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RELATED: 8 Things Most Fans Forget About Shawn Michaels' Career Jannetty is widely known for his tenure as half of tag team The Rockers, in which he partnered with Shawn Michaels. Names: AWA World Tag Team Championship (since 27. 'The Silence of the Lambs' Start to Finish. The first team recognized as champions were Kowalski and Mills, the duo was known collectively as "Murder, Inc. History Before the Bees. - Scott Hall and Kevin Nash defeated Matt Morgan to win the TNA Tag Team Titles. After winning the AWA World Tag Team Championship twice, the team continued to the WWF as The Rockers and had a high-profile breakup in January 1992. He was soon wrestling under the name. Gagne's ego was so large by this point he refused to put the younger team over by losing the belts in a sanctioned match. promotion which was usually referred to as Mid-Southern Wrestling or the Memphis territory. June 6 - Verne Gagne and Butcher Vachon beat Pat. 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During 1972, he took on the now well-known nickname of "The Crippler" after he dropped the bombs away onto the leg of Dick Beyer, who was working as Doctor X, helplessly tied up in the ropes. The AWA roster included some of the greatest tag teams of all time, renowned acts such as The High-Flyers (Jim Brunzell and Greg Gagne), Ray Stevens and Pat Patterson, The Texas Outlaws (Dick. Final champion (s) Team Vision (Chasyn Rance and Mister Saint Laurent) The WSL World Tag Team Championship was a tag team championship in the Wrestling Superstars Live promotion. HBK has had such a successful career in the WWE that many forgot he once competed for one of the WWE's biggest competitors, the AWA. including all AWA and WCCW belts and even the one-time-use Champion of Champions and Greatest Royal Rumble belts. The team would go on to capture the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship in Memphis's CWA in 1982 and utilize the "Freebird Rule", which would allow any of the three members to defend the titles. 1960) Promotions: American Wrestling Association (xx. NAWA/SAPW Tag Team Championship (1 time) Pro Wrestling Illustrated. Hard Boiled Haggerty & Lenny Montana: 1960-10-04: Minneapolis,MN: Hard Boiled Haggerty & Gene Kiniski: 1961-03-18 The AWA World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship and the highest ranked championship in the defunct American Wrestling Association (AWA). Debuting in 1954,. Jay York is an American professional wrestler. Masanori Saito (斎藤 昌典, Saitō Masanori, February 1, 1942 – July 14, 2018) was a Japanese professional wrestler better known as Mr. And deeming yourself the Wild or World Warriors begs comparison. 2008 - 02. By the 1980s, Jim Crockett Promotions was, along with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now. Comments. Joe Laurinaitis, popularly known as Road Warrior Animal, started competing in 1982 primarily for the Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling and Georgia Championship Wrestling promotions as a singles wrestler. 23.