NWA Tennessee Tag Team Championship

NWA Tennessee Tag Team Championship
Details
Promotion	NWA Mid-America and Southeast Championship Wrestling
Date established	October 24, 1967
Date retired	May 1977
Statistics First champion(s) Lester Welch and Buddy Fuller Most reigns Ron and Don Wright (10 reigns)

The NWA Tennessee Tag Team Championship was a secondary tag team title promoted as the name indicates mainly in the Tennessee region from 1967 until 1977, first by Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling and occasionally NWA Mid-America from 1967 to 1974 then by its successor Southeast Championship Wrestling from 1974 to 1977 when it was abandoned. Because the championship was a professional wrestling championship, it was not won or lost competitively but instead by the decision of the bookers of a wrestling promotion. The championship was awarded after the chosen wrestler "won" a match to maintain the illusion that professional wrestling is a competitive sport. ^[1]

Title history

Key

No.	Overall reign number
Reign	Reign number for the specific champion
Days	Number of days held

No.	Champion	Championship change			Reign statistics		Notes	Ref.
		Date	Event	Location	Reign	Days
1	Lester Welch and Buddy Fuller	October 24, 1967	Mid-Am Show	Nashville, Tennessee	1	14	Won a tournament to become the first Tennessee Tag Team Champions.
2	Mario Galento and Alex Perez	November 7, 1967	Mid-Am Show	Nashville, Tennessee	1	148
3	Frank Dalton and Jack Dalton	April 3, 1968	Mid-Am Show	Nashville, Tennessee	1	[Note 1]
4	Les Thatcher and Dennis Hall	1969	Mid-Am Show	[Note 2]	1	[Note 3]
5	Ron and Don Wright	June 1969(NLT)	Mid-Am Show	[Note 2]	1	[Note 4]
6	Les Thatcher (2) and Whitey Caldwell	June 20, 1969	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	49
6.5	vacated	August 8, 1969	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Titles held up following a match against Ron and Don Wright [2]	[3]
7	Ron and Don Wright	August 15, 1969	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	2	70	Wins Rematch
8	Don Greene and Johnny Walker	October 24, 1969	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	8
—	Vacated	November 8, 1969	—	—	—	—	Vacant when Walker is under contract to tour Japan [2]	[3]
9	Les Thatcher (3) and Whitey Caldwell	November 29, 1969	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	2	20	Defeats The Spoilers in a tournament final
10	Frank Morrell and Tony Russo	December 19, 1969	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	28
11	Whitey Caldwell (3) and Johnny Walker (2)	January 16, 1970	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	6
12	The Spoilers (Spoiler #1 and #Spoiler 2)	January 22, 1970	Mid-Am Show	Chattanooga, Tennessee	1	15	Defeat Ron and Don Wright for the titles [2]
13	Ron and Don Wright	February 6, 1970	Mid-Am Show	[Note 2]	3	63	Ron and Don Wright became co-champions with The Avengers after their match on March 13, 1970 with two referees ending in a split decision
14	The Avengers (Avenger #1 and Avenger #2)	April 10, 1970	Mid-Am Show	[Note 2]	1	[Note 5]	Defeat Ron and Don Wright to become the undisputed champions
15	Ron Wright (4) and Frank Morrell (2)	May 17, 1970NLT	Mid-Am Show	[Note 2]	1	[Note 6]
16	Whitey Caldwell (4) and Frankie Cain	June 5, 1970	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	28
17	Ron Wright (5) and Frank Morrell (3)	July 3, 1970	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	2	[Note 7]
18	Les Thatcher (4) and Whitey Caldwell (5)	November 13, 1970	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	3	[Note 8]
19	The Heavenly Bodies (Don (2) and Al Greene)	December 23, 1970	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	[Note 9]	Billed as having "defeated the Scott brothers Wednesday at Jackson" (Knoxville News-Sentinel, 70/12/27); the actual Jackson card has the Greenes facing Tojo Yamamoto and Jerry Jarrett for Southern Title. [2]
20	Ron Wright (6) and Don Wright	January 8, 1971	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	4	[Note 10]
21	The Untouchables (Karl Von Stroheim and Frank Martinez)	May 2, 1971NLT	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	[Note 11]
21	Len Rossi and Bearcat Brown	June 4, 1971	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	56
22	Ron Wright (7) and Don Wright	July 30, 1971	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	5	35	Ron defeated Rossi on July 16 for one half of the titles and Don defeated Brown on July 30 for the other half of the titles
23	The Alaskans	September 3, 1971	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	14
24	Ron Wright (8) and Whitey Caldwell (6)	September 17, 1971	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	35
25	Whitey Caldwell (7) and Bearcat Brown (2)	October 8, 1971	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	7	Defeat Ron and Don Wright after Wright and Caldwell split up
—	Vacated	October 15, 1971	—	—	—	—	Vacant following a match against The Von Brauners [2]	[3]
26	The Von Brauners (Kurt and Karl Von Brauner)	October 22, 1971	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	21	Wins rematch
27	The Avengers (Avenger #1 and Avenger #2)	November 12, 1971	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	2	70
28	The Heavenly Bodies (Don (3) and Al Greene)	January 21, 1972	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	2	35
29	Ron Wright (9) and Jack Donovan	February 25, 1972	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	63
30	Robert Fuller and Roy Lee Welch	April 28, 1972	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	[Note 12]
31	The Heavenly Bodies (Don (4) and Al Greene)	May 1972	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	3	[Note 13]
32	The Australians (Larry O'Day and Ron Miller)	May 19, 1972	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	14
32	Ron Wright (10) and Jack Donovan	June 2, 1972	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	2	14
—	Vacated	June 16, 1972	—	—	—	—	Vacant after Donovan turned on Wright in a tag match between Ron and Don Wright and Jack Donovan vs. Whitey Caldwell, Larry O'Day, and Ron Miller
33	Ron Wright (11) and Don Wright	June 30, 1972	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	6	1	Defeated Jack Donovan and Whitey Caldwell [2]
34	Sputnik Monroe and Tommy Gilbert	July 1, 1972	Mid-Am Show	Chattanooga, Tennessee	1	14		[4]
35	Ron Wright (12) and Don Wright	July 15, 1972	Mid-Am Show	Chattanooga, Tennessee	7	7
36	Sputnik Monroe and Tommy Gilbert	July 22, 1972	Mid-Am Show	Chattanooga, Tennessee	2	7
37	Ron Wright (13) and Don Wright	July 29, 1972	Mid-Am Show	Chattanooga, Tennessee	8	[Note 14]
	Championship history is unrecorded from July 29, 1972 to October 4, 1972.
38	Don Wright (9) and Sam Bass	October 4, 1972NLT	Mid-Am Show	[Note 2]	1	[Note 15]
39	Jerry Lawler and Jim White	November 10, 1972NLT	Mid-Am Show	[Note 2]	1	[Note 16]
40	Tommy Gilbert (3) and Bearcat Brown (3)	December 8, 1972	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	28
41	Ron Wright (14) and Don Wright (10)	January 5, 1973	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	9	7
42	Tommy Gilbert (4) and Ed Wolfe	January 12, 1973	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	[Note 17]
43	Ron Wright (15) and Don Wright (11)	March 24, 1973NLT	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	10	[Note 18]
44	The Continental Warriors (Bobby Hart and Lorenzo Parente)	May 1973NLT	Mid-Am Show	[Note 2]	1	[Note 19]
45	Ron Wright (16) and Don Wright (12)	July 1973NLT	Mid-Am Show	[Note 2]	11	[Note 20]
46	The Mighty Yankees (Frank Morrell (4) and Eddie Sullivan)	November 2, 1973NLT	Mid-Am Show	[Note 2]	1	[Note 21]
47	Mike Paidousis and Rocky Smith	November 5, 1973	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	[Note 22]
48	Frank Monte and Nick deCarlo	March 3, 1974NLT	Mid-Am Show	[Note 2]	1	[Note 23]
49	The Mighty Yankees (Frank Morrell (5) and Eddie Sullivan)	March 8, 1974	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	2	14
50	Don Greene (5) and Dennis Hall (4)	March 22, 1974	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	[Note 24]	Defeated the Bounty Hunters (David Novak and Jerry Novak) to win the championship
51	The Mighty Yankees (Frank Morrell (6) and Eddie Sullivan)	April 12, 1974	Mid-Am Show	[Note 2]	3	[Note 25]	Mighty Yankees and Don Greene and Steve Kovacs became co-champions on April 19 after a double pin
52	Don Greene (6) and Steve Kovacs	April 26, 1974	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	7
53	The Bounty Hunters (David Novak and Jacob Novak)	May 3, 1974	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	49
54	Steve Kovacs (2) and Jimmy Kent	June 21, 1974	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	35
55	Ron Wright (17) and Don Wright (13)	July 26, 1974	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	12	[Note 26]
56	The Bounty Hunters (David Novak and Jacob Novak)	August 11, 1974NLT	Mid-Am Show	[Note 2]	2	40
57	Ron Wright (18) and Don Wright (14)	September 20, 1974	Mid-Am Show	[Note 2]	13	35
58	Ron and Terry Garvin	October 25, 1974	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	21
59	Ron Wright (19) and Tommy Gilbert (4)	November 15, 1974	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	21
60	Dutch Mantell and John Foley	December 6, 1974	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	35
61	Les Thatcher (5) and Nelson Royal	January 10, 1975	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	35
62	Dutch Mantell and John Foley	February 14, 1975	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	2	37
63	Les Thatcher (6) and Nelson Royal	March 23, 1975	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	2	[Note 27]
64	Ron and Don Bass	April 1975	Mid-Am Show	[Note 2]	1	[Note 28]
65	Ron Wright (20) and Nelson Royal	April 1975	Mid-Am Show	[Note 2]	1	[Note 29]
66	Ron and Don Bass	May 1975	Mid-Am Show	[Note 2]	2	[Note 30]
67	Jerry Jarrett and George Gulas	May 7, 1975	Mid-Am Show	Nashville, Tennessee	1	[Note 31]	Defeated Ron and Don Wright to win the champiohnship	[5]
68	Jimmy Golden (2) and Ricky Gibson	May 31, 1975NLT	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	[Note 32]
69	Ron Fuller and The Assassin	June 27, 1975	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	49
70	The Assassin (2) and Rock Hunter	August 15, 1975	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	1	21	Assassin defeated Fuller for control of the titles and selected Rock Hunter as his new partner
71	Ron (21) and Don Wright (15)	September 1975NLT	Mid-Am Show	[Note 2]	14	[Note 33]
72	The Assassin (3) and Rock Hunter	October 3, 1975	Mid-Am Show	Knoxville, Tennessee	2	[Note 34]
40	Norvell Austin and Butch Malone	December 27, 1975NLT	Mid-Am Show	[Note 2]	1	[Note 35]
	Championship history is unrecorded from December 27, 1975 to April 1977.
41	Danny Little Bear and Chief Thundercloud	April 1977NLT	Mid-Am Show	[Note 2]	1	[Note 36]
42	Luke Graham and Ripper Collins	May 2, 1977	Mid-Am Show	Memphis, Tennessee	1	[Note 37]
43	Don Greene (2) and Joey Rossi	May 1977NLT	Mid-Am Show	[Note 2]	1	[Note 38]
—	Deactivated	1977	—	—	—	—	The Championship was abandoned.

See also

• Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling / Southeast Championship Wrestling
• NWA Mid-America
• National Wrestling Alliance

Footnotes

1. The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 273 days.
2. The location of the match was not captured as part of the championship documentation.
3. The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 180 days.
4. The date the championship was won has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 19 days.
5. The date the championship was won has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 37 days.
6. The date the championship was won has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 19 days.
7. The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 133 days.
8. The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 40 days.
9. The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 16 days.
10. The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 114 days.
11. The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 33 days.
12. The date the championship was lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 8 days.
13. The date the championship was lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 9 days.
14. The date the championship was lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 67 days.
15. The date the championship was lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 37 days.
16. The date the championship was won has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 313 days and 131 days.
17. The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 71 days.
18. The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 68 days.
19. The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 91 days.
20. The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 123 days.
21. The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 3 days.
22. The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 118 days.
23. The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 5 days.
24. The date the championship was lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 21 days.
25. The date the championship was lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 14 days.
26. The date the championship was lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 16 days.
27. The date the championship was lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 9 days and 38 days.
28. The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 29 days.
29. The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 35 days.
30. The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 5 days.
31. The date the championship was lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 54 days.
32. The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 27 days.
33. The date the championship was won and lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 62 days and 183 days.
34. The date the championship was lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 85 days.
35. The date the championship was lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 606 days.
36. The date the championship was won has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 2 days and 517 days.
37. The date the championship was lost has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 29 days.
38. The date the championship was abandoned has not been documented which means the championship reign lasted anywhere between 1 day and 242 days.

References

General reference

• Will, Gary; Royal Duncan (1994). "Tennessee: NWA Tennessee Tag Team Title". Wrestling Title Histories (4 ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN   0-9698161-1-1.
• "NWA Tennessee Tag Team Title". Wrestling-titles.com. Retrieved April 20, 2015.

Specific references

1. Ed Grabianowski. "How Pro Wrestling Works". How Stuff Works. Retrieved April 5, 2009.
2. "NWA Tennessee Tag Team Title". Wrestling-Titles.com.
3. June 20, 1969
4. Hoops, Brian (July 1, 2015). "On this day in pro wrestling history (July 1): Ric Flair stripped of WCW title, Von Erich win WCCW Tag titles". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
5. F4W Staff (May 7, 2015). "On this day in pro wrestling history (May 7): Jeff Jarrett ends David Arquette's WCW title reign, Nick Bockwinkel Vs. Ray Stevens". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved February 10, 2017.