Florida Tag Team Championship

Florida Tag Team Championship

Joe Hennig/Michael McGillicutty as one-half of the Florida Tag Team Champions in 2010
Details
Current champion(s) Brad Maddox & Briley Pierce[1]
Date won 02011-11-03 November 3, 2011[1]
Promotion Florida Championship Wrestling
Date established 02008-02-23 February 23, 2008[2][3][4]

The Florida Tag Team Championship[5] is a professional wrestling tag team championship owned and promoted by Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), the developmental territory of WWE. It is contested for in their tag team division. The championship was created and debuted on February 23, 2008 at a FCW house show.[4]

The first champions were The Puerto Rican Nightmares (Eddie Colón and Eric Pérez) who won a one night tag team tournament by defeating Steve Lewington and Heath Miller in the finals to become the first champions.[4] CJ Parker and Donny Marlow are the current champions in their first reign, after defeating Big E Langston and Calvin Raines on July 21, 2011 in Tampa, Florida, to win the titles. The Puerto Rican Nightmares and Joe Hennig/Michael McGillicutty hold the record for the most reigns with three reigns. The shortest reign lasted less than one day as Justin Gabriel and Kris Logan won and lost the title during the same FCW Television taping event. Johnny Curtis, Tyler Reks and The Dude Busters (Caylen Croft and Trent Baretta) hold the record for the longest reigns (as tag teams) with 140 days respectively, while Curtis holds the record of longest individual reign (with different teams) at 224 days.

Contents

Title history

Key
Symbol Meaning
# The overall championship reign
Reign The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed
Event The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title changed hands
+ Indicates that the number of days held by this individual changes daily
# Team Name
Wrestlers		 Reign Date Days
held		 Location Event Notes
1 The Puerto Rican Nightmares
(Eddie Colón and Eric Pérez)		 1 02008-02-23 February 23, 2008 &1000000000000002900000029 Port Richey, Florida Live event The Puerto Rican Nightmares defeated Steve Lewington and Heath Miller in the finals of a one-night tournament to become the first champions.[5][4]
2 Brad Allen and Nic Nemeth 1 02008-03-23 March 23, 2008 &1000000000000002300000023 Port Richey, Florida Live event [5][2][6]
3 The Puerto Rican Nightmares
(Eddie Colón and Eric Pérez)		 2 02008-04-15 April 15, 2008 &1000000000000002100000021 Port Richey, Florida Live event The Puerto Rican Nightmares won the titles by disqualification in a match where the title could change hands in case of a disqualification.[5][2][3][6]
4 The Empire
(Drew McIntyre and Stu Sanders)		 1 02008-05-06 May 6, 2008 &1000000000000007200000072 Port Richey, Florida Live event [5][2][3][6]
5 The Puerto Rican Nightmares
(Eddie Colón and Eric Pérez)		 3 02008-07-17 July 17, 2008 &1000000000000003000000030 Tampa, Florida Live event [5][2][6]
6 Gavin Spears and Nic Nemeth (2) 1 02008-08-16 August 16, 2008 &1000000000000002600000026 New Port Richey, Florida Live event This was a Triple Threat match that also involved Scotty Goldman and Kafu.[5][2][3][6]
7 Heath Miller/Sebastian Slater[Note 1] and Joe Hennig 1 02008-09-11 September 11, 2008 &1000000000000004900000049 Tampa, Florida Live event [5][2][6]
8 The New Hart Foundation
(D.H. Smith and TJ Wilson)		 1 02008-10-30 October 30, 2008 &1000000000000004200000042 Tampa, Florida Live event [5][2][3][6]
9 Curtis, JohnnyJohnny Curtis and Tyler Reks 1 02008-12-11 December 11, 2008 &10000000000000140000000140 Tampa, Florida FCW TV Taping [5][2][3][6]
10 The Dude Busters
(Caylen Croft and Trent Baretta)		 1 02009-04-30 April 30, 2009 &1000000000000008400000084 Tampa, Florida FCW TV Taping [5][2][6]
11 Justin Gabriel and Kris Logan 1 02009-07-23 July 23, 2009 &100000000000000000000000 Tampa, Florida FCW TV Taping [5][2][6]
12 The Rotundos
(Bo Rotundo and Duke Rotundo)		 1 02009-07-23 July 23, 2009 &10000000000000119000000119 Tampa, Florida FCW TV Taping [5][2][6]
13 The Dude Busters
(Caylen Croft (2), Trent Baretta (2) and Curt Hawkins)		 1 02009-11-19 November 19, 2009 &1000000000000005600000056 Tampa, Florida FCW TV Taping Hawkins and Croft won the titles. Defended by any two members under the Freebird Rule.[5][2][6][7]
14 The Fortunate Sons
(Joe Hennig (2) and Brett DiBiase)		 1 02010-01-14 January 14, 2010 &1000000000000005800000058 Tampa, Florida FCW TV Taping Defeated Croft and Baretta.[5][2][6][8]
15 Usos, TheThe Usos
(Jimmy Uso and Jules/Jey Uso[Note 2])		 1 02010-03-13 March 13, 2010 &1000000000000008200000082 Crystal River, Florida Live event [5][9]
16 Los Aviadores
(Epico and Hunico)		 1 02010-06-03 June 3, 2010 &1000000000000004200000042 Tampa, Florida Live event [5][10]
17 Kaval and Michael McGillicutty (3) 1 02010-07-15 July 15, 2010 &100000000000000010000001 Tampa, Florida Live event [5][11]
18 Los Aviadores
(Epico and Hunico)		 2 02010-07-16 July 16, 2010 &1000000000000002800000028 Sebring, Florida Live event [5][12]
19 Derrick Bateman and Johnny Curtis (2) 1 02010-08-12 August 12, 2010 &1000000000000008400000084 Tampa, Florida FCW TV Taping Defeated Los Aviadores in a Triple Threat Tag Team match also involving The Colossal Connection (Brodus Clay and Donny Marlow)[5]
20 Wes Brisco and Xavier Woods 1 02010-11-04 November 4, 2010 &1000000000000002700000027 Tampa, Florida FCW TV Taping [5]
— Vacated — 02010-12-01 December 1, 2010 — Tampa, Florida Live event Woods and Brisco were stripped of the title after Brisco was sidelined with an injury.[13]
21 Damien Sandow and Titus O'Neill 1 02010-12-03 December 3, 2010 &10000000000000112000000112 Plant City, Florida Live event Defeated Xavier Woods and Mason Ryan to win the vacant championship.[5]
22 Richie Steamboat and Seth Rollins 1 02011-03-25 March 25, 2011 &1000000000000004800000048 Miami, Florida Live event [1]
23 Calvin Raines and Big E Langston 1 02011-05-12 May 12, 2011 &1000000000000007000000070 Tampa, Florida FCW TV Taping [1]
24 CJ Parker and Donnie Marlow 1 02011-07-21 July 21, 2011 &10000000000000105000000105 Tampa, Florida FCW TV Taping [1]
25 Brad Maddox & Briley Pierce 1 02011-11-03 November 3, 2011 &10000000000000125000000125+ Tampa, Florida FCW TV Taping [1]

List of combined reigns

† Indicates the current champions
<1 Indicates the reign was less than 1 day

As of March 7, 2012.

By team
Rank[1] Team # Of Reigns Combined Days
1 Curtis, JohnnyJohnny Curtis and Tyler Reks 1 140
2 The Rotundos
(Bo Rotundo and Duke Rotundo)		 1 119
3 Damien Sandow and Titus O'Neill 1 112
4 CJ Parker and Donnie Marlow 1 105
4 The Dude Busters
(Caylen Croft and Trent Baretta)		 1 84
5 Derrick Bateman and Johnny Curtis 1 84
7 Usos, TheThe Usos
(Jimmy Uso and Jules/Jey Uso)		 1 82
8 The Puerto Rican Nightmares
(Eddie Colón and Eric Pérez)		 3 80
9 The Empire
(Drew McIntyre and Stu Sanders)		 1 72
10 Los Aviadores
(Epico and Hunico)		 2 70
11 Calvin Raines and Big E Langston 1 70
12 The Fortunate Sons
(Joe Hennig and Brett DiBiase)		 1 58
13 The Dude Busters
(Caylen Croft, Trent Baretta and Curt Hawkins)		 1 56
14 Heath Miller/Sebastian Slater and Joe Hennig 1 49
15 Richie Steamboat and Seth Rollins 1 48
16 Brad Maddox and Briley Pierce† 1 125+
17 The New Hart Foundation
(D.H. Smith and TJ Wilson)		 1 42
18 Wes Brisco and Xavier Woods 1 27
19 Gavin Spears and Nic Nemeth 1 26
20 Brad Allen and Nic Nemeth 1 23
21 Kaval and Michael McGillicutty 1 1
22 Justin Gabriel and Kris Logan 1 <1
By wrestler
Rank [2] Wrestler # Of Reigns Combined Days
1 Curtis, JohnnyJohnny Curtis 2 224
2 Reks, TylerTyler Reks 1 140
2 Croft, CaylenCaylen Croft 2 140
2 Barreta, TrentTrent Barreta 2 140
5 Rotundo, BoBo Rotundo 1 119
5 Rotundo, DukeDuke Rotundo 1 119
7 Damien Sandow 1 112
7 Titus O'Neill 1 112
9 Hennig/Michael McGillicutty, JoeJoe Hennig/Michael McGillicutty 3 108
10 CJ Parker 1 105
11 Donnie Marlow 1 105
12 Bateman, DerrickDerrick Bateman 1 84
13 Uso, JimmyJimmy Uso 1 82
14 Uso, Jules/JeyJules/Jey Uso 1 82
15 Colón, EddieEddie Colón 3 80
16 Pérez, EricEric Pérez 3 80
17 McIntyre, DrewDrew McIntyre 1 72
17 Barrett, WadeWade Barrett 1 72
19 Epico, Epico 2 70
19 Hunico, Hunico 2 70
19 Calvin Raines 1 70
19 Big E Langston 1 70
23 DiBiase, BrettBrett DiBiase 1 58
24 Hawkins, CurtCurt Hawkins 1 56
25 Miller/Sebastian Slater, HeathHeath Miller/Sebastian Slater 1 49
26 Nemeth, NicNic Nemeth 2 48
26 Richie Steamboat 1 48
26 Seth Rollins 1 48
29 Brad Maddox† 1 125+
29 Briley Pierce† 1 125+
31 Smith, D.H.D.H. Smith 1 42
31 Wilson, TJTJ Wilson 1 42
33 Woods, XavierXavier Woods 1 27
33 Wes Brisco 1 27
35 Spears, GavinGavin Spears 1 26
35 Brad Allen 1 23
37 Kaval, Kaval 1 1
38 Gabriel, JustinJustin Gabriel 1 <1
38 Kris Logan 1 <1

Footnotes

  1. ^ Heath Miller's ring name was changed to Sebastian Slater during this title reign
  2. ^ Jules Uso's ring name was changed to Jey Uso during this title reign

References

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