NWA Mississippi Tag Team Championship (Gulf Coast version)

NWA Mississippi Tag Team Championship
Details
Promotion Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling
Date established 1968
Date retired No later than March 1973

The NWA Mississippi Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team championship in Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling (GCCW). A secondary title complimenting the NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team Championship, it was one of many state tag team championships recognized by the National Wrestling Alliance.

Some reigns were held by champions using a ring name, while others used their real name. There have been a total of 13 recognized individual champions and 8 recognized teams, who have had a combined 10 official reigns. The first champions were The Interns (Joe Turner and Bill Bowman), and the final champions were "Cowboy" Bob Kelly and Frank Dalton. At 60 days, Kelly and Dalton's first reign was the longest, while the team of Rip Tyler and Eduardo Perez's first reign was the shortest, at less than two weeks.

The team of Bob Kelly and Frank Dalton and the team of Bob Kelly and Bobby Fields are tied with the most reigns as champions, with two each. Kelly has the most individual reigns with four. The following is a chronological list of teams that have been Mississippi Tag Team Champions by ring name.

Key

Reigns The number of times a specific set of wrestlers have won the titles
Event The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the titles were won
N/A The information is not available.
Wrestler name (#) The number represents the number of times the wrestler has held the title individually
— Used for vacated reigns in order to not count it as an official reign
(n) Indicates that a title change took place "no later than" the date listed.[Note 1]
  Indicates that there was a period where the lineage is undocumented due to the lack of written documentation

Title history

# Wrestlers Reigns Date Days held Location Event Notes Ref.
1 The Interns
(Joe Turner and Bill Bowman)		 1 1968 N/A N/A House show [1][2]
                 
— Vacated — 1971 — — — Championship vacated for unknown reasons. A 5-team tournament is held in Laurel, Mississippi on May 31, 1971, however, the winners are unknown. The tournament final may have been between the team of Bob Kelly and Frank Dalton versus Eddie Sullivan and Jack Morrell on June 7, 1971.
                 
2 Rip Tyler and Eduardo Perez 1 September, 1971 (n) [Note 2] N/A House show   [3][4]
3 Bob Kelly and Frank Dalton 1 September 16, 1971 60 Hattiesburg, MS House show [5][6]
4 Eddie Sullivan and Prince Pullings 1 November 15, 1971 [Note 3] Laurel, MS House show
                 
5 Bob Kelly and Bobby Fields 1 February, 1972 (n) N/A N/A House show   [5][7]
                 
7 Billy Red Lyons and Tom Jones 1 March, 1972 (n) N/A N/A House show   [8][9]
                 
8 Bob Kelly and Bobby Fields 2 March, 1972 (n) N/A N/A House show   [6][7]
                 
9 Rip Tyler and Don Fargo/Eddie Sullivan 1 April, 1972 (n) N/A N/A House show Don Fargo left GCCW in December 1972. Rip Tyler chose Eddie Sullivan as his replacement partner. [3][10]
                 
10 Bob Kelly and Frank Dalton 2 March, 1973 (n) N/A N/A House show   [5][6]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Documentation of the specific date of a title change is not found but documentation of the champion holding the title on that date/in that period.
  2. ↑ The exact date on which the title was won is not known, which means their title reign lasted between 1 and 15 days.
  3. ↑ The exact date on which the title was lost is not known, which means their title reign lasted between 1 and 80 days.

References

General

Specific

  1. ↑ Lentz III, Harris M. (2003). Biographical Dictionary of Professional Wrestling (2 ed.). McFarland. p. 47. ISBN 0786417544.
  2. ↑ Norris, Mike (2004). "GCCW #7". KayfabeMemories.com.
  3. 1 2 "Rip Tyler Profile". Online World of Wrestling.
  4. ↑ "Edouardo Perez Profile". Online World of Wrestling.
  5. 1 2 3 Norris, Mike (2004). "GCCW #9 Page #2". KayfabeMemories.com.
  6. 1 2 3 "Bob Kelly". Online World of Wrestling.
  7. 1 2 Oliver, Greg (August 17, 2011). "Bobby Fields, dead at 77, was Gulf Coast star". Canadian Online Explorer. SLAM! Sports.
  8. ↑ Shabazz, Julian L. D. (1999). Black Stars of Professional Wrestling. Clinton, South Carolina: Awesome Records. p. 56. ISBN 1-893680-03-7.
  9. ↑ "Billy Lyons Profile". Online World of Wrestling.
  10. ↑ "Don Fargo Profile". Online World of Wrestling.

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