A.W.A.C. United States Tag Team Championship

The **A.W.A.C. United States Tag Team Championship** (more commonly referred to as the U.S. Tag Team Titles or US Tag Team Titles) was a belt promoted by A.W.A.C. on the Liberty brand. It was one of two tag team titles for A.W.A.C.'s brands, alongside the A.W.A.C. World Tag Team Championship that was drafted to the Anarchy brand as a result of the 2018 Draft. At the start of Season 3, the brands were merged together

The belts were active in Season 2 as part of the A.W.A.C. Liberty brand until they was retired at the start of Season 3.

## History

Before the 2018 Draft Special, A.W.A.C. announced the inclusion of several new championships for both Anarchy and Liberty on its official Facebook group page. The belt, as well as the Catchweight Championship, originally had the name "MOXIE" as its prefix. The name "MOXIE" stood for "Mettle, Outstanding, Xtraordinary, Intense, Evolution", a play on NJPW's NEVER Championship belts, but these were eventually dropped due to it "sounding terrible in the long run". As a result of this, the MOXIE Tag Team Championship was changed to the United States Tag Team Championship to coincide with the United States Heavyweight Championship.

At that point in time, the US Tag Team Titles did not physically debut on A.W.A.C. programming but photos of its design officially surfaced online courtesy of the official A.W.A.C. Facebook group page. The inaugural champions are the Age Of Gold (Nethaniel King & Stephan Zynda), who won a Monarch's Warfare's Match at Proceed With Caution 2019. Nethaniel & Stephan defended the belts again against The Dark Room (Bastard Denton & John Robertson) on Liberty #4.

The Age Of Gold would go on to defend the belts under the Freebird Rule. This was evident at A.W.A.C. presents Raven's Dark Ass Summer Vacation when Big Trav defended the titles alongside Stephan Zynda (Nethaniel King, while not present at ringside, was still recognized as champion). On March 6th, on Liberty #7, America's Pasttime (Tank Davis & Wrigley Dodger) defeated the Age Of Gold to become the new champions.

At No Guts, No Mercy on April 7, 2020, America's Pasttime retained the belts vs. The Slashers. On April 21, 2020 at Descendance, The Slashers defeated America's Pasttime in a 2 Out Of 3 Falls rematch to become the new champions. On January 26, 2021, one day after breaking the record of becoming the longest-reigning US Tag Team Champions in A.W.A.C. history, The Slashers lost the titles to the makeshift team of Bryan Fury and The Joker at Freedom Navigation. On July 15, 2021, on Night 1 of Anarchy Rulz 3, Manji Gaiden (Ryu Hayabusa & Yoshimitsu) defeated Bryan Fury and The Joker to win the titles.

## Retirement

On August 2, 2021, on the first CPV of Season 3, Undisputed Universe, the World Tag Team Champions, Biff Andreas and Zach Starr defeated Manji Gaiden (Ryu Hayabusa and Yoshimitsu). As a result, the belts were unified together and the United States Tag Team Titles were officially retired.

## Belt Design

Its initial belt design features a red strap with a crocodile-scale pattern like the old NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship or the 2018 version of the NWA National Heavyweight Championship. The front plate is dual plated with gold and zinc. The heptagonal front plate is zinc with a gold circular pattern, gold lines protruding outwards, and black painted lines in a cross formation. The top of the front plate displays the new A.W.A.C. logo on a blue painted background, the middle displays a gold and zinc globe with "US" standing for "United States" made from Sapphire jewels. There are also red banners that read "Tag Team" and "Champions".

Both pentagonal side plates are zinc. In the middle of both of them are gold circular plates with a stylized American flag made from Sapphire jewels.

## Title Defenses

2 - America's Pasttime (Tank Davis & Wrigley Dodger)
 America's Pasttime