10 Things Fans Should Know About The WCW Tag Team Championships
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A few unbelievable couples held the WCW Tag Team Championships! What should fans are familiar these esteemed titles?
Albeit the Monday Night Wars revolved around a lot of independent whizzes like Steve Austin and Goldberg, numerous groups helped swing watchers. The nWo was ostensibly the greatest stable of the period and numerous individuals from the nWo wound up holding the famous WCW Tag Team Championships.
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There was an alternate cycle of the titles that date back to a house show in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1975. Probably the best label groups in WCW became easily recognized names holding the titles, including groups like The Outsiders, The Steiner Brothers, and Harlem Heat. This rundown will inspect ten things fans ought to be aware of the WCW Tag Team Championships.
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10 Harlem Heat Held The Titles More Times Than Anyone Else
In spite of 88 different label group units holding the WCW Tag Team Championships, no label group held the belts a bigger number of times than Harlem Heat. Booker T and Stevie Ray were a flat out force as a unit. They contended with each significant label group unit at WCW and have enormous successes over every one of them.
They just vied for the titles from December 1994 to October of 1999 significance they held the titles multiple times in barely five years. Nobody went after the WCW Tag Team Championships at the level of the WWE Hall of Fame label group, Harlem Heat.
9 They Were Originally Known As The "NWA World Tag Team Championships"
WCW was at one point an individual from the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). While an individual from NWA, the organization's grapplers vied for the NWA World Tag Team Championships, which date back to 1975 with the organization.
In 1993, WCW pulled out from the NWA and got back to the NWA World Tag Team Championships supplanting them with their NWA World Tag Team Championships. Albeit this multitude of titles are all "in fact" various belts, WCW perceived champions that dated back to the 1975 foundation of the NWA World Tag Team Championships.
8 Hollywood/Hulk Hogan Never Held The WCW Tag Team Championship
Mass Hogan's appearance to WCW in 1993 was a colossal change in wrestling. Despite the fact that he wasn't the very level of a star that he was in the last part of the 80s, he was as yet an immense draw. At the point when he progress to Hollywood Hogan after the foundation of the nWo, he was the top person at WCW for a large portion of his pursue.
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Regardless of every one of his storylines, numerous label group coordinates with the nWo, and all that he achieved at WCW, Hogan never held the WCW Tag Team Championships. He held the WCW Heavyweight Championship six distinct times. Hogan never at any point once went after the WCW Tag Team Championships at the organization.
7 Booker T Is The Only Person To Hold Them Before And After The WWE Purchased WCW
Not many stars at WCW profited from the WWE's acquisition of WCW at the degree of Booker T. He thrived in the WWE and turned into a pillar in the principal card for an enormous piece of his profession.
From August 2001 to November 2001, the WCW label titles existed in the WWE. Stevie Ray never endorsed with the organization and Booker wound up holding the titles with Test in September of 2001. It made him the solitary, individual to hold the titles, while both being an individual from the WWE and WCW list.
6 The Minnesota Wrecking Crew (Gene and Ole Anderson) Held The Titles For Almost 1,000 Days
The Minnesota Wrecking Crew (Gene and Ole Anderson) were the main WCW Tag Team Champions ever, when they crushed Paul Jones and Tiger Conway Jr. in 1975 they laid out the titles that symbols like Ric Flair, Steve Austin, and Dusty Rhodes would ultimately hold.
Quality and Ole Anderson would proceed to bring home the championships seven distinct times before May 1981. Their reigns shifted long, yet by and large they wound up holding the titles for an expected 992 days which is right around 475 days longer than the second longest ruling WCW Tag Team Champions, The Steiner Brothers.
5 It Was The Last Title Brian Pillman Ever Held
In spite of the fact that Brian Pillman had a tremendous effect at the WWE, he was exclusively there for under 18 months. He never held a solitary wrestling title at WWE all things considered.
He and Steve Austin (the Hollywood Blondes) were an extraordinary label group at WCW. They held the titles for 169 days prior to losing them to The Four Horsemen (Arn Anderson and Paul Roma), because of a physical issue Pillman endured. This title run in 1993 was the last title run of his life that finished too early.
4 The Dudley Boyz Are The Only Team Who Held The WCW, WWE, ECW, NWA, TNA, and IWGP Tag Team Championships
As far as title rules, hardly any label groups can contrast with Bubba Ray and D-Von Dudley. The pair began as a gigantic power in ECW holding the label titles multiple times at the organization. At the point when they showed up to the WWE, they were immediately a show-taking crew.
Their incredible coordinates and fights with The Hardyz and Edge and Christian assisted them with in the end becoming WWE Hall of Famers. They would later hold the Impact World Tag Team Championships two times and vied for the IWGP Tag Team Championships winning them two times too.
3 Only Title Mick Foley Held In WCW
In spite of the fact that he did, first, wrestle for the WWE, Mick Foley rose to unmistakable quality in wrestling when he began contending as Cactus Jack at WCW. At the organization, he wasn't the headliner fascination he would become in the Attitude Era, however he was engaging.
Jack just held one title in WCW, the Tag Team title. With Kevin Sullivan, he had a 56-day rule with the belts prior to being crushed by Pretty Wonderful (Paul Orndorff and Paul Roma) at Bash At The Beach 1994.
2 Sting and Lex Luger Were The First Tag Team To Feature Two Former WCW World Heavyweight Champions
The WCW World Heavyweight Championship was first formally settled in 1991. It was the organization's definitive award and, some way or another, relatively few previous WCW label group champions were additionally previous title holders. Whenever it first at any point happened was while Sting and Lex Luger brought home the championships on a 1996 episode of Nitro.
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Lex Luger was the second individual to at any point hold the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Sting was the third. The two started collaborating in late 1995 and in the end procured the titles by overcoming Harlem Heat. They would ultimately lose the titles back to Booker T and Stevie Ray after north of 150 days with the titles.
1 Booker T Held The Titles More Times Than Any Other Wrestler (11)
Assuming there was one individual who could be named "Mr. WCW Tag Team Champion" it would need to be Booker T. In addition to the fact that he is the main individual to hold them in WCW and WWE, he likewise held the belts a larger number of times than any single grappler. By coming out on top for the championships in the WWE with Test, he procured his 11th title rule. It was the most times any grappler in history at any point held the titles.
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