List of PWG World Tag Team Champions

PWG World Tag Team Championship

The PWG World Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship contested for in the tag team division of the Pro Wrestling Guerrilla promotion...

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 Pro Wrestling Guerrilla

Pro Wrestling Guerrilla

Pro Wrestling Guerrilla is a professional wrestling promotion that is run by wrestlers themselves as it was created by Southern California wrestlers Disco Machine, Excalibur, Joey Ryan, Scott Lost, Super Dragon, and Top Gun Talwar...

(PWG) promotion

Professional wrestling promotion

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; 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 January 25, 2004 at PWG's Tango & Cash Invitational – Night Two 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...

. Originally called the PWG Tag Team Championship, the title was renamed to the PWG World Tag Team Championship in February 2006 after the title was defended outside the United States for the first and second time—that month, then-champions Davey Richards

Davey Richards

Wesley David Richards is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Davey Richards.Richards is currently under contract with Ring of Honor, where he is the current ROH World Champion, but also wrestles for several companies on the independent circuit, including Pro Wrestling...

and Super Dragon

Super Dragon

Daniel Lyon , better known by his ring name Super Dragon, is an American professional wrestler. Beginning his career in 1997, he has competed in companies such as All Pro Wrestling, Revolution Pro, Combat Zone Wrestling, All Japan Pro Wrestling and Ring of Honor...

defeated Cape Fear (El Generico

El Generico

Rami Sebei is a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name El Generico. Sebei uses the gimmick of a luchador from Mexico...

and Quicksilver

Quicksilver (wrestler)

Richard "Rick" Clements is a retired American professional wrestler from San Diego, California, better known as Quicksilver.-Career:Quicksilver was a regular on the California independent circuit, working for local promotions in the area such as Alternative Wrestling Show, Revolution Pro Wrestling,...

) in Essen

Essen

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, Germany at European Vacation – Germany and Arrogance (Chris Bosh

Chris Bosh (wrestler)

Christopher Hancock is an American former professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla under the ring name Chris Bosh, where he was a three time World Tag Team Champion.-Revolution Pro Wrestling:...

and Scott Lost) in Orpington

Orpington

Orpington is a suburban town and electoral ward in the London Borough of Bromley. It forms the southeastern edge of London's urban sprawl and is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.-History:...

, England at European Vacation – England. The championship was later won for the first time outside the United States on October 27, 2007 at PWG's European Vacation II – England event—at that event, then-champions El Generico

El Generico

Rami Sebei is a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name El Generico. Sebei uses the gimmick of a luchador from Mexico...

and

Kevin Steen and El Generico

Kevin Steen and El Generico are a professional wrestling tag team performing on the independent circuit.-Pro Wrestling Guerrilla:On July 29, 2007, at Giant Size Annual #4, Generico and Steen defeated PAC and Roderick Strong to become the PWG World Tag Team Champions for the first time...

Kevin Steen

Kevin Steen is a Canadian professional wrestler, currently performing for various promotions on the independent circuit, most notably California-based Pro Wrestling Guerrilla and Ring of Honor.-Professional wrestling career:...

were defeated by Richards and Super Dragon in Portsmouth

Portsmouth

Portsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island...

, England.

Title reigns are determined either by professional wrestling matches

Mock combat

Mock combat involves the execution of combative actions without intent to harm. Participants can engage in such sparring for ritual, training, recreational or performance reasons...

between different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines

Narrative thread

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, or by scripted circumstances. Wrestlers are portrayed as either villains

Heel (professional wrestling)

In professional wrestling, a heel is a villain character. In non-wrestling jargon, heels are the "bad guys" in professional wrestling; the term heel coming from the term take to you heels, which means to run away which heel champions tend to do to avoid losing their titles.storylines...

or heroes

Face (professional wrestling)

In professional wrestling, a babyface or face or in simple words, a fan favorite is a character who is portrayed as a heroic relative to the heel wrestlers, who are analogous to villains...

as they follow a series of tension-building events, which culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches for the championship. All title changes happen at live events, which are released on DVD. The inaugural champions were B-Boy and Homicide

Nelson Erazo

Nelson Rodriguez Erazo is an American professional wrestler of Puerto Rican descent, better known by his ring name, Homicide...

, whom PWG recognized to have become the champions after defeating The American Dragon

Bryan Danielson

Bryan Danielson is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE where he wrestles on its SmackDown brand as Daniel Bryan, and currently holds the SmackDown Money in the Bank briefcase, which enables him to have a World Heavyweight Championship match at any time of his choosing...

and Super Dragon in the finals of the Tango & Cash Invitational Tag Team Tournament on January 25, 2004 at PWG's Tango & Cash Invitational – Night Two event. As of , The X–Foundation/The Dynasty (Joey Ryan and Lost) hold the record for most reigns, with three. El Generico, Super Dragon and Lost are tied for most reigns by a single competitor, with five. PWG publishes a list of successful championship defenses (victories against challengers for the championship) for each champion on their official website, unlike major professional wrestling promotion

Professional wrestling promotion

s. As of , The Young Bucks

The Young Bucks

The Young Bucks is an American professional wrestling tag team, consisting of real life brothers Matt and Nick Massie from Southern California...

(Matt and Nick Jackson) have the most defenses, with 15; 8 teams are tied for having the least, with 0. At 616 days, The Young Bucks' (Matt and Nick Jackson) first reign is the longest in the title's history. The Aerial Xpress (Quicksilver and Scorpio Sky

Scorpio Sky

Schuyler Andrews, better known as Scorpio Sky, is an American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. He is best known for his appearances on MTV's Wrestling Society X, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, and Lucha Vavoom, but has also worked in Japan, Germany and England. Sky has held titles in the...

) and Richards and Roderick Strong

Roderick Strong

Chris Lindsey is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Roderick Strong. Strong currently competes in several independent promotions, most notably Ring of Honor , Full Impact Pro , and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla .He initially debuted as The Jester on the Floridian...

's only reigns are tied for the shortest in the title's history at one day. Overall, there have been 24 reigns, among 21 different wrestlers and 17 different teams, and three vacancies.

Names

Name	Years
PWG Tag Team Championship	January 2004 – February 2006
PWG World Tag Team Championship	February 2006 – present

Reigns

Key

Reign	The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed
#	Numbers in bold indicate that a reign is current and changes daily
Event	The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the titles were won
N/A	The information is not available or is unknown
Successful defenses	Accounts how many defenses the champion had during their reign
Wrestler name (#)	The number represents the individual reigns of a wrestler when this is distinct from the tag team's reign.
—	Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign
+	Indicates that the current reign is changing daily.

Statistics correct as of ,

#	Wrestlers	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Successful defenses	Event	Notes

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Bryan Danielson

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Super Dragon

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|Scott Lost defeated Joey Ryan in a ladder match

Ladder match

A ladder match is a type of match in professional wrestling that is most commonly used to describe a match where an item is hung above the ring, and the winner is the contestant who climbs a ladder and retrieves the item...

at The Next Show for control of both titles on September 4, but chose Bosh to be his partner at Use Your Illusion III on October 9.
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|This was a four-way match, also involving The Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero

Chris Hero

Chris Spradlin is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Chris Hero. He is a mainstay of many independent wrestling promotions, including Ring of Honor, and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla as well as Pro Wrestling Noah in Japan...

and Claudio Castagnoli

Claudio Castagnoli

Claudio Castagnoli is a Swiss professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, working in its developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling under the ring name Antonio Cesaro...

) and The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley

Alex Shelley

Patrick Martin , is an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Alex Shelley. He wrestles for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he currently teams with Chris Sabin as The Motor City Machine Guns. He previously gained fame on the independent circuit, working most notably for...

and Chris Sabin

Chris Sabin

Joshua Harter is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Chris Sabin. He is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , where he currently teams with Alex Shelley as The Motor City Machine Guns.After being trained by Scott D'Amore, Sabin debuted in 2000 for...

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|Pac and Strong 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) in the finals of the Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament to win the vacant championship.
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|Ricochet

Ricochet (wrestler)

Trevor Mann is an American professional wrestler better known by the ring name Ricochet. He currently performs mainly for the American promotion Dragon Gate USA and its parent promotion, Japanese Dragon Gate. In both promotions he is a member of the Blood Warriors stable...

filled in for Paul London, who was unable to appear at the event.
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List of combined reigns

Statistics correct as of ,
Key

†	Indicates the current champions

By team

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By wrestler

Rank	Wrestler	# Of Reigns	Combined Days
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External links

Pro Wrestling Guerrilla.com

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