| Championshipname: | AWA World Tag Team Championship |
| Promotion: | American Wrestling Association |
| Created: | 1960 |
| Titleretired: | 1991 |
| Mostreigns: | (as team) The Crusher and Dick the Bruiser (5 times) (as individual) The Crusher (9 times) |
| Firstchamp: | Murder, Inc. (Stan Kowalski and Tiny Mills) |
| Longestreign: | The High Flyers (Jim Brunzell and Greg Gagne) (744 days) |
| Shortestreign: | Bill Dundee and Jerry Lawler (4 days) |
The American Wrestling Association (AWA) World Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling world tag team championship in the American Wrestling Association from 1960 until the promotion folded in 1991.
When the NWA Minneapolis Wrestling and Boxing Club operated by Verne Gagne withdrew from the National Wrestling Alliance in May 1960, Stan Kowalski and Tiny Mills were the recognized champions of the NWA World Tag Team Championship (Minneapolis version). At the time, the AWA continued to recognize the NWA champions as their World champions. However, by August 1960, and having recently recaptured the NWA Tag Team championships for a second time, Kowalski and Mills were recognized as the first AWA World Tag Team Champions when AWA stopped recognizing NWA champions.
As the promotion grew, the AWA World Tag Team Championship became one of the most coveted tag team titles in the United States from the beginning until the late 1980s, when the AWA's talent roster was depleted by the World Wrestling Federation and Jim Crockett Promotions. This led to the retirement of the titles when the AWA closed.[1]
| Rank | Team |
| Combined Days | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Crusher and Dick the Bruiser | 5 | 1,325 | |
| 2. | Nick Bockwinkel and Ray Stevens | 3 | 1,202 | |
| 3. | The High Flyers (Jim Brunzell and Greg Gagne) | 2 | 1,185 | |
| 4. | Harley Race and Larry Hennig / Chris Markoff[2] | 3 | 777 | |
| 5. | Butcher and Mad Dog Vachon | 2 | 623 | |
| 6. | Verne Gagne and Mad Dog Vachon | 1 | 410 | |
| 7. | Road Warriors (Animal and Hawk) | 1 | 400 | |
| 8. | Mitsu Arakawa and Dr. Moto | 1 | 392 | |
| 9. | Badd Company (Paul Diamond and Pat Tanaka) | 1 | 371 | |
| 10. | Bobby Duncum and Blackjack Lanza | 1 | 349 | |
| 11. | The East-West Connection (Adrian Adonis and Jesse Ventura) | 1 | 329 | |
| 12. | The Sheiks (Jerry Blackwell and Ken Patera) | 1 | 315 | |
| 13. | The Destruction Crew (Wayne Bloom and Mike Enos) | 1 | 314 | |
| 14. | Art and Stan Nielson | 1 | 259 | |
| 15. | Pat Patterson and Ray Stevens | 1 | 256 | |
| 16. | Buddy Rose and Doug Somers | 1 | 255 | |
| 17. | Red Bastien and Hercules Cortez/The Crusher*[3] | 1 | 250 |
| Rank | Wrestler |
| Combined Days | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Crusher | 9 | 1,717[4] | |
| 2. | Ray Stevens | 4 | 1,458 | |
| 3. | Dick the Bruiser | 5 | 1,325 | |
| 4. | Nick Bockwinkel | 3 | 1,202 | |
| 5. | Jim Brunzell | 2 | 1,185 | |
| 5. | Greg Gagne | 2 | 1,185 | |
| 7. | Mad Dog Vachon | 3 | 1033 | |
| 8. | Larry Hennig | 4 | 797 | |
| 9. | Harley Race | 3 | 777 | |
| 10. | Butcher Vachon | 2 | 623 |