WCW Tag Team Championship

WCW World Tag Team Championship
The final WCW World Tag Team Championship belt
Details
Promotion	NWA/JCP (1975–1988) WCW (1988–2001) WWF (2001)
Date established	January 29, 1975
Date retired	November 18, 2001
Past design(s)
Other name(s)
NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-Atlantic) (1975–1991) WCW World Tag Team Championship (WCW) (1991–2001) WCW Tag Team Championhip (WWF) (2001)
Statistics First champion(s) The Minnesota Wrecking Crew (Gene and Ole Anderson) Final champion(s) The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley) Most reigns (as team) Harlem Heat (10) (as individual) Booker T (11) Longest reign Doom (Butch Reed and Ron Simmons) (282 days) Shortest reign The Misfits In Action (Cpl.Cajun and Lt. Loco) (<30 min) Oldest winner Diamond Dallas Page (44 years, 256 days) Youngest winner David Flair (20 years, 304 days) Heaviest champion Scott Hall and The Giant (728 lb (330 kg)) Lightest champion Rey Mysterio and Juventud Guerrera (330 lb (150 kg))

The WCW World Tag Team Championship (previously NWA World Tag Team Championship) was a professional wrestling world tag team championship in World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It was the original world tag team title of WCW and remained active until it was unified with the WWF Tag Team Championship from the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE).

The WCW Tag Team Championship was originally known as the NWA World Tag Team Championship of Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling (MACW) run by Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP). Following the title's introduction in 1975, the Minnesota Wrecking Crew became the inaugural champions on January 29. The title was renamed the WCW World Tag Team Championship in 1991 when Ted Turner bought JCP and became World Championship Wrestling. Despite the title's name in MMACW, the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) did not recognize its own NWA World Tag Team Championship until 1992, when the NWA held a tournament to crown the first tag team recognized by all the NWA territories. Terry Gordy and Steve Williams won the tournament. As a result of Gordy and Williams being the WCW World Tag Team Champions when they became NWA World Tag Team Champions, both titles were defended together until WCW left the NWA in September 1993. On January 17, 2008, the NWA withdrew its recognition of every WCW World Tag Team Champion linked to the NWA World Tag Team Championship, officially stating that their titles were formed in 1995.