title: SCW Tag Team Championship (Georgia)
text: # SCW Tag Team Championship (Georgia)
  
  The SCW Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team championship in Southern Championship Wrestling (SCW). It remained active until early-1990 when SCW was closed.
  
  The inaugural champions were "Wildfire" Tommy Rich and Ted Oates, who defeated Bob Orton, Jr. and "Dirty" Dick Slater in a tournament final in 1988 to become the first SCW Tag Team Champions. Thunder & Lightning (Steve Lawler and Dino Minelli) holds the record for most reigns, with two. At 68 days, Thunder & Lightning's first reign is the longest in the title's history. Overall, there have been 12 reigns shared between 11 wrestlers, with one vacancy, and 1 deactivation.
  
  ## Title history
  
  Key :
  
  | No. | Overall reign number |
  | - | - |
  | Reign | Reign number for the specific team—reign numbers for the individuals are in parenthesis, if different |
  | Days | Number of days held |
  | No. | Champion | Championship change | Championship change | Championship change | Reign statistics | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. |
  | No. | Champion | Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Notes | Ref. |
  | 1 | Tommy Rich and Ted Oates | 1988 | SCW show | Macon, Georgia | 1 | N/A | Rich and Oates defeated Bob Orton, Jr. and Dick Slater to become the first SCW Tag Team Champions. | |
  | 2 | Zebra Warriors | 1988 | SCW show | N/A | 1 | N/A | | |
  | 3 | Tommy Rich (2) and Steve Prichard | July 22, 1988 | SCW show | Columbus, Georgia | 1 | N/A | | |
  | 4 | Tommy Rich (3) and Joey Maggs | 1988 | SCW show | N/A | 1 | N/A | | |
  | 5 | Doug Somers and Joel Deaton | 1988 | SCW show | N/A | 1 | N/A | | |
  | 6 | Ranger Ross and Joey Maggs (2) | 1988 | SCW show | N/A | 1 | N/A | | |
  | 7 | Thunder & Lightning (Steve Lawler and Dino Minelli) | October 23, 1988 | SCW show | Alpharetta, Georgia | 1 | 68 | | |
  | 8 | Ranger Ross (2) and Mr. Wrestling II | December 30, 1988 | SCW show | Atlanta, Georgia | 1 | N/A | | |
  | 9 | Thunder & Lightning (Steve Lawler and Dino Minelli) | 1989 | SCW show | N/A | 2 | N/A | | |
  | 10 | Georgia Power (The Nightmare and Jimmy Powell)} | 1989 | SCW show | N/A | 1 | N/A | | |
  | 11 | Mr. Atlanta and Mike Golden | 1989 | SCW show | N/A | 1 | N/A | | |
  | — | Vacated | N/A | SCW show | — | — | — | | |
  | 12 | Billy Starr and Kareem Muhammad | January 28, 1990 | SCW show | Griffin, Georgia | 1 | N/A | Starr and Muhammad defeated Georgia Power (The Nightmare and Jimmy Powell) to win the vacant title. | |
  | — | Deactivated | 1990 | — | — | — | — | SCW closed in early-1990 and Starr and Muhammad were the final champions in SCW as a company. | |
  