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WCW United States Tag

The WCW United States Tag Team Championship was a tag team championship contested for in World Championship Wrestling (WCW).


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No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes
Date Event Location Reign Days
1 Krusher Khruschev and Ivan Koloff  September 28, 1986  House show Atlanta, Georgia 1  72 Won the titles in a tournament final against the Kansas Jayhawks (Dutch Mantel and Bobby Jaggers)
2 Ron Garvin and Barry Windham  December 9, 1986  WCW Pro Wrestling Spartanburg, South Carolina 1  95
3 Dick Murdoch and Ivan Koloff (2)  March 14, 1987  World Championship Wrestling Atlanta, Georgia 1  21
Vacated  April 4, 1987 Murdoch was suspended from in-ring competition by WCW after performing a brainbuster on Nikita Koloff on a concrete floor, and as a result, Ivan Koloff and Murdoch were stripped of the titles.
4 The Midnight Express(Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane)  May 16, 1987  World Championship Wrestling Atlanta, Georgia 1  346 Won the titles in a tournament final by defeating Ron Garvin and Barry Windham
5 The Fantastics(Bobby Fulton and Tommy Rogers)  April 26, 1988  World Wide Wrestling Chattanooga, Tennessee 1  75
6 The Midnight Express

(Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane)

 July 10, 1988 The Great American Bash Baltimore, Maryland 2  62
Vacated  September 10, 1988
7 The Fantastics

(Bobby Fulton and Tommy Rogers)

 December 7, 1988 Clash of the Champions IV: Season's Beatings Chattanooga, Tennessee 2  19 Won the titles in a tournament final by defeating Eddie Gilbert and Ron Simmons
8 The Varsity Club(Kevin Sullivan and Steve Williams)  December 26, 1988 Starrcade Norfolk, Virginia 1  64
9 Eddie Gilbert and Rick Steiner  February 28, 1989  World Wide Wrestling Columbia, South Carolina 1  <span data-sort-value="<span data-sort-value="7001620000000000000♠"></span>62 !">
Deactivated  May 1989 WCW abandoned the title after Eddie Gilbert and Rick Steiner split as a team.
10 Brian Pillman and The Z-Man  February 12, 1990  World Wide Wrestling Rainsville, Alabama 1  96 Won the titles in a tournament final by defeating Michael Hayes and Jimmy Garvin (The Fabulous Freebirds)
11 The Midnight Express

(Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane)

 May 19, 1990 Capital Combat Washington, D.C. 3  97
12 The Steiner Brothers(Rick Steiner (2) and Scott Steiner)  August 24, 1990  House show East Rutherford, New Jersey 1  225
Vacated  April 6, 1991  World Wide Wrestling Announced April 6, 1991 by WCW Board of Directors spokesman Grizzly Smith, as a result of the Steiner Brothers winning the WCW World Tag Team Championship during this reign.
13 The Fabulous Freebirds(Jimmy Garvin and Michael Hayes)  May 19, 1991 SuperBrawl I St. Petersburg, Florida 1  85 Won the titles by defeating The Young Pistols (Tracy Smothers and Steve Armstrong) in a Top Contenders Match.
14 The Patriots(Todd Champion and Firebreaker Chip)  August 12, 1991  World Championship Wrestling Gainesville, Georgia 1  85
15 The Young Pistols(Steve Armstrong and Tracy Smothers)  November 5, 1991 WCW Main Event Gainesville, Georgia 1  70
16 Big Josh and Ron Simmons  January 14, 1992  WCW Main Event Columbus, Georgia 1  34
17 Terry Taylor and Greg Valentine  February 17, 1992  World Championship Wrestling Rock Hill, South Carolina 1  90
18 The Fabulous Freebirds

(Jimmy Garvin and Michael Hayes)

 May 17, 1992  WrestleWar Jacksonville, Florida  2  34
19 Dick Slater and The Barbarian  June 25, 1992 WCW Main Event Kansas City, Missouri 1  36
Vacated  July 31, 1992 On the July 4, 1992 edition of WCW Saturday Night, VP Bill Watts announced that the company would be looking to consolidate the WCW World and US Tag Team Titles to focus on one championship team. Watts deemed that whoever held the US Tag Title at the end of July would be the final titleholders. The Championship was deactivated during the Barbarian and Slater's title reign on July 31, 1992.
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