UWA World Tag Team Championship

UWA World Tag Team Championship
Nosawa, claimed to have won the championship in Mexico with Mazada
Details
Promotion	El Dorado Wrestling Kohaku Wrestling Wars Michinoku Pro Wrestling Union Pro Wrestling Universal Wrestling Association
Date established	1982
Current champion(s)	Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita
Date won	June 10, 2016
Statistics First champion(s) Riki Choshu and Gran Hamada Most reigns Speed of Sounds (Tsutomu Oosugi and Hercules Oosenga) (4 reigns)

The UWA World Tag Team Championship is a tag team professional wrestling championship created by the Mexican Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) and defended there until the UWA closed in 1995.^[1] After the UWA's closing, the title was inactive until 2008, when El Dorado Wrestling revived the title. On March 26, 2008, Kagetora and Kota Ibushi won the title in Tokyo, Japan at El Dorado's Eye of the Treasure event, defeating Mazada and Nosawa.^[2] It has since been defended in several promotions, including Kohaku Wrestling Wars, Michinoku Pro Wrestling and Union Pro Wrestling. The current champions are Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita. 19 different teams have held the championship, combining for 26 total reigns. Being a professional wrestling championship it is not won legitimately; it is instead won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a team because of a storyline.

Title history

Key

Symbol	Meaning
No.	The overall championship reign
Reign	The reign number for the specific wrestler listed.
Event	The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title changed hands
N/A	The specific information is not known
—	Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign
[Note]	Indicates that the exact length of the title reign is unknown, with a note providing more details.
†	Indicates championship defended in Mexico after the UWA closed
¤	Indicates championship defended in Japan after the UWA closed

No.	Champions	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Event	Notes	Ref.
1	Riki Choshu and Gran Hamada	1	August 1, 1982	[Note 1]	Naucalpan, México, Mexico	UWA Live Event	Defeated Baby Face and El Canek to become the first champions.	[3]
—	Vacated	—	1985	—	N/A	N/A	Championship vacated for undocumented reasons, abandoned by the UWA at this time
2	Los Brazos (Brazo de Oro and Brazo de Plata)	1	March 10, 1991	75	Tokyo, Japan	UWA Live Event	Defeated Perro Aguayo and Gran Hamada to win the vacant championship	[3]
3	Perro Aguayo and Gran Hamada (2)	1	June 13, 1991	220	Tokyo, Japan	UWA Live Event		[3]
—	Vacated	—	January 19, 1992	—	N/A	N/A	The title was vacated on January 19, 1992, after Perro Aguayo began working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) on a regular basis	[3]
4	Gran Hamada (3) and Kendo	1	January 19, 1992	0	Tokyo, Japan	UWA Live Event	Defeated Los Brazos (Brazo de Oro and Brazo de Plata) to win the vacant championship.	[3]
5	Los Cowboys / Los Effectivos (Silver King and El Texano)	1	January 19, 1992	161	Tokyo, Japan	UWA Live Event		[3]
6	The Can-Am Connection (Doug Furnas and Dan Kroffat)	1	June 28, 1992	133	Naucalpan, México, Mexico	UWA Live Event		[3]
7	Los Villanos (Villano IV and Villano V)	1	November 8, 1992	119	Naucalpan, México, Mexico	UWA Live Event		[3]
8	The Can-Am Connection (Doug Furnas and Dan Kroffat)	2	March 7, 1993	[Note 2]	Naucalpan, México, Mexico	UWA Live Event		[3]
9	Los Villanos (Villano IV and Villano V)	2	April 1993	[Note 3]	Mexico	UWA Live Event		[3]
—	Abandoned	—	1995	—	N/A	N/A	The UWA Closed and the titles were abandoned.	[3]
#	Los Rayos Tapatío (Rayo Tapatio I and Rayo Tapatio II)	#	#	#	#	#	Los Rayos Tapatío began defending a title they claimed was the UWA World Tag Team Championship around 2000. They held the Distrito Federal Tag Team Championship and could possibly have made this claim to allow them to defend a championship outside of the Distrito Federal. It was never confirmed that they had physical possession of the original UWA title belts.	[4]
9 †	Los Villanos (Villano IV and Villano V)	2	2004 (NLT)	[Note 4]	N/A	N/A	Los Villanos began defending the UWA title again no later than 2004, at this point it was not sanctioned by a promotion but Los Villanos personal championship	[5]
10 †	Emilio Charles Jr. and Scorpio Jr.	1	April 7, 2004	7	Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico	Live event		[5]
11 †	Los Villanos (Villano IV and Villano V)	3	April 14, 2004	[Note 5]	Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico	Live event		[5]
—	Abandoned	—	October 26, 2006	—	Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico	N/A	Last known title defense for Los Villanos. After this the UWA title belts were not seen in Mexico again	[6]
12	Mazada and Nosawa	1	2008	[Note 6]	[Note 7]	Live event	Nosawa and Mazada proclaimed themselves as UWA World Tag Team Champions, claiming they had defeated Los Rayos Tapatío in July 2000 to win the championship. At this point the championship became the tag title for El Dorado Wrestling.
13	Kagetora and Kota Ibushi	1	March 26, 2008	[Note 8]	Tokyo, Japan	Live event		[2]
—	Vacated	—	2008	—	N/A	N/A	Championship vacated due to inactivity.
14 ¤	Speed of Sounds (Tsutomu Oosugi and Hercules Oosenga)	1	November 25, 2008	8	Tokyo, Japan	Face Busta Vol. 12	Defeated Jumping Kid Okimoto and Kagetora at Face Busta Vol. 12 in a decision match.
15 ¤	The Brahman Brothers (Brahman Kei and Brahman Shu)	1	December 3, 2008	497	Tokyo, Japan	Live event
16 ¤	Speed of Sounds (Tsutomu Oosugi and Hercules Oosenga)	2	April 14, 2010	252	Tokyo, Japan	Live event
17 ¤	Masamune and Minoru Fujita	1	December 22, 2010	344	Tokyo, Japan	Live event
18 ¤	Speed of Sounds (Tsutomu Oosugi and Hercules Oosenga)	3	December 1, 2011	667	Tokyo, Japan	Live event
19 ¤	Ikuto Hidaka and Menso-re Oyaji	1	November 29, 2012	228	Tokyo, Japan	Live event
20 ¤	Speed of Sounds (Tsutomu Oosugi and Hercules Oosenga)	4	July 15, 2013	205	Osaka, Japan	Live event
21 ¤	Hiroki and Yasu Urano	1	February 5, 2014	81	Tokyo, Japan	Live event
22 ¤	Hiroshi Fukuda and Men's Teioh	1	April 27, 2014	126	Yokohama, Japan	Live event
23 ¤	Fuma and Isami Kodaka	1	August 31, 2014	146	Tokyo, Japan	Live event
24 ¤	Masato Shibata and Shuji Ishikawa	1	January 24, 2015	144	Yokohama, Japan	Live event
25 ¤	The Brahman Brothers (Brahman Kei and Brahman Shu)	2	June 17, 2015	359	Tokyo, Japan	Live event
26 ¤	Ikuto Hidaka (2) and Minoru Fujita (2)	1	June 10, 2016	190+	Tokyo, Japan	Live event	This match was also contested for the Tohoku Tag Team Championship.

Footnotes

1. The exact date on which the championship was abandoned is unknown, which means the title reign lasted between 884 and 1,248 days.
2. The exact date on which The Can-Am Connection lost the championship is unknown, which means the title reign lasted between 25 and 54 days.
3. The exact date on which Los Villanos won the championship is unknown and the exact date the UWA Closed is uncertain, which means the title reign lasted between 611 and 1,004 days.
4. The exact date on which Los Villanos started defending the championship again is unknown, which means the continued title reign lasted between 1 and 3,659 days.
5. The exact date on which Los Villanos stopped promoting the vacated the championship is unknown, which means the title reign lasted between 925 and 1,441 days.
6. It is most likely that Mazada and Nosawa made up the story of winning the championship to legitimize their claim.
7. The title match is possibly fictitious, no location has ever been mentioned.
8. The exact date on which the championship was vacated is unknown, which means the title reign lasted between 1 and 243 days.

References

1. "U.W.A. World Tag Team Title". Puroresu Dojo. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
2. "El Dorado Eye of the Treasure results" (in German). Cagematch.de. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
3. Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). "Mexico: UWA World Tag Team Title". Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. p. 396. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
4. "2000 Especial!". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 9, 2001. pp. 2–28. issue 2488.
5. "Número Especial - Lo mejr de la lucha ilbre mexicana durante el 2004". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 24, 2005. Issue 91.
6. "Lo Mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana duranted el 2006". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). December 23, 2006. Issue 192. Retrieved July 11, 2009.