WWF Tag Team Champions 1970s

Baron Mikel Scicluna and King Curtis Iaukea

(manager Lou Albano)

This team won the belts February 1st 1972 in Philadelphia, they defeated the team of Karl Gotch and Rene Goulet.   After holding the titles for 111 days they lost in New York City to Sonny King and Chief Jay Strongbow. 

WWF Tag Team Champions (1990s)

The Smoking Gunns

(Billy and Bart Gunn)

Won their first WWF tag team titles on January 23rd 1995 edition of RAW by defeating The 1-2-3 Kid and Bob Holly.  They held the titles for 69 days before losing to Owen Hart and Yokozuna at Wrestlemania XI in Hartford CT, April 2nd 1995.

The 2nd title reigned started with a defeat of champions Owen Hart and Yokozuna on the September 25th edition of RAW from Grand Rapids MI.   They held the belts this time for 143 days before having to vacate the titles due to Billy's neck injury.  

The Smoking Gunns 3rd and final tag team title reign started May 26th 1996 when they defeated the Godwinns at the In Your House : Beware of the Dog  PPV in Florence SC.   They defended the belts for 119 days until losing on September 22nd 1996 to The British Bulldog and Owen Hart at the In Your House : Mind Games PPV in Philadelphia Pa.

WWF Tag Team Champions - The 1970s

WWF Tag Team Champions - 1972

Sonny King and Chief Jay Strongbow

They won the titles on May 22nd 1972 by defeating King Curtis Iaukea and Mikel Scicluna at a house in Philadelphia PA., becoming just the 3rd WWF tag team champions.

King and Strongbow held the belts for 36 days before losing to Mr. Fuji and Professor Tanaka at a tv taping in Philadelphia PA.

WWF Tag Team Champions (1990s)

Owen Hart and Yokozuna 

April 2nd 1995 Owen and Yokozuna won the tag team titles at Wrestlemania XI in Hartford CT by defeating The Smoking Gunns.

They held the belts for 175 days before a controversial loss to Diesel and Shawn Michaels on September 24th 1995 at In Your House :Triple Header in Saginaw MI.   Davey Boy Smith subbed in for a missing Owen Hart for the title match and when Owen ran in later in the match he was pinned and the belts were handed to Michaels and Diesel.  The next night on Monday Night RAW the belts were restored to Owen/Yokozuna since Owen wasn't officially a participant in the title match.   Later that night on RAW, The Smoking Gunns defeated Owen/Yokozuna and recaptured the belts.

WWF Tag Team Champions

WWF Tag Team Champions

Larry Zbyszko and Tony Garea

November 21st 1978 - March 6th 1979

(Defeated the Yukon Lumberjacks)

held the belts for 105 days

(Lost to the Valiant Brothers)

Today in Wrestling History (June 17th)

Title Changes for June 17th

1934 – Mario Nuez defeated Tony Canales to become the first EMLL Mexican National Welterweight Champion

1964 – Pat Patterson & "Tough" Tony Borne defeated Nick Bockwinkel & Buddy Mareno (Omar Atlas) to win the NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship

1965 – Bob Orton, Sr. won a tournament to win the vacant NWA Southern (Florida) Heavyweight Championship

1977 – Butcher Brannigan & Killer Karl Krupp defeated Larry O’Day & Ron Miller to win the NWA Austra-Asian Tag Team Championship

1983 – The Dynamite Girls (Jumbo Hori & Yukari Ohmori) defeated Devil Masami & Talantula to win the WWWA (Japan) World Tag Team Championship

1983 – Kerry Von Erich & Bruiser Brody defeated The Fabulous Freebirds (Terry Gordy & Michael Hayes) to win the NWA American Tag Team Championship

1983 - Gorgeous Jimmy Garvin defeated David Von Erich to win the vacant NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship. The title is immediately held up due to interference by Sunshine

1983 - Vicki Carranza defeated Lola Gonzales to win the Mexican National Women’s Championship

1984 – Jake Roberts defeated "Hands of Stone" Ron Garvin to win the NWA World (Georgia) Television Championship. The title is immediately held up due to Roberts' use of a foreign object

1985 – The U.S. Express (Mike Rotunda & Barry Windham) defeated The Iron Sheik & Nikolai Volkoff to win the WWF World Tag Team Championship

1985 – The Fabulous Ones defeated Ron Sexton & Billy Travis in a tournament final to win the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship

1988 – Chris Benoit defeated Johnny Smith to win the Stampede British Commonwealth Mid-Heavyweight Championship

1989 – TNT (Savio Vega) defeated Abudda Dein to win the vacant WWC World Television Championship

1994 – Mickey Doyle defeated Scott D’Amore to win the BCW (Ontario) Can-Am Heavyweight Championship

1996 – Flex Kavana ((Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) & Bart Sawyer defeated Brickhouse Brown & Reggie B. Fine in a tournament final to win the USWA World Tag Team Championship

1999 – Sensational Sherri Martel defeated Miss Manners (Adrian Lynch) to win the AWA Superstars of Wrestling World Women’s Championship

1999 – The Public Enemy defeated The Brotherhood (Knuckles Nelson & Rick Fuller) to win the NWA World Tag Team Championship

2012 – Manabu Soya & Takao Omori defeated Joe Doering & Seiya Sanada to win the AJPW Unified Tag Team Championship

Today in Wrestling History - October 30th

1978 - Ric Flair and Big John Studd win the NWA Mid Atlantic Tag Team Titles by beating Ricky Steamboat and Paul Jones in Greenville, SC.   They would not be champs long as they lost the rematch on November 5th 1978 in Greensboro, NC.

1999 - Big Van Vader defeats Mitsuharu Misawa in Tokyo, Japan to win the AJPW Triple Crown Unified Heavyweight Championship.

2001 - Test and Booker T defeat The Rock and Chris Jericho for the WWF World Tag Team Titles in Cincinnati, OH during a SMACKDOWN! show.

The Blackjacks

The Blackjacks were a legendary tag team consisting of BlackJack Lanza and BlackJack Mulligan both big and very tough men.
They made their name in the AWA and WWF, along with a very good run in the WWA (Dick the Bruiser run promotion out of Indianapolis).

They never held the AWA World Tag Team titles but did hold the WWF and WWA Tag Team titles.


They won the WWA Tag Team titles (below) on November 26th 1971 in Indianapolis by defeating the team of Wilbur Snyder and Paul Christy.  They held the belts until December 9th 1972 when they lost the titles to Dick The Bruiser and The Crusher in Detroit Michigan.

Moving on to the WWF in 1974 the Blackjacks won the WWF Tag Team Titles on August 26th 1975 in Philadelphia by defeating the reigning champions Dominic DeNucci and Pat Barrett (who replaced Victor Rivera in July of 1975).   They held the belts for 74 days before losing to the team of Louis Cerdan and Tony Parisi in Philadelphia on November 8th 1975.

Here they meet the reigning champions DeNucci and Rivera in a non title match in 1974.

History of the WWF/WWE Tag Team Titles

History of the WWF/WWE Tag Team Championship

1971-09/16/2012

(see a full listing of title holders here)

New WWE Tag Team Champions (10/14/2013)

WWE Monday Night RAW

October 14th 2013

St Louis,  MO

Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns

WWE Tag Team Champions

vs

Cody Rhodes and Goldust

Tag Team Match of the Night (Moondogs vs Fabulous Ones)

Anything Goes Tag Team Match

The Moondogs w/Jimmy Hart

vs

The Fabulous Ones

January 9th 1984

Mid South Coliseum

Memphis TN

WWWF Tag Team Champions (The Executioners)

The Executioners were a masked tag team consisting of Killer Kowalski and Big John Studd.   They won the World Wide Wrestling Federation Tag Team Titles on May 11th 1976 in Philadelphia by defeating the champions Louis Cerdan and Tony Parisi (below,who had held the belts 185 days).

The Executioners would hold the belts for 168 days, until November 26th 1976 when they were stripped by the WWWF for using a 3rd Executioner in a match.  This Execution #3 was later unmasked as Nikolai Volkoff.

The Executioners

WWWF Tag Team Champions

vs

Dominic Denucci and Jose Gonzalez

Madison Square Garden

Today in Wrestling History

WWF In Your House - Triple Header

September 24th 1995

Saginaw Civic Center

Saginaw, MI

The main event of this 3rd In Your House PPV involved the 3 big titles in the WWF.  The WWF Champion Kevin Nash and Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels teamed up and put both belts on the line against the WWF Tag Team Champions Yokozuna and Davey Boy Smith (subbing for injured Owen Hart). Whichever wrestler was pinned would lose his title.

Results

No.	Results	Stipulations	Times
Dark match	Goldust defeated Bob Holly	Singles match	Unknown
Dark match	Ahmed Johnson defeated Skip	Singles match	Unknown
Dark match	Fatu defeated Hunter Hearst Helmsley	Singles match	Unknown
1	Savio Vega defeated Waylon Mercy	Singles match	07:06
2	Sycho Sid (with Ted DiBiase) defeated Henry Godwinn	Singles match	07:23
3	The British Bulldog defeated Bam Bam Bigelow	Singles match	12:00
4	Dean Douglas (with Bob Backlund) defeated Razor Ramon	Singles match	14:53
5	Bret Hart defeated Jean-Pierre Lafitte	Singles match	16:37
6	Diesel and Shawn Michaels defeated Yokozuna and The British Bulldog(with Jim Cornette and Mr. Fuji)	Tag team match for the WWF Tag Team Championship, WWF Intercontinental Championship and WWF Championship	15:42
Dark match	The Undertaker defeated King Mabel	Singles match	07:04
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

Classic Tag Team Action

September 1999

WWF Tag Team Ttitles

Monday Night RAW

The Unholy Alliance

(Big Show and The Undertaker)

WWF Tag Team Champions

vs

The Rock and Sock Connection

(Mankind and The Rock)

September 23rd 1993

Hulk Hogan and The Great Muta

vs

The Hell Raisers

(Road Warrior Hawk and The Power Warrior, Kensuke Sasaki)

Three Way Tag Team Elimination

ECW Tag Team Titles

The Dudley Boyz

(Devon and Bubba Ray)

ECW Champions

vs

The Eliminators

(Saturn and Kronus)

vs

The Gangstas

(Nu Jack and Mustafa)

WWF Tag Team Champions

The team of Demolition holds the record for the longest tag team title reign in WWF/WWE history.

They defeated the team of Strike Force (Tito Santana/Rick Martel) at Wrestlemania IV on March 27th 1988 in Atlantic City, NJ.  They held the title belts for 478 consecutive days.  They would lose the belts to the team of Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard (The Brain Busters) on July 18th 1989 during a taping for Saturday Night's Main Event.  Demolition would recapture the titles 76 days later on October 2nd 1989 in Wheeling WV.  This time they "only" held the titles for 72 days then lost them to the Colossal Connection (Andre The Giant/Haku) on December 13th 1989 in Huntsville, AL.
 The Colossal Connection held the belts for 109 days before meeting Demolition again on April 1st 1990 at Wrestlemania VI in Toronto, Ontario, Cananda.
The belts would belong to Demolition again and now they had added a 3rd member of the team, Crush, and due to the "Freebird Rule" any of the three members of Demolition could defend the tag team titles.
This would be the last tag team title reign for the team of Demolition, and they held the belts another 148 days.  The final loss would be at the hands of the now legendary Hart Foundation (Bret Hart/Jim Niedhart) at Summerslam on August 27th 1990.

Demolition held the WWF Tag Team Titles for a combined total of 698 days.  Oddly enough, the record for most days as tag team champion belongs to Demolition's long time manager, Mr. Fuji.  
He held the belts on 3 occasions with Professor Toru Tanka for 569 days and then added 2 more title reigns with Mr. Saito for 363.  This gives Mr. Fuji a combined total of 932 days at WWF Tag Team Champion.

Each Title change for Demolition as Tag Team Champions

SummerSlam in 60 Seconds: SummerSlam 1990

The Valiant Brothers

The US Express

June 17th 1985
The US Express, Mike Rotunda and Barry Windham defeat The Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff in Poughkeepsie, NY to regain the WWF Tag Team titles.  This was their 2nd and last reign as Tag Team champions.  They would lose the belts to "The Dream Team: Brutus Beefcake and Greg Valentine" on August 24th 1985 in Philadelphia.

Happy Birthday Barry Windham

July 4th 2013 will be the 53rd birthday of onetime Four Horseman Barry Windham.   Son of the legenday "Blackjack" Mulligan, Barry would hold the WCW World Heavyweight title, the NWA and WWF tag team Titles.

February 14th 1986

The Battle of the Belts

NWA World Heavyweight Title

Barry Windham

vs

Ric Flair

NWA Champion

Match of the Night (WWF Tag Team Titles)

WWF Tag Team Title Match

Monday Night RAW

May 26th 1997

The British Bulldog and Owen Hart

WWF Tag Team Champions

vs

Shawn Michaels and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin