FCW Florida Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||||
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Joe Hennig/Michael McGillicutty as one-half of the Florida Tag Team Champions in 2010
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Promotion | Florida Championship Wrestling | ||||||||||||
Date established | February 23, 2008 | ||||||||||||
Date retired | August 14, 2012 | ||||||||||||
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First champion(s) | The Puerto Rican Nightmares (Eddie Colón and Eric Pérez) |
Final champion(s) | Rick Victor and Brad Maddox |
Most reigns | (as a team) The Puerto Rican Nightmares (Eddie Colón and Eric Pérez) (3 reigns) (as an individual) Joe Hennig/Michael McGillicutty (4 reigns) |
Longest reign | Johnny Curtis and Tyler Reks (140 days) |
Shortest reign | Justin Gabriel and Kris Logan (<1 day) |
The FCW Florida Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team championship owned and promoted by Florida Championship Wrestling, (FCW, now known as NXT Wrestling), a former developmental territory of WWE. It was contested for in their tag team division. The championship was created and debuted on February 23, 2008 at a FCW house show.
The first champions were The Puerto Rican Nightmares (Eddie Colón and Eric Pérez) who won a one night tag team tournament by defeating Steve Lewington and Heath Miller in the finals to become the inaugural champions. In August 2012, the championship was retired when FCW was re-branded to NXT Wrestling and were being replaced by in favor with NXT Tag Team Championship in early 2013 with Rick Victor and Brad Maddox becoming the final champions after defeating CJ Parker and Jason Jordan on July 28, 2012 in Melbourne, Florida, to win the titles.
Overall, there were 26 different championship teams, and 45 individual champions with the tag team of The Puerto Rican Nightmares (Eddie Colón and Eric Pérez) holding the most reigns at three. Joe Hennig/Michael McGillicutty, hold most reigns by a single competitor, with four. Johnny Curtis and Tyler Reks hold the longest reign at 140 days, in addition, Curtis holds the longest combined reign individually at 224 days. Justin Gabriel and Kris Logan have the shortest reign as a team at less than one day, due to them winning and losing the titles during the same FCW television taping event.