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NWA United States Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||||
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Promotion | NWA Smoky Mountain Wrestling [1] and National Wrestling Alliance | ||||||||||||
Date established | January 24, 2014 [1] | ||||||||||||
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The Innovate Wrestling United States Tag Team Championship was originally a Tennessee version of the NWA United States Tag Team Championship . It was a name used for several championships from 1958 - 2000 in various promotions that were members of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). On January 24, 2014, a new NWA United States Tag Team Championship was created as part of the NWA Southern All-Star Wrestling and NWA Smoky Mountain Wrestling promotions. On August 19 at ReGenesis, promoter Tony Givens announced that NWA Smoky Mountain Wrestling was leaving the NWA thus the promotion was changing their name to Innovate Wrestling. The titles were retired and replaced with the Innovate Wrestling United States Tag Team Championship.
Symbol | Meaning |
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# | The overall championship reign |
Wrestler name (#) | The number represents the number of times the wrestler has held the title individually. |
Reign | The reign number for the specific tag team listed. |
Event | The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title changed hands |
N/A | The specific information is not known or applicable |
— | Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign |
# | Champions | Reign | Date | Days held | Location | Event | Notes | Ref(s) |
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1 | The Lords of KAOS (Damien Wayne and Lance Erickson) | 1 | January 24, 2014 | 189 | Millersville, Tennessee | Live Event | Defeat Jason Kincaid and Charles Alexander in tournament final. | [1] |
— | Vacated | — | August 1, 2014 | — | Millersville, Tennessee | Live Event | Vacated when Erikson and Wayne decide to pursue singles careers. | [1] |
2 | Air America (Gavin Daring and Skylar Kruze) | 1 | September 20, 2014 | 98 | Kingsport, Tennessee | Live Event | Defeated the Heatseekers and William Huckaby and Jordan Kage in 3-way final of an 8-team tournament. | [1] |
3 | The Heatseekers (Sigmon and Elliot Russell) | 1 | December 27, 2014 | 167 | Kingsport, Tennessee | Live Event | [1] | |
4 | The Illuminati (Chase Owens& Chris Richards) | 1 | June 12, 2016 | 113 | Kingsport, Tennessee | Live Event | [1] | |
5 | Axton Ray and Skylar Kruze (2) | 1 | October 3, 2015 | 77 | Kingsport, Tennessee | Live Event | Defeat the Illuminati, The Heatseekers and the Agency (Jordan Kage and Toby Farley) in a 4-way match. | [1] |
6 | Giants of Gehenna (Chris Richards (2) and Travis Lee) | 1 | December 19, 2015 | 119 | Kingsport, Tennessee | Live Event | [1] | |
7 | Air America (Gavin Daring and Skylar Kruze (3)) | 2 | April 16, 2016 | 21 | Kingsport, Tennessee | Live Event | Defeat Giants of Gehenna, the Heatseekers, the Dixon Line (Joe Keys and Ken Dixon), the Hardliners (Brian Montgomery and Jeff Connelly), and Nick Hammonds and Wild Bill in a scramble match. | [1] |
8 | The Heatseekers (Sigmon and Elliot Russell) | 2 | May 7, 2016 | 371 | Kingsport, Tennessee | Live Event | [1] | |
9 | The Ugly Ducklings Rob Killjoy and Lance Lude) | 1 | May 13, 2017 | 98 | Kingsport, Tennessee | Live Event | Last champions under the NWA Smoky Mountain Wrestling banner due to the promotion changing names on August 19. | |
— | Retired | — | August 19, 2017 | — | Kingsport, Tennessee | ReGenesis | At ReGenesis, promoter Tony Givens announced that NWA Smoky Mountain Wrestling was leaving the NWA thus the promotion was changing their name to Innovate Wrestling. The title changed to Innovate Wrestling United States Tag Team Championship. The Ugly Ducklings defeat Brotherhood (Myron Reed and Mickey Midas) to become the first United States Tag Team Champions under the Innovate Wrestling banner. |
† | Indicates the current champion |
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Rank | Champion | No. of reigns | Combined days |
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1 | The Heatseekers (Sigmon and Elliot Russell) | 2 | 538 |
2 | The Lords of KAOS (Damien Wayne and Lance Erickson) | 1 | 189 |
3 | Air America (Gavin Daring and Skylar Kruze) | 2 | 119 |
4 | Giants of Gehenna (Chris Richards and Travis Lee) | 1 | |
5 | The Illuminati (Chase Owens and Chris Richards) | 113 | |
6 | The Ugly Ducklings (Rob Killjoy, Coach Mikey, Lance Lude) | 98 | |
7 | Axton Ray and Skylar Kruze | 77 |
Rank | Champion | No. of reigns | Combined days |
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1 | Sigmon | 2 | 538 |
Elliott Russell | |||
3 | Chris Richards | 2 | 232 |
4 | Skylar Kruze | 196 | |
5 | Damien Wayne | 1 | 189 |
Lance Erickson | |||
6 | Gavin Daring | 119 | |
Travis Lee | |||
8 | Chase Owens | 113 | |
9 | Rob Killjoy | 98 | |
Coach Mikey | |||
Lance Lude | |||
12 | Axton Ray | 77 |
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