Date established 1953 | Date retired August 1960 | |
Promotion Fred Kohler Enterprises First champion(s) Lord James Blears and Lord Athol Layton Most reigns Nicolai and Boris Volkoff (4 reigns) Longest reign Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson (371 days) | ||
The Chicago version of the NWA World Tag Team Championshipwas a professional wrestling championship promoted by the Chicago based Fred Kohler Enterprises, a member of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). The championship was for two-man tag teams only. While the NWA Board of Directors mandated that there would only be one NWA World Heavyweight Championship they did not regulate the use of championships labelled "NWA World Tag Team Championship", allowing any member that so desired to create their own local version. As a result as many as 14 different, regional versions were active in 1957, the highest number of active NWA World Tag Team Championships in existence at the same time.[Championships]
Contents
- Title history
- Team reigns by combined length
- Individual reigns by combined length
- Concurrent championships
- References
The championship was introduced in 1953 when the promoters awarded the championship to Lord James Blears and Lord Athol Layton. The championship was promoted from 1953 until 1960 when Fred Kohler left the NWA to help form the American Wrestling Association (AWA) and thus the AWA World Tag Team Championship became the top tag team championship in the Chicago area. The Chicaco promotion would later be bought by Dick Afflis who merged it with his Indianapolis based territory. The last NWA World Tag Team Championship were the Shires brothers, Roy and Ray who won the championship April 9, 1960. The Volkoffs,Boris and Nicoli, held the championship four times, the record for the Chicago version of the NWA Wold Tag Team Championship. Art Neilson and Reggie Lisowski held the championship for 371 days, the longest individual reign in the championship's seven year history. Being a professional wrestling championship, it is not won or lost competitively but instead by the decision of the bookers of a wrestling promotion. The title is awarded after the chosen team "wins" a match to maintain the illusion that professional wrestling is a competitive sport.