Championshipname: | IWA World Tag Team Championship |
Created: | 1966 |
Titleretired: | 1971 |
The IWA World Tag Team Championship was the top tag team professional wrestling title in the Australian World Championship Wrestling promotion from 1966 through 1971.[1]
Although a part of WCW, the championship carried the IWA initials, for the International Wrestling Alliance, WCW's sanctioning body for its championships.
WCW joined the National Wrestling Alliance in August 1969,[2] but still recognized this title as its world title. In 1971, the title was abandoned and the NWA Austra-Asian Tag Team Championship was established as WCW's new top tag team title.
37 different teams held the championship, combining for 50 individual title reigns.[1]
width=35% | Wrestlers: | width=0% | Times: | width=17% | Date: | width=21% | Location: | width=27% | Notes: |
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Larry Hennig and Harley Race | 1 | June 1966 | ? | ||||||
Dominic DeNucci and Mark Lewin | 1 | 1 July 1966 | Sydney | [3] | |||||
Brute Bernard and Skull Murphy | 1 | 15 July 1966 | Sydney, New South Wales | ||||||
Mark Lewin and Bearcat Wright | 1 | 29 July 1966 | Sydney | ||||||
2 | August 1966 | ? | |||||||
The Flying Scots (George and Sandy Scott) | 1 | 22 October 1966 | |||||||
Art Nelson and Ray Stevens | 1 | 19 November 1966 | |||||||
The Flying Scots (George and Sandy Scott) | 2 | December 1966 | Melbourne, Victoria | ||||||
Karl and Kurt Von Stroheim | 1 | June 1967 | United States | ||||||
Red Bastien and Mario Milano | 1 | 28 July 1967 | Sydney, New South Wales | ||||||
1 | 25 August 1967 | Sydney, New South Wales | |||||||
2 | September 1967 | Melbourne, Victoria | |||||||
2 | 6 October 1967 | Sydney, New South Wales | |||||||
3 | 13 October 1967 | Sydney, New South Wales | |||||||
Art Nelson and Pat Patterson | 1 | 25 December 1967 | San Francisco, California | ||||||
Mario Milano and Billy White Wolf | 1 | February 1968 | Perth, Western Australia | ||||||
3 | 22 March 1968 | Sydney | |||||||
Mario Milano and Antonio Pugliese | 1 | April 1968 | |||||||
1 | May 1968 | ||||||||
1 | May 1968 | ? | |||||||
Killer Kowalski and Bill Miller | 1 | June 1968 | |||||||
1 | July 1968 | Adelaide, South Australia | |||||||
Ciclón Negro and Baron Mikel Scicluna | 1 | 6 July 1968 | Sydney, New South Wales | ||||||
The Assassins | 1 | 30 August 1968 | Sydney, New South Wales | ||||||
The Flying Scots (George and Sandy Scott) | 3 | 11 October 1968 | Sydney, New South Wales | ||||||
Skull Murphy and Toru Tanaka | 1 | November 1968 | ? | ||||||
4 | January 1969 | ? | |||||||
1 | 21 February 1969 | Sydney, New South Wales | |||||||
Mario Milano and The Spoiler | 1 | 7 March 1969 | Sydney, New South Wales | [4] | |||||
2 | March 1969 | Melbourne, Victoria | |||||||
Mario Milano and Waldo Von Erich | 1 | 4 April 1969 | Sydney, New South Wales | ||||||
1 | April 1969 | ? | |||||||
1 | 25 April 1969 | Sydney, New South Wales | |||||||
2 | 24 May 1969 | Sydney, New South Wales | |||||||
WCW joined the National Wrestling Alliance in August 1969. | |||||||||
Lars Anderson and Dick Murdoch | 1 | October 1969 | ? | ||||||
5 | 5 December 1969 | Sydney, New South Wales | |||||||
1 | 19 December 1969 | Sydney, New South Wales | |||||||
Buddy Austin and King Curtis Iaukea | 1 | 26 December 1969 | Sydney, New South Wales | ||||||
Swede Hanson and Rip Hawk | 1 | April 1970 | Hobart, Tasmania | ||||||
1 | 15 May 1970 | Sydney, New South Wales | |||||||
Von Steigers (Kurt and Karl Von Steiger) | 1 | 19 June 1970 | Sydney, New South Wales | ||||||
1 | 1970 | ? | |||||||
Von Steigers (Kurt and Karl Von Steiger) | 2 | 1970 | ? | ||||||
1 | December 1970 | ? | |||||||
The Texas Outlaws | 1 | 21 January 1971 | Sydney, New South Wales | ||||||
1 | March 1971 | ? | |||||||
1 | April 1971 | ? | |||||||
Mr. Fuji and Tiger Jeet Singh | 1 | May 1971 | ? | ||||||
2 | June 1971 | ? | |||||||
Von Steigers (Kurt and Karl Von Steiger) | 3 | August 1971 | ? | ||||||
The title was retired in 1971 and replaced with the NWA Austra-Asian Tag Team Championship. |