HQW World Tag Team Title History

HQW World Tag Team Championships

History

The HQW World Tag Team Championships were the first titles to actually crowned in HQW during the first run. Promoter/Wrestler Pulse decided to wait for fans to familize themselves with the talent before jumping in and crowning champions.

The first champions were an odd pairing as then rivals Freddy Krueger and Charly Madison formed a successful tag team. Freddy Krueger would be the only of the four horror legends that used to work for HPW/HQW to win an HQW championship. The pairing would lose their titles to the team they defeated for the belts: Freezer Burn(nka nGn) a mere two months later. Although Freezer Burn were firm favorites of the HQW faithful, they only held the titles for a messly two weeks before dropping the belts to the fiendish duo of Arcana and Maggot.

The HQW World Tag Team titles are known for not having many multi-time title holders. It is commonly known that HQW's tag team division is so fierce and diverse that champions seldom succeed at recapturing the belts upon losing them.

The final HQW World Tag Team Champions before the hiatus were the Apophis members of Donovan Dark and Pandora, who captured the belts shortly after their leader; Vlad Isaacs, became HQW World Heavyweight Champion. As with all other HQW titles, the tag team titles were vacated due to HQW closing it's doors.

During the revival of HQW, former champions The Apophis and the men they beat for the titles in the first place: The Midnight Sins, went to war proving they deserved a title match. They met in episode 5 of the HQW Revival in a Ladder match for the belts, a match which the Midnight Sins won.

Although the Midnight Sins were valiant champions, pushing back the threat of Satan's Mercenaries, they would drop the titles to fast rising, cruiserweight tag team The Bacterium, who are currently enjoying their first reign with the belts.

After losing the Warrior's Gamble but still intent on fulfilling the promise made to Oragon, PULSE vowed to make Oragon a champion. So PULSE set out on the ambitious journey to see himself and Oragon become a successful tag team. They ran rough shot through team after team, until Virus, leader of the Bacterium, took notice. He laid down a massive challenge with huge stipulations; a 2-on-3 Handicap match where should PULSE and Oragon win, they would be given a tag team title shot, but should PULSE and Oragon lose, they must disband as a team forever. Luckily, though the Bacterium's 3 on 1 advantage over PULSE seemed too much, it was Oragon who would ultimately turn the tide in the match and secure their team the victory, and with the title shot secured and the 2-on-2 rules reestablished, it was no trouble for PULSE and Oragon to capture the tag team titles.

As if following in kind, Marek decided that if PULSE wanted to team up with someone who wasn't his usual partner, then Marek would challenge PULSE and Oragon with his Djinn; Krios. The two earned their title shot after defeating The new Apophis, and after a back and forth war on the weekly HQW show, they won the tag team titles at Mayhem Unleashed 2020.

After putting on two dynamite title defenses against PULSE and Oragon and nGn, Marek decided to begin targeting HQW World Heavyweight Champion Nexus Solem. Meanwhile, The newest incarnation of the Apophis' tag team became #1 Contenders after defeating the The Twin Hellzapoppins in a Steel Cage match. On the 40th episode of HQW season 2, The Apophis took advantage of Marek's distracted mind and captured the HQW World Tag Team titles, bringing the second championship over to the Apophis faction.

Title Reigns