and 42 days.
- The date where Dubuque and Von Goehring lost the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 41 and 49 days.
- The date where Barend and Etchison won the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 49 days.
- The date where Red Hangman and Ben Sharpe lost the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 597 days.
- The date where Great Lothario and Torres lost the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 597 days.
- The date where Mike and Ben Sharpe won the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 31 and 75 days.
- The date where Miller and Torres won the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 15 days.
- The date where Ben and Mike Sharpe lost the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 46 and 76 days.
- The date where Etchinson and Torres won and lost the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 396 days.
- The date where Campbell and Mr. Kleen won and lost the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 729 days.
- The date where the championship was abandoned has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 145 days.
- The date where the Brunettis won the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 134 and 163 days.
- The date where Gomez and Lothario lost the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 46 and 75 days.
- The date where Manoukian and Stevens won the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 117 and 146 days.
- The date where Saito and Shibuya lost the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 80 and 109 days.
- The date where Gomez and Maivia won and lost the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 60 days.
- The date where Maivia and Stevens won and lost the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 397 and 456 days.
- The date where Graham and Patterson won the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 230 and 260 days.
- The date where the Interns lost the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 31 and 60 days.
- The date where Saito and Shubuya lost the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 32 and 90 days.
- The date where Johnson and Patterson won the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 96 and 125 days.
- The date where Maivia and Patterson lost the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 283 and 312 days.
- The date where the Invaders won the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 101 and 130 days.
- The date where the championship was vacated has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 15 days.
- The date where the championship was vacated has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 38 and 67 days.
- The date where Rose gave up his half of the championship has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 56 and 83 days.
- The date where the championship was abandoned has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 32 and 88 days.
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Concurrent championships
- Sources for 13 simultaneous NWA World Tag Team Championships
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Los Angeles version)[17][18]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (San Francisco version)[1][2]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Central States version)[19][20]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Chicago version)[21][22]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Buffalo Athletic Club version)[23][24]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Georgia version)[25][26]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Iowa/Nebraska version)[27][28]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Indianapolis version)[29][30]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Salt Lake Wrestling Club version)[31][32]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Amarillo version)[33][34]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Minneapolis version)[35][36]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Texas version)[37][38]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-America version)[39][40]
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References
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