WWWF United States Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||||
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Promotion | World Wide Wrestling Federation | ||||||||||||
Date established | July 1958 | ||||||||||||
Date retired | July 29, 1967 | ||||||||||||
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First champion(s) | Mark Lewin and Don Curtis |
Final champion(s) | Bruno Sammartino and Spiros Arion |
Most reigns | (as team) The Grahams (4) (as individual) Dr. Jerry Graham (6) |
Longest reign | The Fabulous Kangaroos (409 days) |
Shortest reign | Bruno Sammartino and Spiros Arion (5 days) |
The WWWF United States Tag Team Championship was the first version of the main tag team title in the World Wide Wrestling Federation from 1963 until 1967. Originally, the WWF was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance operating out of the Northeast and was called the Capitol Wrestling Corporation. The championship began as Capitol Wrestling's territorial version of the NWA United States Tag Team Championship from 1958 until 1963.