TNA Knockouts World Championship

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TNA Knockouts World Championship
The current TNA Knockouts World Championship belt
Details
PromotionTotal Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA)
Date establishedOctober 14, 2007[1]
Current champion(s)Jordynne Grace
Date wonJanuary 13, 2024
Other name(s)
  • TNA Women's World Championship
    (2007–2008)
  • TNA Women's Knockout Championship
    (2008–2010)
  • TNA Knockouts Championship
    (2010–2017)
  • Impact Wrestling Knockouts Championship
    (2017)
  • Unified GFW Knockouts Championship
    (2017)
  • GFW Knockouts Championship
    (2017)
  • Impact Knockouts Championship
    (2017–2021)
  • Impact Knockouts World Championship
    (2021–2024)
  • TNA Knockouts World Championship
    (2024–present)
Statistics
First champion(s)
Awesome Kong
(272 lbs (123kg))
Lightest championMiss Tessmacher
(109 lbs (49kg)

The TNA Knockouts World Championship

event and the inaugural champion was Gail Kim. The current champion is Jordynne Grace
, who is in her third reign.

History

TNA Knockout

Francine, Miss Joni, Sasha, Shannon, Taylor Vaughn, and Teresa Tyler.[5] Vaughn last eliminated Elektra to win the crown.[6] The TNA Knockout of the Year is another award in TNA given to the knockout who achieved the most or had the best run that year.[7] The most recent Knockout of the Year was Gail Kim in 2007;[7]
no award has been given out since.

On the August 20, 2009 episode of

Lauren announced that TNA were planning to host an eight-team single elimination tag team tournament to crown the first TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions.[8] The tournament began on the following Impact! and continued on for four weeks, concluding on September 20 at TNA's No Surrender PPV event. There, the team of Sarita and Taylor Wilde defeated The Beautiful People (Madison Rayne and Velvet Sky) to become the first champions.[9] Two DVDs on the topic of the TNA Knockouts have been released by TNA. The first was named Knockouts: The Ladies of TNA Wrestling Vol.1 and was released on August 29, 2006.[10] Knocked Out: The Women of TNA Wrestling was the second, released on October 7, 2008.[11]

Creation

TNA first announced in early September 2007 through their TNA Mobile service that they planned to start an official women's division and debut a women's title soon.

Roxxi Laveaux, Talia Madison, Shelly Martinez, Jackie Moore, ODB, and Angel Williams to become the first champion.[1][15]
The championship was renamed in 2008 to the TNA Women's Knockout Championship until 2010 when it became simply known as the TNA Knockouts Championship.

Championship Tournament(s)

Impact Knockouts Championship Tournament (2017)

On November 23, 2017, it was announced after Gail Kim

Impact Knockouts Championship that it would be a 6-Women tournament to determine who would be the new Knockouts Champion where two triple threat matches will happen and one finals.[16][17][18][19]

Semifinals Finals
    
Laurel Van Ness Pin
Madison Rayne & KC Spinelli N/A[20]
Laurel Van Ness Pin
Rosemary N/A[22]
Sienna & Allie N/A[21]
Rosemary Pin

Championship belt designs

  • The original design of the Knockouts Championship
    The original design of the Knockouts Championship
  • The 2015 design of the Knockouts Championship with the inaugural, record seven-time Knockouts Champion and inaugural female Impact Hall of Famer Gail Kim.
    The 2015 design of the Knockouts Championship with the inaugural, record seven-time Knockouts Champion and inaugural female
    Impact Hall of Famer Gail Kim
    .
  • The 2017 design of the Knockouts Championship with Gail Kim.
    The 2017 design of the Knockouts Championship with Gail Kim.
  • The 2020 design of the title.
    The 2020 design of the title.

During the championship's history, the belt has had four designs. Its first design featured a white leather strap that is covered with two small gold plates that are encrusted with silver. In the center of each plate stands a figure resembling a globe made out of gold. On the outer edge of the plate are red gems, which circle the entire plate. The center golden plate of the belt has TNA's official logo engraved in the very center with the word "Womens" [sic] above it and the word "Champion" below it. At the very top of the center plate is a queen's crown. The word "Knockout" does not appear anywhere on the belt.

At the end of December 2014, TNA uploaded a photo on their Instagram account, in which the Knockouts Championship has a new design, replacing the white strap with a black strap, with the red color scheme changed to blue to coincide with the company's color scheme and the plates are now fully gold thus the encrusted silver is removed. As with the previous belt, the word "Knockout" does not appear on the belt, despite its current name.[23]

After

Slammiversary XV, the Impact Knockouts Championship and the GFW Women's Championship were carried together, with the unified championship representing the lineage of the Impact Knockouts Championship. At Destination X 2017, a recoloured version of the former GFW Women's Championship was created to represent the championship.[N 1] This belt was later modified to cover the GFW logo with an Impact Wrestling logo. At Redemption
, Impact revealed new championships. The Main plate has Impact Wrestling logo with the "Knockouts Champion" below the logo. On each side of the center plate is a group of four smaller silver plates, with each side featuring separate circular owl symbol and a "KO" Symbol. In 2020, a new belt was made, with red being the dominant color.

Reigns

Main article: List of TNA Knockouts World Champions
Three-time and current champion Jordynne Grace

As of April 27, 2024, there have been 64 reigns shared between 26 wrestlers. The inaugural champion was

Gauntlet for the Gold match on October 24, 2007, at TNA's Bound for Glory PPV event. She also holds the record for the most reigns, with seven. Kim also holds the record for shortest reign in the title's history, during her seventh reign at 25 hours, while Taya Valkyrie
's reign holds the record for longest in the title's history, with 377 days.

Jordynne Grace is the current champion in her third reign. She defeated Trinity on January 13, 2024, at Hard To Kill in Paradise, Nevada to win the title.

Notes

  1. TNA Wrestling
    aka Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and the January 2024 design of the title is similar to the original design of the TNA Knockouts title but belt and plates plus side plates slightly taller with two extra side plates (one on each side) and without a crown at the top of the title.

See also

References

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  16. ^ Zee, Dino. "Crowning a New Knockouts Queen". 411Mania.com. Retrieved November 30, 2017.
  17. ^ "Laurel Van Ness vs. Madison Rayne vs KC Spinelli". Facebook.com. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
  18. ^ "Allie vs. Rosemary vs. Sienna Knockouts Tournament 3-Way | #IMPACTICYMI Dec. 7th, 2017". YouTube.com. Archived from the original on October 30, 2020. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
  19. ^ "Laurel Van Ness NEW KNOCKOUTS CHAMPION!!! | #IMPACTICYMI Dec. 14th, 2017". YouTube.com. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
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  21. ^ "Allie vs. Rosemary vs. Sienna Knockouts Tournament 3-Way | #IMPACTICYMI Dec. 7th, 2017". YouTube.com. Archived from the original on October 30, 2020. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
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