WWF World Tag Team Title: 1957-1979
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Champ |
Date |
Won from |
Location |
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Eddie & Dr. Jerry Graham |
1957 |
Antonino Rocca & Miguel Perez |
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Perez and Rocca had been the first U.S. titlists, as the belts were known until 1967. |
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Mark Lewis & Don Curtis |
12-12-58 |
Eddie & Dr. Jerry Graham |
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Eddie & Dr. Jerry Graham |
5-27-59 |
Mark Lewis & Don Curtis |
Bridgeport, CT |
|
Red & Lou Bastien |
4-2-60 |
Eddie & Dr. Jerry Graham |
New Haven, CT |
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Eddie & Dr. Jerry Graham |
4-16-60 |
Red & Lou Bastien |
New Haven, CT |
|
Red & Lou Bastien |
4-23-60 |
Eddie & Dr. Jerry Graham |
Chicago |
|
Al Costello & Roy Heffernan |
7-21-60 |
Red & Lou Bastien |
Washington, D.C. |
|
Red & Lou Bastien |
8-8-60 |
Al Costello & Roy Heffernan |
Washington, D.C. |
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Al Costello & Roy Heffernan |
8-24-60 |
Red & Lou Bastien |
Bridgeport, CT |
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Johnny Valentine & Buddy Rogers |
11-19-60 |
Al Costello & Roy Heffernan |
Teaneck, NJ |
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Al Costello & Roy Heffernan |
11-26-60 |
Johnny Valentine & Chief Big Heart |
Washington, D.C. |
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Rogers left Valentine, who then chose Chief Big Heart to be his partner. |
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Johnny Valentine & Bob Ellis |
1-11-62 |
Al Costello & Roy Heffernan |
Washington, D.C. |
|
Buddy Rogers & John Barend |
7-5-62 |
Johnny Valentine & Bob Ellis |
Washington, D.C. |
|
Buddy Austin & The Great Scott |
3-7-63 |
Buddy Rogers & John Barend |
Washington, D.C. |
|
Skull Murphy & Brute Bernard |
5-16-63 |
Buddy Austin & The Great Scott |
Washington, D.C. |
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Killer Kowalski & Gorilla Monsoon |
11-14-63 |
Skull Murphy & Brute Bernard |
Washington, D.C. |
|
Chris & John Tolos |
12-28-63 |
Kowalski & Monsoon |
Teaneck, NJ |
|
Vittorio Apollo & Don McClarty |
2-64 |
Chris & John Tolos |
New Haven CT |
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Dr. Jerry & Crazy Luke Graham |
6-64 |
Apollo & McClarty |
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Gene Kiniski & Waldo Von Erich |
1964 |
Jerry & Luke Graham |
Washington, D.C. |
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Gorilla Monsoon & Cowboy Bill Watts |
4-65 |
Kiniski & Von Erich |
Washington, D.C. |
|
Dan & Dr. Bill Miller |
7-65 |
Monsoon & Watts |
Washington, D.C. |
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Johnny Valentine & Antonio Pugliese |
2-21-66 |
Dan & Dr. Bill Miller |
New York |
|
Baron Mikel Scicluna & Smasher Sloan |
9-22-66 |
Valentine & Pugliese |
Washington, D.C. |
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Spiros Arion & Antonio Pugliese |
12-8-66 |
Scicluna & Sloan |
Washington, D.C. |
|
Lou Albano & Tony Altimore |
7-10-67 |
Arion & Arnold Skaaland |
Atlantic, City |
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Arion chose Skaaland as his partner after Pugliese left the country. |
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Spiros Arion & Bruno Sammartino |
7-24-67 |
Albano & Altimore |
Atlantic City |
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Prof. Tanaka & Mitsu Arakawa |
6-69 |
|
Japan |
|
Tanaka and Arakawa won the belts in a tournament. The title was vacated in 1967 after Sammartino won the WWF World Title. The belts were also now known as the WWWF International tag team title. |
|
Victor Rivera & Tony Marino |
12-8-69 |
Prof. Tanaka & Mitsu Arakawa |
New York |
|
Bepo & Gito Mongol |
6-15-70 |
Rivera & Marino |
New York |
|
Crazy Luke Graham & Tarzan Tyler |
6-71 |
Dick the Bruise & The Sheik |
New Orleans |
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This was a tournament final to fill the vacancy when the Mongols left the WWF and took the International belts with them. The title became known as the WWWF World Tag Team title. |
|
Karl Gotch & Rene Goulet |
12-6-71 |
Graham & Tyler |
New York |
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Baron Scicluna & King Curtis |
2-1-72 |
Gotch & Goulet |
Philadelphia |
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Chief Jay Strongbow & Sonny King |
5-22-72 |
Scicluna & Curtis |
New York |
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Prof. Tanaka & Mr. Fuji |
6-27-72 |
Strongbow & King |
Philadelphia |
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Tony Garea & Haystacks Calhoun |
5-30-73 |
Tanaka & Fuji |
Hamburg, PA |
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Prof. Tanaka & Mr. Fuji |
9-11-73 |
Garea & Calhoun |
Philadelphia |
|
Tony Garea & Dean Ho |
11-14-73 |
Tanaka & Fuji |
Hamburg, PA |
|
Jimmy & Johnny Valiant |
5-8-74 |
Tony Garea & Dean Ho |
Hamburg, PA |
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Victor Rivera & Dominic DeNucci |
5-13-75 |
Jimmy & Johnny Valiant |
Philadelphia |
|
Blackjack Mulligan & Blackjack Lanza |
8-26-75 |
DeNucci & Irish Pat Barrett |
Philadelphia |
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Victor Rivera gave up his half of the title in June 1975. DeNucci chose Barrett as his new partner. |
|
Tony Parisi & Louis Cerdan |
11-8-75 |
Blackjacks |
Philadelphia |
|
The Executioners |
5-11-76 |
Parisi & Cerdan |
Philadelphia |
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Chief Jay Strongbow & Billy White Wolf |
12-7-76 |
|
Philadelphia |
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The Executioners were stripped of the belts after a third Executioner interfered in a match againt Strongbow & White Wolf. Strongbow & White Wolf defeated the Exectutioners and Tar Kamata & Nikolai Volkoff in a three-team tournament to win the titles. |
|
Prof. Tanaka & Mr. Fuji |
9-27-77 |
Tony Garea & Larry Zbyszko |
Philadelphia |
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Strongbow & White Wolf gave up the title after White Wolf injured his next. Tanaka & Fuji won a tournament to fill the vacancy. |
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Dominic DeNucci & Dino Bravo |
3-14-78 |
Tanaka & Fuji |
Philadelphia |
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Yukon Lumberjacks |
6-26-78 |
DeNucci & Bravo |
New York |
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Tony Garea & Larry Zbyszko |
11-21-78 |
Yukon Lumberjacks |
Allentown, PA |
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Johnny & Jerry Valiant |
3-6-79 |
Garea & Zbyszko |
Allentown, PA |
|
Ivan Putski & Tito Santana |
10-22-79 |
Johnny & Jerry Valiant |
New York |
