NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship | |||||||
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NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship belt
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Promotion | Pacific Northwest Wrestling | ||||||
Date established | November 17, 1952 | ||||||
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First champion(s) | Harold Sakata & Toi Yamamoto |
Most reigns | Tony Borne & Moondog Mayne |
The NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling championship sanctioned by the National Wrestling Alliance and defended in its member promotion Pacific Northwest Wrestling, which promoted shows in the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington.
The original version of the title lasted from 1952 until the company's closure in 1992, when Don Owen retired and sold his company to Sandy Barr.[2] Barr retired all NWA PNW titles with Owen and began operating under the company name "Championship Wrestling USA", creating new championships. In 1993, the belts were used to represent the AAA/IWC World Tag Team Championship until it was deactivated in 1994. The actual retired (Owen Era) NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship belts were kept by Sandy Barr, refurbished due to age and were being used by the International Grappler's Alliance, his wrestling organization. With Sandy Barr's passing, Josh Barr started PDX Pro Wrestling in St. Johns, Oregon, in 2007, which is using the original PNW Tag Team belts. In March 2015, the NWA made its return to Portland when local promotion Blue Collar Wrestling joined the Alliance.