NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship
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Promotion | National Wrestling Alliance NWA Chicago (1955-1974) NWA Mid-America (1974-1981) Jim Crockett Promotions (1984-1989) NWA New Jersey (1998) | ||||||||||
Date established | May 6, 1955 | ||||||||||
Date retired | December 1998 | ||||||||||
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The NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling championship sanctioned by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and originally promoted in the NWA Mid-America territory based out of Tennessee. Originally called the "NWA Six-Man Tag Team Championship" NWA Mid-America promoted the title from 1974 until 1981. In 1984 another NWA territory, Jim Crockett Promotions, brought the concept back, this time as the "NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship" which it promoted until 1989. The Championship was briefly revived in 1998 by NWA New Jersey/Championship Wrestling America. As the name indicates the championship was exclusively for three man teams that competed in six-man tag team matches. Because the championship was a professional wrestling championship, it was won or lost by the decision of the bookers of a wrestling promotion.[1]
Title history[]
No. | Overall reign number |
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Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
Days | Number of days held |
No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||||
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Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||||
NWA Six-Man Tag Team Championship | ||||||||||
1 | Roy McClarity, Pat O'Connor and Yukon Eric | May 6, 1955 | Chicago, Illinois | 1 | 0 | Defeated Reggie Lisowski, Art Neilsen and Don Leo Jonathan to be recognized as NWA World Three-Man Tag Team champions. | ||||
— | N/A | — | — | |||||||
2 | Jackie Fargo, George Gulas and Dennis Hall | November 14, 1974 | Mid-America Live event | Chattanooga, Tennessee | 1 | 53 | Defeated Jerry Lawler, Don Kent and Juan Sebastian in tournament final. | |||
3 | Big Bad John, Lorenzo Parente and John Gray | January 16, 1975 | Mid-America Live event | Chattanooga, Tennessee | 1 | [Note 1] | ||||
4 | Tojo Yamamoto, George Gulas (2) and Dennis Hall (2) | February 1975 | Mid-America Live event | [Note 2] | 1 | [Note 3] | ||||
— | N/A | — | — | |||||||
5 | Jackie Fargo (2), George Gulas (3) and Dennis Hall (3) | March 10, 1975 | Mid-America Live event | [Note 2] | 2 | [Note 4] | ||||
6 | Eddie Marlin, Tommy Gilbert, and Ricky Gibson | 1975 | Mid-America Live event | [Note 2] | 1 | [Note 5] | ||||
— | 1975 | — | — | Championship vacated for undocumented reasons. | ||||||
7 | Tojo Yamamoto (2), George Gulas (4) and Tommy Rich | October 1975 | Mid-America Live event | [Note 2] | 1 | [Note 6] | Won a tournament. | |||
8 | Al Greene and The Bicentennial Kings (Phil Hickerson and Dennis Condrey) |
October 31, 1975 | Mid-America Live event | [Note 2] | 1 | 12 | ||||
9 | Tojo Yamamoto (3), George Gulas (5) and Tommy Rich (2) | November 12, 1975 | Mid-America Live event | [Note 2] | 2 | 50 | ||||
The Bounty Hunters and Mitsu Arakawa | January 1, 1976 | Mid-America Live event | [Note 2] | 1 | 118 | |||||
11 | George Gulas (6), Dennis Hall (4) and Charlie Cook | April 28, 1976 | Mid-America Live event | [Note 2] | 1 | 368 | ||||
12 | Gorgeous George Jr., Tommy Gilbert (2), and Paul Orndorff | May 1, 1977 | Mid-America Live event | Memphis, Tennessee | 1 | 526 | Billed as champions in Memphis; may not have been recognized in Nashville. | |||
— | Vacated | N/A | — | — | — | — | ||||
13 | Jerry Barber and The Jet Set (George Gulas (7) and Bobby Eaton) |
October 9, 1978 | Mid-America Live event | [Note 2] | 1 | [Note 7] | ||||
— | Vacated | November 1978 | — | — | — | — | Championship was vacated after Jerry Barber lost a "loser-leaves-the-area" match. | |||
14 | Arvil Hutto and The Jet Set (George Gulas (8) and Bobby Eaton (2)) |
December 1, 1978 | Mid-America Live event | Huntsville, Alabama | 1 | [Note 8] | Won a tournament. | |||
15 | Tojo Yamamoto (4), Gypsy Joe and The Beast | January 1979 | Mid-America Live event | Tullahoma, Tennessee | 1 | [Note 9] | ||||
16 | The Mexican Angel] and The Jet Set (George Gulas (9) and Bobby Eaton (3)) |
1979 | Mid-America Live event | [Note 2] | 1 | [Note 10] | ||||
17 | Tojo Yamamoto (5), Dennis Condrey (2) and Chris Colt | April 17, 1979 | Mid-America Live event | [Note 2] | 1 | [Note 11] | [2] | |||
Championship history is unrecorded from April 17, 1979 to August 1979. | ||||||||||
18 | Tojo Yamamoto (6), The Great Togo and David Schultz | August 1979 | Mid-America Live event | [Note 2] | 1 | [Note 12] | ||||
19 | George Gulas (10), Ken Lucas and Prince Tonga | September 1979 | Mid-America Live event | [Note 2] | 1 | [Note 13] | ||||
— | Vacated | October 1979 | — | — | — | — | Championship vacated when Prince Tonga left the NWA Mid-America territory. | |||
20 | George Gulas (11), Ken Lucas (2) and Joey Rossi | November 4, 1979 | Mid-America Live event | Tullahoma, Tennessee | 1 | 18 | ||||
21 | Tojo Yamamoto (7), Bobby Eaton (4) and The Secret Weapon | November 22, 1979 | Mid-America Live event | Bowling Green, Kentucky | 1 | 196 | ||||
22 | George Gulas (12), Rocky Brewer and Mystery Man | June 5, 1980 | Mid-America Live event | Bowling Green, Kentucky | 1 | [Note 14] | ||||
— | Deactivated | 1981 | — | — | — | — | Championship was retired when NWA Mid-America closed. | |||
NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship | ||||||||||
23 | Ivan Koloff and Nikita Koloff and Don Kernodle | July 18, 1984 | Winston-Salem, North Carolina | 1 | [Note 15] | Defeated Rufus R. Jones, Angelo Mosca Jr. and Tom Shaft to revive the title in Mid-Atlantic. | ||||
24 | The Russians (Ivan Koloff (2), Nikita Koloff (2) and Krusher Khruschev) |
January 1985 | N/A | 1 | [Note 16] | Khruschev replaced Don Kernodle. | ||||
25 | Manny Fernandez, Buzz Tyler and Sam Houston | July 1985 | N/A | 1 | ||||||
26 | The Russians (Ivan Koloff (3), Nikita Koloff (3) and Krusher Khruschev (2)) |
October 6, 1985 | N/A | 2 | ||||||
27 | The Russians (Ivan Koloff (4), Nikita Koloff (4) and Baron von Raschke) |
January 1986 | N/A | 1 | Baron Von Raschke replaced Khruschev due to an injury. | |||||
28 | Dusty Rhodes and The Road Warriors (Animal (2) and Hawk (2)) |
May 17, 1986 | JCP Live event | Baltimore, Maryland | 1 | 646 | ||||
29 | Ivan Koloff (6) and The Powers of Pain (Warlord and The Barbarian) |
February 12, 1988 | JCP Live event | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 1 | [Note 17] | [3] | |||
— | Vacated | May 1988 | — | — | — | — | Vacated when the Powers of Pain left for the WWF; team was still recognized as champions as of May 22, 1988 edition of NWA Main Event. | |||
30 | Dusty Rhodes and The Road Warriors (Animal and Hawk) |
July 9, 1988 | JCP Live event | Chicago, Illinois | 2 | 108 | Defeated Ric Flair, Tully Blanchard, and Arn Anderson to fill vacancy. | |||
— | Vacated | October 25, 1988 | — | — | — | — | The Road Warriors turned on Dusty Rhodes, breaking up the team. | |||
31 | Genichiro Tenryu and The Road Warriors (Animal (3) and Hawk (3)) |
December 7, 1988 | Clash of the Champions IV | Chattanooga, Tennessee | 1 | [Note 18] | Animal Defeated Dusty Rhodes in a singles match and awards Rhodes' share of the title to Tenryu. | [4] | ||
— | Vacated | February 1989 | — | — | — | — | Tenryu and Warriors stop appearing as a team due to Tenryu focusing on Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship; World Championship Wrestling later promotes the WCW World Six-Man Tag Team Championship as a successor. | |||
Revived by NWA New Jersey | ||||||||||
32 | The Misfits (Harley Lewis, Derek Domino and Lupus) |
February 21, 1998 | Championship Wrestling America Live event | Overbrook, New Jersey | 1 | [Note 19] | Defeated The Lost Boys and Slayer. | |||
— | November 1998 | — | — | Championship abandoned. |
See also[]
- National Wrestling Alliance
- World Championship Wrestling
- Jim Crockett Promotions
- WCW World Six-Man Tag Team Championship, A revival of the championship in WCW.
- WAR World Six-Man Tag Team Championship, A revival of the championship by Genichiro Tenryu in his WAR promotion in Japan.
Footnotes[]
- ^ The date the championship was lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 16 days and 43 days
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m The location of the match was not captured as part of the championship documentation.
- ^ The date the championship was won has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 10 days and 37 days
- ^ The date the championship was lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 days and 235 days
- ^ The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 234 days
- ^ The date the championship was won has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 30 days
- ^ The date the championship was lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 23 days and 52 days
- ^ The date the championship was lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 31 days and 61 days
- ^ The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 105 days
- ^ The date the championship was lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 105 days
- ^ The date the championship was lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 116 days and 146 days
- ^ The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 90 days
- ^ The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 90 days
- ^ The date the championship was abandoned has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 210 days and 574 days
- ^ The date Kernodle was replaced has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 167 days and 197 days.
- ^ The date Kernodle was replaced has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 106 days and 136 days
- ^ The date the championship was vacated has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 100 days and 147 days
- ^ The date the championship was abandoned has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 70 days and 83 days
- ^ The date the championship was abandoned has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 253 days and 282 days
References[]
- General sources
- Will, Gary; Royal Duncan (1994). "Tennessee: National Wrestling Alliance Six-Man Tag Team Title". Wrestling Title Histories (4 ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-1-1.
- Will, Gary; Royal Duncan (1994). "North Carolina: National Wrestling Alliance World Six-Man Tag Team Title". Wrestling Title Histories (4 ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-1-1.
- "National Wrestling Alliance World 6-Man Tag Team Title History (Mid-America)". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
- "National Wrestling Alliance World 6-Man Tag Team Title History (Mid-Atlantic/WCW)". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
- "National Wrestling Alliance World 6-Man Tag Team Title History (New Jersey)". Wrestling-Titles.com. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
- Specific sources
- ^ Ed Grabianowski. "How Pro Wrestling Works". How Stuff Works. Retrieved April 5, 2009.
- ^ Hoops, Brian (April 17, 2020). "Daily pro wrestling (04/17): WCW Spring Stampede 1994". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
- ^ Hoops, Brian (February 12, 2017). "On this day in pro wrestling history (Feb 12): Christian Cage wins gold in TNA". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
- ^ "Clash of Champions Results (IV)". Pro Wrestling History. December 7, 1988. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
- Jim Crockett Promotions championships
- National Wrestling Alliance championships
- NWA Mid-America championships
- Trios wrestling tag team championships
- World professional wrestling championships