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NWA World Tag Team Championship
The NWA World Tag Team Championship belt (1992 – present)
Details
Current champion(s)	Joey Ryan and Karl Anderson
Date won	July 8, 2007
Promotion	National Wrestling Alliance
Date created	July 12, 1992
Statistics Most reigns (as a team) America's Most Wanted (6 reigns) (as individual) Chris Harris and James Storm (7 reigns) First champion(s) Terry Gordy and Steve Williams Longest reign America's Most Wanted (251 days)[1] Shortest reign David Flair and Dan Factor, Glacier and Jason Sugarman (1 day) Oldest champion Ricky Morton and Tully Blanchard (44 years) Youngest champion Tha Amazing Red (20 years)

The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) World Tag Team Championship is the premier tag team title within the NWA framework. It has been defended in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1992 to 1993 and in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) from 2002 to 2007.

The National Wrestling Alliance did not officially recognize any set of World Tag Team Champions until 1992, while the various NWA affiliates promoted their own "World Tag Team Championships", many of which were not eligible for World Title status considering they were rarely defended outside of the region they were created in. The following are the variations that existed at one point or another^[2]:

• San Francisco (1950-1979)
• Chicago (1953-1960)
• Georgia (1954-1969)
• Minneapolis (1957-1960)
• Texas (1957-1982)
• Mid-America (1957-1977)
• Central States (1958-1963, 1973-1979)
• Los Angeles (late 1950s, 1979-1982)
• Florida (1961-1969)
• Detroit (1964-1980)
• Vancouver (1966-1967)
• Mid Atlantic (1975-1991)

In the mid-1980s, Jim Crockett Promotions became the flag bearer for the NWA and began to openly refer to their Mid Atlantic version as the NWA World Tag Team Championship. In 1988, Jim Crockett Promotions was transformed into World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the title renamed the WCW World Tag Team Championship.

In July 1992, the NWA held a tournament to crown an officially sanctioned NWA World Tag Team Championship. The tournament was held by WCW, whose World Tag Team Championship by that time was the only existing claim within the NWA and which had the most widely available television broadcasting. The tournament was won by Terry Gordy & Steve Williams. Gordy & Williams had entered the tournament as WCW World Tag Team Champions and the two sets of titles remained united until September 1993, when WCW withdrew from the NWA, vacatin the NWA World Tag Team Championship.

The NWA title belts were created by WCW and after the withdrawal from the NWA, the belts were continued to be used for the WCW World Tag Team Championship. The NWA had to create new belts, which were later used in TNA until TNA and the NWA split on May 13, 2007.

The NWA announced on June 29, 2007, that in lieu of another title tournament, the title would be decided in a three-way match between the teams of Joey Ryan and Karl Anderson, Incognito and Sicodelico Jr., and Billy Kidman and Sean Waltman on July 8, 2007 in McAllen, Texas. The match was won by Ryan and Anderson.

The current champions are Joey Ryan and Karl Anderson, who are in their first reign as a tag team. Ryan and Anderson defeated the teams of Incognito and Sicodelico Jr. and Billy Kidman and Sean Waltman on July 8, 2007 in McAllen, Texas.

• List of NWA World Tag Team Champions
• List of NWA World Tag Team Championship reigns by length
• National Wrestling Alliance
• World Championship Wrestling
• Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

1. ^ Only since 1998 due to lack of records regarding the length of previous reigns.
2. ^ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (4th Edition 2006). Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4. 

• Official NWA World Tag Team Title Histories
• Wrestling-Titles.com - NWA World Tag Team Title History
• CygyWrestling.com - NWA World Tag Team Title History