SCW Tag Team Championship (Georgia)
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| Promotion | Southern Championship Wrestling | ||||||||
| Date established | 1988 | ||||||||
| Date retired | 1990 | ||||||||
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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 2 "Biography". Steve The Brawler Lawler's Bio. SteveTheBrawlerLawler.com. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
- ↑ 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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