MLW World Tag Team Championship
The MLW World Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship which is owned by the Major League Wrestling promotion. The championship is generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants usually execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition.
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 would win the vacant titles under the MLW World Tag Team Championship name on June 7, 2018.
History
Establishment and inactivity (2003–2004)
The titles were unveiled on April 21, 2003, during 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 and Los Maximos. Friedman and Williams and The Extreme Hoursemen would both advance to 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.Inaugural Championship tournament (2004)
Revival (since 2018)
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, Team TBD and The Dirty Blondes facing each other in 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.Three-way elimination championship match
Reigns
As of ,, there have been seventeen reigns between sixteen teams composed of 32 individual champions and two vacancies. The inaugural champions were The Extreme Horsemen. The Von Erichs reign is the longest at 438 days, while World Titan Federation 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 The Skyscrapers who defeated Los Depredadores in Queens, New York at Summer of the Beasts.