WWF Women's Tag Team Championship
| WWF Women's Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 The belt that represented the WWF Women's Tag Team Championship, reading: "NWA Worlds Lady Wrestlers Tag Team Champions" | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | World Wrestling Federation (WWF) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | May 13, 1983 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date retired | February 14, 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The WWF Women's Tag Team Championship was a women's professional wrestling tag team title in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). The belief its holders were considered world champions was expressed by Jesse Ventura, an announcer for some of its defenses.[1] Velvet McIntyre and Princess Victoria were recognized as the inaugural champions when they came to the promotion in 1983 as the National Wrestling Alliance's World Women's Tag Team Champions. The final champions were The Glamour Girls (Leilani Kai and Judy Martin) when the titles were abandoned in 1989.
History
In 1983, the team of Velvet McIntyre and Princess Victoria joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) as the reigning NWA World Women's Tag Team Champions. However, the WWF had since withdrawn from the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), and the rights to the championship were owned by The Fabulous Moolah. The WWF in turn bought the rights to the championship from Moolah, and recognized McIntyre and Victoria as the first WWF Women's Tag Team Champions. This ended the lineage of the World Women's Tag Team Championship, though the WWF continued to use the championship belts of the former title to represent their new title.[2][3] After six years, the championship was abandoned in 1989, with The Glamour Girls (Leilani Kai and Judy Martin) as the final champions. This happened largely due to the lack of tag teams in the women's division, and a lack of female performers in general.[4]
During the December 24, 2018, episode of Monday Night Raw, WWE Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Vince McMahon announced that a new WWE Women's Tag Team Championship would be introduced in 2019. However, it does not carry the lineage of the original title.[5]
Reigns
Over the course of the championship's six-year history, there were five reigns between four championship teams, composed of seven individual champions. The inaugural championship team was Velvet McIntyre and Princess Victoria. The Glamour Girls (Leilani Kai and Judy Martin) had the most reigns as a team at two, while individually, Kai, Martin, and McIntyre had the most reigns, also at two. The Glamour Girls' first reign was the longest reign at 909 days, and they had the longest combined reign at 1,157 days. The Jumping Bomb Angels (Noriyo Tateno and Itsuki Yamazaki) had the shortest reign at 136 days. McIntyre was the youngest champion when she was recognized as one-half of the inaugural championship team at 20 years old, while the oldest was Martin when she won the championship at 32 for her second reign.
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific team—reign numbers for the individuals are in parentheses, if different |
| Days | Number of days held |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||||
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| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||||
| World Wrestling Federation (WWF) | ||||||||||
| 1 | Princess Victoria and Velvet McIntyre | May 13, 1983 | House show | Calgary, Alberta, Canada | 1 | 574 | McIntyre and Princess Victoria were the reigning World Women's Tag Team Champions upon the WWF's withdrawal from the National Wrestling Alliance and were recognized as the first WWF Women's Tag Team Champions. The team's first match in the WWF took place on April 4, 1984, in Rochester, New York. | [3] | ||
| 2 | Desiree Petersen and Velvet McIntyre | December 7, 1984 | House show | Pittsburgh, PA | 1 (1, 2) |
237 | Princess Victoria suffered a career-ending neck injury on September 1, 1984, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Petersen took her place as McIntyre's partner. This was considered a second reign for McIntyre. | [3][6][7] | ||
| 3 | The Glamour Girls (Judy Martin and Leilani Kai) |
August 1, 1985 | House show | Cairo, Egypt | 1 | 906 | [3] | |||
| 4 | The Jumping Bomb Angels (Itsuki Yamazaki and Noriyo Tateno) |
January 24, 1988 | Royal Rumble | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | 1 | 136 | This was a two out of three falls match. | [8] | ||
| 5 | The Glamour Girls (Judy Martin and Leilani Kai) |
June 8, 1988 | House show | Ōmiya-ku, Saitama, Japan | 2 | 251 | The Glamour Girls won the championship by countout. | |||
| — | Deactivated | February 14, 1989 | — | — | — | — | The championship was abandoned. | |||
Combined reigns
By team
| Rank | Team | No. of reigns |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Glamour Girls (Judy Martin and Leilani Kai) |
2 | 1,157 |
| 2 | Princess Victoria and Velvet McIntyre | 1 | 574 |
| 3 | Desiree Petersen and Velvet McIntyre | 1 | 237 |
| 4 | The Jumping Bomb Angels (Itzuki Yamazaki and Noriyo Tateno) |
1 | 136 |
By wrestler
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leilani Kai | 2 | 1,157 |
| Judy Martin | |||
| 3 | Velvet McIntyre | 2 | 811 |
| 4 | Princess Victoria | 1 | 574 |
| 5 | Desiree Petersen | 1 | 237 |
| 6 | Itzuki Yamazaki | 1 | 136 |
| Noriyo Tateno |
See also
References
- ^ The Jumping Bomb Angels vs. The Glamour Girls: Prime Time Wrestling, Aug. 8, 1987 Archived March 10, 2016, at the Wayback Machine Ventura: "Judy Martin continues to interrupt the 3-count, I believe the Japanese girls would've been world champions."
- ^ Royal Duncan and Gary Will (2006). Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
- ^ a b c d Nevada, Vance (June 30, 2005). "Results for Velvet McIntyre". SLAM! Wrestling. Archived from the original on June 30, 2012. Retrieved November 2, 2008.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Bring It Back!: Women's Tag Titles". World Wrestling Entertainment. January 5, 2012. Archived from the original on December 25, 2018. Retrieved June 27, 2012.
- ^ "Vince McMahon announces WWE women's tag team titles, John Cena's return at Raw Christmas show". CBS Sports. December 25, 2018. Archived from the original on January 15, 2019. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
- ^ Oliver, Greg (July 29, 2011). "Princess Victoria: A career cut short". SLAM! Wrestling. Archived from the original on January 15, 2013. Retrieved August 11, 2011.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Cawthon, Graham. "1984 WWF Ring Results". The History of WWE. Archived from the original on July 22, 2017. Retrieved August 11, 2011.
- ^ "Royal Rumble 1988 official results". WWE. Archived from the original on January 12, 2006. Retrieved May 29, 2008.