NWA World Tag Team Champions

NWA World Tag Team Championship
The current NWA World Tag Team Championship belt.
Details
Promotion	NWA (1992-present) WCW (1992–1993) IWA Japan (1994–1995) WWF (1998) TNA (2002–2007)
Date established	July 12, 1992
Current champion(s)	Kazushi Miyamoto and Rob Terry
Date won	February 23, 2017
Statistics First champion(s) Terry Gordy and Steve Williams Most reigns Team: America's Most Wanted (6 reigns) Individual: Chris Harris, James Storm (7 reigns) Longest reign The Skullkrushers (Rasche Brown and Keith Walker) (777 days) Shortest reign David Flair and Dan Factor / Glacier and Jason Sugarman / The Heatseekers (1 day)

The NWA World Tag Team Championship is the main professional wrestling world tag team championship of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). When the NWA was founded in 1948 the NWA Board of Directors allowed any NWA member promotions to create their own "NWA World Tag Team Championship" without interference or oversight from the board of directors. The first of these NWA World Tag Team Championships was created in 1950 in the San Francisco territory, which while billed as a "World" title was essentially restricted to the specific NWA territory. From the first championship was created in 1950 until 1982 several versions of the tag team championship existed, in 1957 as many as 13 different versions of the NWA World Tag Team Championship were confirmed to be in existence. In 1982 Big Time Wrestling, based in Los Angeles, closed and abandoned their version of the championship. This meant that only the Jim Crockett Promotions' (JCP) NWA World Tag Team Championship was active, but still restricted to being controlled by JCP, not the NWA board of directors. In 1991 that championship was renamed the World Championship Wrestling Tag Team Championship.

In 1992 the NWA board of directors decided to sanction a "world level" tag team championship, working with WCW to hold a tournament to determine the inaugural, officially sanctioned, NWA World Tag Team Championship. Initially the NWA worked with WCW, but in 1993 the two severed their collaboration and the NWA took the tag team championship from WCW. The NWA would briefly allow the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now known as WWE) to control the championship in in 1998 but by 1999 that collaboration ended. In 2002 the NWA gave full control of the NWA World Tag Team Championship to the newly formed NWA Total Nonstop Action (NWA-TNA) promotion (now known as Impact Wrestling), allowing the promotion to control all aspects of the championship. TNA's control of the championship ended in 2007, with TNA creating the TNA World Tag Team Championship as a result. In subsequent years the championship has been defended on various continents including a period of time where it was held by several teams working for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW).