The AWA World Tag Team Championship was a world tag team championship in the American Wrestling Association from 1960 until the promotion folded in 1991.
Reigns:[]
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | |||
| 1 | Murder, Inc.
(Stan Kowalski and Tiny Mills) |
August 1960 | N/A | N/A | 1 | 64 | |
| 2 | Hard Boiled Haggerty and Len Montana / Gene Kiniski | October 4, 1960 | Live event | Minneapolis, Minnesota | 1 | 231 | Montana suffered a broken leg in a match against Verne Gagne. On March 18, 1961, Haggerty chose Kiniski as his new partner. |
| 3 | Leo Nomellini and Wilbur Snyder | May 23, 1961 | Live event | Minneapolis, Minnesota | 1 | 57 | |
| 4 | Hard Boiled Haggerty and Gene Kiniski | July 19, 1961 | Live event | St. Paul, Minnesota | 2 | 20 | |
| — | Vacated | August 8, 1961 | Live event | — | — | — | Title vacated after Haggerty and Kiniski split up when Haggerty's interference in a cage match between Kiniski and Verne Gagne backfires. |
| 5 | Hard Boiled Haggerty (3) and Bob Geigel | September 26, 1961 | Live event | St. Paul, Minnesota | 1 | 51 | Haggerty defeated Kiniski for control of the titles and chose Geigel as his new partner. |
| 6 | Pat Kennedy and Dale Lewis | November 16, 1961 | Live event | Rochester, Minnesota | 1 | 7 | |
| 7 | Bob Geigel (2) and Otto Von Krupp | November 23, 1961 | Live event | Rochester, Minnesota | 1 | 39 | |
| — | Vacated | January 1962 | — | — | — | — | Title vacated when Von Krupp was injured. |
| 8 | Larry Hennig and Duke Hoffman | January 15, 1962 | Live event | St. Paul, Minnesota | 1 | 29 | Defeated Ivan and Nikita Kalmikoff in a tournament final. |
| 9 | Bob Geigel (3) and Stan Kowalski (2) | February 13, 1962 | Live event | Minneapolis, Minnesota | 1 | 47 | |
| 10 | The Neilsons
(Art Neilson and Stan Neilson) |
April 1962 | N/A | Cincinnati, Ohio | 1 | 259 | This was a "phantom" title change, as no match actually took place. |
| 11 | Doug Gilbert and Dick Steinborn | December 16, 1962 | Live event | St. Paul, Minnesota | 1 | 16 | |
| 12 | The Kalmikoffs
(Ivan and Karol) |
January 1, 1963 | Live event | Minneapolis, Minnesota | 1 | 231 | |
| 13 | The Crusher and Dick the Bruiser | August 20, 1963 | Live event | Minneapolis, Minnesota | 1 | 173 | |
| 14 | Moose Evans and Verne Gagne | February 9, 1964 | Live event | Minneapolis, Minnesota | 1 | 14 | |
| 15 | The Crusher and Dick the Bruiser | February 23, 1964 | Live event | St. Paul, Minnesota | 2 | 342 | |
| 16 | Larry Hennig (2) and Harley Race | January 30, 1965 | Live event | Minneapolis, Minnesota | 1 | 175 | |
| 17 | The Crusher (3) and Verne Gagne (2) | July 24, 1965 | Live event | Minneapolis, Minnesota | 1 | 14 | |
| 18 | Larry Hennig (3) and Harley Race | August 7, 1965 | Live event | Minneapolis, Minnesota | 2 | 294 | |
| 19 | The Crusher (4) and Dick the Bruiser | May 28, 1966 | Live event | Minneapolis, Minnesota | 3 | 223 | |
| 20 | Larry Hennig (4) / Chris Markoff and Harley Race | January 6, 1967 | Live event | Chicago, Illinois | 3 | 308 | On November 1, 1967, Markoff replaced Hennig, who had his leg broken by Verne Gagne in Winnipeg, Manitoba. |
| 21 | Pat O'Connor and Wilbur Snyder (2) | November 10, 1967 | Live event | Chicago, Illinois | 1 | 22 | |
| 22 | Mitsu Arakawa and Dr. Moto | December 2, 1967 | Live event | Chicago, Illinois | 1 | 392 | |
| 23 | The Crusher (5) and Dick the Bruiser | December 28, 1968 | Live event | Chicago, Illinois | 4 | 245 | |
| 24 | The Vachons(Butcher and Mad Dog) | August 30, 1969 | Live event | Chicago, Illinois | 1 | 623 | |
| 25 | Red Bastien and Hercules Cortez / The Crusher (6) | May 15, 1971 | Live event | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | 1 | 250 | In August 1971, Bastien chose The Crusher as his new partner. |
| 26 | Nick Bockwinkel and Ray Stevens | January 20, 1972 | Live event | Denver, Colorado | 1 | 345 | |
| 27 | Verne Gagne (3) and Billy Robinson | December 30, 1972 | Live event | Minneapolis, Minnesota | 1 | 7 | |
| 28 | Nick Bockwinkel and Ray Stevens | January 6, 1973 | Live event | St. Paul, Minnesota | 2 | 561 | |
| 29 | The Crusher (7) and Billy Robinson (2) | July 21, 1974 | Live event | Green Bay, Wisconsin | 1 | 95 | |
| 30 | Nick Bockwinkel and Ray Stevens | October 24, 1974 | Live event | Winnipeg, Manitoba | 3 | 296 | |
| 31 | The Crusher (8) and Dick the Bruiser | August 16, 1975 | Live event | Chicago, Illinois | 5 | 342 | |
| 32 | Bobby Duncum and Blackjack Lanza | July 23, 1976 | Live event | Chicago, Illinois | 1 | 349 | |
| 33 | The High Flyers(Jim Brunzell and Greg Gagne) | July 7, 1977 | Live event | Winnipeg, Manitoba | 1 | 443 | |
| 34 | Pat Patterson and Ray Stevens (4) | September 23, 1978 | N/A | N/A | 1 | 256 | Awarded the titles when Brunzell was injured. |
| 35 | Verne Gagne (4) and Mad Dog Vachon (3) | June 6, 1979 | Live event | Winnipeg, Manitoba | 1 | 410 | |
| 36 | The East-West Connection(Adrian Adonis and Jesse Ventura) | July 20, 1980 | Live event | Denver, Colorado | 1 | 329 | Won by forfeit when Gagne no-showed scheduled defense. |
| 37 | The High Flyers
(Jim Brunzell and Greg Gagne) |
June 14, 1981 | Live event | Green Bay, Wisconsin | 2 | 742 | |
| 38 | The Sheiks(Jerry Blackwell and Ken Patera) | June 26, 1983 | Live event | Minneapolis, Minnesota | 1 | 315 | |
| 39 | The Crusher (9) and Baron Von Raschke | May 6, 1984 | Live event | Green Bay, Wisconsin | 1 | 111 | |
| 40 | The Road Warriors(Animal and Hawk) | August 25, 1984 | Live event | Las Vegas, Nevada | 1 | 400 | |
| 41 | Jimmy Garvin and Steve Regal | September 29, 1985 | Live event | St. Paul, Minnesota | 1 | 111 | |
| 42 | Scott Hall and Curt Hennig | January 18, 1986 | Live event | Albuquerque, New Mexico | 1 | 119 | |
| 43 | Buddy Rose and Doug Somers | May 17, 1986 | AWA All-Star Wrestling | Hammond, Indiana | 1 | 255 | Rise and Somers won the match by countout and were awarded the title despite titles not allowed to change hands in that way. |
| 44 | The Midnight Rockers(Marty Jannetty and Shawn Michaels) | January 27, 1987 | Live event | St. Paul, Minnesota | 1 | 118 | |
| 45 | Soldat Ustinov and Boris Zhukov / Doug Somers (2) | May 25, 1987 | Live event | Lake Tahoe, Nevada | 1 | 139 | Somers replaced Zhukov on October 1987. |
| 46 | Bill Dundee and Jerry Lawler | October 11, 1987 | Live event | Memphis, Tennessee | 1 | 8 | |
| 47 | Dr. D and Héctor Guerrero | October 19, 1987 | Live event | Memphis, Tennessee | 1 | 7 | Dr. D was local wrestler Carl Styles under a mask. |
| 48 | Bill Dundee and Jerry Lawler | October 26, 1987 | Live event | Memphis, Tennessee | 2 | 4 | |
| 49 | The Original Midnight Express(Dennis Condrey and Randy Rose) | October 30, 1987 | AWA Championship Wrestling | Whitewater, Wisconsin | 1 | 58 | |
| 50 | The Midnight Rockers
(Marty Jannetty and Shawn Michaels) |
December 27, 1987 | AWA Championship Wrestling | Las Vegas, Nevada | 2 | 83 | |
| 51 | Badd Company(Paul Diamond and Pat Tanaka) | March 19, 1988 | AWA Championship Wrestling | Las Vegas, Nevada | 1 | 371 | |
| 52 | The Olympians
(Ken Patera (2) and Brad Rheingans) |
March 25, 1989 | AWA Championship Wrestling | Rochester, Minnesota | 1 | 177 | |
| — | Vacated | September 18, 1989 | — | — | — | — | Title vacated when Patera was injured. |
| 53 | The Destruction Crew(Wayne Bloom and Mike Enos) | October 1, 1989 | AWA Championship Wrestling | Rochester, Minnesota | 1 | 314 | Defeated Paul Diamond and Greg Gagne in a tournament final. |
| 54 | D.J. Peterson and The Trooper | August 11, 1990 | AWA Championship Wrestling | Rochester, Minnesota | 1 | 154 | |
| — | Deactivated | January 12, 1991 | — | — | — | — | The title became inactive when the AWA folded in 1991. |