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The WCW United States Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team championship contested for in the United States-based National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) promotions. The title was only contestable by male tag teams and in tag team matches. Being a professional wrestling championship, it was not won legitimately; it was instead won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline. In 1986, NWA President and JCP owner Jim Crockett, Jr. introduced the championship (under the name "NWA United States Tag Team Championship") by announcing a tournament for the newly created title, which was won by Krusher Khruschev and Ivan Koloff on September 28, 1986. Since its establishment, JCP was a subsidiary of the NWA, and as a result, most title defenses occurred under JCP-promoted events.

In 1988, Crockett sold JCP to Ted Turner, who established WCW as its successor; however, the title continued to be defended under the NWA name until January 1991, when WCW withdrew as a subsidiary to the NWA. The final champions under the NWA name were The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott). Following WCW's withdrawal, the title was renamed the "WCW United States Tag Team Championship", and The Steiner Brothers were recognized as the first champions as a result of never losing the original NWA United States Tag Team Title. On July 31, 1992, WCW stripped the final champions, The Barbarian and Dick Slater, of their titles and retired the championship for unknown reasons.

Overall, there were 19 reigns among 15 tag teams, all of which occurred in the United States. Twelve reigns occurred under the NWA's version of the championship, while eight occurred under WCW's version. From the information known, The Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane)'s first reign was the longest in the title's history at 346 days, while The Fantastics (Bobby Fulton and Tommy Rogers)' second reign was the shortest, at 19 days. The Midnight Express also held the most reigns overall as a tag team and individually, with three.

Title history

Key

Symbol	Meaning
#	The overall championship reign
Wrestler name (#)	The number within parenthesis represents the number of individual reigns by that specific wrestler.
Reign	The reign number for the specific tag team listed
Event	The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title changed hands
N/A	The specific information is not known or applicable .
—	Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign

NWA United States Tag Team Championship

#	Wrestler(s) (Tag team name)	Reigns	Days held	Location	Event	Notes
	Krusher Khruschev and Ivan Koloff			Atlanta, Georgia	Live event	Won the titles in a tournament final against the Kansas Jayhawks (Dutch Mantel and Bobby Jaggers)
	Ron Garvin and Barry Windham			Spartanburg, South Carolina	Live event
	Dick Murdoch and Ivan Koloff (2)			Atlanta, Georgia	Live event
	Vacant	—	—	N/A	N/A	Murdoch was suspended from in-ring competition by the NWA after performing a brainbuster on Nikita Koloff on a concrete floor, and as a result, Ivan Koloff and Murdoch were stripped of the titles.
	Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane (The Midnight Express)			Atlanta, Georgia	Live event	Won the titles in a tournament final by defeating Ron Garvin and Barry Windham
	Bobby Fulton and Tommy Rogers (The Fantastics)			Chattanooga, Tennessee	Live event
	Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane (The Midnight Express)			Baltimore, Maryland	The Great American Bash
	Vacant	—	—	N/A	N/A	The NWA vacated the titles after Eaton and Lane won the NWA World Tag Team Championship
	Bobby Fulton and Tommy Rogers (The Fantastics)			Chattanooga, Tennessee	Clash of the Champions IV: Season's Beatings	Won the titles in a tournament final by defeating Eddie Gilbert and Ron Simmons
	Kevin Sullivan and Steve Williams			Norfolk, Virginia	Starrcade
	Eddie Gilbert and Rick Steiner			Columbia, South Carolina	Live event
	Vacant	—	—	N/A	N/A	The NWA vacated the title for unknown reasons
10	Brian Pillman and The Z-Man			Gainesville, Georgia	Live event	Won the titles in a tournament final by defeating Michael Hayes and Jimmy Garvin (The Fabulous Freebirds)
11	Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane (The Midnight Express)			Washington, D.C.	Capital Combat: Return of Robocop
12	Rick (2) and Scott Steiner (The Steiner Brothers)			East Rutherford, New Jersey	Live event	In January 1991, WCW withdrew from the NWA as a subsidiary, which resulted in the creation of WCW's version of the United States Tag Team Championship. Rick and Scott Steiner were the final wrestlers to hold the NWA's version of the championship.