NWA World Tag Team Championship (Florida version)
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The Florida
version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship
existed from 1961 until 1969.
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship
NWA World Tag Team Championship
The National Wrestling Alliance World Tag Team Championship is the professional wrestling world tag team championship within the NWA framework.-History:...
existed from 1961 until 1969.
Title history
Wrestlers: | Reigns together: | Date: | Place: | Notes: |
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Kurt & Karl Von Brauner | 1 | January 1961 | Florida | |
Eddie Graham Eddie Graham Edward Gossett was a professional wrestler. He was also the promoter and booker for Championship Wrestling from Florida and President of the NWA in the 1970s. His son, Mike Graham, was also a professional wrestler.-Career:Edward F... & Ike Eakins |
1 | August 15, 1961 | Jacksonville, FL | |
Kurt & Karl Von Brauner | 2 | August 22, 1961 | Tampa, FL | |
Vacated | 1961 | Titles vacant | ||
Kurt & Karl Von Brauner | 3 | September 7, 1961 | Jacksonville, FL | Defeat Ike Eakins & Eddie Graham in tournament final |
Don Curtis Don Curtis Don Curtis, legally changed from Don Beitelman, , was an American professional wrestler, best known for his tag team with Mark Lewin in the 1950s and 1960s. During his teaming with Lewin they won the NWA World Tag Team Championship... & Joe Scarpa Joe Scarpa Joseph Luke Scarpa is a former professional wrestler who was best known by his famous ring moniker, Chief Jay Strongbow... |
1 | March 29, 1962 | Jacksonville, FL | |
Vacated | 1962 | Titles vacant | ||
Kurt & Karl Von Brauner | 4 | June 14, 1962 | Jacksonville, FL | Defeat Don Curtis & Georgia Boy Smith in tournament |
Assassins 1 & 2 Jody Hamilton Joseph "Jody" Hamilton is an American retired professional wrestler and current wrestling promoter and trainer. In his active days Hamiltion was best known as known as one half of the tag team The Assassins where he was called "Assassin #1"... |
1 | July 5, 1962 | Jacksonville, FL | |
Vacated | August 1962 | Titles vacant | ||
Boris Malenko & Russian Crusher | 1 | August 30, 1962 | Jacksonville, FL | Defeat The Kentuckians in tournament final |
Tony Baillargeon & Maurice Lapoine | 1 | October 13, 1962 | Tampa, FL | |
The Fabulous Kangaroos The Fabulous Kangaroos The Fabulous Kangaroos is a former professional wrestling tag team that existed in various forms from 1957 until 1983. The first incarnation of The Fabulous Kangaroos was formed when Italian Australian Al Costello teamed with Australia native Roy Heffernan and adopted an "Ultra Australian" gimmick... (Al Costello Al Costello Giacomo Costa was an Italian Australian professional wrestler best known by his ring name, Al Costello. Costello was the first professional wrestler to be nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Holds" because of his innovative and very technical style.Costello was the creator and original member of the... and Roy Heffernan Roy Heffernan Laurence Roy Heffernan was an Australian professional wrestler. Roy Heffernan toured all over the world, but is most famous for being one half of the original version of the tag team the Fabulous Kangaroos... ) |
1 | November 22, 1962 | Jacksonville, FL | |
Don Curtis & Mark Lewin Mark Lewin -Career:Mark Lewin broke into wrestling in the early '50s and had great early success in a matinee-idol babyface tag team with Don Curtis, headlining in major territories like New York and Chicago. The team's brief heel turn was a shock to its many fans... |
1 | January 24, 1963 | Florida | |
Vacated | January 1963 | Titles vacant | ||
Kurt & Karl Von Brauner | 5 | January 29, 1963 | Jacksonville, FL | Defeat Yukon Eric Eric Holmback Eric Holmback was an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Yukon Eric.Holmback spent the majority of his career in Southern Ontario, Canada, where he won the NWA Canadian Open Tag Team Championship on two occasions with Whipper Billy Watson in 1955 and 1961 and the Montreal... & Don Curtis in tournament final |
Alberto Alberto Torres Alberto Torres was a politician and a Brazilian social thinker who was concerned about national unity and the organization of the Brazilian society.... & Ramon Torres |
1 | April 1963 | Florida | |
Hiro Matsuda & Duke Keomuka Hisao Tanaka Hisao "Martin" Tanaka was a professional wrestler. He is the father of wrestler Pat Tanaka and referee Jimmy Tanaka.-Career:In the 1950s, Duke Keomuka formed a very successful tag team with Hiro Matsuda... |
1 | June 6, 1963 | Jacksonville, FL | |
Vacated | 1963 | Titles vacant | ||
Kurt & Karl Von Brauner | 6 | September 5, 1963 | Jacksonville, FL | Defeat Assassins in tournament final |
Assassins 1 & 2 | 2 | November 1963 | Florida | |
Don Curtis & Mark Lewin | 2 | November 21, 1963 | Jacksonville, FL | |
Vacated | January 1964 | Lewin leaves promotion | ||
Skull Murphy Skull Murphy John Joseph Murphy was a Canadian professional wrestler better known by his ring name Skull Murphy. He began his career wrestling in Canada and later worked at Jim Crockett Promotions and Georgia Championship Wrestling in the United States... & Brute Bernard Brute Bernard Jim Bernard was a Canadian professional wrestler. He is best known by his ring name, Brute Bernard, and spent much of his career wrestling as part of a tag team with Skull Murphy. He competed for several wrestling promotions associated with the National Wrestling Alliance... |
1 | January 28, 1964 | Tampa, FL | Defeat Don Curtis & Haystacks Calhoun |
Hiro Matsuda & Duke Keomuka | 2 | March 10, 1964 | Tampa, FL | |
Skull Murphy & Brute Bernard | 2 | 1964 | Tampa, FL | |
Hiro Matsuda & Duke Keomuka | 3 | 1964 | Tampa, FL | |
Don Curtis & Abe Jacobs Abe Jacobs Abe Jacobs is a retired New Zealand professional wrestler. He was one of the first men to follow fellow New Zealander Pat O'Connor to the United States where, like O'Connor, Jacobs became a major star in the National Wrestling Alliance during the "Golden Age of Wrestling"... |
1 | May 5, 1964 | Tampa, FL | |
Chris Chris Tolos Chris Tolos was a Canadian professional wrestler. Chris stayed close to Hamilton for much of his life, taking care of his mother—who lived to be 101 and died in 2001—and his disabled sister. He died of cancer on Friday, August 13, 2005... & John Tolos John Tolos John Tolos, nicknamed "The Golden Greek", was a Canadian professional wrestler, and professional wrestling manager.-Canadian Wrecking Crew:... |
1 | June 11, 1964 | Jacksonville, FL | |
Eddie Graham & Sam Steamboat | 1 | June 23, 1964 | Tampa, FL | |
Tarzan & Tim Tyler | 1 | November 3, 1964 | Tampa, FL | |
Eddie Graham & Sam Steamboat | 2 | December 10, 1964 | Jacksonville, FL | |
Tarzan Tyler & Fred Blassie Fred Blassie Frederick Kenneth Blassman , better known as "Classy" Freddie Blassie, was an American professional wrestling villain and manager born in St. Louis, Missouri. Renowned as "The Fashion Plate of Professional Wrestling" , Blassie was a master at antagonizing the crowd, and inspired legendary animosity... |
1 | January 27, 1965 | Jacksonville, FL | |
Hiro Matsuda & Duke Keomuka | 4 | March 22, 1965 | Tampa, FL | |
Rip Hawk Rip Hawk Harvey Maurice Evers is a retired American professional wrestler best known by his ring name, Rip Hawk. He began his wrestling career in the Mid-Western United States before joining Jim Crockett Promotions in the early 1960s. In the company, he teamed with fellow wrestler Swede Hanson as the... & Swede Hanson Swede Hanson (wrestler) Robert Fort Hanson was an American professional wrestler best known by his ring name Swede Hanson. He spent much of his career wrestling as part of a tag team with Rip Hawk... |
1 | August 3, 1965 | Tampa, FL | |
Sam Steamboat & Ron Etchison | 1 | October 2, 1965 | Tampa, FL | |
Kurt & Skull Von Stroheim | 1 | October 23, 1965 | Tampa, FL | |
Hiro Matsuda & Dick Steinborn | 1 | November 24, 1965 | Jacksonville, FL | |
Dick Steinborn | 1 | December 9, 1965 | Jacksonville, FL | Defeats Matsuda for both belts |
Vacated | January 1966 | Steinborn leaves area | ||
The Medics | 1 | February 22, 1966 | Tampa, FL | Defeat Jose Lothario & Tito Carreron in tournament |
Eddie Graham & Bob Orton Bob Orton Robert Dale "Bob" Orton was an American professional wrestler. He was also known as Bob Orton, Sr. to distinguish him from his son, "Cowboy" Bob Orton, Jr... |
1 | April 19, 1966 | Tampa, FL | |
Vacated | May 1966 | Titles vacant | ||
Eddie Graham & Bob Orton | 2 | May 17, 1966 | Tampa, FL | Win a three-team tournament. |
Vacated | May 1966 | Orton leaves area | ||
Jose Lothario Jose Lothario Guadalupe Robledo is an American professional wrestler, best known by the ring name of Jose Lothario.-Career:Lothario competed in the National Wrestling Alliance for most of his career... & Wahoo McDaniel Wahoo McDaniel Edward "Wahoo" McDaniel was a Choctaw-Chickasaw Native American who achieved fame as a professional American football player and later as a professional wrestler.-Early life:... |
1 | June 28, 1966 | Jacksonville, FL | |
Vacated | July 1966 | McDaniel told by Miami Dolphins Miami Dolphins The Miami Dolphins are a Professional football team based in the Miami metropolitan area in Florida. The team is part of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League... to stop wrestling |
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"Infernos" Frankie Cain & Rocky Smith | 1 | October 6, 1966 | Jacksonville, FL | |
Jose Lothario & Eddie Graham | 1 | October 25, 1966 | Tampa, FL | |
"Infernos" Frankie Cain & Rocky Smith | 2 | November 3, 1966 | Tampa, FL | |
Jose Lothario & Sam Steamboat | 1 | November 29, 1966 | Tampa, FL | |
"Infernos" Frankie Cain & Rocky Smith | 3 | December 13, 1966 | Tampa, FL | |
Sputnik & Rocket Monroe | 1 | April 4, 1967 | Tampa, FL | |
Jose Lothario & Wahoo McDaniel | 2 | May 9, 1967 | Florida | |
Sputnik & Rocket Monroe | 2 | May 25, 1967 | Jacksonville, FL | |
Eddie Graham & Sam Steamboat | 3 | July 13, 1967 | Jacksonville, FL | |
Kurt & Skull Von Stroheim | 2 | September 5, 1967 | Tampa, FL | |
Paul DeMarco & Lorenzo Parente | 1 | October 24, 1967 | Tampa, FL | |
Terry Terry Garvin Terry Joyal, better known by his ring name Terry Garvin, was a Canadian professional wrestler. He is best known for his work with kayfabe brother Ron Garvin, with whom he won several tag team championships in the Southern United States... & Ron Garvin Ron Garvin Ron Garvin is a Canadian former professional wrestler and referee most known for his time in the National Wrestling Alliance.-Early career:... |
1 | November 21, 1967 | Tampa, FL | |
Paul DeMarco & Lorenzo Parente | 2 | January 16, 1968 | Tampa, FL | |
"Infernos" Frankie Cain & Rocky Smith | 4 | February 13, 1968 | Tampa, FL | |
Masked Infernos | 1 | February 11, 1969 | Tampa, FL | |
Titles retired | 1969 | Titles abandoned | ||
See also
- National Wrestling AllianceNational Wrestling AllianceThe National Wrestling Alliance is a wrestling promotion company and sanctions various NWA championships in the United States. The NWA has been in operation since 1948...
- NWA World Tag Team ChampionshipNWA World Tag Team ChampionshipThe National Wrestling Alliance World Tag Team Championship is the professional wrestling world tag team championship within the NWA framework.-History:...
- Florida Championship Wrestling