NWA Women's World Tag Team Championship
The NWA Women's World Tag Team Championship was a women's professional wrestling tag team title sanctioned by the National Wrestling Alliance from the early 1950s through 1983. The championship became a World Wrestling Federation title in 1983 when the WWF, once a member of the NWA, bought the rights to the championship and continued using them.[1]
Title history
Silver areas in the history indicate periods of unknown lineage.
- An (n) next to a date indicates that a title change occurred no later than the date listed.
| Wrestlers | Time | Date | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ella Waldek and Mae Young | 1 | Records are unclear as to whom they defeated. April 1951 in Omaha, Nebraska Ella and Mae lost a 2/3 falls match to Beverly Lehmer and Mildred Burke, Mildred having beaten Ella the previous week.[2] July 1951 in Marion, Ohio Ella (and Dot Dotson) defeated Mae (and Sheba Zinni), Sheba having beaten Ella and Dot having beaten Mae earlier in the night.[3] | ||
| June Byers and Millie Stafford | 1 | October 4, 1952[4] | Mexico City, Mexico[4] | defeated Waldek and Young[4] |
| June Byers (2) and Mary Jane Mull | 1 | before January 23, 1953[5] | Nebraska | Stafford had taken time off due to personal reasons. Mull had previously won a tournament to replace her.[4] |
| Daisy Mae (wrester) & Golden Venus | 1 | March 1953[4] | West Virginia | |
| The title was vacated after Byers had won the NWA World Women's title from Mildred Burke in Atlanta, Georgia on August 20, 1954. | ||||
| June Byers (3) and Millie Stafford (2) | 2 | December 7, 1954[4] | Stafford returned after July 15, 1953. Champions as of January 26, 1955 | |
| Daisy May (2) and Golden Venus (2) | 2 | March 1956[4] | West Virginia | |
| June Byers (4) and Mars Bennett | 1 | before August 1956[4] | Mars replaces Millie | |
| Penny Banner and Bonnie Watson | 1 | August 15, 1956[4] | Albuquerque, NM | |
| Penny Banner (2) and Betty Jo Hawkins | 1 | before February 1957[4] | Betty replaces Bonnie | |
| June Byers (5) and Barbara Baker | 1 | February 13, 1957[4] | Vancouver, BC | |
| Lorraine Johnson and Millie Stafford (3) | 1 | February, 1958[4] | Missouri | |
| Lorraine Johnson (2) and Penny Banner (3) | 1 | June 16, 1958[4] | Ohio | Records are unclear as to whom they defeated, if anyone. Possibly Penny just replaced Millie. Only known to have held the titles until 1959. |
| Lorraine Johnson (3) and Kathy Starr | 1 | before December 1958[4] | Kathy replaces Penny. | |
| Lolita Martinez and Kay Noble | 1 | December 4, 1958[4] | Amarillo, TX | February 24, 1959, Penny Banner is listed as a co-holder of the title, since she wasn't involved in losing it. |
| Adrian Ames (as "Adrienne Ames") and Patricia Lyda (as "Pat Lyda")[6] |
1 | November 23, 1961 | Harvey, Louisiana | Billed as "NWA titlists" when they defeated Chris Clark and Ann Regan (holders of the Southern Women's Tag Team Championship) to become "undisputed women's tag team champions". Clark and Regan had defeated Ames and Lyda the previous week in a New Orleans, Indiana match. The following week, Clark defeated Ames and Lyda defeated Regan in singles matches.[7] |
| The Fabulous Moolah and Toni Rose | 1 | May 1970 (n) | California[8] | Records are unclear as to whom they defeated. Possibly Adrian Ames and Pat Lyda. |
| Donna Christantello and Kathy O'Day | 1 | May 15, 1970 | Los Angeles, California | |
| The Fabulous Moolah (2) and Toni Rose (2) | 2 | June 5, 1970 | Bakersfield, California | |
| Donna Christantello (2) and Toni Rose (3) | 1 | November 1970 (n) | Records are unclear as to whom they defeated, if anyone. Possibly Donna just replaced Moolah. | |
| Joyce Grable and Vicki Williams | 1 | October 15, 1973 | New York City, New York | 16 October 1972, Joyce and Vicki had previously lost a 2 of 3 falls match to Donna and Toni.[9] |
| Donna Christantello (3) and Toni Rose (4) | 2 | October 1975 (n) | Boston, Massachusetts | |
| Joyce Grable (2) and Vicki Williams (2) | 2 | August 25, 1979 | St. Petersburg, Florida | Defeated The Glamour Girls (Leilani Kai and Judy Martin). |
| Joyce Grable (3) and Wendi Richter | 1 | Records are unclear as to whom they defeated, if anyone. Possibly Wendi just replaced Vicki. | ||
| Princess Victoria and Sabrina | 1 | April 29, 1982 | Kansas City, Missouri | |
| Joyce Grable (4) and Wendi Richter (2) | 2 | May 6, 1982 | Kansas City, Missouri | |
| Beauty + Talent[10] ( Velvet McIntyre and Princess Victoria (2) ) |
1 | May 13, 1983 | Calgary, Alberta | [11] |
| The title switched to the World Wrestling Federation in 1983 when the WWF withdrew from the NWA and bought the rights to the title. The title became known as the WWF Women's Tag Team Championship.[11] | ||||
See also
References
- ↑ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
- ↑ http://www.legacyofwrestling.com/Omaha51.html
- ↑ http://www.legacyofwrestling.com/Marion51.html
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 World Women's Tag Team Title at Wrestling-Titles.com
- ↑ January 23, 1953 The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska Page 16:
CHALLENGER Joan Weidmon (above) and Ida May get a crack at the World's Tag Team title held by June Byers and Mary Jane Mull at the Fairgrounds next week, Girls Tag Team Crown At Stake - ↑ http://www.wrestling-titles.com/nwa/world/nwa-wt.html
- ↑ http://www.legacyofwrestling.com/NewOrleans61.html
- ↑ http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/bios/f/fabulous-moolah/
- ↑ http://www.profightdb.com/wrestlers/toni-rose-5053.html
- ↑ "Official Wrestling". July 1984. Archived from the original on 8 September 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
- 1 2 Nevada, Vance (June 30, 2005). "Results for Velvet McIntyre". SLAM! Wrestling. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
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