The first time a championship was promoted as the "Texas Tag Team Championship" was in 1943 when records indicate that Ellis Bashara and Angelo Cistoldi won the championship.[1] The Texas Tag Team Championship was not mentioned again until 1945 in what would later become the National Wrestling Alliance's East Texas territory.[4] By 1950 it was promoted by Southwest Sports and was officially recognized by the NWA. The first champions recognized by the NWA was the team of Rito Romero and Miguel Guzmán.[2] In 1966, Fritz Von Erich bought Southwest Sports and renamed it NWA Big Time Wrestling.[2] In the 1981 the championship was abandoned, with Raul Mata and Billy White Wolf as the last champions at the time.[2] The Texas Tag Team Championship was brought back in 1987, with Big Time Wrestling now known as World Class Wrestling Association.[3] The first WCWA Texas Tag Team Champions were Tony Atlas and Skip Young, who won a one-night single elimination tag team tournament to claim the championship.[6] When WCWA merged with the Tennessee-based CWA the title was abandoned, with Steve and Shaun Simpson as the last holders of the championship.[3] In 2012 NWA Wrecking Ball Wrestling reactivated the NWA Texas titles.[7]
The team of Duke Keomuka and Danny Savich won the championship on six occasions, the most of any team.[1][2][3][4] Keomuka won the championship a total of 16 times, in addition to teaming with Savich he also won it with Ivan Kalmikoff, Mr. Moto, Don Evans, Tiny Mills, Kinji Shibuya, Tony Martin, Tokyo Joe, John Tolos, and Maurice Vachon.[2] In 1950, Killer Kowalski defeated Keomuka and Savich in a handicap match, to become the only wrestler to hold the tag team championship singled handedly.[2] Romero and Guzmán's reign from March 3 until November 30, 1950, is the longest confirmed reign of any championship team, a total of 272 days.[2] Based on recorded history there were 153 individual reigns between 1943 and 1989, possibly more since there are periods of time where the championship history is unrecorded.[1][2][3][4]
Title history
Key
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Reign number for the specific team—reign numbers for the individuals are in parentheses, if different
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Championship change took place "no later than" the date listed
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Texas Tag Team Championship (Dallas Wrestling Club)
The first recorded "Texas Tag Team Championship" may not share a lineage with the championship promoted from 1950 and forward. In some places referred to as the "Southwest Tag Team Championship"
Defeated Pepper Gomez and Luther Lindsey in a controversial finish on May 22, 1956 to claim the title. Later defeated Gomez and Lindsey for an official recognition.
Defeated Jesus Cardenas and Enrique Romero in tournament final after the first match on January 7, 1958 was voided by the commissioner due to a controversial ending.
^Longest confirmed reign, with gaps in the documented championship history it is possible that another team had a longer reign.
^Kowalski won the championship but did not return to Texas to defend it.
^Hornbaker (2016) p. 550: "Professional wrestling is a sport in which match finishes are predetermined. Thus, win–loss records are not indicative of a wrestler's genuine success based on their legitimate abilities – but on now much, or how little they were pushed by promoters"[5]
References
Hornbaker, Tim (2016). "Statistical notes". Legends of Pro Wrestling - 150 years of headlocks, body slams, and piledrivers (Revised ed.). New York, New York: Sports Publishing. ISBN978-1-61321-808-2.
^ abcdefghijWill, Gary; Duncan, Royal (2000). "Texas: Texas Tag Team /Southwest Tag Team Title". Wrestling Title Histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present. Pennsylvania: Archeus Communications. p. 281. ISBN0-9698161-5-4.
^ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxWill, Gary; Duncan, Royal (2000). "Texas: WCWA Texas Tag Team Title [Von Erich]". Wrestling Title Histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present. Pennsylvania: Archeus Communications. p. 277. ISBN0-9698161-5-4.
^ abcdefghijWill, Gary; Duncan, Royal (2000). "Texas: NWA Texas Tag Team Title [East Texas]". Wrestling Title Histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present. Pennsylvania: Archeus Communications. p. 281. ISBN0-9698161-5-4.