| Championshipname: | USWA Tag Team Championship |
| Promotion: | United States Wrestling Association |
| Created: | August 11, 1989 |
| Titleretired: | November 1997 |
| Mostreigns: | PG-13 (professional wrestling) (Wolfie D and J. C. Ice) (16 times) |
| Firstchamp: | Cactus Jack and Scott Braddock |
| Longestreign: | The Moondogs (Spot and Spike) (At least 123 days) |
| Shortestreign: | Ron and Jim Harris/Tommy Rich and Doug Gilbert/Flash Flanagan and Nick Dinsmore (0 days) |
The USWA World Tag Team Championship was the primary professional wrestling tag team championship promoted by the Memphis, Tennessee-based United States Wrestling Association (USWA). The Continental Wrestling Association and World Class Wrestling Association (WCWA) merged in 1989 to form the USWA.[1] In the merger the USWA replaced both the WCWA World Tag Team Championship and the CWA Tag Team Championship with the USWA version. The promotion awarded Cactus Jack and Scott Braddock the championship after they won the WCWA championship on August 4, 1989. The USWA closed in 1997, with PG-13 (J. C. Ice and Wolfie D) as the final champions. There were a total of 116 reigns in the eight year lifetime of the championship.
The final champions, PG-13, holds the record for most championship reigns as they held the belts on 15 different occasions across the years, in addition each member also held the championship with a different partner, making them tied for most overall reigns for an individual. The Moondogs (Spot and Spike) reign as champions lasted between 123 and 152 days, the longest of any championship team. In April 1992 Moondog Cujo replaced Spike, but records are unclear as to what date the change was made. The teams of Jim and Ron Harris, Tommy Rich and Doug Gilbert, and Flash Flanagan and Nick Dinsmore, all lost the championship on the same show that they won the championship, tying them for the shortest reign.
As it is a professional wrestling championship, the championship was won not by actual competition, but by kayfabe to a match determined by the bookers and match makers. On occasion the promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline, or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship, or leaving the company.
The original belts to represent the title were the WCWA World Tag Team Championship belts.
In 1990, the WCWA belts were replaced by the old USA Tag Team Championship belts that was originally used in the short-lived USA Championship Wrestling promotion in 1988, before Continental Wrestling Federation used them to replace the NWA Continental Tag Team Championship belts to represent their title. In 1996, USWA changed the red straps to black and repainted the red design on the centerpiece and the blue design on the sideplates to black.
| ¤ | The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used. |
| data-sort-type="number" | Rank | Team | data-sort-type="number" | No. of reigns | data-sort-type="number" | Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PG-13 / Cyberpunks (J. C. Ice and Wolfie D) | 15 | ||||
| 2 | The Moondogs (Spot and Spike) | 3 | ||||
| 3 | Jeff Jarrett and Robert Fuller | 3 | 159 | |||
| 4 | The Moondogs (Spot and Rex) | 3 | 131 | |||
| 5 | Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Lawler | 4 | 125 | |||
| 6 | Tommy Rich and Doug Gilbert | 4 | 94 | |||
| 7 | The Southern Rockers (Rex King and Steve Doll) | 3 | 90 | |||
| 9 | Tony Anthony and Doug Gilbert | 2 | 79 | |||
| 9 | The Moondogs (Spot and Cujo) | 3 | ||||
| 10 | Bill Dundee and Jamie Dundee | 1 | 70 | |||
| Robert Fuller and Brian Lee | 2 | 70 | ||||
| Simply Devine (Rex King and Steve Doll) | 1 | 70 | ||||
| Tracy Smothers and Jesse James Armstrong | 2 | 70 | ||||
| 14 | Flash Flanagan and Steven Dunn | 3 | 68 | |||
| Jeff Jarrett and Matt Borne | 2 | |||||
| 16 | Texas Outlaws / Barrom Brawlers / Dog Catchers (Bonecrusher and Crowbar) | 2 | 58 | |||
| 17 | The Harris Brothers (Ron and Don) | 5 | 56 | |||
| 18 | Rex King and Joey Maggs | 1 | 49 | |||
| The Moondogs (Spot and Splat) | 4 | 49 | ||||
| The Truth Commission (Recon and Interrogator) | 3 | 49 | ||||
| 21 | The Texas Hangmen (Killer and Psycho) | 1 | 48 | |||
| 22 | The Eliminators (Saturn and Kronus) | 1 | 42 | |||
| 23 | Brickhouse Brown and Reggie B. Fine | 1 | 31 | |||
| 24 | The Moondogs (Spot and Rover) | 1 | 29 | |||
| 25 | C.W. Bergstrom and Melvin Penrod, Jr. | 1 | 28 | |||
| 26 | Jeff Jarrett and Brian Christopher | 2 | 26 | |||
| Jeff Jarrett and Jeff Gaylord | 2 | 26 | ||||
| 28 | Billy Travis and Flash Flanagan | 2 | 25 | |||
| 29 | Brian Lee and Don Harris | 2 | 23 | |||
| The Uptown Posse (Brickhouse Brown and Sweet Daddy Falcone) | 1 | 23 | ||||
| 31 | Doug Masters and Bart Sawyer | 1 | 21 | |||
| Far 2 Wild (Todd Morton and Chris Michaels) | 2 | 21 | ||||
| Flex Kavana and Bart Sawyer | 2 | 21 | ||||
| Jerry Lawler and Bill Dundee | 2 | 21 | ||||
| The Dirty White Boys (Tony Anthony and Tom Burton) | 1 | 21 | ||||
| The Fabulous Ones (Stan Lane and Steve Keirn) | 1 | 21 | ||||
| The Moondogs (Spike and Cujo) | 2 | 21 | ||||
| 38 | Brian Christopher and Wolfie D (13) | 1 | 19 | |||
| 39 | Brickhouse Brown and The Gambler | 1 | 16 | |||
| 40 | Dante and The Great Mephisto | 1 | 14 | |||
| New Jack and Homeboy | 1 | 14 | ||||
| Rock 'N Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) | 2 | 14 | ||||
| Steven Dunn and Paul Diamond | 1 | 14 | ||||
| The Heavenly Bodies (Tom Prichard and Jimmy Del Ray) | 1 | 14 | ||||
| 45 | Moondog Spike and Mike Anthony | 1 | 12 | |||
| 46 | Brian Christopher and Eddie Gilbert | 1 | 9 | |||
| The War Machines | 1 | 9 | ||||
| 48 | Brian Christopher and Big Black Dog | 1 | 7 | |||
| Brian Christopher and Scotty Flamingo | 1 | 7 | ||||
| Cactus Jack and Scott Braddock | 1 | 7 | ||||
| Jeff Gaylord and Mike Anthony | 1 | 7 | ||||
| Koko B. Ware and Rex Hargrove | 1 | 7 | ||||
| Sheik Braddock and Ron Starr | 1 | 7 | ||||
| The Phantoms (Tragedy and Sorrow) | 1 | 7 | ||||
| The Shooting Stars (Troy Haste and Jerry Faith) | 1 | 7 | ||||
| 56 | Robert Fuller and Mike Mitchell | 1 | 5 | |||
| 57 | Beauty and the Beast (Ron and Jim Harris) | 1 | 0 | |||
| Flash Flanagan and Nick Dinsmore | 1 | 0 |
| ¤ | The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used. |
| data-sort-type="number" | Rank | Wrestler | data-sort-type="number" | No. of reigns | data-sort-type="number" | Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J. C. Ice | 16 | ||||
| 2 | Wolfie D | 16 | ||||
| 4 | Moondog Spot | 14 | ||||
| 5 | Jeff Jarrett | 13 | ||||
| 6 | Spike | 6 | 249 | |||
| 7 | Steven Dunn / Steve Doll | 8 | 242 | |||
| 8 | Robert Fuller | 6 | 234 | |||
| 9 | Rex King | 5 | 209 | |||
| 10 | Doug Gilbert | 6 | 173 | |||
| 11 | Jerry Lawler | 6 | 146 | |||
| 12 | Rex | 3 | 131 | |||
| 13 | Tony Anthony | 3 | 100 | |||
| 14 | Tommy Rich | 4 | 94 | |||
| 15 | Brian Lee | 4 | 93 | |||
| Flash Flanagan | 6 | 93 | ||||
| 17 | Moondog Cujo | 5 | ||||
| 18 | Bill Dundee | 3 | 91 | |||
| 19 | Don Harris | 7 | 79 | |||
| 20 | Brickhouse Brown | 3 | 70 | |||
| Jesse James Armstrong | 2 | 70 | ||||
| Tracy Smothers | 2 | 70 | ||||
| 23 | Brian Christopher | 6 | 68 | |||
| Matt Borne | 2 | |||||
| 25 | Bonecrusher | 2 | 58 | |||
| Crowbar | 2 | 58 | ||||
| 27 | Ron Harris | 6 | 56 | |||
| 28 | Interrogator | 3 | 49 | |||
| Joey Maggs | 1 | 49 | ||||
| Recon | 3 | 49 | ||||
| Moondog Splat | 4 | 49 | ||||
| 32 | Killer | 1 | 48 | |||
| Psycho | 1 | 48 | ||||
| 34 | Kronus | 1 | 42 | |||
| Saturn | 1 | 42 | ||||
| 36 | Bart Sawyer | 3 | 41 | |||
| 37 | Jeff Gaylord | 3 | 33 | |||
| 38 | Reggie B. Fine | 1 | 31 | |||
| 39 | Moondog Rover | 1 | 29 | |||
| 40 | C.W. Bergstrom | 1 | 28 | |||
| Melvin Penrod Jr. | 1 | 28 | ||||
| 42 | Billy Travis | 2 | 25 | |||
| 43 | Sweet Daddy Falcone | 1 | 23 | |||
| 44 | Chris Michaels | 2 | 21 | |||
| Doug Masters | 1 | 21 | ||||
| Flex Kavana | 2 | 21 | ||||
| Stan Lane | 1 | 21 | ||||
| Steve Keirn | 1 | 21 | ||||
| Todd Morton | 2 | 21 | ||||
| Tom Burton | 1 | 21 | ||||
| 51 | The Gambler | 1 | 16 | |||
| 52 | Dante | 1 | 14 | |||
| The Great Mephisto | 1 | 14 | ||||
| Homeboy | 1 | 14 | ||||
| Jimmy Del Ray | 1 | 14 | ||||
| New Jack | 1 | 14 | ||||
| Paul Diamond | 1 | 14 | ||||
| Ricky Morton | 2 | 14 | ||||
| Robert Gibson | 2 | 14 | ||||
| Scott Braddock / Sheik Braddock | 2 | 14 | ||||
| Tom Prichard | 1 | 14 | ||||
| 61 | Eddie Gilbert | 1 | 9 | |||
| War Machine I | 1 | 9 | ||||
| War Machine II | 1 | 9 | ||||
| 64 | Big Black Dog | 1 | 7 | |||
| Cactus Jack | 1 | 7 | ||||
| Jerry Faith | 1 | 7 | ||||
| Koko B. Ware | 1 | 7 | ||||
| Mark Starr | 1 | 7 | ||||
| Mike Anthony | 1 | 7 | ||||
| Rex Hargrove | 1 | 7 | ||||
| Scotty Flamingo | 1 | 7 | ||||
| Sorrow | 1 | 7 | ||||
| Tragedy | 1 | 7 | ||||
| Troy Haste | 1 | 7 | ||||
| 74 | Mike Mitchell | 1 | 5 | |||
| 75 | Jim Harris | 1 | 0 | |||
| Nick Dinsmore | 1 | 0 |
The USWA Tag Team Tournament was a one-night single elimination tag team tournament held in Dallas, Texas on December 1, 1989, for the vacant USWA World Tag Team Championship.[2]