NWA World Tag Team Championship (Los Angeles version)
No Champions Reign Date Location Event
1 The Dusek Family ( Emil Dusek and Ernie Dusek ) 1 July 14 , 1949 ( NLT ) Longbeach , California Live event
2 George and Bobby Becker 1 August 14 , 1950 ( NLT ) Live event
3 Gino and Leo Garibaldi 1 03 ( NLT ) Live event
4 The Dusek Family ( Emil Dusek and Ernie Dusek ) 2 August 13 , 1951 ( NLT ) Live event
5 Great Togo and Tosh Togo 1 June 4 , 1955 ( NLT ) Live event
6 Guy Brunetti and Joe Tangero 1 August 24 , 1957 ( NLT ) Live event
7 Hans Herman and Hans Schmidt 1 October 1957 Los Angeles , California Live event
8 Berry and Tosh Togo ( 2 ) 1 1958 Los Angeles , California Live event
9 Billy Darnell and Sándor Szabó 1 September 1958 Live event Los Angeles , California
- Abandoned N/A 1958 or 1959 N/A N/A
10 The Twin Devils ( Twin Devil 1 and Twin Devil 2 ) 1 1979 Los Angeles , California Live event
11 Dory Funk , Jr. and Terry Funk 1 February 1980 Los Angeles , California Live event
12 The Hood and Ron Starr 1 1980 Los Angeles , California Live event
13 Walter Johnson and Alberto Madril 1 1980 Los Angeles , California Live event
14 Ox Baker and Enforcer Lusciano 1 1980 Los Angeles , California Live event
15 Walter and Battleship Johnson 1 1980 Los Angeles , California Live event
16 Enforcer Lusciano and Victor Rivera 1 1980 Los Angeles , California Live event
17 The Twin Devils ( Twin Devil 1 and Twin Devil 2 ) 2 1981 Los Angeles , California Live event
18 Rick and John Davidson 1 April 2 , 1981 ( NLT ) Los Angeles , California Live event
19 Carlos Mata and Kiss 1 1982 Los Angeles , California Live event
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The Los Angeles version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship was the main tag team professional wrestling championship of the North American Wrestling Alliance, a member of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), which promoted shows in and around Los Angeles. The championship was the first of at least 17 championships to use that name between 1949 and 1992, as the NWA Board of Directors allowed each territory to create its own version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship if it so desired. In 1957 there were at least 13 different versions of the NWA World Tag Team Championship recognized in the United States. Since it was a professional wrestling championship, it was not won through legitimate competitive matches, but instead determined by the decisions of the booker(s) of a wrestling promotion. The first version of the Los Angeles NWA World Tag Team Championship was created in 1949, less than a year after the NWA itself was founded. At the time, tag team wrestling was popular on the West Coast, leading to the local NWA promoters Hugh Nichols and Johnny Doyle creating the first-ever NWA World Tag Team Championship when they announced The Dusek Family (Ernie and Emil Dusek) as the first champions on July 14, 1949. The NWA Board of Directors dictated that all NWA territories recognize only one NWA World Heavyweight Champion, but allowed each territory to crown its own world tag team champion, making each championship a regional championship despite the name. The Los Angeles territory promoted its NWA World Tag Team Championship for eleven years, with Ben and Mike Sharpe being the last champions of the era. The Duseks were the only team to hold the championship twice in that period of time. The longest reign of the first era belonged to Guy Brunetti and Joe Tangero, who held the championship for at least 277 days. After the Los Angeles version was abandoned, the local promoters recognized the San Francisco version in subsequent years. By the 1970s the San Francisco territory had been taken over by Mike and Gene Lebell's NWA Hollywood Wrestling.