UWA World Tag Team Championship

UWA World Tag Team Championship
Nosawa, claimed to have won the championship in Mexico with Mazada
Details
Promotion El Dorado Wrestling
Kohaku Wrestling Wars
Michinoku Pro Wrestling
Union Pro Wrestling
Universal Wrestling Association
Date established 1982
Current champion(s) Ayumu Gunji and Rui Hyugaji
Date won September 16, 2017

The UWA World Tag Team Championship is a tag team professional wrestling championship created by the Mexican Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) and defended there until the UWA closed in 1995.[1] After the UWA's closing, the title was inactive until 2008, when El Dorado Wrestling revived the title. On March 26, 2008, Kagetora and Kota Ibushi won the title in Tokyo, Japan at El Dorado's Eye of the Treasure event, defeating Mazada and Nosawa.[2] It has since been defended in several promotions, including Kohaku Wrestling Wars, Michinoku Pro Wrestling and Union Pro Wrestling. The current champions are Ayumu Gunji and Rui Hyugaji. 20 different teams have held the championship, combining for 27 total reigns. Being a professional wrestling championship it is not won legitimately; it is instead won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a team because of a storyline.

Title history

Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
N/A Unknown information
† Championship change is unrecognized by the promotion
+ Current reign is changing daily
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign Days
 1  Riki Choshu and Gran Hamada  August 1, 1982  UWA Live Event Naucalpan, State of Mexico  1  [Note 1] Defeated Baby Face and El Canek to become the first champions. [3]
— Vacated  1985 — — — — Championship vacated for undocumented reasons, abandoned by the UWA at this time
 2  Los Brazos
(Brazo de Oro and Brazo de Plata)		  March 10, 1991  UWA Live Event Tokyo, Japan  1  75 align=left [3]
 3  Perro Aguayo and Gran Hamada (2)  June 13, 1991  UWA Live Event Tokyo, Japan  1  220 [3]
— Vacated  January 19, 1992 — — — — The title was vacated on January 19, 1992, after Perro Aguayo began working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre on a regular basis [3]
 4  Gran Hamada (3) and Kendo  January 19, 1992  UWA Live Event Tokyo, Japan  1  0 Defeated Los Brazos (Brazo de Oro and Brazo de Plata) to win the vacant championship. [3]
 5  Los Cowboys
(Silver King and El Texano)		  January 19, 1992  UWA Live Event Tokyo, Japan  1  161 [3]
 6  The Can-Am Connection
(Doug Furnas and Dan Kroffat)		  June 28, 1992  UWA Live Event Naucalpan, State of Mexico  1  133 [3]
 7  Los Villanos
(Villano IV and Villano V)		  November 8, 1992  UWA Live Event Naucalpan, México, Mexico  1  119 [3]
 8  The Can-Am Connection
(Doug Furnas and Dan Kroffat)		  March 7, 1993  UWA Live Event Naucalpan, México, Mexico  2  [Note 2] [3]
 9  Los Villanos
(Villano IV and Villano V)		  April 1993  UWA Live Event Mexico  2  [Note 3] [3]
—  1995 — — The UWA Closed and the titles were abandoned. [3]
†  Los Rayos Tapatío
(Rayo Tapatio I and Rayo Tapatio II)		     —     Los Rayos Tapatío began defending a title they claimed was the UWA World Tag Team Championship around 2000. They held the Distrito Federal Tag Team Championship and could possibly have made this claim to allow them to defend a championship outside of the Distrito Federal. It was never confirmed that they had physical possession of the original UWA title belts. [4]
†  Los Villanos
(Villano IV and Villano V)		  2004 (NLT)   —  3  [Note 4] Los Villanos began defending the UWA title again no later than 2004, at this point it was not sanctioned by a promotion but Los Villanos personal championship [5]
†  Emilio Charles Jr. and Scorpio Jr.  April 7, 2004  Live event Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico  1  7 [5]
†  Los Villanos
(Villano IV and Villano V)		  April 14, 2004  Live event Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico  4  [Note 5] [5]
—  October 26, 2006 — Pachuca, Hidalgo Last known title defense for Los Villanos. After this the UWA title belts were not seen in Mexico again [6]
 10  Mazada and Nosawa  2008  Live event [Note 6]  1  [Note 7] Nosawa and Mazada proclaimed themselves as UWA World Tag Team Champions, claiming they had defeated Los Rayos Tapatío in July 2000 to win the championship. At this point the championship became the tag title for El Dorado Wrestling.
 11  Kagetora and Kota Ibushi  March 26, 2008  Live event Tokyo, Japan  1  [Note 8] [2]
— Vacated  2008 — — — — Championship vacated due to inactivity.
 12  Speed of Sounds
(Tsutomu Oosugi and Hercules Oosenga)		  November 25, 2008  Face Busta Vol. 12 Tokyo, Japan  1  8 Defeated Jumping Kid Okimoto and Kagetora at Face Busta Vol. 12 in a decision match.
 13  The Brahman Brothers
(Brahman Kei and Brahman Shu)		  December 3, 2008  Live event Tokyo, Japan  1  497
 14  Speed of Sounds
(Tsutomu Oosugi and Hercules Oosenga)		  April 14, 2010  Live event Tokyo, Japan  2  252
 15  Masamune and Minoru Fujita  December 22, 2010  Live event Tokyo, Japan  1  344
 16  Speed of Sounds
(Tsutomu Oosugi and Hercules Oosenga)		  December 1, 2011  Live event Tokyo, Japan  3  667
 17  Ikuto Hidaka and Menso-re Oyaji  November 29, 2012  Live event Tokyo, Japan  1  228
 18  Speed of Sounds
(Tsutomu Oosugi and Hercules Oosenga)		  July 15, 2013  Live event Osaka, Japan  4  205
 19  Hiroki and Yasu Urano  February 5, 2014  Live event Tokyo, Japan  1  81
 20  Hiroshi Fukuda and Men's Teioh  April 27, 2014  Live event Yokohama, Japan  1  126
 21  Fuma and Isami Kodaka  August 31, 2014  Live event Tokyo, Japan  1  146
 22  Masato Shibata and Shuji Ishikawa  January 24, 2015  Live event Yokohama, Japan  1  144
 23  The Brahman Brothers
(Brahman Kei and Brahman Shu)		  June 17, 2015  Live event Tokyo, Japan  2  359
 24  Ikuto Hidaka (2) and Minoru Fujita (2)  June 10, 2016  Live event Tokyo, Japan  1  463 This match was also contested for the Tohoku Tag Team Championship.
 25  Ayumu Gunji and Rui Hyugaji  September 16, 2017  Live event Yahaba, Japan  1  391+ This match was also contested for the Tohoku Tag Team Championship.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The exact date on which the championship was abandoned is unknown, which means the title reign lasted between 884 and 1,248 days.
  2. ↑ The exact date on which The Can-Am Connection lost the championship is unknown, which means the title reign lasted between 25 and 54 days.
  3. ↑ The exact date on which Los Villanos won the championship is unknown and the exact date the UWA Closed is uncertain, which means the title reign lasted between 611 and 1,004 days.
  4. ↑ The exact date on which Los Villanos started defending the championship again is unknown, which means the continued title reign lasted between 1 and 3,659 days.
  5. ↑ The exact date on which Los Villanos stopped promoting the vacated the championship is unknown, which means the title reign lasted between 925 and 1,441 days.
  6. ↑ The title match is possibly fictitious, no location has ever been mentioned.
  7. ↑ It is most likely that Mazada and Nosawa made up the story of winning the championship to legitimize their claim.
  8. ↑ The exact date on which the championship was vacated is unknown, which means the title reign lasted between 1 and 243 days.

References

  1. ↑ "U.W.A. World Tag Team Title". Puroresu Dojo. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
  2. 1 2 "El Dorado Eye of the Treasure results" (in German). Cagematch.de. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). "Mexico: UWA World Tag Team Title". Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. p. 396. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
  4. ↑ "2000 Especial!". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 9, 2001. pp. 2–28. issue 2488.
  5. 1 2 3 "Número Especial - Lo mejor de la lucha libre mexicana durante el 2004". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 24, 2005. Issue 91.
  6. ↑ "Lo Mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana duranted el 2006". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). December 23, 2006. Issue 192. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
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