WWA International Television Tag Team Championship
| WWA International Television Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||
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| Promotion | Worldwide Wrestling Associates | ||||||||||
| Date established | 1954 | ||||||||||
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The WWA International Television Tag Team Championship was the tag team title in the Los Angeles-based Worldwide Wrestling Associates from the title's formation in 1954 (as the NWA International Television Tag Team Championship, renamed as a North American Wrestling Alliance title with that promotion's formation in 1958 and then as a WWA title in 1961 when the promotion was renamed) until 1964, when it was replaced with the WWA World Tag Team Championship. [1]
Title history
| Wrestler: | Times: | Date: | Location: | Notes: |
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| WWA International Television Tag Team Championship | ||||
| Wilbur Snyder & Sandor Szabo | 1 | January 25, 1954 | Hollywood, California | Defeated Lord James Blears & John Tolos for the title. |
| Lord James Blears & Lord Athol Layton | 1 | March 8, 1954 | Hollywood, California | |
| Wilbur Snyder (2) & Sandor Szabo (2) | 2 | c. April 1954 (NLT) | Sometime after March 10, 1954. | |
| The Great Bolo & Tom Rice | 1 | April 5, 1954 | Hollywood, California | Or April 19, 1954; Snyder & Szabo may continue to be billed as champion in Bakersfield, California. |
| Wilbur Snyder (3) & Bobo Brazil | 1 | June 3, 1954 (NLT) | Hollywood, California | Sometime after May 27, 1954. |
| Lord James Blears & Lord Athol Layton | 2 | c. August 1954 | Hollywood, California | Sometime before August 14, 1954. |
| Vacant | Sometime before September 6, 1954. | |||
| Wilbur Snyder (4) & Bobo Brazil (2) | 2 | September 6, 1954 | Hollywood, California | Defeated Blears & Gene Kiniski for the title. |
| Gene Kiniski & John Tolos | 1 | October 13, 1954 | Los Angeles, California | |
| Lord James Blears (3) & Joe Pazandak | 1 | November 22, 1954 | Hollywood, California | |
| Bobo Brazil (3) & Sandor Szabo (3) | 1 | November 29, 1954 | Hollywood, California | |
| Great Bolo (2) and Tom Rice (2) | 2 | January 19, 1955 | Los Angeles, California | |
| Bill Melby and Johnny Barend | 1 | February 7, 1955 | Hollywood, California | |
| Tom Rice (3) and Juan Humberto | 1 | March 7, 1955 | Hollywood, California | Still champions as of April 9, 1955. |
| Tosh Togo and Great Togo | 1 | June 2, 1955 | Still champions as of October 20, 1955. | |
| Lee Henning & Tom Rice (4) | 1 | March 3, 1956 | Hollywood, California | |
| Don Leo Jonathan & Lord Leslie Carlton | 1 | May 7, 1956 | Hollywood, California | Defeated Lee Henning & Tom Rice for the title. |
| Lee Henning (2) & Tom Rice (5) | 2 | May 14, 1956 | Hollywood, California | |
| Rito Romero & Chief War Cloud | 1 | June 4, 1956 | Hollywood, California | |
| Lord James Blears (4) and Sandor Kovacs | 1 | July 21, 1956 | Still champions as of August 4, 1956. | |
| Rito Romero (2) and Ray Stern | 1 | September 15, 1956 | ||
| Lord James Blears (5) and Lord Leslie Carlton (2) | 1 | November 24, 1956 | ||
| Bobo Brazil (4) & Primo Carnera | 1 | November 28, 1956 | Hollywood, California | Defeated Lord James Blears & Lord Athol Layton for the title. |
| Lord James Blears (6) and Lord Leslie Carlton (3) | 2 | March 1957 | ||
| Gene Stanlee and Sandor Szabo (4) | 1 | March 9, 1957 | San Bernardino, California | Still champions as of April 6, 1957. |
| Ilio DiPaolo and Tex Mckenzie | 1 | 1957 | ||
| Sky Hi Lee & Shag Thomas face Bobo Brazil & Sandor Szabo for the title on April 24, 1957 in Los Angeles, California (champions unknown). | ||||
| Hans Hermann & Mr. Moto | 1 | July 6, 1957 | San Bernardino, California | |
| Seymour Koenig & Sammy Berg | 1 | September 1957 | ||
| Hans Hermann (2) and Hans Schmidt | 1 | November 2, 1957 | Still champions as of December 7, 1957. | |
| Wild Red Berry & Bob Orton | 1 | February 15, 1958 | ||
| Pepper Gomez & Charro Azteca | 1 | February 22, 1958 | San Bernardino, California | |
| Wild Red Berry (2) & Bob Orton (2) | 2 | March 1, 1958 | San Bernardino, California | |
| Lord James Blears (7) and Henry Lenz | 1 | March 1958 | Sometime before March 29, 1958. | |
| Seymour Koenig (2) & Herb Freeman | 1 | June 11, 1958 | Los Angeles, California | Defeated Billy Varga & Hardy Kruskamp for the title. |
| Rito Romero (3) & Suni War Cloud | 1 | June 1958 | Sometime between June 12 and June 23, 1958. | |
| Seymour Koenig (3) & Herb Freeman (2) | 2 | June 1958 | Sometime between June 24 and June 27, 1958; still champions as of August 16, 1958. | |
| Wild Red Berry (3) & Tosh Togo (2) | 1 | September 1958 | ||
| Sandor Szabo (5) & Billy Darnell | 1 | September 1958 | ||
| Frank Jares & Matt Murphy | 1 | November 22, 1958 | May have been held-up after a match against Enrique Romero & Luis Martinez on January 14, 1959 in Los Angeles, California. | |
| Enrique Romero & Luis Martínez | 1 | February 7, 1959 | Los Angeles, California | Defeated Frank Jares & Matt Murphy for the title. This may have been a rematch. |
| Hans Hermann (3) & Hardy Kruskamp | 1 | March 21, 1959 | San Bernardino, California | |
| Enrique Romero & Luis Martinez | 2 | March 29, 1959 | San Bernardino, California | |
| Eric Pederson & Henry Lenz (2) | 1 | April 6, 1959 | Los Angeles, California | Still champions as of May 9, 1959. |
| Billy Varga & Hardy Kruskamp (2) | 1 | May 29, 1959 | Still champions as of July 25, 1959. | |
| The Fabulous Kangaroos (Al Costello & Roy Heffernan) |
1 | August 22, 1959 | Still champions as of September 17, 1959. | |
| Billy Varga (2) & Hardy Kruskamp (3) | 2 | November 19, 1959 | ||
| Sandor Szabo (6) & Edouard Carpentier | 1 | December 16, 1959 | Los Angeles, California | Defeated Art Michalik & Legs Wilson for the title. |
| The Fabulous Kangaroos Al Costello & Roy Heffernan) |
2 | June 15, 1960 | Los Angeles, California | |
| Dick Hutton & Sam Steamboat | 1 | July 16, 1960 | Los Angeles, California` | |
| Stan Holek & The Preacher | 1 | August 20, 1960 | San Bernardino, California | |
| Sandor Szabo (7) & Edouard Carpentier (2) | 2 | October 19, 1960 | Los Angeles, California | |
| Stan Holek & The Preacher | 2 | December 3, 1960 | San Bernardino, California | |
| Nick Bockwinkel & Lord James Blears (8) | 1 | December 23, 1960 | Long Beach, California | |
| Stan Holek & The Preacher | 3 | December 31, 1960 | ||
| Nick Bockwinkel (2) & Edouard Carpentier (3) | 1 | January 4, 1961 | Los Angeles, California | |
| Mike Sharpe & Zebra Kid | 1 | May 12, 1961 | Long Beach, California | |
| The Torres Brothers (Alberto & Ramón Torres) |
1 | June 29, 1961 | Bakersfield, California | |
| Freddie Blassie & Mr. Moto (2) | 1 | November 9, 1961 | Bakersfield, California | |
| Lou Thesz & Sailor Art Thomas | 1 | November 22, 1961 | Los Angeles, California | |
| Hans Hermann (4) & Jess Ortega | 1 | December 1961 | ||
| Freddie Blassie (2) & Mr. Moto (3) | 2 | January 17, 1962 | Los Angeles, California | |
| Vacant | February 1962 | When Blassie and Moto split up. | ||
| Billy Varga (3) & Mario LaPentero | 1 | March 15, 1962 | Long Beach, California | Defeated Nick Bockwinkel & King Koenig in tournament final. |
| Dick Garza & Eric Rommel | 1 | July 4, 1962 | Los Angeles, California | |
| Sir Alan Garfield & Karl Von Schober | 1 | September 26, 1962 | Los Angeles, California | |
| Haystack Calhoun & Abe Jacobs | 1 | October 31, 1962 | Los Angeles, California | |
| The Destroyer & Don Manoukian | 1 | December 19, 1962 | Los Angeles, California | Have defeated Haystack Calhoun & Abe Jacobs on November 29, 1962 in Los Angeles, California to win International Television Title; renamed the United States Title. |
| WWA United States Tag Team Championship | ||||
| Bearcat Wright & Mr. Moto (4) | 1 | July 19, 1963 | Los Angeles, California | Starts being billed as the world title in Bakersfield, California on July 1963. |
| Freddie Blassie (3) & Don Leo Jonathan (2) | 1 | September 24, 1963 | Long Beach, California | Match may have taken place in San Bernardino, California on August 3 or September 28, 1963. |
| Bearcat Wright (2) & Red Bastien | 1 | November 21 , 1963 | Los Angeles, California | |
| Mr. Moto (5) & Kintaro Ohki | 1 | December 10, 1963 | Long Beach, California | |
| The Neilson Brothers (Art Neilson & Stan Neilson Stan Holek (4)) |
1 | January 9, 1964 | North Hollywood, California | Repeated in San Bernardino, California on January 11, 1964. |
| Edouard Carpentier (4) & Ernie Ladd | 1 | February 1, 1964 | San Bernardino, California | |
References
- ↑ "International Television Tag Team Title (Los Angeles)". Puroresu Dojo. 2003.
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