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USWA World Tag Team Championship
Professional wrestling tag team championship From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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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.
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Title history
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Team reigns by combined length
¤ | The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used. |
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Individual reigns by combined length
¤ | The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used. |
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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]
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
P.Y. Chu-Hi and Buddy Landel | ||||||||||||||
Jimmy Jack Funk and Dustin Rhodes | ||||||||||||||
Jimmy Jack Funk and Dustin Rhodes | ||||||||||||||
Robert Fuller and Brian Lee | ||||||||||||||
Robert Fuller and Brian Lee | ||||||||||||||
Kerry Von Erich and Bill Dundee | ||||||||||||||
Robert Fuller and Brian Lee | ||||||||||||||
Matt Borne and Jeff Jarrett | ||||||||||||||
Chris Adams and Eric Embry | ||||||||||||||
Gary Young and Billy Joe Travis | ||||||||||||||
Gary Young and Billy Joe Travis | ||||||||||||||
Matt Borne and Jeff Jarrett | ||||||||||||||
Matt Borne and Jeff Jarrett | ||||||||||||||
Sheik Braddock and The Punisher |
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Footnotes
- Duncan & Will (2000) pp. 271–273 Chapter: "Texas: WCWA World Tag Team Title [Von Erich]" [2]
- Duncan & Will (2000) pp. 203–204 Chapter: "(Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: CWA Tag Team Title [Lawler, Jarrett]" [3]
- Duncan & Will (2000) pp. 200–202 Chapter: "(Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title" [Lawler, Jarrett][4]
- Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201 "Moondogs [2] 1992/04" [5]
- Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201 "Jimmy Harris & Ron Harris 1994/12/26 Memphis, TN - PG-13 [4] 1994/12/26 Memphis, TN" [5]
- Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201 "Tommy Rich & Doug Gilbert 1995/01/09 Memphis, TN - PG-13 [5] 1995/01/09 Memphis, TN" [5]
- Duncan & Will (2000) p. 202 "Moondogs [2] 1992/04" [6]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201, Chapter: (Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title "Vacant on 93/01/18 when Spike leaves the USWA."[5]
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References
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