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| WWA International Television Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||
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| Promotion | Worldwide Wrestling Associates | ||||||||||
| Date established | 1954 | ||||||||||
| Date retired | 1964 | ||||||||||
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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.
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 and Sandor Szabo | 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 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 and Bobo Brazil | 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 and Joe Pazandak | 1 | November 22, 1954 | Hollywood, California | ||||||
| Bobo Brazil and Sandor Szabo | 1 | November 29, 1954 | Hollywood, California | ||||||
| Great Bolo and Tom Rice | 2 | January 19, 1955 | Los Angeles, California | ||||||
| Bill Melby and Johnny Barend | 1 | February 7, 1955 | Hollywood, California | ||||||
| Tom Rice 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 | 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 and Tom Rice | 2 | May 14, 1956 | Hollywood, California | ||||||
| Rito Romero and Chief War Cloud | 1 | June 4, 1956 | Hollywood, California | ||||||
| Lord James Blears and Sandor Kovacs | 1 | July 21, 1956 | Still champions as of August 4, 1956. | ||||||
| Rito Romero and Ray Stern | 1 | September 15, 1956 | |||||||
| Lord James Blears and Lord Leslie Carlton | 1 | November 24, 1956 | |||||||
| Bobo Brazil and Primo Carnera | 1 | November 28, 1956 | Hollywood, California | Defeated Lord James Blears and Lord Athol Layton for the title. | |||||
| Lord James Blears and Lord Leslie Carlton | 2 | March 1957 | |||||||
| Gene Stanlee and Sandor Szabo | 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 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 and Bob Orton | 2 | March 1, 1958 | San Bernardino, California | ||||||
| Lord James Blears and Henry Lenz | 1 | March 1958 | Sometime before March 29, 1958. | ||||||
| Seymour Koenig and Herb Freeman | 1 | June 11, 1958 | Los Angeles, California | Defeated Billy Varga and Hardy Kruskamp for the title. | |||||
| Rito Romero and Suni War Cloud | 1 | June 1958 | Sometime between June 12 and June 23, 1958. | ||||||
| Seymour Koenig and Herb Freeman | 2 | June 1958 | Sometime between June 24 and June 27, 1958; still champions as of August 16, 1958. | ||||||
| Wild Red Berry and Tosh Togo | 1 | September 1958 | |||||||
| Sandor Szabo 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 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 | 1 | April 6, 1959 | Los Angeles, California | Still champions as of May 9, 1959. | |||||
| Billy Varga and Hardy Kruskamp | 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 and Hardy Kruskamp | 2 | November 19, 1959 | |||||||
| Sandor Szabo 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 and Edouard Carpentier | 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 | 1 | December 23, 1960 | Long Beach, California | ||||||
| Stan Holek and The Preacher | 3 | December 31, 1960 | |||||||
| Nick Bockwinkel and Edouard Carpentier | 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 | 1 | November 9, 1961 | Bakersfield, California | ||||||
| Lou Thesz and Sailor Art Thomas | 1 | November 22, 1961 | Los Angeles, California | ||||||
| Hans Hermann and Jess Ortega | 1 | December 1961 | |||||||
| Freddie Blassie and Mr. Moto | 2 | January 17, 1962 | Los Angeles, California | ||||||
| Vacant | February 1962 | When Blassie and Moto split up. | |||||||
| Billy Varga 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 | 1 | July 19, 1963 | Los Angeles, California | Starts being billed as the world title in Bakersfield, California in July 1963. | |||||
| Freddie Blassie and Don Leo Jonathan | 1 | September 28, 1963 | Long Beach, California | ||||||
| Bearcat Wright and Red Bastien | 1 | November 21, 1963 | Los Angeles, California | ||||||
| Mr. Moto and Kintarō Ōki | 1 | December 10, 1963 | Long Beach, California | ||||||
| The Neilson Brothers (Art Neilson and Stan Neilson Stan Holek ) |
1 | January 9, 1964 | North Hollywood, California | Repeated in San Bernardino, California on January 11, 1964. | |||||
| Edouard Carpentier and Ernie Ladd | 1 | February 1, 1964 | San Bernardino, California | ||||||
| Permanently replaced by the WWA World Tag Team Championship | |||||||||
References
- "International Television Tag Team Title (Los Angeles)". Puroresu Dojo. 2003.