IWA Mid-South Tag Team Championship
| IWA Mid-South Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||
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| Current champion(s) | Up in Smoke (Cheech and Cloudy) | ||||||||||
| Date won | May 3, 2008 | ||||||||||
| Date established | July 18, 1997 | ||||||||||
| Promotion | IWA Mid-South | ||||||||||
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The IWA Mid-South Tag Team Championship was a major title in the IWA Mid-South promotion. The title debuted in 1997, but was abandoned before the year was out, and had a brief revival in 2002. The title was brought back in 2004 but became defunct in 2008.
Title tournament
On July 18, 1997 at the Gore Fest 1997 show in Louisville, KY, an eight team elimination style tournament was held to crown the first IWA Mid-South Tag Team Champions.
Competitors
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| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
| Tom Burton & Tower of Doom | ||||||||||||||
| Shark Boy & American Kickboxer | ||||||||||||||
| Tom Burton & Tower of Doom | ||||||||||||||
| The War Machines | ||||||||||||||
| The War Machines | ||||||||||||||
| Twiggy Ramirez & Lost Boy | ||||||||||||||
| The War Machines | ||||||||||||||
| Bull Pain & Tarek The Great | ||||||||||||||
| Bull Pain & Tarek The Great | ||||||||||||||
| Rollin' Hard & Brian Taylor | ||||||||||||||
| Bull Pain & Tarek The Great | ||||||||||||||
| Ian Rotten & Blaze | ||||||||||||||
| Ian Rotten & Blaze | ||||||||||||||
| The Misfits | ||||||||||||||
Title history
| Wrestler: | Times: | Date: | Place: | Notes: |
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| The War Machines | 1 | July 18, 1997 | Louisville, Kentucky | Defeat Bull Pain and Terek the Great in a tournament final to become the first champions. |
| The Misfits | 1 | September 4, 1997 | Louisville, Kentucky | |
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| Rollin' Hard and Mitch Page | 1 | February 1, 2002 | Charlestown, Indiana | Defeat Todd Morton and Mitch Ryder in tournament final when the title is reinstated. |
| The Bad Breed (Axl Rotten and Ian Rotten) |
1 | March 2, 2002 | Morris, Illinois | Defeat Mitch Page and Rollin' Hard and Corporal Robinson and Cash Flo in a 3-way match. |
| Rollin' Hard and Mitch Page | 2 | April 5, 2002 | Indianapolis, Indiana | Defeat Ian Rotten and Necro Butcher. |
| Ian Rotten and Cash Flo | 1 | May 3, 2002 | Indianapolis, Indiana | Flo turns on Ian after they win the titles. |
| Ian Rotten and Tarek the Great | 1 | May 10, 2002 | Clarksville, Indiana | Rotten defeats Cash Flo in a singles match to capture the control of the belts and chooses Tarek as partner |
| Rollin' Hard and Mitch Page | 3 | May 18, 2002 | Clarksville, Indiana | Defeat Ian Rotten and Necro Butcher. |
| Mark Wolf and Harry Palmer | 1 | August 3, 2002 | Clarksville, Indiana | |
| Titles abandoned. | ||||
| Southern Comfort (Tracy Smothers and Chris Hamrick) |
1 | May 29, 2004 | Highland, Indiana | Defeat The Second City Saints (CM Punk and Colt Cabana) in tournament final. |
| Brad Bradley and Ryan Boz | 1 | May 30, 2004 | Hammond, Indiana | |
| The Wildcards (Eddie Kingston and Black Jack Marciano) |
1 | September 18, 2004 | Highland, Indiana | Defeat Bradley and Boz and Tank and Iceberg. |
| Brad Bradley, Ryan Boz and Trik Davis | 1 | January 15, 2005 | Highland, Indiana | Defeat Kingston and Steve Stone, subbing for an injured Marciano; Davis substitiutes himself in the match and assists Boz in the pin when Bradley is taken out during the match due to injury. |
| The Iron Saints (Vito Thomaselli and Sal Thomaselli) |
1 | June 11, 2005 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Win a 6-team elimination match. |
| The Bad Breed | 2 | July 9, 2005 | Hammond, Indiana | Vacant when Ian suffers a concussion. |
| The Iron Saints | 2 | September 10, 2005 | Plymouth, Indiana | Defeat Matt Sydal and Delirious in a tournament final. |
| Ian Rotten and Mad Man Pondo | 1 | March 18, 2006 | Midlothian, Illinois | |
| Vulgar Display of Power (Deranged and Brain Damage) |
1 | August 12, 2006 | Midlothian, Illinois | Defeat Rotten and Drake Younger, subbing for Mad Man Pondo. |
| The Iron Saints | 3 | May 26, 2007 | Midlothian, Illinois | Defeat Up in Smoke: Cheech and Cloudy in tournament final. |
| The BLKOUT | 1 | March 1, 2008 | Joliet, Illinois | Joker and Ricky Reyes, but any member of The BLKOUT was allowed to defend the title. See Freebird rule. |
| Josh Abercrombie, Mickie Knuckles and Devon Moore | 1 | April 12, 2008 | Joliet, Illinois | Defeated The BLKOUT (Ruckus, Sabian and Too Cold Scorpio) in a six-man tag team match. |
| Up in Smoke (Cheech and Cloudy) |
1 | May 3, 2008 | Joliet, Illinois | Defeated Knuckles and Moore. |
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