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