Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The NWA Tri-State Tag Team Championship was a tag team title created in 1962, and contested in the National Wrestling Alliance's Tri-State territory, which was promoted by Leroy McGuirk (Arkansas and Oklahoma) and Jack Curtis and Aurelian \"Grizzly\" Smith (Louisiana). For most of its existence, the title was the Tri-State version of the NWA United States Tag Team Championship.This group of promoters existed until Bill Watts' Mid-South Wrestling bought out the majority of the Tri-State territory, and also Gil Culkin and George Gulkin's Mississippi territory, in August 1979. After Watts took over, McGuirk took the title to Oklahoma, the only part of the Tri-State territory not owned by Watts. The U.S. Tag Team Championship's name was then changed to the Tri-State Tag Title in 1980.The title lasted until Tri-State closed in 1982, when Mid-South Wrestling took over Oklahoma from McGuirk."@en }
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- NWA_Tri-State_Tag_Team_Championship abstract "The NWA Tri-State Tag Team Championship was a tag team title created in 1962, and contested in the National Wrestling Alliance's Tri-State territory, which was promoted by Leroy McGuirk (Arkansas and Oklahoma) and Jack Curtis and Aurelian \"Grizzly\" Smith (Louisiana). For most of its existence, the title was the Tri-State version of the NWA United States Tag Team Championship.This group of promoters existed until Bill Watts' Mid-South Wrestling bought out the majority of the Tri-State territory, and also Gil Culkin and George Gulkin's Mississippi territory, in August 1979. After Watts took over, McGuirk took the title to Oklahoma, the only part of the Tri-State territory not owned by Watts. The U.S. Tag Team Championship's name was then changed to the Tri-State Tag Title in 1980.The title lasted until Tri-State closed in 1982, when Mid-South Wrestling took over Oklahoma from McGuirk.".