The title is awarded after the chosen team wins a match to maintain the illusion that professional wrestling is a competitive sport.
In 1949 the first of many NWA World Tag Team Championships was created in the Los Angeles territory.
[5][6] In 1958, Capitol Wrestling Corporation (CWC) out of New York introduced their own NWA United States Tag Team Championship when Mark Lewin and Don Curtis defeated Hans Schmidt and Dick the Bruiser in the finals of a tournament to determine the first champions.
The Fabulous Kangaroos (Al Costello and Roy Heffernan) were the first Florida based U.S. tag team champions as they were awarded the championship prior to their debut in the territory.
[14][15] On April 15, 1974 then-reigning champions Bob Kelly and Rocket Monroe lost the Gulf Coast version to the then-reigning NWA Tri-State United States Tag Team Champions Bob Sweetan and Siegfried Stanke to unify the two championships.
Krusher Kruschev and Ivan Koloff defeated The Kansas Jayhawks (Dutch Mantell and Bobby Jaggers) to become the inaugural champions.
The first champions were The Lords of KAOS (Damien Wayne and Lance Erickson) who won the championship by defeating Jason Kinkaid and Charles Alexander in the finals of a tournament.
[22] On July 19, 2022, Billy Corgan announced that the NWA is reviving the United States Tag Team Championship after nearly five years of inactivity.