TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Championship
| TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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 The current TNA Knockouts World Tag Team championship belt | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | August 20, 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | Spitfire (Dani Luna and Jody Threat) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | March 8, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Championship is a
The creation of the championship was announced on August 20, 2009, during a backstage segment on TNA's primary television program TNA Impact!.[1] Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won via the result of a scripted match. Sarita and Taylor Wilde were the inaugural champions. They won a four-week tournament to be crowned the first champions. The longest reigning champions were Eric Young and ODB, who held the titles for a record 478 days before the 2013 deactivation of the titles due to Eric Young being a male talent.
On October 24, 2020, at Bound For Glory, the revival of the titles were officially announced by Madison Rayne, with a tournament to award the revived championships taking place. On January 16, 2021, the tournament finals were won by Fire 'N Flava (Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz) at Hard To Kill.
History
TNA Knockout (formerly Impact Knockout), or just Knockout for short, is the term used by
On the August 20, 2009 episode of Impact!, backstage interviewer
During the first years of the title, it was vacated twice due to one half of the champions being released. On March 8, 2010, Awesome Kong left TNA after an incident with Bubba the Love Sponge. In December of that year, Hamada was released. On February 28, 2011, ODB and Eric Young defeated Gail Kim and Madison Rayne to win the titles. Young also became the only male to win the championship. They only defended the titles two times, but held the belts for 478 days. On the June 20, 2013 episode of Impact Wrestling, Knockouts Division Executive Brooke Hogan stripped ODB and Young of the title because Young is a male. This ultimately resulted in the titles being deactivated.[8]
On October 24, 2020 at the Bound for Glory pay-per-view, Madison Rayne announced that after nearly eight years of inactivity, Impact Wrestling would revive the Knockouts Tag Team Championship taking off the TNA prefix and changing it to the Impact prefix.[9] It was also announced that an eight-team tournament would take place over the next two months to determine the next champions. The brackets were announced in November, with the final taking place at the Hard To Kill pay-per-view on January 16, 2021.[10][11] At the event, Fire 'N Flava (Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz) defeated Havok and Nevaeh in the tournament final to win the revived titles.
Championship Tournaments
Inaugural championship tournament (2009)
| Round One TNA Impact! (August 18, 31 and September 1, 2009) | Round Two TNA Impact! (September 1, 2009) | Finals (No Surrender) (September 20, 2009) | ||||||||||||
Awesome Kong and Raisha Saeed
| Pin | |||||||||||||
Sharmell and Traci Brooks )
| 3:00[12] | |||||||||||||
| Awesome Kong and Raisha Saeed | 3:00[14] | |||||||||||||
| Sarita and Taylor Wilde | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Sarita and Taylor Wilde | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Alissa Flash and Daffney | 5:00[13] | |||||||||||||
| Sarita and Taylor Wilde | Pin | |||||||||||||
| The Beautiful People (Velvet Sky and Madison Rayne*) | 5:00[7] | |||||||||||||
| The Beautiful People (Angelina Love and Velvet Sky) | Pin | |||||||||||||
Roxxi
| 3:00[13] | |||||||||||||
| The Beautiful People | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Christy Hemme and Tara | 4:00[14] | |||||||||||||
Sojournor Bolt
| 7:25 | |||||||||||||
| Christy Hemme and Tara | Pin | |||||||||||||
* Madison Rayne had rejoined the Beautiful People and replaced Angelina Love due to her release prior to the finals.
Vacated championship tournament (2010)
On the December 9, 2010, edition of Impact! TNA vacated the
| Semifinals TNA Impact! (December 6 and 7, 2010) | Finals TNA Impact! (December 9, 2010) | ||||||||
| The Beautiful People (Angelina Love and Velvet Sky) | Pin | ||||||||
| Daffney and Sarita | 4:00[15] | ||||||||
| Angelina Love and Winter* | Pin | ||||||||
| Madison Rayne and Tara | 5:00[16] | ||||||||
| Madison Rayne and Tara | Pin | ||||||||
| Mickie James and Miss Tessmacher | 4:00[17] | ||||||||
* Winter replaced Velvet Sky, who had been attacked backstage by Sarita.
Revival tournament (2020-2021)
| Round One Impact! (November 17 and 24, December 1 and 8, 2020) | Round Two Impact! (December 15, 2020 and January 5, 2021) | Finals Hard to Kill (January 16, 2021) | ||||||||||||
| Alisha and Tenille Dashwood | 6:32 | |||||||||||||
| Havok and Nevaeh | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Havok and Nevaeh | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Jazz and Jordynne Grace | 8:48 | |||||||||||||
| Killer Kelly and Renee Michelle | 8:54[18] | |||||||||||||
| Jazz and Jordynne Grace | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Havok and Nevaeh | 9:40 | |||||||||||||
| Fire 'N Flava | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Fire 'N Flava (Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz) | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Team Sea Stars (Ashley Vox and Delmi Exo) | 7:10[19] | |||||||||||||
| Fire 'N Flava | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Rosemary and Taya Valkyrie | 7:58 | |||||||||||||
| Deonna Purrazzo and Kimber Lee | 6:59 | |||||||||||||
| Rosemary and Taya Valkyrie | Pin | |||||||||||||
Championship belt designs
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The original design of the Knockouts Tag Team Championships held by then champions The Beautiful People (Lacey Von Erich and Velvet Sky) -
A second look at the original design of the Knockouts Tag Team Championship with Velvet Sky. -
The 2020 design of the belts.
The original design of the Knockout Tag Team Championship from years 2009 to 2013 has red leather, gold center and side plates with red and black designing and wording in the middle of the center of the gold middle plate that says Knockouts Tag Team TNA Wrestling Champions that is in those colors only with red and white diamonds in the middle and on the side plates as well with a shape of a world on each side plates.[20] (This design of the title has one side plate on each side and one center plate equivalent to 3-plates total. / The TNA sign stood for the company being named TNA-Total Nonstop Action Wrestling during that time instead of Impact Wrestling which is the present company's name.)
Reigns
As of April 19, 2024, there have been 23 reigns shared between 31 wrestlers and 20 teams. The inaugural champions were Sarita and Wilde, who defeated The Beautiful People (Rayne and Sky) in the finals of an eight-team tournament to crown the first TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions.[7] At 478 days, Eric Young and ODB hold the record for the longest reign in the title's history. Jordynne Grace's and Rachael Ellering's reign holds the record for the shortest reign in the title's history at 20 days. Young is the first and only male wrestler to have held the title.
Spitfire (Dani Luna and Jody Threat) are the current champions in their first reign as a team and individually as they defeated MK Ultra (Killer Kelly and Masha Slamovich) on March 8, 2024 at Sacrifice.
See also
- Women's World Tag Team Championship
References
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In the back Lauren says that next week will be the start of the 1st Round to crown the very first TNA Knockout Tag Team Champions!
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- ^ Martin, Adam (September 20, 2009). "Card for TNA No Surrender PPV tonight". WrestleView. Archived from the original on September 30, 2012. Retrieved September 20, 2009.
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- ^ Johnson, Mike (October 25, 2020). "NEW CHAMPIONS CROWNED, RETURNS & MORE: COMPLETE IMPACT WRESTLING BOUND FOR GLORY 2020 COVERAGE". PWInsider. Archived from the original on January 22, 2021. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
- ^ Johnson, Mike (November 14, 2020). "NEW CHAMPIONS CROWNED & MORE: COMPLETE IMPACT WRESTLING TURNING POINT 2020 COVERAGE". PWInsider. Archived from the original on January 22, 2021. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
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- ^ Keller, Wade (August 28, 2009). "Keller's TNA Impact report 8/27: Results, star ratings, thoughts, observations, nitpicks, quotebook". PWTorch. Archived from the original on December 11, 2018. Retrieved September 3, 2009.
- ^ a b Keller, Wade (September 11, 2009). "Keller's TNA Impact report 9/10: Homicide turns heel, Joe & Angle face Daniels & Styles, Morgan-Angle blow-up, two Knockout tag matches, Deaner goes MMA, Quotebook". PWTorch. Archived from the original on February 3, 2019. Retrieved September 20, 2009.
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- ^ a b Keller, Wade (December 9, 2010). "Keller's TNA Impact results 12/9: Ongoing "virtual time" coverage of Spike TV episode". Pro Wrestling Torch. Archived from the original on December 12, 2010. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
- ^ a b Keller, Wade (December 23, 2010). "Keller's TNA Impact report 12/23: Foley makes surprise return and discusses his negative influence on concussion frequency in wrestling". Pro Wrestling Torch. Archived from the original on December 26, 2010. Retrieved December 24, 2010.
- ^ Wilkenfeld, Daniel (December 16, 2010). "Wilkenfeld's TNA Impact report 12/16: Complete "virtual time" coverage of Spike TV broadcast". Pro Wrestling Torch. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved December 16, 2010.
- ^ Moore, Josh (December 1, 2020). "12/1 Impact Wrestling TV Results: Moore's review of The Motor City Machine Guns vs. Team XXXL, Rohit Raju vs. Crazzy Steve for the X Division Title, Killer Kelly and Renee Michelle vs. Jordynne Grace and Jazz in a Knockouts Tag Title tournament match, Willie Mack vs. Chris Bey". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Archived from the original on December 2, 2020. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
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External links
- Impact Wrestling Knockouts World Tag Team Championship at Cagematch.net