NWA World Tag Team Championship (Detroit version)
Title history
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NWA World Tag Team Championship (Detroit version)

Section Title: Title history
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No.	Champions	Reign	Date	Days held	Location	Event	Notes	Ref(s)

1	Chris and John Tolos	1	February 16, 1965 (NLT)	Live event	Records are unclear on how the Tolos brothers won the championship, listed as "having recently won" in a Detroit newspaper on this day

2	Barend, JohnnyJohnny Barend and Magnificent Maurice	1	March 5, 1965	Live event

3	Brazil, BoboBobo Brazil and Sailor Art Thomas	1	1960s	Live event

4	Nikolai and Boris Volkoff	1	1960s	Live event

5	Curry, FredFred Curry and Billy Red Lyons	1	April 28, 196 (NLT)	Live event

#	The Internationals (Al Costello and Karl Von Brauner)	#	May 12, 1967 (NLT)	#	Live event	This championship change was only recognized in Ohio, not Detroit. Possible that this was supposed to start a separate Ohio lineage.

#	Bill Miller and Dan Miller	#	July 13, 1967	#	Columbus, Ohio	Live event

#	Fabulous Kangaroos, TheThe Fabulous Kangaroos (Al Costello and Ray St. Cair)	#	July 28, 1967 (NLT)	#	Live event	The Ohio branch was not mentioned after August, 1967, Cury and Lyons were recognized as champions in Detroit for this period of time

6	Fabulous Kangaroos, TheThe Fabulous Kangaroos (Al Costello and Ray St. Clair)	1	1960s	Live event

7	Curry, FredFred Curry (2) and Dan Miller	1	1968	Live event

8	Hell's Angel (Ron and Paul Dupree)	1	1968	Live event

9	Johnson, RockyRocky Johnson and Ben Justice	1	January 18, 1969	Detroit, Michigan	Live event

10	Hell's Angel (Ron and Paul Dupree)	2	1969	Live event

11	Lou and Roy Klein	1	August 30, 1969	Detroit, Michigan	Live event

12	Skull Brothers	1	1969	Live event

13	Ben Justice (2) and Guy Mitchell	1	January 31, 1970	49	Detroit, Michigan	Live event

14	Texas Outlaws (Dusty Rhodes and Dick Murdoch)	1	March 21, 1970	140	Detroit, Michigan	Live event

15	Brazil, BoboBobo Brazil (2) and Lord Athol Layton	1	August 8, 1970	133	Detroit, Michigan	Live event

—	Vacated	—	December 19, 1970	N/A	N/A	N/A	Championship vacated after Layton was injured by The Sheik.

16	Fabulous Kangaroos, TheThe Fabulous Kangaroos (Al Costello (2) and Don Kent)	1	December 18, 1971	Detroit, Michigan	Live event	Defeated Ben Justice and The Mitchell in a tournament final.

17	Ben Justice (3) and Guy Mitchell	2	May 1972	Live event

18	Fabulous Kangaroos, TheThe Fabulous Kangaroos (Al Costello and Ray St. Clair)	2	May 20, 1972	56	Detroit, Michigan	Live event

19	Ben Justice (3) and Guy Mitchell	3	July 15, 1972	147	Detroit, Michigan	Live event

20	Von Hess, KurtKurt Von Hess and Karl Von Shotz	1	December 9, 1972	Detroit, Michigan	Live event

21	Curry, FredFred Curry (3) and Tony Marino	1	December 1972	Live event

22	Von Hess, KurtKurt Von Hess and Karl Von Shotz	2	January 23, 1973	10	Detroit, Michigan	Live event

23	Curry, FredFred Curry (4) and Tony Marino	2	February 2, 1973	16	Detroit, Michigan	Live event

24	Von Hess, KurtKurt Von Hess and Karl Von Shotz	3	February 18, 1973	Detroit, Michigan	Live event

25	Curry, FredFred Curry (5) and Luis Martinez	1	April 1973	Detroit, Michigan	Live event

26	Ben Justice (4) and Killer Tim Brooks	1	1973	Live event

27	Brazil, BoboBobo Brazil (3) and Guy Mitchell	1	July 21, 1973	Detroit, Michigan	Live event

28	Ben Justice (4) and Killer Tim Brooks	2	September 9, 1973 (NLT)	Live event

29	Guy Mitchell (4) and Tex McKenzie	1	September 12, 1973 (NLT)	Live event

30	Ben Justice and Killer Tim Brooks	3	November 13, 1973 (NLT)	Live event	Change took place between October 22 and November 13, 1973

31	Curry, FredFred Curry (6) and Tony Marino	3	November 17, 1973	Detroit, Michigan	Live event

32	Von Hess, KurtKurt Von Hess and Karl Von Shotz	4	January 5, 1974	28	Detroit, Michigan	Live event

33	Curry, FredFred Curry (7) and Tony Marino	4	February 2, 1974	14	Detroit, Michigan	Live event

34	Von Hess, KurtKurt Von Hess and Karl Von Shotz	5	February 16, 1974	84	Detroit, Michigan	Live event

35	Brazil, BoboBobo Brazil (4) and Tony Marino (5)	1	May 11, 1974	Detroit, Michigan	Live event

—	Held up	—	June 1974	N/A	N/A	N/A	Championship held up after match against Ben Justice and Killer Tim Brooks.

36	Brazil, BoboBobo Brazil (5) and Tony Marino (6)	2	June 15, 1974	Live event	Won the rematch against Justice and Brooks

37	Abdullah the Butcher and Killer Tim Brooks (3)	1	1974	Live event

38	Brazil, BoboBobo Brazil (6) and Tony Marino (7)	3	1974	Live event

39	The Mongols (Geeto Mongol and Bolo Mongol)	1	1974	Live event

40	Curry, FredFred Curry (8) and Bobo Brazil (7)	1	November 1974 (NLT)	Live event	Awarded when The Mongols no-show title defense.

41	Angelo and Lanny Poffo	1	January 1975	Live event

42	Hank James and Mighty Igor	1	1975	Live event

43	Islanders (Afa and Sika)	1	July 19, 1975 (NLT)	Live event

44	Curry, FredFred Curry (8) and Hank James (2)	1	October 25, 1975 (NLT)	Live event

45	Islanders (Afa and Sika)	2	November 7, 1975 (NLT)	Live event

46	Karl Von Hess (6) and Kurt Von Brauner	1	December 18, 1975	Toledo, Ohio	Live event

47	Chris Colt and Count Drummer	1	February 7, 1976 (NLT)	Live event

48	Chris Colt and Lanny Poffo (2)	1	March 1976	Live event	Drummer gave his half of the championship to Poffo after being injured.

49	DeNucci, DominicDominic DeNucci and Chris Markoff	1	May 1, 1976	Detroit, Michigan	Live event

50	Fabulous Kangaroos, TheThe Fabulous Kangaroos (Al Costello (3) and Tony Charles)	1	1976	Live event

51	Graham, LukeLuke Graham and Ripper Collins	1	April 24, 1977 (NLT)	Live event

52	Hank James (3) and Ed George	1	1977	Live event

53	Bounty Hunters	1	1977	Live event

54	Lou Klein and Ed George (2)	1	July 9, 1977	0	Live event

—	Vacated	—	July 9, 1977	N/A	N/A	N/A	Klein retired after the match.

55	Moose Cholak and Ed George (3)	1	April 1978	Live event	Records are unclear as to whom they defeated for the championship

56	John Bonello and Randy Scott	1	April 1980	Live event	Defeated Pat and Mike Kelly to win the championship

57	Frankie Laine and George Steele	1	May 3, 1980	21	Detroit, Michigan	Live event

58	John Bonello and Randy Scott	2	May 24, 1980	35	Detroit, Michigan	Live event

59	Baba, GiantGiant Baba and Jumbo Tsuruta	1	June 28, 1980	Detroit, Michigan	Live event

—	Championship retired	—	October 1980	N/A	N/A	N/A	Promotion closed

Sentence(s)

The Fabulous Kangaroos (Al Costello and Don Kent) won the NWA World Tag Team Championship on December 18, 1971 and held it until May 1972.

final_sentence: The Fabulous Kangaroos (Al Costello and Don Kent) won the NWA World Tag Team Championship on December 18, 1971 and held it until May 1972.