The Vancouver version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling championship for tag teams that was used by NWA All-Star Wrestling from 1966 to 1967.[1][2] When the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) was created in 1948, the Board of Directors decided to allow each NWA member to create its own local version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship.[3] As it is a professional wrestling championship, it is not won or lost competitively, but instead is determined by the decision of the bookers of a wrestling promotion. The title is awarded after the chosen team "wins" a match to maintain the illusion that professional wrestling is a competitive sport.[4]
The first team to hold the championship was the Tolos brothers (Chris Tolos and John Tolos). Records indicate that they were presented as champions in June 1966, but records are unclear on how they won the belts. The title was used for just over a year before being abandoned in favor of the NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship.[1][2][5] The Tolos brothers and the team of Don Jardine and Dutch Savage were the only teams to hold the championship twice, and John Tolos the only wrestler to hold the championship three times. The Tolos brothers' second reign, from March 13 to October 3, 1967, is the longest at 203 days. Don Leo Jonathan and Dominic DeNucci held the title for just 21 days, the shortest confirmed reign of any champion.[1][2]
Title history
Key
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.
^ abcdThe exact date in June that Borne and Tolos became champions is uncertain, which means that this reign lasted between 95 days and 124 days.
^The location of the match was not captured as part of the documentation.
^ abcdThe exact date in December that the championship was abandoned is uncertain, which means that this reign lasted between 0 days and 27 days.
References
^ abcdefghijklmnopqrsDuncan, Royal; Will, Gary (2000). "(Vancouver) British Columbia: NWA World Tag Team Title [Kovac and Kiniski]". Wrestling title histories: Professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present. Pennsylvania: Archeus Communications. ISBN0-9698161-5-4.
^Hornbaker, Tim (2007). "The Origins of a Wrestling Monopoly". National Wrestling Alliance, The Untold Story of the Monopoly that Strangled Pro Wrestling. ECW Press. ISBN1-55022-741-6.
^Duncan, Royal; Will, Gary (2000). "(Vancouver) British Columbia: NWA Canada Tag Team Title [Kovac and Kiniski]". Wrestling title histories: Professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present. Pennsylvania: Archeus Communications. ISBN0-9698161-5-4.