NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship
| NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||
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| Promotion | NWA Mid-Atlantic | ||||||||||
| Date established | June 1968 | ||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | The Sound and The Fury (Will Huckaby and Joe Black) | ||||||||||
| Date won | February 27, 2016 | ||||||||||
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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.[1]
Title history
Silver areas in the history indicate periods of unknown lineage.
| Wrestler | Times | Date | Location | Notes |
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| NWA Atlantic Coast Tag Team Championship | ||||
| Rip Hawk and Swede Hanson | 1 | June 1968 | Washington, DC | Title Awarded and defeat Édouard Carpentier and Miguel Perez in a fictitious match. |
| Johnny Weaver and George Becker | 1 | May 1, 1969 | Winston-Salem, North Carolina | |
| Rip Hawk and Swede Hanson | 2 | February 17, 1970 | Raleigh, North Carolina | |
| Johnny Weaver and George Becker | 2 | March 17, 1970 | Raleigh, North Carolina | |
| The Andersons (Gene and Ole Anderson) |
1 | March 26, 1970 | Greensboro, North Carolina | |
| 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, North Carolina | |
| Rip Hawk and Swede Hanson | 4 | September 25, 1971 | Hampton, Virginia | |
| Johnny Weaver and George Becker | 4 | September 27, 1971 | Fayetteville, North Carolina | |
| Larry Hamilton and Brute Bernard | 1 | October 12, 1971 | Raleigh, North Carolina | |
| Johnny Weaver (5) and Art Neilson | 1 | March 31, 1972 | Greensboro, North Carolina | |
| The Andersons (Gene Anderson and Ole Anderson) |
2 | November 6, 1972 | Charlotte, North Carolina | |
| Johnny Weaver (6) and Art Neilson (2) | 2 | November 13, 1972 | Charlotte, North Carolina | |
| The Andersons (Gene Anderson and Ole Anderson) |
3 | March 3, 1973 | Winston-Salem, North Carolina | |
| Jerry Brisco and Thunderbolt Patterson | 1 | May 29, 1973 | High Point, North Carolina | |
| The Andersons (Gene Anderson and Ole Anderson) |
4 | July 5, 1973 | Greensboro, North Carolina | |
| Sandy Scott and Nelson Royal (2) | 1 | October 2, 1973 | Raleigh, North Carolina | |
| 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. |
| The Andersons (Gene Anderson and Ole Anderson) |
5 | December 26, 1973 | Columbia, South Carolina | |
| Paul Jones (2) and Bob Bruggers | 1 | April 8, 1974 | Fayetteville, North Carolina | |
| Rip Hawk (5) and Ric Flair | 1 | July 4, 1974 | Greensboro, North Carolina | |
| Paul Jones (3) and Tiger Conway, Jr. | 1 | December 6, 1974 | Charleston, South Carolina | Defeat Flair and Brute Bernard, subbing for Hawk. |
| The Andersons (Gene and Ole Anderson) |
6 | February 20, 1975 | Greensboro, North Carolina | Won the title vs. title match. |
| Vacated | February 20, 1975 | The Andersons are the reigning NWA World Tag Team Champions (Mid-Atlantic version) and title is inactive until September 22, 1976 when the tournament to crown new champions starts. | ||
| 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 (Buddy Roberts and Jerry Brown) |
1 | January 17, 1977 | Greenville, South Carolina | |
| 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, South Carolina | Awarded. |
| Paul Jones (4) and Ricky Steamboat | 1 | August 22, 1977 | Greensboro, North Carolina | Steamboat and Jones win NWA World Tag Team Champions (Mid-Atlantic version) on April 23, 1978 and hold the titles concurrently. |
| Ric Flair (3) and Big John Studd | 1 | October 30, 1978 | Greenville, South Carolina | |
| Paul Jones (5) and Ricky Steamboat (2) | 2 | November 5, 1978 | Greensboro, North Carolina | |
| Big John Studd (2) and Ken Patera | 1 | January 1979 | ? | |
| Paul Jones (6) and Ricky Steamboat (3) | 3 | April 26, 1979 | ? | |
| Title vacated | August 1979 | When Jones turns on Steamboat. | ||
| Ricky Steamboat (4) & Dino Bravo (3) | 1 | October 1979 | ||
| Masked Superstar and Masked Superstar 2 (3) | 1 | March 26, 1980 | ? | |
| Title vacated | April 1980 | When Masked Superstar leaves the area. | ||
| Matt Borne and Buzz Sawyer | 1 | June 2, 1980 | Greenville, South Carolina | Defeat The Iron Sheik and Jimmy Snuka in tournament final. |
| The Sheepherders (Butch Miller and Luke Williams) |
1 | September 28, 1980 | Charlotte, North Carolina | |
| Dewey Robertson and George Wells | 1 | December 12, 1980 | Richmond, Virginia | |
| Genichiro Tenryu and Mr. Fuji | 1 | February 7, 1981 | Greensboro, North Carolina | |
| Dewey Robertson (2) and Johnny Weaver (7) | 1 | May 1981 | ? | |
| Chris Markoff and Nikolai Volkoff | 1 | June 27, 1981 | Charlotte, North Carolina | |
| Jay Youngblood and Johnny Weaver (8) | 1 | November 27, 1981 | Appalachia, Virginia | |
| Ox Baker and Carl Fergie | 1 | December 1981 | ||
| Jay Youngblood (2) and Porkchop Cash | 1 | January 29, 1982 | ||
| Don Kernodle and Pvt. Jim Nelson | 1 | May 1982 | ||
| Porkchop Cash (2) and Iceman Parsons | 1 | June 1, 1982 | ||
| Don Kernodle and Jim Nelson | 2 | June 17, 1982 | Roanoke, Virginia | |
| Ricky Steamboat (5) and Jay Youngblood (3) | 1 | August 22, 1982 | Toronto, Ontario | |
| Title vacated | March 12, 1983 | Upon winning the WCW World Tag Team Championship. | ||
| One Man Gang and Kelly Kiniski | 1 | May 23, 1983 | Greenville, South Carolina | Defeat Mike Rotunda and Rufus R. Jones in tournament final. |
| Rufus R. Jones and Bugsy McGraw | 1 | July 20, 1983 | Emporia, Virginia | |
| Title vacated | August 1983 | |||
| Long Riders (Ron Bass and Black Bart) |
1 | August 25, 1984 | ? | |
| Titles retired and abandoned on March 1985 | ||||
| NWA MACW Tag Team Championship | ||||
| Triple X (Drake Dawson and Curtis Thompson) |
1 | September 11, 1999 | ? | Reigning Northern Continental Tag Team champions; awarded Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Title around March 17, 2000. |
| Title vacated | September 12, 2000 | When Dawson leaves NWA to become pit crew member for a NASCAR Winston Cup team. Title vacated as of September 5, 2002. | ||
| The Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Rick Nelson) |
1 | December 7, 2002 | Asheville, North Carolina | Defeat the Road Warrior Hawk and Mad Maxx. |
| Title vacated | December 2004 | |||
| Dusty Rhodes and Buff Bagwell | 1 | January 22, 2005 | Seoul, South Korea | Defeat Terry Taylor and Rikki Nelson. |
| Title vacated | August 2005 | |||
| Rick Steiner and Terry Taylor | 1 | September 24, 2005 | Concord, North Carolina | Defeat Tommy Gunn and Ricky Morton. |
| Title vacated | November 2006 | |||
| The Steiner Brothers (Rick (2) and Scott) |
1 | December 9, 2006 | Easley, South Carolina | Defeat Chris Hamrick and Rikki Nelson. |
| Title vacated | January 23, 2007 | |||
| Buff Bagwell (2) and Rick Nelson (2) | 1 | May 2, 2009 | Shelby, North Carolina | Defeat Reid Flair and David Flair. |
| The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Robert Gibson and Ricky Morton) |
1 | January 16, 2010 | Caldwell, North Carolina[disambiguation needed] | |
| Buff Bagwell (3) and Rick Nelson (3) | 2 | May 1, 2010 | Anderson, South Carolina | |
| The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Robert Gibson and Ricky Morton) |
2 | September 18, 2010 | Maiden, North Carolina | |
| Brad Armstrong & Ricky Morton (3) | 1 | November 6, 2010 | Taylorsville, North Carolina | Brad Armstrong replaces Robert Gibson to defeats Chris Hamrick & Jeff Lewis, still champions as of December 4, 2010. |
| Title vacated | April 2012 | MACW leaves the NWA in 2012. Title vacated as of October 1, 2012. No Championship by Ricky Nelson or the old MACW is sanctioned or recognized by the NWA after this date | ||
| New NWA MACW Tag Team Championship (2012-present) | ||||
| N/A | N/A | October 2012 | NWA Sanctions a new MACW to be formed October 1st, 2012 | |
| The Legion of KAOS (Damien Wayne and Lance Erickson) |
1 | November 2, 2013 | Kingsport, Tennessee | Defeat C&C Wrestle Factory (Caprice Coleman and Cedric Alexander) to win vacant title. |
| Title vacated | July 12, 2014 | Carolina Beach, North Carolina | When Legion Of Kaos split up to pursue singles careers. | |
| The Brutes (Mark James and Jimmy Parker) |
1 | June 20, 2015 | Louisburg, North Carolina | Defeated The A.H.L. and The Cabellero's in a 3-way for the vacant titles at NWA R.A.G.E. XII. |
| The Sound and The Fury (Will Huckaby and Joe Black) |
1 | February 27, 2016 | Williamston, North Carolina | Defeated The Brutes (Jimmy Parker and Mark James) and 1st Generation (Victor Andrews and James Anthony) in a Triple Threat at "Onslaught". [2] |
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See also
References
- ^ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
- ^ http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midatlantic/macw/macw-t.html