Doc and Gordy make history: Double Champions

In a stunning turn of events, Steve 'Dr Death' Williams and Terry 'Bam Bam' Gordy achieved history in the space of just a week, when they won both the WCW World Tag Team titles and the NWA World Tag Team titles.

In one of the strongest pushes ever given to a debuting heel tag team, they defeated the Steiner Brothers for the WCW World Tag Team titles on July 5th, 1992, at a house show at the Omni, Atlanta, Georgia. Just one week later, on July 12th, 1992, they advanced to the finals of the NWA World Tag Team title tournament, where they defeated Dustin Rhodes & Barry Windham to capture the vacant titles.

It capped a remarkable couple of months for Doc and Gordy. They had debuted in WCW at the beginning of May, after having spent the previous three years as one of the most popular and dominant tag teams in Japan. They were given a huge push upon their arrival in World Championship Wrestling, and their chances of success increased dramatically when Cowboy Bill Watts took over as the new Executive Vice President of WCW. Williams and Gordy were pretty much viewed as 'the poster boys' for much of what Watts envisaged a wrestler or wrestlers should be like. Williams had previously worked under Watts some years earlier in the Mid-South/UWF territory, and had been one of Watts' champions.

Their push was also greatly assisted by Jim Ross, the lead announcer in the company. Ross, himself the main announcer for the Mid-South/UWF when Williams was a champion there, gave the heels a major push on television, to the point that he routinely began referring to them as the number one tag team in the world, whilst the babyface Steiner Brothers were still WCW World Tag Team Champions. The heels were portrayed as presenting the biggest ever threat to the Steiner Brothers' titles, and to some, it was no surprise when they finally downed the Steiners to claim the titles. Their title victory had come after two previous high profile matches with the Steiners. At the Beach Blast '92 pay-per-view, on June 20th, Williams and Gordy had wrestled the then-reigning tag team champions to a 20:00 time limit. Two days later, on June 22nd, at the Clash of the Champions XIX t.v. special, Williams and Gordy shockingly defeated the Steiner Brothers, eliminating them from the NWA World Tag Team title tournament, in an impromptu quarter-final round match. Following that draw and win, Doc & Gordy were on a roll, and it was just two weeks later when they finally dethroned the Steiners. They reached a high, but the new champions weren't quite finished achieving. One week later, at the Great American Bash '92 pay-per-view on July 12th, Williams and Gordy defeated Ricky Steamboat and Nikita Koloff in the semi-finals of the tournament, before downing Rhodes and Windham in a hard fought tournament final match.  

Williams and Gordy are viewed by many as one of the best tag teams of the early 1990s. Individually, both are very good wrestlers, but together, as a collective unit, they compliment each other so well. Williams' rugged look, plus his physique and football background, makes the fans believe that he is a 'major league' tough guy, and somebody worth betting on in a fight. Gordy, meanwhile, is well known for his brutal punches, lariats, and powerbombs, and adds a sense of mobility and ring savvyness to the team, and his experience - already a veteran of 15 years, after  having wrestled since the age of 16 - proves invaluable to the team.

Steve Williams and Terry Gordy are now on top of the world; becoming the first tag team to hold both the WCW and NWA World Tag Team titles simultaneously, since WCW split from the NWA at the start of 1991.