NWA US Tag Team Championship Tournament – 1986

All matches took place at the Omni in Atlanta on September 28, 1986.

– Quarter-Finals

– Ivan Koloff & Krusher Kruschev defeated Tim Horner & Nelson Royal

– Tully Blanchard & Jimmy Garvin defeated Jimmy Valiant & Manny Fernandez

– Dick Murdoch & NWA Mid Atlantic Heavyweight Champion Ron Garvin fought Bobby Eaton & Dennis Condrey to a 20-minute time-limit draw

– NWA TV Champion Dusty Rhodes & Magnum TA defeated Baron Von Raschke & Shaska Whatley

– Dutch Mantell & Bobby Jaggers defeated Bill Dundee & Buddy Landell

– Semi-Finals

– Ivan Koloff & Krusher Kruschev defeated NWA TV Champion Dusty Rhodes & Magnum TA via disqualification

– Dutch Mantell & Bobby Jaggers defeated Tully Blanchard & Jimmy Garvin

– Finals

– Ivan Koloff & Krusher Kruschev defeated Dutch Mantell & Bobby Jaggers to win the titles when Koloff pinned Mantell after Krushev struck Mantell in the back with his Russian chain; late in the contest, NWA US Champion Nikita Koloff appeared ringside to support Ivan & Krushev and provide the chain