NWA World Tag Team Championship (Amarillo version)
No Champions Reign Date Days held Location Event Notes
1 Reggie Lisowski and Art Nelson 1 1955 ( NLT ) Live event Lisowski and Neilson were recognized as the Chicago version of the NWA World Tag Team championship and were recognized in Amarillo
2 Art Nelson ( 2 ) and Rip Rogers 1 November 1955 ( NLT ) Live event Lisowski relinquishes his half of the title to Rogers ( Lisowski and Neilson continue to be recognized in Chicago and other territories ) . Dory Funk and Bob Geigel defeateed the champions on April 26 , 1956 but results were reversed because Dizzy Davis substituted for Geigel during the match
3 Dizzy Davis and Sonny Myers 1 June 7 , 1956 130 Amarillo , Texas Live event
4 Art Nelson ( 3 ) and Rip Rogers 2 October 15 , 1956 38 Live event Sometime after July 12 , 1956
5 Dory Funk and Bob Geigel 2 November 22 , 1956 88 Amarillo , Texas Live event Defeated Nelson/Rogers and Bob Orton / John Tolos in a 3-way match
6 Dory Funk ( 3 ) and Rip Rogers ( 3 ) 1 February 18 , 1957 31 Live event Funk chooses Rogers as a new partner after Geigel leaves the territory
7 Dizzy Davis and Great Bolo 1 March 21 , 1957 21 Amarillo , Texas Live event
8 Don Curtis and Dizzy Davis 1 April 11 , 1957 73 Amarillo , Texas Live event Defeated Great Bolo and Kurt Von Poppenheim to win the championship after Davis was allowed to choose a new tag team partner
- Vacated - June 1957 N/A N/A N/A Championship vacated due to an injury to Don Curtis
9 Mike DiBiase and Danny Plechas 1 June 13 , 1957 40 Amarillo , Texas Live event Defeated Dory Funk and Bob Geigel in a six-team tournament final
10 Dizzy Davis and Sonny Myers 2 July 23 , 1957 15 Odessa , Texas Live event
11 Great Bolo and Tokyo Joe 1 August 7 , 1957 Wichita Falls , Texas Live event
12 Great Bolo ( 2 ) and Art Nelson ( 4 ) 1 September 1957 Live event Joe is injured and replaced by Nelson before the title defense on 57/09/05 in |Amarillo , Texas
13 Leo Garibaldi and Sonny Myers 1 November 14 , 1957 28 Amarillo , Texas Live event
14 Mike DiBiase and Danny Plechas 2 December 12 , 1957 42 Amarillo , Texas Live event
- Vacated - January 23 , 1958 N/A Amarillo , Texas Live event Championship vacated after a match against George and Sandy Scott
15 Mike DiBiase and Danny Plechas 3 February 6 , 1958 Amarillo , Texas Live event Won the rematch
- Vacated - April 1958 N/A N/A N/A Championship vacated after not being defended for 60 days
16 Ricky Romero and Cyclone Anaya 1 May 8 , 1958 49 Lubbock , Texas Live event Defeated Tokyo Joe and Art Nelson in the finals of an eight-team tournament
17 Great Bolo ( 3 ) and Tokyo Joe 2 June 26 , 1958 7 Amarillo , Texas Live event
Title history
Key
The Amarillo version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship was the main tag team professional wrestling championship for the Amarillo, Texas-based Western States Sports, a member of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). Promoters Doc Sarpolis and Dory Funk introduced the championship in 1955 and continued to use it as their main tag team championship until 1969. The NWA Board of Directors dictated that there would be only one NWA World Heavyweight Champion but allowed any NWA member, also known as a NWA territory, to create its own local version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship. In 1957 no less than 13 different versions of the NWA World Tag Team Championship were promoted across the United States. This even included another version in East Texas, which was used mainly in Houston and Fort Worth at the time. To start the Amarillo lineage of the NWA World Tag Team Championship. Sarpolis and Funk invited Reggie Lisowski and Art Nelson, the holders of the Chicago version of the championship, to come to Amarillo and defend the championship. By November 1955 Lisowski stopped travelling to Amarillo so Nelson was given Rip Rogers as a partner, creating a separate lineage from the Chicago version as they continued to recognize Lisowski and Nelson as champions. The world tag team championship was actively promoted in and around Amarillo and Lubbock, Texas, from 1955 until March 1969. At that point the promotion abandoned the championship, opting to create the NWA Western States Tag Team Championship as the main tag team championship of the territory. Since the Amarillo version, like all other NWA World Tag Team Championships, were professional wrestling championships, it meant that the championship was not determined by competitive combat, but instead based on a predetermined match result. The teams of Terry Funk and Dory Funk Jr., and Mike DiBiase and Danny Plechas, share the record for most reigns as a team, a total of three each.