IWA Mid-South Tag Team Championship
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| IWA Mid-South Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||
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| Current champion(s) | Up in Smoke (Cheech and Cloudy) | ||||||||||
| Date won | May 3, 2008 | ||||||||||
| Promotion | IWA Mid-South | ||||||||||
| Date established | July 18, 1997 | ||||||||||
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The IWA Mid-South Tag Team Championship was a major title in the IWA Mid-South promotion. The title debuted in 1997, but was abandoned before the year was out, and had a brief revival in 2002. The title was brought back in 2004 but became defunct in 2008.
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[edit] Title tournament
On July 18 1997 at the Gore Fest 1997 show in Louisville, KY, an eight team elimination style tournament was held to crown the first IWA Mid-South Tag Team Champions.
Competitors
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| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||||
| Tom Burton & Tower of Doom | |||||||||||||
| Shark Boy & American Kickboxer | |||||||||||||
| Tom Burton & Tower of Doom | |||||||||||||
| The War Machines | |||||||||||||
| The War Machines | |||||||||||||
| Twiggy Ramirez & Lost Boy | |||||||||||||
| The War Machines | |||||||||||||
| Bull Pain & Tarek The Great | |||||||||||||
| Bull Pain & Tarek The Great | |||||||||||||
| Rollin' Hard & Brian Taylor | |||||||||||||
| Bull Pain & Tarek The Great | |||||||||||||
| Ian Rotten & Blaze | |||||||||||||
| Ian Rotten & Blaze | |||||||||||||
| The Misfits | |||||||||||||
[edit] Title history
| Wrestler: | Times: | Date: | Place: | Notes: |
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| The War Machines | 1 | July 18, 1997 | Louisville, Kentucky | Defeat Bull Pain and Terek the Great in a tournament final to become the first champions. |
| The Misfits | 1 | September 4, 1997 | Louisville, Kentucky | |
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| Rollin' Hard and Mitch Page | 1 | February 1, 2002 | Charlestown, Indiana | Defeat Todd Morton and Mitch Ryder in tournament final when the title is reinstated. |
| The Bad Breed (Axl Rotten and Ian Rotten) |
1 | March 2, 2002 | Morris, Illinois | Defeat Mitch Page and Rollin' Hard and Corporal Robinson and Cash Flo in a 3-way match. |
| Rollin' Hard and Mitch Page | 2 | April 5, 2002 | Indianapolis, Indiana | Defeat Ian Rotten and Necro Butcher. |
| Ian Rotten and Cash Flo | 1 | May 3, 2002 | Indianapolis, Indiana | Flo turns on Ian after they win the titles. |
| Ian Rotten and Tarek the Great | 1 | May 10, 2002 | Clarksville, Indiana | Rotten defeats Cash Flo in a singles match to capture the control of the belts and chooses Tarek as partner |
| Rollin' Hard and Mitch Page | 3 | May 18, 2002 | Clarksville, Indiana | Defeat Ian Rotten and Necro Butcher. |
| Mark Wolf and Harry Palmer | 1 | August 3, 2002 | Clarksville, Indiana | |
| Titles abandoned. | ||||
| Southern Comfort (Tracy Smothers and Chris Hamrick) |
1 | May 29, 2004 | Highland, Indiana | Defeat The Second City Saints (CM Punk and Colt Cabana) in tournament final. |
| Brad Bradley and Ryan Boz | 1 | May 30, 2004 | Hammond, Indiana | |
| The Wildcards (Eddie Kingston and Black Jack Marciano) |
1 | September 18, 2004 | Highland, Indiana | Defeat Bradley and Boz and Tank and Iceberg. |
| Brad Bradley, Ryan Boz, and Trik Davis | 1 | January 15, 2005 | Highland, Indiana | Defeat Kingston and Steve Stone, subbing for an injured Marciano; Davis substitiutes himself in the match and assists Boz in the pin when Bradley is taken out during the match due to injury. |
| The Iron Saints (Vito Thomaselli and Sal Thomaselli) |
1 | June 11, 2005 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Win a 6-team elimination match. |
| The Bad Breed | 2 | July 9, 2005 | Hammond, Indiana | Vacant when Ian suffers a concussion. |
| The Iron Saints | 2 | September 10, 2005 | Plymouth, Indiana | Defeat Matt Sydal and Delirious in a tournament final. |
| Ian Rotten and Mad Man Pondo | 1 | March 18, 2006 | Midlothian, Illinois | |
| Vulgar Display of Power (Deranged and Brain Damage) |
1 | August 12, 2006 | Midlothian, Illinois | Defeat Rotten and Drake Younger, subbing for Mad Man Pondo. |
| The Iron Saints | 3 | May 26, 2007 | Midlothian, Illinois | Defeat Up in Smoke: Cheech and Cloudy in tournament final. |
| The BLKOUT | 1 | March 1, 2008 | Joliet, Illinois | Joker and Ricky Reyes, but any member of The BLKOUT was allowed to defend the title. See Freebird rule. |
| Josh Abercrombie, Mickie Knuckles and Devon Moore | 1 | April 12, 2008 | Joliet, Illinois | Defeated The BLKOUT (Ruckus, Sabian and Too Cold Scorpio) in a six-man tag team match. |
| Up in Smoke (Cheech and Cloudy) |
1 | May 3, 2008 | Joliet, Illinois | Defeated Knuckles and Moore. |
