WWF Women's Tag Team Championship

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WWF Women's Tag Team Championship
WWF Women's Tag belt.jpg
A belt that represented the WWF Women's Tag Team Championship,
Details
Promotion World Wrestling Federation (WWF)
Date establishedMay 13, 1983
Date retiredFebruary 14, 1989
Statistics
First champion(s) Velvet McIntyre and Princess Victoria
Final champion(s) The Glamour Girls
(Leilani Kai and Judy Martin)
Most reignsAs a tag team (2 reigns):

As individual (2 reigns):

Longest reign The Glamour Girls
(Leilani Kai and Judy Martin)
(1st reign, 906 days)
Shortest reign The Jumping Bomb Angels
(Noriyo Tateno and Itsuki Yamazaki)
(136 days)
Oldest champion Judy Martin
(32 years, 244 days)
Youngest champion Velvet McIntyre
(20 years, 170 days)
Heaviest champion Velvet McIntyre and Desiree Petersen
(315 lb (143 kg) combined)
Lightest champion Velvet McIntyre and Princess Victoria
(295 lb (134 kg) combined)

The WWF Women's Tag Team Championship was a women's professional wrestling tag team title in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). The belief its holders were considered world champions was expressed by Jesse Ventura, an announcer for some of its defenses. [1] Velvet McIntyre and Princess Victoria were recognized as the inaugural champions when they came to the promotion in 1983 as the National Wrestling Alliance's World Women's Tag Team Champions. The final champions were The Glamour Girls (Leilani Kai and Judy Martin) when the titles were abandoned in 1989.

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History

In 1983, the team of Velvet McIntyre and Princess Victoria joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) as the reigning NWA World Women's Tag Team Champions. The WWF had since withdrawn from the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), and the rights to the championship were owned by The Fabulous Moolah. The WWF in turn bought the rights to the championship from Moolah, and recognized McIntyre and Victoria as the first WWF Women's Tag Team Champions. This ended the lineage of the World Women's Tag Team Championship, though the WWF continued to use the championship belts of the former title to represent their new title. [2] [3] After six years, the championship was abandoned in 1989, with The Glamour Girls (Leilani Kai and Judy Martin) as the final champions. This happened largely due to the lack of tag teams in the women's division, and a lack of female performers in general. [4]

During the December 24, 2018, episode of Monday Night Raw , WWE Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Vince McMahon announced that a new WWE Women's Tag Team Championship would be introduced in 2019. It does not carry the lineage of the original title. [5]

Reigns

Over the course of the championship's six-year history, there were five reigns between four championship teams, composed of seven individual champions. The inaugural championship team was Velvet McIntyre and Princess Victoria. The Glamour Girls (Leilani Kai and Judy Martin) had the most reigns as a team at two, while individually, Kai, Martin, and McIntyre had the most reigns, also at two. The Glamour Girls' first reign was the longest reign at 909 days, and they had the longest combined reign at 1,157 days. The Jumping Bomb Angels (Noriyo Tateno and Itsuki Yamazaki) had the shortest reign at 136 days. McIntyre was the youngest champion when she was recognized as one-half of the inaugural championship team at 20 years old, while the oldest was Martin when she won the championship at 32 for her second reign.

Key
No.Overall reign number
ReignReign number for the specific team—reign numbers for the individuals are in parentheses, if different
DaysNumber of days held
No.ChampionChampionship changeReign statisticsNotesRef.
DateEventLocationReignDays
World Wrestling Federation (WWF)
1 Princess Victoria and Velvet McIntyre May 13, 1983 House show Calgary, Alberta, Canada 1574McIntyre and Princess Victoria were the reigning World Women's Tag Team Champions upon the WWF's withdrawal from the National Wrestling Alliance and were recognized as the first WWF Women's Tag Team Champions. The team's first match in the WWF took place on April 4, 1984, in Rochester, New York. [3]
2 Desiree Petersen and Velvet McIntyre December 7, 1984 House show Pittsburgh, PA 1
(1, 2)
237 Princess Victoria suffered a career-ending neck injury on September 1, 1984, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Petersen took her place as McIntyre's partner. This was considered a second reign for McIntyre. [3] [6] [7]
3 The Glamour Girls
(Judy Martin and Leilani Kai)
August 1, 1985 House show Cairo, Egypt 1906 [3]
4 The Jumping Bomb Angels
(Itsuki Yamazaki and Noriyo Tateno)
January 24, 1988 Royal Rumble Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 1136This was a two out of three falls match. [8]
5 The Glamour Girls
(Judy Martin and Leilani Kai)
June 8, 1988 House show Ōmiya-ku, Saitama, Japan 2251The Glamour Girls won the championship by countout.
DeactivatedFebruary 14, 1989The championship was abandoned.
In 2019 a new WWE Women's Tag Team Championship was introduced, but it does not carry the lineage of this title.

Combined reigns

By team

RankTeamNo. of
reigns
Combined
days
1 The Glamour Girls
(Judy Martin and Leilani Kai)
21,157
2 Princess Victoria and Velvet McIntyre 1574
3 Desiree Petersen and Velvet McIntyre 1237
4 The Jumping Bomb Angels
(Itzuki Yamazaki and Noriyo Tateno)
1136

By wrestler

RankWrestlerNo. of
reigns
Combined
days
1 Leilani Kai 21,157
Judy Martin
3 Velvet McIntyre 2811
4 Princess Victoria 1574
5 Desiree Petersen 1237
6 Itzuki Yamazaki 1136
Noriyo Tateno

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