NWA Tag Team Championship Tournament – 1992

– Opening Round

– All matches took place at Clash of the Champions XIX on 6/16/92 in Charleston, SC.

– Ricky Steamboat & Nikita Koloff (USA) defeated Joe & Dean Malenko (Europe) at 9:53 when Koloff pinned Dean with the Russian Sickle

– WCW US Champion Rick Rude (w/ Madusa) & WCW TV Champion Steve Austin (USA) defeated Marcus Alexander Bagwell & Tom Zenk (USA) at 7:55 when Rude pinned Bagwell with one hand on his chest after avoiding a dropkick and hitting the Rude Awakening

– Terry Gordy & Steve Williams (Japan) defeated Larry & Jeff O’Day (Australia) at 2:35 when Williams pinned Larry with the Oklahoma Stampede

– Barry Windham & Dustin Rhodes (USA) defeated Arn Anderson & Bobby Eaton (w/ Paul E. Dangerously) (USA) at 11:23 when Rhodes pinned Eaton with the bulldog after avoiding the Alabama Jam

– WCW US Tag Team Champions Michael Hayes & Jimmy Garvin (USA) defeated El Texano & Silver King (Mexico) at 6:27 when Hayes pinned Silver King with an inside cradle after King came off the top and accidentally hit his partner on the floor

– WCW Tag Team Champions Rick & Scott Steiner (USA) defeated Miguel Perez Jr. & Ricky Santana (Puerto Rico) via forfeit after Perez & Santana were assaulted backstage

– Brian Pillman & Jushin Liger (USA) defeated Chris Benoit & Beef Wellington (Canada) at 11:31 when Liger pinned Wellington with a bodyslam and the moonsault after Wellington and Benoit collided in the ring

– Akria Nogami & Hiroshi Hase (Japan) defeated the Headhunters (Joe Cruz & Bob Cook under masks) (Dominican Republic) with simultaneous pinfalls at 5:12 when Hase scored the pin with a northern lights suplex as Nogami used a German suplex

– Quarter-Finals

Clash of the Champions XIX – 6/16/92; Charleston, SC; McAlister Fieldhouse
– Terry Gordy & Steve Williams (Japan) defeated WCW Tag Team Champions Rick & Scott Steiner (USA) in a non-title match at 15:01 when Williams pinned Scott when, as Scott attempted a belly to belly suplex, Gordy clipped Scott in his bad knee behind the referee’s back with Williams falling on top for the win; after the bout, several officials and wrestlers came out to check on Scott’s injury

– The remainder of the tournament was held at the Great American Bash on 7/12/92 in Albany, GA.

– Ricky Steamboat & Nikita Koloff (USA) defeated Brian Pillman & Jushin Liger (USA) at 19:25 when Steamboat pinned Pillman when the momentum of a crossbody off the top by Pillman put Steamboat on top for the win

– Hiroshi Hase & Shinya Hashimoto (sub. for Akira Nogami) (Japan) defeated Michael Hayes & Jimmy Garvin (USA) at 9:16 when Hase pinned Garvin with a northern lights suplex after Hashimoto kicked Garvin in the face behind the referee’s back

– Dustin Rhodes & Barry Windham (USA) defeated WCW US Champion Rick Rude & WCW TV Champion Steve Austin (USA) at 19:16 when Rhodes pinned Austin with a clothesline off the top as Austin attempted a piledriver on Windham

– Semi-Finals

– WCW Tag Team Champions Steve Williams & Terry Gordy (Japan) defeated Ricky Steamboat & Nikita Koloff (USA) at 21:39 when Williams pinned Steamboat with a running powerslam after ramming Steamboat into the corner

– Dustin Rhodes & Barry Windham (USA) defeated Hirhosi Hase & Shinya Hashimoto (Japan) at 14:55 when Windham pinned Hase with a lariat

– Finals

– WCW Tag Team Champions Steve Williams & Terry Gordy (Japan) defeated Dustin Rhodes & Barry Windham (USA) to win the titles at 21:01 when Williams pinned Rhodes with a clothesline; prior to the bout, Rick & Scott Steiner came out to confront Williams & Gordy but were sent backstage by Ole Anderson and Doug Dillinger