| MLW World Tag Team Championship | |
| Promotion: | Major League Wrestling (MLW) |
| Currentholder: | Contra Unit |
| Won: | August 29, 2024 |
| Created: | July 8, 2003 |
| Firstchamp: | The Extreme Horsemen |
| Mostreigns: | As a team: All titleholders (1 reign) As individual: Davey Boy Smith Jr. (2 reigns) |
| Longestreign: | The Von Erichs (days) |
| Shortestreign: | World Titan Federation (53 days) |
| Oldest: | Minoru Suzuki |
| Youngest: | Maxwell Jacob Friedman |
| Heaviest: | Juicy Finau (449 lbs) |
| Lightest: | Rey Fénix (167 lbs) |
| Pastnames: |
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The MLW World Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship which is owned by the Major League Wrestling (MLW) promotion. The championship is generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants usually execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition.
The titles were unveiled on April 21, 2003, during the Underground TV tapings, under the MLW Global Tag Team Crown Championship name.[1] The titles were vacated on February 10, 2004, after the promotion closed.[2] After the relaunch of the promotion in 2018, The Lucha Brothers (Penta el 0M and Rey Fénix) would win the vacant titles under the MLW World Tag Team Championship name on June 7, 2018.[3] [4]
The titles were unveiled on April 21, 2003, during the Underground TV tapings, under the MLW Global Tag Team Crown Championship name. MLW would start a four-team single-elimination tournament to crown the first champions.[1] The teams for the tournament were PJ Friedman and Steve Williams, Jimmy Yang and Mike Sanders, The Extreme Horsemen (C.W. Anderson and Simon Diamond) and Los Maximos (José Maximo and Joel Maximo).[1] Friedman and Williams and The Extreme Hoursemen would both advance to the finals of the tournament.[1] On May 9 at MLW Revolutions, The Extreme Hoursemen would defeat Friedman and Williams to become the first champions.[5] However their reign would end on February 10, 2004, after the promotion stopped running events.[2]
After the promotion was revived the July 2017, MLW announced on May 10, 2018, the revival of the titles under the MLW World Tag Team Championship name, with Lucha Brothers (Penta el 0M and Rey Fénix), Team TBD (Jason Cade and Jimmy Yuta) and The Dirty Blondes (Leo Brien and Michael Patrick) facing each other in a three-way elimination match on June 7 to crown the new champions.[6] [7] On June 7, Lucha Brothers would defeat Team TBD and The Dirty Blondes in a three-way elimination match to win the vacant championships.[3] [8]
| Eliminated | Wrestler | Team | Eliminated by | Method of elimination |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Patrick | The Dirty Blondes | Jason Cade | ||
| Jimmy Yuta | Team TBD | Penta el 0M | Pinned after The Land Zone | |
| Lucha Brothers (Penta el 0M and Rey Fénix) | ||||
As of,, there have been fourteen reigns between fourteen teams composed of 28 individual champions and two vacancies. The inaugural champions were The Extreme Horsemen (C.W. Anderson and Simon Diamond). The Von Erichs (Marshall and Ross Von Erich) reign is the longest at 438 days, while World Titan Federation (Tom Lawlor and Davey Boy Smith Jr.) have the shortest reign at 53 days. L.A. Park is the oldest champion at 55 while MJF is the youngest at 23.
The current champions are Contra Unit (Ikuro Kwon and Minoru Suzuki), who are in their first reign as a team and individually. They won the titles by defeating CozyMax (Satoshi Kojima and Shigeo Okumura) at Summer of the Beasts on August 29, 2024 in Queens, New York.
| Name | Years | |
|---|---|---|
| MLW Global Tag Team Crown Championship | April 21, 2003 – February 10, 2004 | |
| MLW World Tag Team Championship | June 7, 2018 – present |
As of, .
| Rank | Team | No. of reigns | Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 438 | |
| 2 | Hustle & Power | 315 | |
| 3 | 297 | ||
| 4 | 277 | ||
| 5 | 240 | ||
| 6 | The Samoan SWAT Team | 182 | |
| 7 | 154 | ||
| 8 | The Calling | 133 | |
| 9 | 119 | ||
| 10 | 5150 | 112 | |
| 11 | CozyMax | 110 | |
| 12 | The Second Gear Crew | 103 | |
| 13 | Contra Unit † | + | |
| 14 | World Titan Federation | 53 | |
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 438 | |
| 438 | |||
| 3 | 315 | ||
| 355 | |||
| 5 | 297 | ||
| 297 | |||
| 7 | 240 | ||
| 240 | |||
| 9 | 227 | ||
| 227 | |||
| 11 | 2 | 207 | |
| 15 | Juicy Finau | 1 | 182 |
| 182 | |||
| 14 | 154 | ||
| 154 | |||
| 16 | 133 | ||
| 133 | |||
| 18 | 119 | ||
| 119 | |||
| 20 | 112 | ||
| 112 | |||
| 22 | 110 | ||
| 110 | |||
| 24 | 103 | ||
| 103 | |||
| 26 | Ikuro Kwon † | + | |
| Minoru Suzuki † | + | ||
| 28 | 53 | ||