PWA Tag Team Championship (Minnesota)

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PWA Tag Team Championship
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Promotion Pro Wrestling America
Date establishedJanuary 15, 1985
Date retired1996

The PWA Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team championship in Pro Wrestling America (PWA). It remained active until 1996 when PWA began running occasional events.

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The inaugural champions were The Terminators (Riggs and Wolf), who defeated The Warlord and Teijo Khan in Anoka, Minnesota on January 15, 1985 to become the first PWA Tag Team Champions. At 609 days, The Terminators' second reign was the longest while the team's third and final reign was the shortest lasting only 2 days. With three reigns, The Terminators also held the most reigns as a tag team and individually. Overall, there were 19 reigns.

Title history

Key
#Order in reign history
ReignThe reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed
EventThe event in which the title was won
Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign
N/AThe information is not available or is unknown
+Indicates the current reign is changing daily

Reigns

#WrestlersReignDateDays
held
LocationEventNotesRef.
1The Terminators
(Riggs and Wolf)
1January 15, 198592 Anoka, Minnesota Live event Riggs and Wolf defeated The Warlord and Teijo Khan to become the first PWA Tag Team Champions; may have defeated Mad Dog Vachon and Jim Gagnon in River Falls, Wisconsin.
2Miami Vice Defenders
(Savannah Jack and Ed Roberts)
1April 17, 1985176 Barron, Wisconsin Live event
3The Terminators2October 10, 1985609 Somerset, Wisconsin Live event
4Top Guns (Ricky Rice and Derrick Dukes)1June 11, 198764 Minneapolis, Minnesota Live event [1]
5The Terminators3August 14, 19872 Winnipeg, Manitoba Live event
6 The Fantastics (Tommy Rogers and Bobby Fulton)1August 16, 1987N/A Fridley, Minnesota Live event
Vacated 1987N/AN/AThe championship is vacated when The Fantastics leave the territory.
7Johnny Love and Tommy Ferrera1November 16, 1987485 Fridley, Minnesota Live event Love and Ferrera defeated The Masked Maniacs to win the vacant title.
8Matt and Bret Derringer1March 15, 1989101 Fridley, Minnesota Live event
9Maximum Overdrive (Hunter and Silencer)1June 24, 1989450 Minneapolis, Minnesota Live event
10 The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott Steiner)1September 17, 199014 Atlanta, Georgia Live event This was a World Championship Wrestling television taping; match was not billed as a title bout. [2]
Vacated October 1, 1990N/AN/AThe championship is vacated when The Steiner Brothers leave the territory.
11The Punishers (Sledge and Hammer)1April 11, 1991262 Stillwater, Minnesota Live event Sledge and Hammer defeated The Wild Boys (Tim Hunt and Steve Berg) to win the vacant title.
12 Baron von Raschke and Ken Patera 1December 29, 19916 St. Paul, Minnesota Live event
13The Punishers2January 4, 199221N/A Live event Awarded title.
14Baron von Raschke and Brad Rheingans 1January 25, 1992N/A Annandale, Minnesota Live event
N/AN/AN/AN/A
15 The Lightning Kid and Jerry Lynn 1March 2, 1993N/A Fridley, Minnesota Live event Defeated Tony Denucci and Tommy Ferrera. [3] [4]
N/AN/AN/AN/A
16The Storm Troopers (Storm Trooper I and Storm Trooper II)1N/A(prior to June 1994)N/AN/AN/A [5]
17 Charlie Norris and Sam Houston 1August 15, 1994N/A Red Lake, Minnesota Live event [6] [7]
18The Storm Troopers2N/A(prior to August 1995)N/AN/AN/A
19Thunderblood (Charlie Norris and Derrick Dukes)1N/A(prior to June 1996)N/AN/AN/A [1] [6]
Deactivated 1996N/AN/APWA began running occasional events after 1996 and the title was eventually abandoned.

List of combined reigns

<1Indicates that the reign lasted less than one day.
Rank [N 1] Wrestler# of reignsCombined days
1Riggs and Wolf
(The Terminator)
3995
2Johnny Love and Tommy Ferrera1485
3 Hunter and Silencer
(Maximum Overdrive)
1450
4Sledge and Hammer
(The Punishers)
2273
5Savannah Jack and Ed Roberts
(Miami Vice Defenders)
1176
6Matt and Bret Derringer1101
7 Ricky Rice and Derrick Dukes
(Top Guns)
164
8 Rick and Scott Steiner
(The Steiner Brothers)
114
9 Baron von Raschke and Ken Patera 16

Footnotes

  1. Each reign is ranked highest to lowest; reigns with the same number mean that they are tied for that certain rank.

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