History of WWF Tag Team Champions
(Strike Force) Tito Santana & Rick Martel
October 27, 1987-March 27, 1988
87/10/27 (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito Santana defeated WWF Tag
Team Champions Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart w/Jimmy Hart to win the
titles [9:08] in Syracuse, NY
(when Neidhart submitted to Martel's Boston Crab)
87/10/28 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito
Santana defeated Barry Horowitz & Terry Gibbs (when Gibbs submitted
to Martel's Boston Crab) TV Taping
87/10/30 The Islanders defeated Rick Martel & Tito Santana in San Francisco, CA (when Haku pinned Santana).
87/10/31 The Islanders defeated Rick Martel & Tito Santana in Fresno, CA (when Haku pinned Santana)
87/10/31 The Islanders defeated Rick Martel & Tito Santana in Sacramento, CA (when Haku pinned Santana)
87/11/01 (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito Santana defeated The Islanders in a 2/3 Falls Match in Chicago, Il [10:00]
87/11/06 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito Santana defeated The Islanders [12:44] in Houston, TX.
(when Martel, the illegal man, pinned Tama with a sunset flip into the ring) TV Taping
87/11/07 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito
Santana defeated The Islanders in Philadelphia, PA. Televised on PRISM
87/11/07 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito
Santana defeated The Islanders in Boston, MA. Televised on NESN
(when Santana pinned Haku; there were two referees for the Match)
87/11/07 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito
Santana wrestled The Islanders to a double disqualification in
Philadelphia, PA. Televised on PRISM
87/11/08 The Islanders defeated WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force)
Rick Martel & Tito Santana via count out in Springfield, MA
87/11/08 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel &
Tito Santana defeated The Islanders in a 2/3 Falls Match in Landover, MD
87/11/16 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito Santana defeated The Islanders in Moline, IL
87/11/17 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel &
Tito Santana defeated The Conquistadors in a non title match [3:28] in
Des Moines, IA TV Taping
(when Martel forced a submission with his Boston Crab)
87/11/18 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel &
Tito Santana defeated Dusty Wolfe & Steve Lombardi in a non title
match [3:30] in Omaha, NE. TV Taping
(when Wolfe submitted to Martel's Boston Crab)
87/11/24 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel &
Tito Santana defeated Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart w/Jimmy Hart
via disqualification [18:18] in New York City, NY.
Televised on MSG Network
87/11/29 WWF Tag Team Champions Rick Martel & Tito Santana defeated The Islanders in Pontiac, MI
87/12/04 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito Santana defeated The Islanders in Pittsburgh, PA
87/12/05 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito
Santana defeated The Islanders in Philadelphia, PA. Televised
on PRISM
87/12/06 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito
Santana defeated The Islanders in a Lumberjack Match in
Springfield, Il.
87/12/06 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito Santana defeated The Islanders in Portland, ME
87/12/07 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito
Santana defeated Boris Zuckoff & Nikolai Volkoff in a 2/3
Falls Match in Landover, MD.
Saturday Night's Main Event Taping (when Zuckoff submitted to Martel's Boston Crab; Santana pinned Zhukov)
87/12/09 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito
Santana defeated Rick Ganter & Terry Gibbs [3:06]. (when Gantner
submitted to Martel's Boston crab) TV Taping
87/12/11 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito
Santana defeated Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart in Houston, TX
87/12/12 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito
Santana defeated Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart via disqualification
in St. Louis, MO
87/12/?? WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito
Santana defeated Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart via disqualification
in Kansas City, MO
87/12/26 Show included (Strike Force) WWF Tag Team Champions Rick Martel & Tito Santana in Syracuse, NY
88/01/05 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Tito Santana & Rick
Martel defeated Dusty Wolfe & Iron Mike Sharpe [3:30] in
Huntsville, AL TV Taping
(when Sharpe submitted to Santana's figure four leg lock)
88/01/06 TV Taping Nashville, TN
* WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito Santana defeated Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart in Nashville, TN
* WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito Santana
defeated Dave Wagner & Tiger Chung Lee in a non-title match
[3:11]
(when Santana pinned Chung Lee with the flying forearm)
88/01/09 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Tito Santana & Rick
Martel defeated Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart via disqualification in
Philadelphia, PA Televised on PRISM
88/01/16 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito
Santana defeated Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart in Sacramento, CA (when
Santana pinned Neidhart)
88/01/15 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito
Santana defeated Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart in Los Angelos, CA
88/01/18 WWF Tag Team Champions Rick Martel & Tito Santana defeated
Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart in Hartford, CT (when Martel pinned
Neidhart)
88/01/?? Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart defeated WWF Tag Team
Champions (Strike Force) Tito Santana & Rick Martel via
disqualification in Indianapolis, IN
88/01/26 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito
Santana defeated Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart in Hershey, PA. TV Taping
88/01/29 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito
Santana defeated Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart in Richfield, OH
88/01/30 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito
Santana defeated Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart in Baltimore, MD
88/02/05 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito
Santana defeated Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart in Indianapolis, IN
(Only beginning of match was televised due to time constraint) NBC The Main Event
88/02/16 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel &
Tito Santana defeated Tom Stone & Dusty Wolfe [2:55] in
Wichita, KS (when Stone submitted to Martel's Boston Crab)
88/02/17 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito
Santana defeated Barry Horowitz & Dave Wagner [2:15] in a non title
match in Topeka, KS TV Taping
(when Wagner submitted to Martel's Boston Crab)
88/03/08 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito
Santana defeated Barry Horowitz & Terry Gibbs [2:43] in Bristol, TN
TV Taping
(when Santana pinned Gibbs with the flying forearm)
88/03/09 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito
Santana defeated Iron Mike Sharpe & John Ziegler [2:28] in
Winston-Salem, NC TV Taping
(when Santana pinned Ziegler with the flying forearm)
88/03/14 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito
Santana defeated Nikolai Volkoff & Boris Zuckoff in East
Rutherford, NJ
88/03/16 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito Santana defeated The Islanders in Pittsburg, KS
88/03/19 WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel & Tito
Santana defeated The Conquistadors [3:12] in Cape Girardeau, MO TV
Taping
88/03/20 Rick Martel & Tito Santana defeated Dusty Wolfe & Rick
Renslow [2:17] (when Santana pinned Wolfe with the
flying forearm) in Springfield, IL TV Taping
88/03/27 WrestleMania IV PPV Atlantic City, NJ Demolition w/ Mr. Fuji
defeated WWF Tag Team Champions (Strike Force) Rick Martel &
Tito Santana [8:02] to win the titles
(when Martel was pinned)
History of WWF Tag Team Champions
Tito Santana & Ivan Putski
October 22, 1979-April 14, 1980
79/10/22 Ivan Putski & Tito Santana defeated WWF Tag Team Champions
Johnny & Jerry Valiant to win the titles in New York City, NY
(Santana pinned Johnny 13:39)
Televised on MSG Network (Tape- History of the Tag Team Champions)
79/10/23 WWF Tag Team Champions Ivan Putski & Tito Santana defeated Jo Jo Andrews & Jose Estrada in Allentown, PA
79/10/24 TV Taping Hamburg, PA
* WWF Tag Team Champions Tito Santana & Ivan Putski defeated Johnny & Jimmy Valiant
* WWF Tag Team Champions Tito Santana & Ivan Putski defeated Billy Coleman & Jo Jo Andrews
79/11/02 WWF Tag Team Champions Tito Santana & Ivan Putski defeated Jimmy & Jerry Valiant in Belleville, NJ
79/11/13 TV Taping Allentown, PA
* WWF Tag Team Champions Tito Santana & Ivan Putski defeated Johnny & Jerry Valiant
* WWF Tag Team Champions Tito Santana & Ivan Putski defeated Johnny Rodz & Jose Estrada
* WWF Tag Team Champions Tito Santana & Ivan Putski defeated Pete Doherty & Moose Monroe
79/11/14 TV Taping Hamburg, PA
* WWF Tag Team Champions Tito Santana & Ivan Putski defeated Jose Estrada & Pete Doherty
* WWF Tag Team Champions Tito Santana & Ivan Putski defeated Johnny Rodz & Moose Monroe
79/11/19 WWF Tag Team Champions Ivan Putksi & Tito Santana defeated
Johnny & Jerry Valiant [22:58] Televised on the MSG Network
79/11/24 WWF Tag Team Champions Tito Santana & Ivan Putski defeated Johnny & Jerry Valiant in Baltimore, MD
79/11/27 WWF Tag Team Champions Ivan Putski & Tito Santana defeated Johnny & Jerry Valiant in Portland, ME
79/11/30 WWF Tag Team Champions Ivan Putski & Tito Santana vs. Johnny & Jerry Valiant
79/12/17 WWF Tag Team Champions Ivan Putski & Tito Santana defeated
Victor Rivera & Swede Hanson [6:57] in New York City, NY.
Televised on the MSG Network
80/01/21 The Wild Samoans defeated WWF Tag Team Champions Ivan Putski
& Tito Santana via count out [12:46] in New York City, NY Televised
on the MSG Network
80/01/23 Ivan Putski & Tito Santana defeated Johnny Rodz & Baron Mikel Scicluna in Hamburg, PA. TV Taping
80/02/04 WWF Tag Team Champions Ivan Putski & Tito Santana wrestled
The Wild Samoans to a double disqualification in Poughkeepsie, NY
80/02/12 TV Taping Allentown, PA
* WWF Tag Team Champions Tito Santana & Ivan Putski vs. The Wild Samoans
* WWF Tag Team Champions Ivan Putski & Tito Santana defeated BB Coleman & Frank Savidge
80/02/13 TV Taping Hamburg, PA
* WWF Tag Team Champions Ivan Putski & Tito Santana defeated Davey O'Hannon & Jo Jo Andrews
*WWF Tag Team Champions Ivan Putski & Tito Santana defeated Baron Mikel Scicluna & Jose Estrada [7:06]
80/02/23 The Wild Samoans defeated WWF Tag Team Champions Ivan Putski & Tito Santana via count-out in Baltimore, MD
80/02/24 The Wild Samoans defeated WWF Tag Team Champions Ivan Putski & Tito Santana via count-out in Wheeling, WV
80/02/25 The Wild Samoans defeated WWF Tag Team Champions Ivan Putski & Tito Santana via count-out in Spangler, PA
80/03/08 The Wild Samoans defeated WWF Tag Team Champions Tito Santana & Ivan Putski via count out in Boston, MA
80/03/05 TV Taping Hamburg, PA
* Tito Santana & Ivan Putski defeated Jose Estrada & Davey O'Hannon [5:20]
* Tito Santana & Ivan Putski defeated Jose Estrada & Baron Mikel Scicluna [7:18]
80/03/17 WWF Tag Team Champions Ivan Putski & Tito Santana defeated
the Wild Samoans via disqualification in Poughkeepsie, NY
80/03/23 The Wild Samoans defeated WWF Tag Team Champions Ivan Putski & Tito Santana via count out New Haven, CT
80/04/05 WWF Tag Team Champions Ivan Putski & Tito Santana defeated
The Wild Samoans via disqualification when the Samoans attacked guest
referee Pat Patterson in Boston, MA
80/04/12 WWF Tag Team Champions Tito Santana & Ivan Putski vs. The Wild Samoans in Landover, MD
80/04/12 The Wild Samoans defeated WWF Tag Team Champions Tito Santana
& Ivan Putski to win the titles [7:36] in Philadelphia, PA
(when Afa pinned Santana with the Samoan Drop after Santana missed a cross body off the top rope). Televised on Prism
