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NWA World Tag Team Championship (Detroit version)
The Detroit version of the championship
Details
Promotion	Big Time Wrestling/NWA Detroit
Date established	1965
Date retired	October 1980
Statistics First champion(s) Chris and John Tolos Most reigns Team: Kurt Von Hess and Karl Von Shotz (5 reigns) Individual: Fred Curry (9 reigns) Longest reign The Fabulous Kangaroos (Al Costello and Don Kent (At least 196 days) Shortest reign Lou Klein and Ed George (0 days)

The Detroit version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship was the top ranked professional wrestling championship for tag teams in the Detroit, Michigan-based promotion Big Time Wrestling, sometimes referred to as NWA Detroit, between 1965 and 1980. As a member of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), All-Star Wrestling was entitled to promote their own local version of the championship as the NWA bylaws did not restrict its use in the way they restricted the NWA World Heavyweight Championship to one nationally recognized championship. Because individual NWA members, referred to as NWA territories, were allowed to create their own version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship, at least 22 different versions existed between 1949 and 1991. As it is a professional wrestling championship, it is not won or lost competitively, but instead is determined by the decision of the bookers of a wrestling promotion. The title is awarded after the chosen team "wins" a match to maintain the illusion that professional wrestling is a competitive sport.

The first championship team recognized in Detroit was that of the Tolos brothers (Chris and John Tolos), who were introduced as champions around February 1965 as having "recently won" the championship, though no records of a tournament exists. Kurt Von Hess and Karl Von Shotz held the championship five times as a team, the record for the 25-year history of this version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship, while Fred Curry holds the record for most overall reigns (9) with different partners. The shortest reign belongs to Lou Klein and Ed George, as Klein announced his retirement right after the match, making their reign only minutes long. The longest reign lasted at least 196 days as The Fabulous Kangaroos (Al Costello and Don Kent) won the championship on December 18, 1971, and held it until May 1972.

Title history

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Team reigns by combined length

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Individual reigns by combined length

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Footnotes

1. ^ The length of this championship reign is too uncertain to calculate.
2. ^ The location of the match was not captured as part of the documentation.
3. This was not the same wrestler later known as Nikolai Volkoff, that wrestler did not use the ring name until the 1970s.
4. The date that Johnson and Justice lost the championship is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 1 day and 223 days.
5. The date that Hell's Angels won the championship is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 1 day and 223 days.
6. The date that Lou and Roy Klein lost the championship is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 1 day and 122 days.
7. The date that the Skull Brothers won the championship is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 1 day and 518 days.
8. The date that the Fabulous Kangaroos lost the championship is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 196 and 226 days.
9. The date that Justice and Mitchel won the championship is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 1 day and 20 days.
10. The date that Von Hess and Von SHotz list the championship is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 1 day and 22 days.
11. The date that Curry and Marino won the championship is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 5 and 35 days.
12. The date that Von Hess and Von Shotz lost the championship is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 73 and 71 days.
13. The date that Curry and Martinez won and lost the championship is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 1 day and 110 days.
14. The date that Justice and Brooks won the championship is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 1 day and 110 days.
15. The date that Brazil and Mitchell lost the championship is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 1 day and 118 days.
16. The date that Justice and Brooks won the championship is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 1 day and 118 days.
17. The date that Mitchell and McKenzie won and lost the championship is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 3 and 65 days.
18. The date that Justice and Brooks won the championship is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 4 and 65 days.
19. The date that the championship was vacated is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 21 and 34 days.
20. The date that Curry and Brazil won and lost the championship is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 32 and 91 days.
21. The date that Curry and James won and lost the championship is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 1 day and 110 days.
22. The date that the Islanders won the championship is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 407 and 419 days.
23. The date that Von Hess and Von Brauner won the championship is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 74 and 104 days.
24. The date that Colt and Drummer won the championship is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 21 and 103 days.
25. The date that Colt and Poffo won the championship is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 31 and 61 days.
26. The date that Bonello and Scott won the championship is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 3 and 33 days.
27. The date that the championship was abandoned is unknown, which means that their reign lasted between 95 and 125 days.

References

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