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NWA Mississippi Tag Team Championship (Gulf Coast version)

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Date established
  
1968

Promotion
  
Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling

Date retired
  
No later than March 1973

First champion(s)
  
The Interns (Joe Turner and Bill Bowman)

Final champion(s)
  
Bob Kelly and Frank Dalton

Most reigns
  
Bob Kelly and Frank Dalton/Bob Kelly and Bobby Fields (2)

The NWA Mississippi Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team championship in Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling (GCCW). A secondary title complimenting the NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team Championship, it was one of many state tag team championships recognized by the National Wrestling Alliance.

Some reigns were held by champions using a ring name, while others used their real name. There have been a total of 13 recognized individual champions and 8 recognized teams, who have had a combined 10 official reigns. The first champions were The Interns (Joe Turner and Bill Bowman), and the final champions were "Cowboy" Bob Kelly and Frank Dalton. At 60 days, Kelly and Dalton's first reign was the longest, while the team of Rip Tyler and Eduardo Perez's first reign was the shortest, at less than two weeks.

The team of Bob Kelly and Frank Dalton and the team of Bob Kelly and Bobby Fields are tied with the most reigns as champions, with two each. Kelly has the most individual reigns with four. The following is a chronological list of teams that have been Mississippi Tag Team Champions by ring name.

References

NWA Mississippi Tag Team Championship (Gulf Coast version) Wikipedia