FWA Tag Team Championship
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The Frontier Wrestling Alliance (FWA) Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling championship contested for in the British Frontier Wrestling Alliance promotion. The title was only contestable by male tag teams and in tag team matches. Being a professional wrestling championship, it was not won legitimately; it was instead won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline. The title was active between March 2000 and December 2006, just before the company folded in March 2007.
The championship has been known as:
- FWA Tag Team Championship (March 2000 – October 2002)
- FWA British Tag Team Championship (October 2002 – December 2006)
History
After the promotion's national expansion in 1999, there was some interest in tag team matches including large-teamed elimination tag team matches as well as traditional two-on-two contests. At March 2000's Urban Legends a two-round tournament was held to inaugurate the FWA Tag Team Championship with The New Breed (Ashe and Curve) defeating Jorge Castano and Scottie Rock in the finals. The final champions, Stixx & Stone (Stixx and Martin Stone), defended their titles less regularly than previous champions resulting in them being stripped of their titles. Before new champions could be crowned, the FWA lost in an interpromotional rivalry with International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom (IPW:UK) and had to close as a result. FWA's spiritual successor, XWA, originally promised to revive the Tag Team Championship but presently the belts remain inactive.
As well as being the first champions, The New Breed were also the first team to win the belt twice while member Ashe would later join The Family, a large faction that defended the title under the Freebird Rule which allowed any two members to defend the belts. The Family won the titles more than any other team with three wins, giving Ashe, who also won the championship twice with The New Breed, a total of five reigns individually. The Family, in their rivalry with Alex Shane and Ulf Herman, had a number of matches where the championship was contested under a variety of hardcore rules.
Tournament
The tournament brackets at Urban Legends were:
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| Jorge Castano and Scottie Rock | Pin | |||||
| Mark Sloan and Paul Travell | ||||||
| The New Breed | Pin | |||||
| Jorge Castano and Scottie Rock | ||||||
| The New Breed | CO | |||||
| Alex Shane and Guy Thunder | ||||||
Title history
| No. | Wrestlers | Reign | Date | Days held | Location | Event | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The New Breed (Ashe and Curve) | 1 | March 24, 2000 | 421 | Barking, Essex | Urban Legends | Defeated Jorge Castano and Scottie Rock in a tournament final | |
| 2 | La Familia (Jorge Castano and Alex Castano) | 1 | May 19, 2001 | 105 | Portsmouth, Hampshire | High Potential | ||
| 3 | The New Breed (Ashe and Curve) | 2 | September 1, 2001 | 153 | Harrow, London | Trick or Treat | ||
| 4 | Drew McDonald and Ulf Herman | 1 | February 1, 2002 | 49 | Broxbourne, Hertfordshire | Crunch | ||
| - | Vacant | 1 | March 22, 2002 | 0 | Walthamstow, London | Urban Legends | Vacated when Ulf Herman no-shows an event | |
| 5 | UK Pitbulls (Big Dave and Bulk) | 1 | March 22, 2002 | 217 | Walthamstow, London | Urban Legends | Defeated beat Chris Justice and James Tighe, The Duke of Danger and Kruiz, Hade Vansen and Nikita, La Familia (Jorge Castano and Alex Castano) and The New Breed (Ashe and Curve) in a Gauntlet Match | |
| 6 | Alex Shane and Ulf Herman (2) | 1 | October 25, 2002 | 142 | Walthamstow, London | London Calling | ||
| 7 | The Family (Paul Travell, Raj Ghosh, Scott Parker, Brandon Thomas, Ashe (3), and Ian DaCyple) | 1 | March 16, 2003 | 42 | Broxbourne, Hertfordshire | Crunch | Paul Travell and Scott Parker defeated Shane and Herman; The Family defends the title under The Freebird Rule | |
| 8 | Alex Shane and Ulf Herman (3) | 2 | April 27, 2003 | 1 | Portsmouth, Hampshire | Live event | ||
| 9 | The Family (Paul Travell, Raj Ghosh, Scott Parker, Brandon Thomas, Ashe (4), and Ian DaCyple) | 2 | April 28, 2003 | 97 | Newport, Wales | Live event | ||
| 10 | Alex Shane (3) and Stevie Knight | 1 | August 2, 2003 | 2 | Morecambe, Lancashire | Live event | ||
| 11 | The Family (Paul Travell, Raj Ghosh, Scott Parker, Brandon Thomas, Ashe (5), and Ian DaCyple) | 3 | August 4, 2003 | 356 | Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire | Live event | ||
| 12 | Hampton Court (Duke of Danger and Andy Simmons) | 1 | July 25, 2004 | 328 | Broxbourne, Hertfordshire | Vendetta | ||
| 13 | Stixx & Stone (Stixx and Martin Stone) | 1 | June 18, 2005 | 549 | Morecambe, Lancashire | NOAH Limits | ||
| - | Vacant | 2 | December 19, 2006 | 0 | Worcester, Worcestershire | FWA Live in Worcester | Vacated when Stone is unable to make a mandatory title defence |