NWA World Tag Team Championship (Chicago version)
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The Chicago version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling championship promoted by the Chicago-based Fred Kohler Enterprises, a member of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA).[1][2] The championship was for two-man tag teams only. While the NWA Board of Directors mandated that there would only be one NWA World Heavyweight Championship, they did not regulate the use of championships labeled "NWA World Tag Team Championship", allowing any member that so desired to create their own local version.[3] As a result, as many as 13 different, regional versions were active in 1957, the highest number of active NWA World Tag Team Championships in existence at the same time.[Championships]
The championship was introduced in 1953 when the promoters awarded the championship to Lord James Blears and Lord Athol Layton. The championship was promoted from 1953 until 1960 when Fred Kohler left the NWA to help form the American Wrestling Association (AWA) and thus the AWA World Tag Team Championship became the top tag team championship in the Chicago area.[1][2] The Chicago promotion would later be bought by Dick Afflis, who merged it with his Indianapolis-based territory. The last NWA World Tag Team Championship was won by the Shires brothers, Roy and Ray, on April 9, 1960. The Volkoffs, Boris and Nicoli, held the championship four times, the record for the Chicago version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship. Art Neilson and Reggie Lisowski held the championship for 371 days, the longest individual reign in the championship's seven-year history. Being a professional wrestling championship, it is not won or lost competitively, but instead determined by the decision of the bookers of a wrestling promotion.[1][2] The title is awarded after the chosen team "wins" a match to maintain the illusion that professional wrestling is a competitive sport.[4]
Title history
- Key
| No. | The overall championship reign |
| Reign | The reign number for the specific wrestler listed. |
| Event | The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title changed hands |
| N/A | The specific information is not known |
| — | Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign |
| Indicates that there was a period where the lineage is undocumented due to the lack of written documentation in that time period. |
| No. | Champions | Reign | Date | Days held | Location | Event | Notes | <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />Ref(s)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
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| 1 | Script error: No such module "Sort". and Script error: No such module "Sort". | 1 | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "sort". | N/A | N/A | Awarded | [1][2] |
| 2 | Script error: No such module "sort". and Billy Darnell | 1 | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "age". | Chicago, Illinois | live event | Defeated Blears and Martino Angelo who substituted Layton who had suffered an injury. | [1][2] |
| 3 | Script error: No such module "sort". | 1 | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "sort". | Chicago, Illinois | live event | [1][2] | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Template:Dts | N/A | N/A | N/A | Vacated when the Sharpe brothers stop working for the company | [1][2] |
| 4 | Script error: No such module "sort". and Billy Darnell | 2 | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "sort". | live event | [Note 1] | Melby and Darnell were awarded the championship. | [1][2] |
| 5 | Script error: No such module "Sort". and Art Neilson | 1 | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "age". | live event | [Note 1] | Defeated Melby and Jack Witzig who substituted for an injured Darnell | [1][2] |
| 6 | Script error: No such module "Sort". and Roy McClarity | 1 | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "sort". | Moline, Illinois | live event | [1][2] | |
| 7 | Script error: No such module "sort". and Joe Tangara | 1 | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "sort". | live event | [Note 1] | [1][2] | |
| 8 | Script error: No such module "Sort". and Danny Plechas | 1 | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "sort". | Moline, Illinois | live event | [1][2] | |
| 9 | Script error: No such module "sort". and Stan Lisowski | 1 | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "sort". | live event | [Note 1] | [1][2] | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Template:Dts | N/A | N/A | N/A | Championship vacated for undocumented reasons | [1][2] |
| 10 | Script error: No such module "sort". and Roy McClarity | 1 | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "sort". | live event | Des Moines, Iowa | Won the championship in a match against Nicolai and Boris Volkoff | [1][2] |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Template:Dts | N/A | N/A | N/A | Championship vacated for undocumented reasons | [1][2] |
| 11 | Script error: No such module "sort". | 1 | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "sort". | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | live event | Won the vacant championship in a match against Reggie and Stan Lisowski | [1][2][5] |
| 12 | Script error: No such module "sort". and Stan Lisowski | 2 | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "sort". | [Note 1] | live event | [1][2] | |
| 13 | Script error: No such module "sort". | 2 | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "age". | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | live event | [1][2] | |
| 14 | Script error: No such module "Sort". and Édouard Carpentier | 1 | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "sort". | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | live event | [1][2][6] | |
| 15 | Script error: No such module "sort". | 3 | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "sort". | [Note 1] | live event | [1][2] | |
| 16 | Script error: No such module "sort". and Stan Lisowski | 3 | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "age". | Chicago, Illinois | live event | [1][2] | |
| 17 | Script error: No such module "sort". | 4 | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "age". | Chicago, Illinois | live event | [1][2][7] | |
| 18 | Script error: No such module "sort". and Don Fargo | 1 | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "sort". | Chicago, Illinois | live event | [1][2] | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Template:Dts | N/A | N/A | N/A | Championship vacated for undocumented reasons | [1][2] |
| 19 | Script error: No such module "sort". and Ray Shire | 1 | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "age". | Indianapolis, Indiana | live event | defeated Angelo Poffo and Dick Afflis in a tournament final | [1][2] |
| 20 | Script error: No such module "Sort". and Dick Afflis | 1 | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "age". | [Note 1] | live event | [1][2] | |
| 21 | Script error: No such module "sort". and Ray Shire | 2 | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "sort". | [Note 1] | live event | [1][2] | |
| Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Template:Dts | N/A | N/A | N/A | Championship retired when promoter Fred Kohler left the NWA to help for the American Wrestling Association, replacing the championship with the AWA World Tag Team Championship | [1][2] |
Team reigns by combined length
Key
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ¤ | The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used. |
| Rank | Team | No. of reigns | Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nicolai and Boris Volkoff | 4 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| 2 | Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson | 1 | 371 |
| 3 | Roy and Ray Shire | 2 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| 4 | Pat O'Connor and Roy McClarity | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| 5 | Reggie and Stan Lisowski | 3 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| 6 | Bill Melby and Billy Darnell | 2 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| 7 | Gene Kiniski and Dick Afflis | 1 | 58 |
| 8 | Jackie and Don Fargo | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| 9 | Mike DiBiase and Danny Plechas | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| 10 | Verne Gagne and Édouard Carpentier | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| 11 | Ben and Mike Sharpe | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Bobby Bruns and Roy McClarity | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". | |
| Guy Brunetti and Joe Tangara | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". | |
| Lord James Blears and Lord Athol Layton | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
Individual reigns by combined length
Key
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ¤ | The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used. |
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reggie Lisowski | 4 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| 2 | Boris Volkoff | 4 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Nicolai Volkoff | 4 | Script error: No such module "sort". | |
| 4 | Art Neilson | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| 5 | Ray Shire | 2 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Roy Shire | 2 | Script error: No such module "sort". | |
| 7 | Pat O'Connor | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Roy McClarity | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". | |
| 9 | Stan Lisowski | 3 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| 10 | Bill Melby | 2 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Billy Darnell | 2 | Script error: No such module "sort". | |
| 12 | Dick Afflis | 1 | 58 |
| Gene Kiniski | 1 | 58 | |
| 14 | Don Fargo | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Jackie Fargo | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". | |
| 16 | Danny Plechas | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Mike DiBiase | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". | |
| 18 | Édouard Carpentier | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Verne Gagne | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". | |
| 20 | Ben Sharpe | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
| Bobby Bruns | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". | |
| Guy Brunetti | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". | |
| Joe Tangara | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". | |
| Lord Athol Layton | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". | |
| Lord James Blears | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". | |
| Mike Sharpe | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". | |
| Roy McClarity | 1 | Script error: No such module "sort". |
See also
Footnotes
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Concurrent championships
- Sources for 13 simultaneous NWA World Tag Team Championships
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Los Angeles version)[8][9]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (San Francisco version)[10][11]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Central States version)[12][13]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Chicago version)[1][2]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Buffalo Athletic Club version)[14][15]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Georgia version)[16][17]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Iowa/Nebraska version)[18][19]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Indianapolis version)[20][21]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Salt Lake Wrestling Club version)[22][23]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Amarillo version)[24][25]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Minneapolis version)[26][27]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Texas version)[28][29]
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-America version)[30][31]
References
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