NWF World Tag Team Championship
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| NWF World Tag Team Championship | |||||||||
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| Date established | 1970 | ||||||||
| Date retired | 1974 & 1977 | ||||||||
| Promotion | National Wrestling Federation International Wrestling Association |
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The NWF World Tag Team Championship was the top tag team championship in the National Wrestling Federation from 1970 to 1974, the entire life of the promotion.[1][2]
Title history
(n) indicates that a title change happened no later than the date listed. Silver marks in the history indicate periods of unknown lineage.
| Wrestlers: | Times: | Date: | Location: | Notes: |
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| NWF World Tag Team Championship | ||||
| The Outlaws (Dick Murdoch and Dusty Rhodes) |
1 | March 12, 1970 | Cleveland, Ohio | Defeated Ben Justice and The Stomper in a tournament final. |
| Johnny Powers & Chief White Owl | 1 | August 29, 1970 | Akron, Ohio | |
| Don Fargo & Johnny Fargo | 1 | January 7, 1971 | Cleveland, OH | Defeats Chief White Owl & Luis Martinez. |
| The Mongols (Bepo and Geeto) |
1 | June 1971 (n) | ||
| Kurt von Hess & Eric the Red | 1 | July 22, 1971 | Cleveland, OH | Win tournament. |
| Chief White Owl (2) and Luis Martinez | 1 | August 1971 (n) | ||
| Title vacated. | ||||
| Mitsu Arakawa and Yoshino Sato | 1 | January 19, 1972 | Buffalo, New York | Defeated Dominic DeNucci and Tony Parisi in a tournament final. |
| Dominic DeNucci and Tony Parisi | 1 | March 1972 (n) | ||
| Don and Johnny Fargo | 2 | May 11, 1972 | Cleveland, Ohio | |
| Dominic DeNucci and Tony Parisi | 2 | May 1972 (n) | ||
| Don and Johnny Fargo | 3 | May 24, 1972 | Buffalo, New York | |
| Wahoo McDaniel and White Owl (3) | 1 | August 1972 (n) | Cleveland, Ohio | Sometime after August 14, 1972. |
| Don Fargo & Johnny Fargo | 4 | September 15, 1972 (n) | Still champion as of November 2, 1972. | |
| Luis Martinez (2) and Tony Parisi (3) | 1 | December 1972 (n) | Cincinnati, Ohio | |
| Johnny Powers (2) and Jacques Rougeau | 1 | May 2, 1973 | Buffalo, New York | Defeated The Love Brothers (Hartford and Reginald Love) in a tournament final. |
| Geeto Mongol (2) & J.B. Psycho | 1 | May 1973 (n) | ||
| Fred Curry & Luis Martinez (3) | 1 | June 30, 1973 (n) | ||
| Kurt Von Hess (2) and Karl Von Schotz | 1 | May 1974 (n) | Also held NWA North American Tag Team Championship (Los Angeles/Japan version). | |
| Title retired when the NWF closed in 1974. | ||||
| IWA World Tag Team Championship | ||||
| The Mongols (Geeto (3) & Bolo) |
1 | February 1975 | ||
| Title held up after a match against Dino Bravo & Gino Brito in April 1975. | ||||
| The Mongols (Geeto (4) & Bolo) |
2 | April 21, 1975 | Winston-Salem, NC | Defeat Soul Patrol (Thunderbolt Patterson & Ernie Ladd). |
| Johnny Powers (3) & Nelson Royal | 1 | December 16, 1975 | No longer listed as champions as of February 1976. | |
| Kurt von Hess (3) & Karl von Stroheim | 1 | March 19, 1976 | Sometime after January 21, 1976, possibly a phantom switch or defeat Pez Whatley & Bruiser Banks for the vacant title. | |
| Bulldog Brower & Mighty Igor | 1 | August 11, 1976 | Hickory, NC | |
| Hartford Love & Dizzy McShane | 1 | September 10, 1976 | Sometime after August 29, 1976. | |
| Bulldog Brower (2) & Johnny Powers (4) | 1 | September 19, 1976 | ||
| Rip Tyler & Buzz Tyler | 1 | January 22, 1977 | Gastonia, NC | |
| Johnny Powers (5) & Nick DeCarlo | 1 | April 23, 1977 | Gastonia, NC | Sometime after March 7, 1977; still champions as of May 27, 1977. |
