WCWA Texas Tag Team Championship

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First championTemplate:Pluralize from text	Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content. Ellis Bashara and Angelo Cistoldi (overall); Bobby Managoff and Otto Kuss (East Texas); Rito Romero and Miguel Guzmán (Southwest Sports); Tony Atlas and Skip Young (WCWA);
Final championTemplate:Pluralize from text	Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content. Raul Mata and Billy White Cloud (original); Steve and Shaun Simpson (WCWA);
Most reigns	Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content. Team: Duke Keomuka and Danny Savich (6 reigns); individual: Duke Keomuka (16 reigns);
Longest reign	Rito Romero and Miguel Guzmán (272)
Shortest reign	Killer Kowalski (1 day)

WCWA Texas Tag Team Championship
WCWA Texas Tag Team Championship
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Details
Promotion	Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content. Dallas Wrestling Club; Southwest Sports; Big Time Wrestling; World Class Wrestling Association;
Date established	1943
Date retired	Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content. 1981 (original); 1989 (WCWA);
Other nameTemplate:Pluralize from text
	NWA Texas Tag Team Championship;
First championTemplate:Pluralize from text	Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.
Statistics
First championTemplate:Pluralize from text	Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content. Ellis Bashara and Angelo Cistoldi (overall); Bobby Managoff and Otto Kuss (East Texas); Rito Romero and Miguel Guzmán (Southwest Sports); Tony Atlas and Skip Young (WCWA);
Final championTemplate:Pluralize from text	Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content. Raul Mata and Billy White Cloud (original); Steve and Shaun Simpson (WCWA);
Most reigns	Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content. Team: Duke Keomuka and Danny Savich (6 reigns); individual: Duke Keomuka (16 reigns);
Longest reign	Rito Romero and Miguel Guzmán (272)
Shortest reign	Killer Kowalski (1 day)

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The WCWA Texas Tag Team Championship was the secondary professional wrestling tag team championship promoted by the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex area-basedWorld Class Wrestling Association (WCWA). The championship was originally known as the NWA Texas Tag Team Championship from its creation in 1942 until 1981. The championship was revived in 1987 as the WCWA Texas Tag Team Championship, and used until 1990, when it was abandoned as WCWA was merged with the Continental Wrestling Association (CWA) to become the United States Wrestling Association. The name was also used for a title by NWA Southwest from 1998 to 2011, also known as the NWA Southwest Texas Tag Team Championship. As it is a professional wrestling championship, it is won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match.^[c]

The first time a championship was promoted as the "Texas Tag Team Championship" was in 1943 when records indicate that Ellis Bashara and Angelo Cistoldi won the championship.^[1] The Texas Tag Team Championship was not mentioned again until 1945 in what would later become the National Wrestling Alliance's East Texas territory.^[4] By 1950 it was promoted by Southwest Sports and was officially recognized by the NWA. The first champions recognized by the NWA was the team of Rito Romero and Miguel Guzmán.^[2] In 1966, Fritz Von Erich bought Southwest Sports and renamed it NWA Big Time Wrestling.^[2] In the 1981 the championship was abandoned, with Raul Mata and Billy White Wolf as the last champions at the time.^[2] The Texas Tag Team Championship was brought back in 1987, with Big Time Wrestling now known as World Class Wrestling Association.^[3] The first WCWA Texas Tag Team Champions were Tony Atlas and Skip Young, who won a one-night single elimination tag team tournament to claim the championship.^[5] When WCWA merged with the Tennessee-based CWA the title was abandoned, with Steve and Shaun Simpson as the last holders of the championship.^[3] In 2012 NWA Wrecking Ball Wrestling reactivated the NWA Texas titles.^[6]

The team of Duke Keomuka and Danny Savich won the championship on six occasions, the most of any team.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] Keomuka won the championship a total of 16 times, in addition to teaming with Savich he also won it with Ivan Kalmikoff, Mr. Moto, Don Evans, Tiny Mills, Kinji Shibuya, Tony Martin, Tokyo Joe, John Tolos, and Maurice Vachon.^[2] In 1950, Killer Kowalski defeated Keomuka and Savich in a handicap match, to become the only wrestler to hold the tag team championship singled handedly.^[2] Romero and Guzmán's reign from March 3 until November 30, 1950, is the longest confirmed reign of any championship team, a total of 272 days.^[2] Based on recorded history there were 153 individual reigns between 1943 and 1989, possibly more since there are periods of time where the championship history is unrecorded.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Title history

Championship tournaments

NWA Texas Tag Team Championship Tournament (1952)

The NWA Texas Tag Team Tournament was a one-night single elimination tag team tournament held in Fort Worth, Texas on December 1, 1952, for the vacant NWA Texas Tag Team Championship.^[7]

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

BYE

Cowboy Carlson and Billy Varga

Cyclone Anaya and Gory Guerrero

W

Cyclone Anaya and Gory Guerrero

W

Marvin Jones and Jack O'Reilley

Cyclone Anaya and Gory Guerrero

W

Red Berry and Duke Keomuka

Roy Graham and Jack O'Brien

W

Andre Drapp and Ray Gunkel

Roy Graham and Jack O'Brien

Red Berry and Duke Keomuka

W

BYE

NWA Texas Tag Team Championship Tournament (1967)

The NWA Texas Tag Team Tournament was a one-night single elimination tag team tournament held in San Antonio, Texas on May 3, 1967, for the vacant NWA Texas Tag Team Championship.^[8]

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Paul DeMarco and Luis Hernandez

W

Kenji Shibuya and Mike Paidousis

Paul DeMarco and Luis Hernandez

W

BYE

Paul DeMarco and Luis Hernandez

W

Jim Bernard and Tarzan Tyler

Jim Bernard and Tarzan Tyler

W

Bob Ellis and Yamamot

Jim Bernard and Tarzan Tyler

W

Bearcat Wright and Buddy Moreno

BYE

Bearcat Wright and Buddy Moreno

W

NWA Texas Tag Team Championship Tournament (1978)

The NWA Texas Tag Team Tournament was a one-night single elimination tag team tournament held in Fort Worth, Texas on October 30, 1978, for the vacant NWA Texas Tag Team Championship.^[9]

Semifinals		Final

1	Mark Lewin and White Knight

4	Al Madril and Reggie Parks
		Mark Lewin and White Knight	W

		Mando Guerrero and Tiger Conway Jr.
3	Bruiser Brody and Bill White

2	Mando Guerrero and Tiger Conway Jr.

WCCW Texas Tag Team Championship Tournament (1987)

The WCCW Texas Tag Team Tournament was a one-night single elimination tag team tournament held in Fort Worth, Texas on June 29, 1987, for the vacant WCCW Texas Tag Team Championship.^[5]

First round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

Tony Atlas and Skip Young

W

Brian Adias and Al Perez

Tony Atlas and Skip Young

W

BYE

Tony Atlas and Skip Young

W

Killer Brooks and Len Denton

The Rock 'n' Roll RPMs
(Tommy Lane and Mike Davis)

W

Al Madril and Manuel Villalobos

The Rock 'n' Roll RPMs

Killer Brooks and Len Denton

W

Matt Borne and Steve Simpson

Killer Brooks and Len Denton

W

Tony Atlas and Skip Young

W

Ted Arcidi and Texas Red

Ted Arcidi and Texas Red

W

Bruiser Brody and The Spoiler

Ted Arcidi and Texas Red

W

The Fantastics

The Fantastics
(Bobby Fulton and Tommy Rogers)

W

BYE

Ted Arcidi and Texas Red

W

BYE

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^ Longest confirmed reign, with gaps in the documented championship history it is possible that another team had a longer reign.
^ Kowalski won the championship but did not return to Texas to defend it.
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References

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[5] Longest confirmed reign, with gaps in the documented championship history it is possible that another team had a longer reign.

[6] Kowalski won the championship but did not return to Texas to defend it.

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