- NWA Southern Tag Team Championship (Mid-Atlantic version)
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The NWA Southern Tag Team Championship (Mid-Atlantic version) was the Mid-Atlantic territory version of the NWA Southern Tag Team Championship and was defended between 1953 until 1968 when it became the NWA Atlantic Coast Tag Team Championship. It is one of the earliest titles to be defended in the Carolinas, most often in Lenoir, Greensboro and Charlotte, North Carolina.[1][2]
Title history
Wrestlers: Reigns together: Date: Place: Notes: Al & John Smith 1 December 5, 1953 George & Jack Curtis 1 May 29, 1954? Lenoir, North Carolina? Al & John Smith 2 June 5, 1954? Lenoir, North Carolina? Mr. Moto & Kinji Shibuya 1 July 19, 1954 Charlotte, North Carolina George & Bobby Becker 1 October 18, 1954 Charlotte, North Carolina George Becker (2) & Jack Witzig 1 November 1954 Bobby Becker died on November 26, 1954; Witzig was chosen as George Becker's new partner. Title history is unrecorded. A championship match was held in Lenoir, North Carolina between George Becker & Tex Riley vs. Al Kashey & Dave Jones on February 26 and March 5, 1955. It is unknown which team held the title. Emil and Ernie Dusek 2 July 11, 1955 Title history is unrecorded. George Becker (3) & Jack Witzig 2 September 12, 1955 Title history is unrecorded. Mr. Moto & Kinji Shibuya 2 1956 George Becker (4) & Jack Witzig 3 1956 Leo & Chick Garibaldi 1 1956 Tiny Mills & Jim Austeri 1 July 28, 1956 Defended sometime between May 12 and July 28, 1956. George Becker (5) & Jack Witzig 4 September 17, 1956 Charlotte, North Carolina Jim Austeri & Ali Bey 1 December 8, 1956 Lexington, North Carolina The Flying Scotts
(George & Sandy Scott)1 March 18, 1957 Charlotte, North Carolina Ernie & Emil Dusek 1 May 20, 1957 Charlotte, North Carolina Title history is unrecorded. Ivan Bornov & Karol Fozoff 1 June 1957 Title history is unrecorded. The Flying Scotts
(George & Sandy Scott)2 July 1957 Title history is unrecorded. George Becker (6) & Dick Steinborn 1 August 1957 Doc & Mike Gallagher 1 September 1957 George Becker (7) & Dick Steinborn 2 September 30, 1957 Charlotte, North Carolina Mr. Moto (3) & Duke Keomuka 1 March 31, 1958 Charlotte, North Carolina George Becker (8) & Mike Clancy 1 May 26, 1958 Charlotte, North Carolina Frank Jares & Hans Schnabel 1 June 21, 1958 Hickory, North Carolina George Becker (9) & Mike Clancy 2 July 5, 1958 Hickory, North Carolina Fritz & Waldo Von Erich 1 October 13, 1958 Charlotte, North Carolina George Becker (10) & Mike Clancy 3 October 27, 1958 Charlotte, North Carolina Al & John Smith 3 January 26, 1959 Charlotte, North Carolina Title history is unrecorded. George Becker (11) & Billy Two Rivers 1 April 6, 1959 Charlotte, North Carolina Defeated Alberto & Enrique Torres. Mr. Moto (4) & Duke Keomuka 2 July 6, 1959 Charlotte, North Carolina Larry Hamilton & Great Bolo 1 August 24, 1959 Charlotte, North Carolina George Becker (12) & Enrique Torres 1 November 23, 1959 Charlotte, North Carolina Title history is unrecorded. Tosh Togo & Ike Eakins 1 September 1960 Ray Villmer & Jack Curtis (2) 1 October 30, 1960 Charlotte, North Carolina Gypsy Joe & Louis Tillet 1 November 21, 1960 Ray Villmer & Jack Curtis (2) 2 1960 Mad Dog & Butcher Vachon January 23, 1961 Charlotte, North Carolina George Becker (13) & Sandy Scott (2) 2 March 27, 1961 Charlotte, North Carolina Kurt & Karl Von Brauner 1 1961 Title history is unrecorded. Swede Hanson & Rip Hawk 1 Johnny Weaver & "Cowboy" Bob Ellis 1 December 2, 1963 Charlotte, North Carolina Title history is unrecorded. Eddie Graham & Sam Steamboat 1 May 1965 Bronko Lubich & Aldo Bogni 1 May 24, 1965 Charlotte, North Carolina George Becker (14) & Johnny Weaver (2) 1 September 9, 1965 Greensboro, North Carolina Bronko Lubich & Aldo Bogni 2 March 17, 1966 Defended sometime between January 6 and March 17, 1966. George Becker (15) & Johnny Weaver (3) 2 November 3, 1966 Greensboro, North Carolina Infernos
(Frankie Cain & Rocky Smith)1 July 20, 1967 Greensboro, North Carolina George Becker (16) & Johnny Weaver (4) 3 1967 Larry Hamilton & Pampero Firpo 1 September 1967 George Becker (17) & Johnny Weaver (5) 4 November 1967 Title held up after a match against the Minnesota Wrecking Crew (Gene & Lars Anderson) in March 1968. George Becker (18) & Johnny Weaver (6) 5 April 4, 1968 Greensboro, North Carolina Defeated the Minnesota Wrecking Crew in a rematch; they later defeated Rip Hawk & Swede Hanson in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on May 1, 1969 to win the NWA Atlantic Coast Tag Team Title. Permanently replaced by the NWA Atlantic Coast Tag Team Championship References
- ^ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (4th Edition 2006). "(Carolinas) Charlotte: NWA Southern Tag Team Title [Jim Crockett]". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. p. 114. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
- ^ "N.W.A. Southern Tag Team Title (Mid-Atlantic)". Puroresu Dojo. 2003. http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midatlantic/nwa/ma-south-t.html.
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