UWA World Tag Team Championship

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 Yapper Man 1 and Yapper Man 2. 22 different teams have held the championship, combining for 30 total reigns.

UWA World Tag Team Championship
Nosawa, claimed to have won the championship in Mexico with Mazada
Details
PromotionEl Dorado Wrestling
Kohaku Wrestling Wars
Michinoku Pro Wrestling
Union Pro Wrestling
Universal Wrestling Association
Date established1982
Current champion(s)Yapper Man #1 and Yapper Man #2
Date wonOctober 19, 2019

As it was a professional wrestling championship, the championship was not won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match determined by the bookers and match makers.[lower-alpha 1] On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline,[lower-alpha 2] or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship,[lower-alpha 3] or leaving the company.[lower-alpha 4]

Title history
Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
N/A Unknown information
(NLT) Championship change took place "no later than" the date listed
† Championship change is unrecognized by the promotion
<1 Reign lasted less than a day
+ Current reign is changing daily
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign Days
Universal Wrestling Association
 1  Riki Choshu and Gran Hamada  August 1, 1982  UWA Live Event Naucalpan, Mexico  1  [lower-alpha 5] Defeated Baby Face and El Canek to become the inaugural champions. [7]
— Vacated  1985 (NLT) — — — — 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 Defeated Perro Aguayo and Gran Hamada to win the vacant championship [7]
 3  Gran Hamada (2) and Perro Aguayo  June 13, 1991  UWA Live Event Tokyo, Japan  1  220 [7]
— 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 [7]
 4  Gran Hamada (3) and Kendo  January 19, 1992  UWA Live Event Tokyo, Japan  1  <1 Defeated Los Brazos (Brazo de Oro and Brazo de Plata) to win the vacant championship. [7]
 5  Los Cowboys
(Silver King and El Texano)		  January 19, 1992  UWA Live Event Tokyo, Japan  1  161 [7]
 6   The Can-Am Express
(Dan Kroffat and Doug Furnas)		  June 28, 1992  UWA Live Event Naucalpan, Mexico  1  133 [7]
 7  Los Villanos
(Villano IV and Villano V)		  November 8, 1992  UWA Live Event Naucalpan, Mexico  1  119 [7]
†   The Can-Am Express
(Doug Furnas and Dan Kroffat)		  March 7, 1993  UWA Live Event Naucalpan, Mexico  —  [lower-alpha 6] [7]
†  Los Villanos
(Villano IV and Villano V)		  April 1993 (NLT)  UWA Live Event Mexico  —  [lower-alpha 7] [7]
— Deactivated  1995 (NLT) — — — — The UWA Closed and the titles were abandoned. [7]
†  Los Rayos Tapatío
(Rayo Tapatío I and Rayo Tapatío II)		 N/A N/A N/A  — N/A 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. [8]
†  Los Villanos
(Villano IV and Villano V)		  2004 (NLT)   —  —  [lower-alpha 8] 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 [9]
 8  Emilio Charles Jr. and Scorpio Jr.  April 7, 2004  Live event Acapulco, Mexico  1  7 [9]
 9  Los Villanos
(Villano IV (2) and Villano V (2))		  April 14, 2004  Live event Acapulco, Mexico  2  925 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. [lower-alpha 9] 
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— Deactivated  October 26, 2006 — Pachuca, Mexico — — Last known title defense for Los Villanos. After this the UWA title belts were not seen in Mexico again [10]
 10  Nosawa Rongai and Mazada  2008 (NLT)  Live event [lower-alpha 10]  1  [lower-alpha 11] 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.
Pro-Wrestling El Dorado
 11  Kagetora and Kota Ibushi  March 26, 2008  Live event Tokyo, Japan  1  [lower-alpha 12] [2]
— Vacated  2008 (NLT) — — — — Championship vacated due to inactivity.
 12  Speed of Sounds
(Tsutomu Oosugi and Hercules Senga)		  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
Kohaku Pro-Wrestling Wars
 14  Speed of Sounds
(Tsutomu Oosugi (2) and Hercules Senga (2))		  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 (3) and Hercules Senga (3))		  December 1, 2011  Live event Tokyo, Japan  3  667
†  Ikuto Hidaka and Menso-re Oyaji  November 29, 2012  Live event Tokyo, Japan  —  228 Unrecognized by Michinoku Pro Wrestling.
†  Speed of Sounds
(Tsutomu Oosugi and Hercules Senga)		  July 15, 2013  Live event Osaka, Japan  —  205 Unrecognized by Michinoku Pro Wrestling.
 17  Hiroki and Yasu Urano  February 5, 2014  Live event Tokyo, Japan  1  81
Union Pro-Wrestling
 18  Hiroshi Fukuda and Men's Teioh  April 27, 2014  Live event Yokohama, Japan  1  126
 19  Fuma and Isami Kodaka  August 31, 2014  Live event Tokyo, Japan  1  146
 20  Masato Shibata and Shuji Ishikawa  January 24, 2015  Live event Yokohama, Japan  1  144
 21  The Brahman Brothers
(Brahman Kei and Brahman Shu)		  June 17, 2015  Live event Tokyo, Japan  2  359
Michinoku Pro-Wrestling
 22  Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita (2)  June 10, 2016  Live event Tokyo, Japan  1  463 This match was also contested for the Tohoku Tag Team Championship.
 23  Super Stars
(Ayumu Gunji and Rui Hyugaji)		  September 16, 2017  Live event Yahaba, Japan  1  183 This match was also contested for the Tohoku Tag Team Championship.
 24  Gaina and Taro Nohashi  March 18, 2018  Konzen Ittai Sendai, Japan  1  251 This match was also contested for the Tohoku Tag Team Championship.
 25  Bad Boy
(Ken45° and Kengo)		  November 24, 2018  Sendai 2 Days Yahaba, Japan  1  163 This match was also contested for the Tohoku Tag Team Championship.
 26  Gaina (2) and Taro Nohashi (2)  May 6, 2019  Golden Week Series 2019 Yahaba, Japan  2  39 This match was also contested for the Tohoku Tag Team Championship.
 27  Ikuto Hidaka (2) and Minoru Fujita (3)  June 14, 2019  Michinoku 2019 Tokyo Conference Vol. 3 Tokyo, Japan  2  127 This match was also contested for the Tohoku Tag Team Championship.
 28  Yapper Man #1 (4) and Yapper Man #2 (4)  October 19, 2019  Michinoku 2019 Tokyo Conference Vol. 6 Tokyo, Japan  4  255+ This match was also contested for the Tohoku Tag Team Championship.
Formerly held the title under the name Speed Of Sounds (Hercules Senga and Tsutomu Oosugi).

Combined reigns

As of June 30, 2020.

† Indicates the current champion
¤ The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain.

By team
Rank Team No. of
reigns		 Combined days
1 Speed of Sounds/Yapper Man #1 and Yapper Man #2 †
(Tsutomu Oosugi and Hercules Senga)		41,182+
2 Los Villanos
(Villano IV and Villano V)		21,044¤
3 The Brahman Brothers
(Brahman Kei and Brahman Shu)		2856
4 Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita2590
5 Masamune and Minoru Fujita1344
6 Gaina and Taro Nohashi2290
7 Gran Hamada and Perro Aguayo1220
8 Super Stars
(Ayumu Gunji and Rui Hyugaji)		1183
9 Bad Boy
(Ken45° and Kengo)		1163
10 Los Cowboys
(Silver King and El Texano)		1161
11 Fuma and Isami Kodaka1146
12 Masato Shibata and Shuji Ishikawa1144
13 The Can-Am Express
(Dan Kroffat and Doug Furnas)		1133
14 Hiroshi Fukuda and Men's Teioh1126
15 Hiroki and Yasu Urano181
16 Los Brazos
(Brazo de Oro and Brazo de Plata)		175
17 Emilio Charles Jr. and Scorpio Jr.17
18 Gran Hamada and Kendo1<1
19 Kagetora and Kota Ibushi1[lower-alpha 13]¤
Nosawa Rongai and Mazada1[lower-alpha 14]¤
Riki Choshu and Gran Hamada1[lower-alpha 15]¤

By wrestler
Rank Wrestler No. of
reigns		 Combined days
1 Hercules Senga/Yapper Man #1 †41,182+
Tsutomu Oosugi/Yapper Man #2 †41,182+
3 Villano IV21,044¤
Villano V21,044¤
5 Minoru Fujita3907
6 Brahman Kei2856
Brahman Shu2856
8 Ikuto Hidaka2563
9 Masamune1344
10 Gaina 2290
Taro Nohashi2290
12 Gran Hamada3220¤
13 Perro Aguayo1220
14 Ayumu Gunji1183
Rui Hyugaji1183
16 Ken45°1163
Kengo1163
18 Silver King1161
El Texano1161
20 Fuma1146
Isami Kodaka1146
22 Masato Shibata1141
Shuji Ishikawa1141
24 Dan Kroffat1133
Doug Furnas1133
26 Hiroshi Fukuda1126
Men's Teioh1126
28 Hiroki 181
Yasu Urano181
30 Brazo de Oro175
Brazo de Plata175
32 Emilio Charles Jr.17
Scorpio Jr.17
34 Kendo1<1
35 Kagetora1[lower-alpha 16]¤
Kota Ibushi1[lower-alpha 17]¤
Mazada1[lower-alpha 18]¤
Nosawa Rongai1[lower-alpha 19]¤
Riki Choshu1[lower-alpha 20]¤

Footnotes
  1. Hornbaker (2016) p. 550: "Professional wrestling is a sport in which match finishes are predetermined. Thus, win/loss records are not indicative of a wrestler's genuine success based on their legitimate abilities – but on now much, or how little they were pushed by promoters"[3]
  2. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 271, Chapter: Texas: NWA American Tag Team Title [World Class, Adkisson] "Championship held up and rematch ordered because of the interference of manager Gary Hart"[4]
  3. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 20, Chapter: (United States: 19th Century & widely defended titles – NWA, WWF, AWA, IW, ECW, NWA) NWA/WCW TV Title "Rhodes stripped on 85/10/19 for not defending the belt after having his leg broken by Ric Flair and Ole & Arn Anderson"[5]
  4. Duncan & Will (2000) p. 201, Chapter: (Memphis, Nashville) Memphis: USWA Tag Team Title "Vacant on 93/01/18 when Spike leaves the USWA."[6]
  5. The exact date on which the championship was abandoned is unknown, which means the title reign lasted between 884 and 1,248 days.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. The title match is possibly fictitious, no location has ever been mentioned.
  11. It is most likely that Mazada and Nosawa made up the story of winning the championship to legitimize their claim.
  12. The exact date on which the championship was vacated is unknown, which means the title reign lasted between 1 and 243 days.
  13. The exact date on which the championship was vacated is unknown, which means the title reign lasted between 1 and 243 days.
  14. It is most likely that Mazada and Nosawa made up the story of winning the championship to legitimize their claim.
  15. The exact date on which the championship was abandoned is unknown, which means the title reign lasted between 884 and 1,248 days.
  16. The exact date on which the championship was vacated is unknown, which means the title reign lasted between 1 and 243 days.
  17. The exact date on which the championship was vacated is unknown, which means the title reign lasted between 1 and 243 days.
  18. It is most likely that Mazada and Nosawa made up the story of winning the championship to legitimize their claim.
  19. It is most likely that Mazada and Nosawa made up the story of winning the championship to legitimize their claim.
  20. The exact date on which the championship was abandoned is unknown, which means the title reign lasted between 884 and 1,248 days.

References
  • Hornbaker, Tim (2016). "Statistical notes". Legends of Pro Wrestling - 150 years of headlocks, body slams, and piledrivers (Revised ed.). New York, New York: Sports Publishing. ISBN 978-1-61321-808-2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Duncan, Royal; Will, Gary (2000). Wrestling title histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present. Waterloo, ON: Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  1. "U.W.A. World Tag Team Title". Puroresu Dojo. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
  2. "El Dorado Eye of the Treasure results" (in German). Cagematch.de. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
  3. Hornbaker 2016, p. 550.
  4. Duncan & Will 2000, p. 271.
  5. Duncan & Will 2000, p. 20.
  6. Duncan & Will 2000, p. 201.
  7. 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.
  8. "2000 Especial!". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 9, 2001. pp. 2–28. issue 2488.
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