The CZW World Tag Team Championship

CZW World Tag Team Championship

The CZW World Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship owned and copyrighted by the Combat Zone Wrestling promotion; it is contested for in their tag team division. It was created and debuted on February 13, 1999 at CZW's Opening Night event, where Jon Dahmer...

 is a professional wrestling

Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...

 world tag team

World Tag Team Championship

The World Tag Team Championship was the original professional wrestling world tag team championship contested for in World Wrestling Entertainment . It served as the premier title for tag teams in WWE from 1971 until 2002 when a second WWE Tag Team Championship was established...

 championship

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...

 owned and copyrighted by the Combat Zone Wrestling

Combat Zone Wrestling

Combat Zone Wrestling is a independent wrestling promotion. In 1999, John Zandig and four of his students, Ric Blade, Lobo, Nick Gage and Justice Pain began to run backyard wrestling shows in New Jersey and Delaware, showcasing a brand of hardcore wrestling dubbed as "ultraviolence"...

 (CZW) promotion

Professional wrestling promotion

A professional wrestling promotion is a company or business that regularly performs shows involving professional wrestling. Promotion also describes a role which entails management, advertising and logistics of running a wrestling event...

; it is contested for in their tag team division

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...

. The championship was created and debuted on February 13, 1999 at CZW's Opening Night event

House show

A house show is a professional wrestling show run by a major promotion that is not televised, though they can be recorded. Promotions use house shows mainly to cash in on the exposure that they and their wrestlers receive during televised events, as well as test reactions to matches, wrestlers, and...

. Although the title is a world tag team championship, supposedly only intended for tag teams, a wrestler has held the championship by himself—Justice Pain

Justice Pain

Christopher Wilson is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name, Justice Pain. Pain is best known for his time in Combat Zone Wrestling, as well as Xtreme Pro Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Unplugged...

. He held the championship on his own from November 20, 1999 to January 8, 2000, when he lost it to Diablos Macabre and Midknight, who are known as The Thrill Kill Kult, the same team he defeated to win the championship.

The inaugural champions were Jon Dahmer and Jose Rivera, Jr., who were awarded the championship on February 13, 1999 at CZW's Opening Night event. As of , The Backseat Boyz

The Backseat Boyz

The Backseat Boyz were a professional wrestling tag team that consisted of Johnny Kashmere and Trent Acid who competed in Ring of Honor, Pro Wrestling Unplugged, Combat Zone Wrestling, Assault Championship Wrestling, the Premier Wrestling Federation, Jersey All Pro Wrestling, and Japan together...

 which consist of Johnny Kashmere

Johnny Kashmere

Johnny Kashmere is an American professional wrestler, best known as one half of The Backseat Boyz, along with the late Trent Acid...

 and Trent Acid

Trent Acid

Michael Verdi was an American professional wrestler best known by his ring name Trent Acid. Verdi had worked as a tag team wrestler for most of his career, primarily as part of The Backseat Boyz with Johnny Kashmere, in several independent promotions in America, including Combat Zone Wrestling,...

 hold the record for most reigns, with four. Sabian holds the record for the most individual reigns with 6. The Backseat Boyz (Kashmere and Acid)'s fourth reign is the longest in the title's history, at days. At less than one day, Dahmer and Rivera, Jr.'s only reign and 2 Girls, 1 Cup (Beef Wellington and Greg Excellent)'s first reign are tied for the shortest. Philly's Most Wanted (Joker

Joker (wrestler)

Joker is an American independent professional wrestler who works for the Combat Zone Wrestling promotion, IWA Mid-South, Chikara and UWA Hardcore Wrestling.-Career:...

 and Sabian

Sabian (wrestler)

Sabian is an American professional wrestler, currently performing for Combat Zone Wrestling, where he was a founding member of The Blackout / BLKOUT with Ruckus. In addition to CZW, he also competes for several other American independent promotions, most notably Chikara.-Debut:Born in...

) are the current champions in their second reign. They defeated the Briscoe Brothers

Briscoe Brothers

The Briscoe Brothers are the professional wrestling tag team of Jay and Mark Briscoe. They are currently wrestling for the American promotions Ring of Honor, Full Impact Pro, Combat Zone Wrestling, as well as occasionally for the Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling Noah.Their wrestling careers have...

 (Jay and Mark Briscoe) on May 14, 2011, at Proving Grounds to win the title. Overall, there have been 46 reigns, shared between 58 individual wrestlers and 33 teams, and four vacancies.

Title history

Reign	The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed
#	Indicates what number the reign is
Event	The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the titles were won
N/A	The information is not available or is unknown
Wrestler name (#)	The number represents the individual reigns of a wrestler when this is distinct from the tag team's reign.
Wrestler name and Wrestler name	Names in small print and underneath the individual wrestler's names were the team name for the group.
—	Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign
+	Indicates the current reign is changing daily

Statistics correct as of ,

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|Championship was vacated after a title defense against Jon Dahmer and Middknight ended in a double pinfall.
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|The King Pinz defeated Extreme Fahrenheit (Heartbreaker and Mr. Motion) and Jon Dahmer and Middknight in a Three Way match to win the vacant championship.
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|Pain defeated The Thrill Kill Kult (Diablos Macabre and Midknight) in a handicap match to become sole champion.
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|The Thrill Kill Kult defeated Pain in a handicap match to win the championship.
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|Johnny defeated Russ in a standard wrestling match to win the championship.
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|Kasai and Teioh won the title at a Big Japan Pro Wrestling

Big Japan Pro Wrestling

Big Japan Pro Wrestling is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion established in 1995. It is most famous for its deathmatch style contests.-History:...

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|Team Ca$h defeated The BLK-OUT (Ruckus, Sabian, Eddie Kingston

Eddie Kingston

Edward "Eddie" Moore is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Eddie Kingston. He is best known for competing in Chikara, Combat Zone Wrestling, Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South and Ring of Honor...

, and Jack Evans

Jack Evans

Jack Edward Miller is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Jack Evans. He currently performs for the Mexican-based promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, where he is the current World Cruiserweight Champion and a former World Tag Team Champion. He is the cousin...

) in a Cage of Death match. After the match, CZW owner John Zandig

John Zandig

John Corson was an American professional wrestler and promoter, better known by his ring name, John Zandig. He is the founder and former owner of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based promotion Combat Zone Wrestling .-Biography:...

 announced that all members of Team Ca$h were champions.
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|Championship was vacated when Joker left the company.
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|The Kings of Wrestling defeated Justice Pain and Human Tornado

Human Tornado

Craig Williams , better known by his ring name, Human Tornado, is an American retired professional wrestler. His character was that of a stereotypical 1970s blaxploitation street pimp. He performed primarily on the Californian independent circuit, most prominently for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, the...

 in a tournament final to win the vacant championship.
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|DJ Hyde stripped the titles from Kingston and Younger after Kingston left the company.
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| After Briscoes defended titles against the Nigerian Nightmares (Jay was injured during the match) Joker and Sabian came to the ring and challenged them to a title match. Mark agreed that he would defend the titles at any time. Joker had the bell rung, and Sabian used a foreign object to knock out Mark Briscoe, allowing for Philly's Most Wanted to become the new CZW Tag Team champions.
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List of combined reigns

†	Indicates the current champions
<1	Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day.

As of , .

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By wrestler

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External links

• CZWrestling.com