SCW Tag Team Championship (Georgia)

SCW Heavyweight Championship
Details
Date established 1988
Date retired 1990
Promotion Southern Championship Wrestling

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
Specific
  1. 1 2 "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.
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