NWA International Tag Team Championship

This was a regional NWA championship based in Japan. For the version of this title that was promoted in NWA All Star Wrestling in Canada, see NWA International Tag Team Championship (Vancouver version).

The NWA International Tag Team Championship was a National Wrestling Alliance-sanctioned title contested for in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW). Prior to being used in AJPW, the title was defended in the Japan Wrestling Association (JWA). The title lasted from 1962 through 1988. It is now part of the AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship, also known as the "Double Cup"^[1].

Title history

#:	Name(s):	Reigns:	Date:	Location:	Notes:
1	The Fabulous Kangaroos (Al Costello and Roy Heffernan)	1	1962	n/a
2	George and Sandy Scott	1	n/a	n/a
3	Karl and Kurt Von Stroheim	1	July, 1964	Texas, United States
4	Bull and Fred Curry	1	July 20, 1964	Fort Worth, Texas, United States
5	Karl (2) and Kurt Von Stroheim (2)	2	1966	Texas, United States
6	Fritz Von Goehring and Mike Padosis	1	September, 1966	Texas, United States
7	Giant Baba and Michiaki Yoshimura	1	November 5, 1966	Tokyo, Japan
8	Tarzan Tyler and Bill Watts	1	October 6, 1967	Fukushima, Japan
9	Giant Baba (2) and Antonio Inoki	1	October 31, 1967	Osaka, Japan
Title held up on January 8, 1968 when Inoki no-shows a scheduled defense against Crusher Lisowski and Bill Miller in Hiroshima, Japan due to heavy snow.
10	Giant Baba (3) and Antonio Inoki (2)	2	February 3, 1968	Tokyo, Japan	Defeated Crusher Lisowski and Bill Miller to win the held up title.
11	Danny Hodge and Wilbur Snyder	1	January 9, 1969	Hiroshima, Japan
12	Giant Baba (4) and Antonio Inoki (3)	3	February 4, 1969	Sapporo, Japan
13	Dick the Bruiser and Crusher Lisowski	1	August 11, 1969	Sapporo, Japan
14	Giant Baba (5) and Antonio Inoki (4)	4	August 13, 1969	Osaka, Japan
15	Dory Funk, Jr. and Terry Funk	1	December 7, 1971	Los Angeles, California, United States
16	Giant Baba (6) and Seiji Sakaguchi	1	May 19, 1972	Tokyo, Japan
Title vacated on September 7, 1972 when Baba left the JWA to found All Japan Pro Wrestling.
17	Kintaro Ohki and Seiji Sakaguchi (2)	1	December 2, 1972	Tokyo, Japan	Defeated Bobo Brazil and Gene Kiniski to win the vacant title.
18	Killer Karl Krupp and Johnny Valentine	1	February 22, 1973	Osaka, Japan
19	Kintaro Ohki (2) and Umanosuke Ueda	1	March 6, 1973	Nagoya, Japan
20	Killer Karl Krupp (2) and Fritz Von Erich	1	April 18, 1973	Yaizu, Japan
21	Killer Karl Krupp (3) and Karl Von Steiger	1	April 1973	n/a	Krupp chose Von Steiger as his new partner after Von Erich forfeited his half of the title.
The JWA closed in April 1973 but Krupp and von Steiger kept the belts, returning with them to Amarillo, Texas, to Dory Funk's promotion.
22	Dory Funk, Jr. and Terry Funk	2	May 26, 1973	Amarillo, Texas, United States
23	Killer Karl Kox and Ciclon Negro	1	August 26, 1973	Lubbock, Texas, United States
24	Dory Funk, Jr. and Terry Funk	3	October 1973	Texas, United States
25	Giant Baba (7) and Jumbo Tsuruta	1	February 5, 1975	San Antonio, Texas, United States	They returned to All Japan Pro Wrestling with the belts.
26	Kintaro Ohki (3) and Kim Duk	1	October 28, 1976	Tokyo, Japan
27	Giant Baba (8) and Jumbo Tsuruta (2)	2	December 9, 1976	Tokyo, Japan
28	Kintaro Ohki (4) and Kim Duk (2)	2	November 7, 1977	Seoul, South Korea
29	Giant Baba (9) and Jumbo Tsuruta (3)	3	May 11, 1978	Tokyo, Japan
30	Abdullah the Butcher and Ray Candy	1	October 12, 1979	Tokyo, Japan
31	Giant Baba (10) and Jumbo Tsuruta (4)	4	October 19, 1979	Tokyo, Japan	Baba and Tsuruta also won the Detroit version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship on June 28, 1980, defeating John Bonello and Randy Scott in Detroit, Michigan.
32	Ron Bass and Stan Hansen	1	April 12, 1983	Matsuyama, Japan
33	Giant Baba (11) and Jumbo Tsuruta (5)	5	April 17, 1983	Nagasaki, Japan
34	Tiger Jeet Singh and Umanosuke Ueda (2)	1	July 26, 1983	Fukuoka, Japan
35	Giant Baba (12) and Jumbo Tsuruta (6)	6	August 1, 1983	Tokyo, Japan
Title vacated in May 1984 when Baba was injured.
36	Genichiro Tenryu and Jumbo Tsuruta (7)	1	September 3, 1984	Hiroshima, Japan	Defeated Jerry Blackwell and Bruiser Brody to win the vacant title.
37	Riki Chōshū and Yoshiaki Yatsu	1	February 5, 1986	Sapporo, Japan
38	Genichiro Tenryu (2) and Jumbo Tsuruta (8)	2	February 5, 1987	Tokyo, Japan
39	The Road Warriors (Animal and Hawk)	1	March 12, 1987	Sapporo, Japan
40	Jumbo Tsuruta (9) and Yoshiaki Yatsu (2)	1	June 10, 1988	Tokyo, Japan
On June 10, 1988, Tsuruta and Yatsu's PWF Tag Team Championship (which they won on June 4, 1988 by defeating Ashura Hara and Genichiro Tenryu in Sapporo, Japan) was unified with the NWA International Tag Team Championship, creating the AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship, also known as the "Double Cup".
A number inside parentheses in the "Name(s)" column indicates the wrestler had multiple tag team parters and the number is how many reigns they individually had as one-half of the NWA International Tag Team Champions.

References

1. ^ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (4th Edition 2006). Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4. 

See also

• All Japan Pro Wrestling
• Japan Wrestling Association
• AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship
• NWA International Heavyweight Championship

External links

• Wrestling-Titles.com