The MLW World Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship which is owned by the Major League Wrestling (MLW) promotion . The championship is generally contested in professional wrestling matches , in which participants usually execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition .
7-699: The titles were unveiled on April 21, 2003, during the Underground TV tapings, under the MLW Global Tag Team Crown Championship name. The titles were vacated on February 10, 2004, after the promotion closed. After the relaunch of the promotion in 2018, The Lucha Brothers ( Penta el 0M and Rey Fénix ) would win the vacant titles under the MLW World Tag Team Championship name on June 7, 2018. The titles were unveiled on April 21, 2003, during
14-486: A three-way elimination match on June 7 to crown the new champions. On June 7, Lucha Brothers would defeat Team TBD and The Dirty Blondes in a three-way elimination match to win the vacant championships. As of November 24, 2024, there have been fourteen reigns between fourteen teams composed of 28 individual champions and two vacancies. The inaugural champions were The Extreme Horsemen ( C.W. Anderson and Simon Diamond ). The Von Erichs ( Marshall and Ross Von Erich ) reign
21-438: Is the longest at 438 days, while World Titan Federation ( Tom Lawlor and Davey Boy Smith Jr. ) have the shortest reign at 53 days. L.A. Park is the oldest champion at 55 while MJF is the youngest at 23. The current champions are Contra Unit (Ikuro Kwon and Minoru Suzuki ), who are in their first reign as a team and individually. They won the titles by defeating CozyMax ( Satoshi Kojima and Shigeo Okumura ) at Summer of
28-459: The Underground TV tapings, under the MLW Global Tag Team Crown Championship name. MLW would start a four-team single-elimination tournament to crown the first champions. The teams for the tournament were PJ Friedman and Steve Williams , Jimmy Yang and Mike Sanders , The Extreme Horsemen ( C.W. Anderson and Simon Diamond ) and Los Maximos (José Maximo and Joel Maximo). Friedman and Williams and The Extreme Hoursemen would both advance to
35-565: The Beasts on August 29, 2024 in Queens, New York . As of November 24, 2024. MLW Underground TV MLW Underground TV is a professional wrestling television series that was produced by Major League Wrestling (MLW) from 2003 to 2004. The series was hosted by former Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) commentator Joey Styles . Reruns of the series began airing in the summer of 2020 on BeIN Sports USA . The Underground name
42-614: The finals of the tournament. On May 9 at MLW Revolutions, The Extreme Hoursemen would defeat Friedman and Williams to become the first champions. However their reign would end on February 10, 2004, after the promotion stopped running events. After the promotion was revived the July 2017, MLW announced on May 10, 2018, the revival of the titles under the MLW World Tag Team Championship name, with Lucha Brothers ( Penta el 0M and Rey Fénix ), Team TBD (Jason Cade and Jimmy Yuta) and The Dirty Blondes (Leo Brien and Michael Patrick) facing each other in
49-465: Was revived for the weekly series titled MLW Underground Wrestling , that premiered on February 7, 2023. Underground TV episodes consisted of pre-taped matches from prior MLW events. In late 2003, MLW released episodes of Underground TV on DVD. Unlike the on-air broadcast, the DVDs contain full-length matches from the television tapings. It also contained backstage interviews from before and after
#173826