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{{Championship |name=NWA North American Tag Team Championship (Los Angeles/Japan) |promotion=NWA Hollywood Wrestling<br />[[New Japan Pro Wrestling]] |caption= |established=August, 1973 |firstchamp=Johnny Powers and Pat Patterson |finalchamp=Seiji Sakaguchi and [[Riki Choshu]] |mostreigns=[[Antonio Inoki]] and [[Seiji Sakaguchi]] and Seiji Sakaguchi & Strong Kobayashi (2 reigns) (as individual) [[Seiji Sakaguchi]] (5 reigns) |longestreign=Seiji Sakaguchi and [[Riki Choshu]]<br />(647 days) |retired=April 23, 1981 }} This version of the '''NWA North American Tag Team Championship''' was a major tag team championship that was primarily defended in the National Wrestling Alliance affiliated [[New Japan Pro Wrestling]] and NWA Hollywood Wrestling.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/newjapan/nj-na-t.html |title=N.W.A. North American Tag Team Title (Los Angeles/Japan)|accessdate= |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year=2003 |month= |work= |publisher=Puroresu Dojo |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref> The title essentially served as New Japan's primary tag team title though it was also occasionally defended and recognized in the Los Angeles area. This title was the second NWA sanctioned title to be named the North American Tag Team Championship and was retired April 23, 1981. ==Title history== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; width=100%;" ! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |# ! style="background: #e3e3e3; width: 25%;" |Tag Team<br /><small>(Individual Reigns)</small> ! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Team Reigns ! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Date ! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Location ! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Length ! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Defenses ! style="background: #e3e3e3;" |Notes |- |1 |Johnny Powers and Pat Patterson |1 |August, 1973 |Unknown |Unknown |2 |Powers and Patterson were recognized in Los Angeles and New Japan as champions. |- |2 |Kurt Von Hess and Karl Von Schotz |1 |April, 1974 |Unknown |Unknown |1 | |- |3 |[[Antonio Inoki]] and [[Seiji Sakaguchi]] |1 |August 16, 1974 |Los Angeles, California |350 Days |5 | |- |— |Vacated |— |August 1, 1975 |— |— |— |<small>Vacated due to a title defense no contest against the Hollywood Blonds ended in a no contest.</small> |- |4 |[[The Hollywood Blonds]]<br /><small>([[Buddy Roberts]] and [[Jerry Brown]])</small> |1 |September 22, 1975 |Nagoya |10 Days |0 |The Hollywood Blonds defeated Inoki and Sakaguchi in a rematch for the titles. |- |5 |Antonio Inoki and Seiji Sakaguchi |2 |October 2, 1975 |Osaka |Unknown |1 | |- |— |Vacated |— |January, 1976 |— |— |— |<small>Vacated due to Inoki focus on his mixed martial arts singles matches.</small> |- |6 |Seiji Sakaguchi <small>(3)</small> and [[Strong Kobayashi]] |1 |February 2, 1976 |Sapporo, Hokkaido |363 Days |6 |Defeats Tiger Jeet Singh & Voodoo Mulumba in tournament finals to be crowned new champions. |- |7 |[[Tiger Jeet Singh]] and [[Umanosuke Ueda]] |1 |February 2, 1977 |Osaka |176 Days |3 | |- |8 |Seiji Sakaguchi <small>(4)</small> and [[Strong Kobayashi]] <small>(2)</small> |2 |July 28, 1977 |Fukuoka |101 Days |2 | |- |9 |[[Hiro Matsuda]] and [[Masa Saito]] |1 |April 5, 1979 |Tokyo |71 Days |0 | |- |10 |Seiji Sakaguchi <small>(5)</small> and [[Riki Choshu]] |1 |June 15, 1979 |Los Angeles, California, USA |678 Days |10 | |- |— |Abandoned |— |April 23, 1981 |— |— |— |<small>The titles were abandoned for undocumented reasons.</small> |} ==References== <references /> [[Category:Championships]] [[Category:NJPW Championships]]
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