NWA World Tag Team Championship (Texas version)
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Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

 version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship existed from 1957 to 1968, and from 1981 to 1982. This title was recognized by World Class Championship Wrestling
World Class Championship Wrestling
World Class Championship Wrestling ' was a regional professional wrestling promotion headquartered in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. Originally owned by promoter Ed McLemore, by 1966 it was run by Southwest Sports, Inc., whose president, Jack Adkisson, was better known as wrestler Fritz Von Erich...

 and The Funk Dynasty's N.W.A. Western States Sports of Amarillo, TX.

Title history

Wrestlers: Reigns together: Date: Place: Notes:
Verne Gagne
Verne Gagne
Laverne Clarence "Verne" Gagne , is a retired American professional wrestler, football player, and professional wrestling trainer and promoter. He was the former owner/promoter of the American Wrestling Association , based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which was the predominant promotion throughout...

 & Wilbur Snyder
Wilbur Snyder
Wilbur Snyder was an American football player and professional wrestler.-Wrestling career:Snyder's wrestling debut occurred during the 1953 offseason. He was trained by Sandor Szabo and Warren Bockwinkel in Southern California. In 1954, Snyder retired from football completely to pursue a full-time...

1 July 1957 Awarded
Bill Longson
Bill Longson
William Longson was a professional wrestler, who spent most of his career in St. Louis, Missouri under the ring name "Wild Bill" Longson...

 & Ike Eakins
1 August 1958 Texas
Pepper Gomez & El Medico 1 August 22, 1958 Houston, TX
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 17, 1958 Ft. Worth, TX
Pepper Gomez & Rito Romero
Rito Romero
Rito Romero Loza was a successful luchador who wrestled in Mexico and in the NWA territories of Texas and Los Angeles. He appeared in several films in his native country along with a number of other luchadors...

1 December 1, 1958 Ft. Worth, TX
Mr. Moto & 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 September 1959 Texas
Pepper Gomez & Ciclone Anaya 1 December 8, 1959 Dallas, TX
Joe Christie & Man Mountain Managoff 1 January 29, 1960 Houston, TX
Hogan Wharton & Adnon Kaisy 1 February 19, 1960 Houston, TX
Danny McShain
Danny McShain
Danny McShain was an American professional wrestler who competed in the Southern United States from the 1930s to the 1960s.-Early life:...

 & Joe Christie
1 April 1, 1960 Houston, TX
Pepper Gomez & Torbellino Blanco 1 May 1960 Texas
Pepper Gomez & Wilbur Snyder 1 September 1960 Blanco gives his half to Snyder
Rito Romero & Dory Dixon
Dory Dixon
Dorrel "Dory" Dixon is a retired Jamaican professional wrestler who worked for the majority of his career in Mexico, where he eventually became a Mexican citizen...

1 May 5, 1961 Houston, TX
Duke Keomuka & Tony Martin 1 May 26, 1961 Houston, TX
Pepper Gomez & Dory Dixon 1 June 16, 1961 Houston, TX
Jack & Jim Dalton 1 November 1961 Texas
Dory Dixon & Ciclon Negro 1 April 27, 1962 Houston, TX
Jack & Jim Dalton 2 1962 Texas
Nick & Jerry Kozak 1 June 8, 1962 Houston, TX
Tarzan Tyler & The Alaskan 1 August 17, 1962 Houston, TX
Duke Keomuka & Taro Miyake 1 September 7, 1962 Houston, TX
Mike Clancy & Red McKim 1 September 28, 1962 Houston, TX
Duke Keomuka & Taro Miyake 2 October 12, 1962 Houston, TX
Ciclon Negro & Oscar Salazar 1 November 2, 1962 Houston, TX
Tony Borne & Ivan the Terrible 1 November 20, 1962 Houston, TX
Bull Curry
Bull Curry
Fred Thomas Koury, Sr. was an American of Lebanese decent who was best known as a professional wrestler under the name ”Wild Bull” Curry. Bull Curry is recognized as one of the originators of the hardcore style predating even legends such as The Sheik and Abdullah the Butcher...

 & Lucas Pertano
1 January 29, 1963 Houston, TX
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...

 & Rock Hunter
1 February 5, 1963 Houston, TX
Nick & Jerry Kozak 2 March 21, 1963 Austin, TX
Kurt & Karl Von Brauner 1 July 5, 1963 Houston, TX
Jack & Jim Dalton 3 August 1963 Texas
Ciclon Negro & Ricki Starr 1 August 16, 1963 Houston, TX
Vacated between 1963 & 1965 Titles Inactive
Fritz Von Erich & Killer Karl Kox 1 June 29, 1965 Dallas, TX (over 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...

 & Sam Steamboat)
Duke Keomuka & Kanji Inoki
Antonio Inoki
is a Japanese professional wrestling promoter and retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist who now resides between New York City and Tokyo. He was also the founder and former owner of New Japan Pro Wrestling before selling his controlling share in the promotion to Yukes...

1 1965 or 1966 Texas
The Destroyer
Dick Beyer
Dick Beyer is a retired professional wrestler who is best known by his ring names, The Destroyer or Doctor X.-Early life:...

 & Golden Terror
1 February 8, 1966 Dallas, TX
Fritz Von Erich & Duke Keomuka 1 March 1, 1966 Dallas, TX
The Internationals
(Al Costello and Karl Von Brauner)
1 November 1966 Texas
Vacated 1967 Titles vacant
Nick Kozak & Danny Miller 1 June 8, 1967 Amarillo, TX (defeat the Medics)
Vacated 1967 Titles vacant
Kurt & Karl Von Brauner 2 November 15, 1967 Texas (defeat Gory Guerrero
Gory Guerrero
Salvador Guerrero Quesada , better known as Gory Guerrero, was one of the premier Hispanic professional wrestlers in the early days of Lucha Libre when most wrestlers were imported from outside of Mexico. He wrestled primarily in Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre between the 1940s and 1960s...

 & Luis Hernandez)
Nick Bockwinkel
Nick Bockwinkel
Nicholas Warren Francis "Nick" Bockwinkel is a retired American professional wrestler. He mainly competed in the American Wrestling Association in the United States...

 & Ricky Romero
1 April 25, 1968 Texas
Kurt & Karl Von Brauner 3 May 23, 1968 Amarillo, TX
Dory Funk, Jr.
Dory Funk, Jr.
Dory Ernest Funk Jr. known professionally as Dory Funk, Jr. is a professional wrestler and wrestling trainer. He is the son of Dory Funk Sr. and brother of Terry Funk. He is credited with the invention of the Texas cloverleaf submission hold and runs the Funking Conservatory, a professional...

 & Terry Funk
Terry Funk
Terrence "Terry" Funk is an American professional wrestler and actor known chiefly for the hardcore wrestling style he adopted in the latter part of his career that inspired many younger wrestlers, including Mick Foley...

1 June 18, 1968 San Angelo, TX
The Infernos 1 & 2 1 September 26, 1968 Amarillo, TX
Dory Funk, Jr. & Terry Funk 2 October 17, 1968 Amarillo, TX
Chati Yokouchi & Mr. Ito
Umanosuke Ueda
Hiroshi Ueda is a Japanese retired professional wrestler, known by his ring name Umanosuke Ueda, who mainly distinguished himself as the rare Japanese who wrestled with bleached blonde hair...

1 December 12, 1968 Amarillo, TX
Vacated 1969 or 1970 Title Inactive
Hercules Ayala & Ali Mustafa 1 January 1981 Awarded
David
David Von Erich
David Alan Adkisson was an American professional wrestler who competed as "The Yellow Rose of Texas" David Von Erich...

 & Kevin Von Erich
1 February 1981 Dallas, TX
Great Kabuki & Chang Chung 1 1981 Texas
Kerry Von Erich
Kerry Von Erich
Kerry Gene Adkisson was an American professional wrestler under the ring names Kerry Von Erich, The Modern Day Warrior, and The Texas Tornado and was part of the Von Erich family of professional wrestlers...

 & Terry Orndorff
1 October 1981 Dallas, TX
Bill Irwin
Barney Irwin
Barney William Irwin is a professional wrestler best known as Bill Irwin.-Professional wrestling career:Bill Irwin started wrestling in 1979 in the National Wrestling Alliance's Central States territory and in World Class Championship Wrestling...

 & Frank Dusek
1 November 1981 Awarded
Kerry Von Erich & Al Madril
Alberto Madril
Alberto Madril is an American retired professional wrestler who most often wrestled as Al Madril, and used the Indian Deathlock as a finishing move.-Career:...

1 December 1981 Ft. Worth, TX
Bill Irwin & Bugsy McGraw
Bugsy McGraw
Bugsy McGraw is the ring name of former professional wrestler Michael Davis. He also wrestled under the name "The Skull." He is not to be confused with the other wrestler named Mike Davis.-Total Nonstop Action Wrestling :...

1 April 1982 Lawton, OK
Kerry Von Erich & Al Madril 2 April 1982 Ft. Worth, TX
Titles retired 1982 Titles abandoned
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