Guy Brunetti/Joe Tagaro and Frank Jares/Great Sasaki (3 reigns) Individual: The Bat (4 reigns)
The Salt Lake Wrestling Club version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling championship for tag teams that was promoted between 1955 and 1959 in the Salt Lake Wrestling Club territory of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). Local promoter Dave Reynolds promoted the championship primarily in Utah, but would occasionally runs shows in Idaho and Washington state. Since the promotion was a member of the NWA, the Salt Lake Wrestling Club was entitled to promote their local version of the championship, as the NWA bylaws did not restrict the use of that championship in the same way they restricted the NWA World Heavyweight Championship to one nationally recognized championship.[3] In 1957 there were no less than 13 distinct versions of the NWA World Tag Team Championship promoted across the United States.[Championships] Because the championship was a professional wrestling championship, it was not contested for in legitimate sporting events, but instead determined by the decision of the bookers of a wrestling promotion.[4]
The team of Guy Brunetti and Joe Tangaro were the first recognized champions in the Utah/Idaho region, being introduced as champions no later than December 29, 1955. Records are unclear as to how they won the championship.[1][2] The championship was active until 1959 with at least 28 different championship reigns. In 1959 the team of Chico Garcia and Chet Wallick became the final champions, as the championship was abandoned when the Salt Lake Wrestling Club was going out of business. Brunetti and Tangaro ended up holding the championship three times, tied with Frank Jares and Great Sasaki for most championships as a team. The Bat held the championship four times, with four different partners, more than any other wrestler.[1][2] Brunetti and Tangaro's third championship reign lasted at least 95 days, the longest of any reign. Brunetti and Tangaro's three reigns combined to be at least 237 days long. Due to lack of dates for some championship changes it is impossible to determine who held the championship for the shortest period of time; Bill Melby and Blue Avenger's 14 day reign from November 21 to December 10, 1956, is the shortest confirmed reign, but the possibility exists that a shorter reign actually happened.[1][2]
Title history
Key
Symbol
Meaning
No.
The overall championship reign
Reign
The reign number for the specific wrestler listed.
Event
The event in which the championship 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 that there was a period where the lineage is undocumented due to the lack of written documentation in that time period.
(nlt)
Indicates that a title change took place "no later than" the date listed.[Note 1]
^Documentation of the specific date of a title change is not found but documentation of the champion holding the title on that date/in that period.
^The exact date that Brunetti and Tangaro won the championship is uncertain which means that the reign lasted at least 135 days.
^ abcdefghijThe location of the match was not captured as part of the documentation.
^The exact date that Quimet and Shire lost the championship is uncertain which means that the reign lasted between 1 day and 146 days.
^The exact date that Fox and McKay won and lost the championship is uncertain which means that the reign lasted between 1 day and 210 days.
^The exact date that Quimet and Shire won the championship is uncertain which means that the reign lasted between 9 days and 60 days.
^The exact date that Brunetti and Tangaro lost the championship is uncertain which means that the reign lasted between 95 days and 124 days.
^The exact date that Jares and Great Sasaki won and lost the championship is uncertain which means that the reign lasted between 1 day and 8 days.
^The exact date that Taft and Thiede lost the championship is uncertain which means that the reign lasted between 1 day and 83 days.
^The exact date that The James brothers won the championship is uncertain which means that the reign lasted between 1 day and 71 days.
^The exact date that the James brothers lost the championship is uncertain which means that the reign lasted between 1 day and 29 days.
^The exact date that Togo and Great Sasaki won the championship is uncertain which means that the reign lasted between 25 days and 53 days.
^The exact date that Monroe and the Bat won the championship is uncertain which means that the reign lasted between 1 day and 137 days.
^The exact date in that The Bat and Eric the Great won and lost the championship is uncertain which means that this reign lasted between 1 day and 165 days.
^The exact date that Borne and Urbano won and lost the championship is uncertain which means that the reign lasted between 1 day and 111 days.
^The exact date that Borne and DeGalles won the championship is uncertain which means that the reign lasted between 3 days and 33 days.
^The exact date that Mighty Milo and Newman lost the championship is uncertain which means that the reign lasted between 1 day and 132 days.
^The exact date that Borne and the Bat won the championship is uncertain which means that the reign lasted between 5 days and 136 days.
^The exact date that Melby and Fox won the championship is uncertain which means that the reign lasted between 11 days and 41 days.
^The exact date thatGarcia and Wallick lost the championship is uncertain which means that the reign lasted between 1 day and 212 days.
Concurrent championships
Sources for 13 simultaneous NWA World Tag Team Championships
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^Duncan, Royal; Will, Gary (2000). "Texas: NWA World Tag Team Title [Siegel, Boesch & McLemore]". Wrestling title histories: professional wrestling champions around the world from the 19th century to the present. Pennsylvania: Archeus Communications. ISBN0-9698161-5-4.
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