NWA World Tag Team Championships
| NWA World Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||
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The current NWA World Tag Team Championship belt.
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| Promotion | NWA | ||||||||||
| Date established | July 12, 1992 | ||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | The Heatseekers (Sigmon and Elliott Russell) | ||||||||||
| Date won | June 17, 2017 | ||||||||||
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| 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 a professional wrestling world tag team championship created by the National Wrestling Alliance. From 1948 to 1982, the NWA allowed member promotions to create their own territorial version of the "NWA World Tag Team Championship" without 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. 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' NWA World Tag Team Championship was active, but still being controlled by JCP, not the NWA board of directors. In 1991 that championship was renamed the WCW World Tag Team Championship.
In 1992 the NWA board of directors decided to sanction one world-level NWA World Tag Team Championship, working with WCW to hold a tournament to determine the inaugural, officially recognised, NWA World Tag Team Championship. In 1993, the NWA and WCW severed their relationship and the NWA took with it the tag team championship. The NWA would briefly allow the World Wrestling Federation to control the championship in 1998 but by 1999 that collaboration ended. In 2002 the NWA gave control of the NWA World Tag Team Championship to the newly formed NWA Total Nonstop Action (NWA-TNA) promotion. 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.
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