CWA World Tag Team Championship
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The CWA World Tag Team Championship was a major professional wrestling
tag team
title
defended in the Continental Wrestling Association
. It lasted from 1980 through 1983.
Professional wrestling
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tag team
Tag team
Tag team professional wrestling is a variation in which matches are contested between teams of multiple wrestlers. A tag team may comprise two wrestlers who normally wrestle in singles competition, but more commonly are made of established teams who wrestle regularly as a unit and have a team name...
title
Championship (professional wrestling)
A Championship or "title" in professional wrestling is a recognition promoted by professional wrestling organizations.Championship reigns are determined by professional wrestling matches, in which competitors are involved in scripted rivalries...
defended in the Continental Wrestling Association
Continental Wrestling Association
The Continental Wrestling Association was a wrestling promotion managed by Jerry Jarrett. The CWA was the name of the "governing body" for the Championship Wrestling, Inc. promotion which was usually referred to as Mid-Southern Wrestling...
. It lasted from 1980 through 1983.
Title history
| Wrestlers: | Times: | Date: | Location: | Notes: |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jerry Jarrett Jerry Jarrett Jerry W. Jarrett is an American promoter and former professional wrestler, and the father of wrestler Jeff Jarrett. He is the co-founder and former part-owner of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling... and Tojo Yamamoto Tojo Yamamoto Harold Watanabe was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Tojo Yamamoto. He was born in Hawaii.-In-ring career:... |
1 | July 28, 1980 | Memphis, Tennessee Memphis, Tennessee Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers.... |
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| Austin Idol Austin Idol Mike McCord is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name the "Universal Heartthrob" Austin Idol.-Professional wrestling career:McCord graduated from Robinson High School in Tampa, Florida... and Dutch Mantel Dutch Mantel Wayne Keown is an American professional wrestler, and author better known by his ring name, Dutch Mantel or Dutch Mantell. He currently is semi-retired but still makes occasional wrestling appearances. He was previously with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as a writer behind the scenes... |
1 | August 4, 1980 | Memphis, Tennessee | |
| Bill Dundee Bill Dundee William "Bill" Cruickshanks is a Scottish born-Australian professional wrestler better known by his stage name Bill Dundee. Cruickshanks is the father of Jamie Dundee and the father-in-law of wrestler Bobby Eaton.... and Tommy Rich Tommy Rich Thomas Richardson , better known by his ring name, "Wildfire" Tommy Rich, is a professional wrestler. He is best known for his wrestling career in Georgia and Memphis throughout the 1980s.-Professional wrestling career:... |
1 | March 12, 1981 | Lexington, Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky Lexington is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 63rd largest in the US. Known as the "Thoroughbred City" and the "Horse Capital of the World", it is located in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass region... |
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| The Rock 'n Roll Express (Robert Gibson Reuben Kane Robert Gibson is a professional wrestler. He is famous as half of the tag team known as Rock 'N Roll Express, with Ricky Morton.-Early career:Cain started wrestling as Robert Gibson in 1977... and Ricky Morton Ricky Morton Richard Wendell "Ricky" Morton is an American professional wrestler who has worked for such wrestling organizations as Jim Crockett Promotions, the American Wrestling Association, Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, the World Wrestling Federation and Total Nonstop Action... ) |
1 | 1981 | ||
| Title became inactive in 1981. | ||||
| The Assassins (Don Bass and Roger Smith) |
1 | July 18, 1983 | Memphis, Tennessee | |
| Austin Idol and Jerry Lawler Jerry Lawler Jerry O'Neil Lawler is an American professional wrestler, wrestling commentator, musician, businessman, commercial artist and film actor, known throughout the wrestling world as Jerry "The King" Lawler. He is currently signed to WWE, working on its Raw brand as the color commentator and occasional... |
1 | August 8, 1983 | Memphis, Tennessee | |
| The Assassins (Don Bass and Roger Smith) |
2 | August 15, 1983 | Memphis, Tennessee | |
| The Fabulous Ones The Fabulous Ones The Fabulous Ones was a professional wrestling Tag team consisting of Stan Lane and Steve Keirn that was active between 1982 and 1987 with brief reunions during the 1990s... (Steve Keirn Steve Keirn Stephen "Steve" Paul Keirn is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for being part of the tag team The Fabulous Ones, with Stan Lane, and later for a run in the World Wrestling Federation as Skinner, a gimmick that portrayed him as a tobacco spitting alligator hunter from... and Stan Lane Stan Lane Wallace Stanfield "Stan" Lane is an American professional wrestler, trained by Ric Flair, who started wrestling in 1974 in Championship Wrestling from Florida. For a brief time in Florida, he was nicknamed Nature Boy... ) |
1 | September 27, 1983 | ||
| The Assassins (Don Bass and Roger Smith) |
3 | October 24, 1983 | Memphis, Tennessee | |
| Ken Raper and Robert Reed | 1 | October 29, 1983 | Memphis, Tennessee | |
| The Assassins (Don Bass and Roger Smith) |
4 | October 31, 1983 | Memphis, Tennessee | |
| The Fabulous Ones (Steve Keirn and Stan Lane) |
2 | November 7, 1983 | Memphis, Tennessee | |
| The Midnight Express (Norvell Austin Norvell Austin Norvell Austin is a retired American professional wrestler who made his debut in the late 1960s. Austin worked for most of his career in the Southern United States, most often in tag team competition. Norvell Austin is most famous for teaming with Sputnik Monroe in one of the first "mixed races"... and Dennis Condrey Dennis Condrey Dennis Condrey is an American professional wrestler, best known as being one half of the tag team Midnight Express.... ) |
1 | November 14, 1983 | Memphis, Tennessee | |
| Austin Idol and Dutch Mantel | 2 | November 21, 1983 | Memphis, Tennessee | |
| Title vacated on November 28, 1983 when Idol and Mantel split up. The title was later abandoned. | ||||