SCW Tag Team Championship (Georgia)

SCW Heavyweight Championship
Details
Date established	1988
Date retired	1990
Promotion	Southern Championship Wrestling
Statistics First champion(s) Tommy Rich and Ted Oates Most reigns Thunder & Lightning (Steve Lawler and Dino Minelli) (2) Longest reign Thunder & Lightning (68 days)

The SCW Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team championship in Southern Championship Wrestling (SCW). It remained active until early-1990 when SCW was closed.

The inaugural champions were "Wildfire" Tommy Rich and Ted Oates, who defeated Bob Orton, Jr. and "Dirty" Dick Slater in a tournament final in 1988 to become the first SCW Tag Team Champions. Thunder & Lightning (Steve Lawler and Dino Minelli) holds the record for most reigns, with two. At 68 days, Thunder & Lightning's first reign is the longest in the title's history. Overall, there have been 12 reigns shared between 11 wrestlers, with one vacancy, and 1 deactivation.

Title history

Key

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

Names

Name	Years
SCW Tag Team Championship	1988 — 1990

Reigns

#	Wrestlers	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Event	Notes	Ref.
1	Tommy Rich and Ted Oates	1	1988	N/A	Macon, Georgia	Live event	Rich and Oates defeated Bob Orton, Jr. and Dick Slater to become the first SCW Tag Team Champions.
2	Zebra Warriors	1	1988	N/A	N/A	Live event
3	Tommy Rich (2) and Steve Prichard	1	July 22, 1988	N/A	Columbus, Georgia	Live event
4	Tommy Rich (3) and Joey Maggs	1	1988	N/A	N/A	Live event
5	Doug Somers and Joel Deaton	1	1988	N/A	N/A	Live event
6	Ranger Ross and Joey Maggs (2)	1	1988	N/A	N/A	Live event
7	Thunder & Lightning (Steve Lawler and Dino Minelli)	1	October 23, 1988	68	Alpharetta, Georgia	Live event		[1][2]
8	Ranger Ross (2) and Mr. Wrestling II	1	December 30, 1988	N/A	Atlanta, Georgia	Live event
9	Thunder & Lightning (Steve Lawler and Dino Minelli)	2	1989	N/A	N/A	Live event		[1]
10	Georgia Power (The Nightmare and Jimmy Powell)	1	1989	N/A	N/A	Live event
11	Mr. Atlanta and Mike Golden	1	1989	N/A	N/A	Live event
—	Vacated	—	N/A	—	N/A	Live event
12	Billy Starr and Kareem Muhammad	1	January 28, 1990	N/A	Griffin, Georgia	Live event	Starr and Muhammad defeated Georgia Power (The Nightmare and Jimmy Powell) to win the vacant title.
—	Deactivated	—	1990	—	N/A	N/A	SCW closed in early-1990 and Starr and Muhammad were the final champions in SCW as a company.

References

General

• Gary Will and Royal Duncan (2000). "(Georgia) SCW Tag Team Title". Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.

Specific

1. "Biography". Steve The Brawler Lawler's Bio. SteveTheBrawlerLawler.com. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
2. Wills, Dave; Mark Danger (June 1, 2010). "The Dave & Danger Show: Steve "The Brawler" Lawler". Georgia Wrestling History Radio Network. The Dave Danger Show. Retrieved October 13, 2011.