Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Championship

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TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Championship
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The Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Championship belts
(2020–2024)
Details
Promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA)
Date establishedAugust 20, 2009
Current champion(s)MK Ultra
(Killer Kelly and Masha Slamovich)
Date wonJuly 15, 2023
Other name(s)
  • TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship
    (2009–2013)
  • Impact Knockouts Tag Team Championship
    (2020)
  • Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Championship
    (2020–2024)
  • TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Championship
    (2024–)
Statistics
First champion(s) Sarita and Taylor Wilde
Most reignsAs tag team (2 reigns):

As individual (3 reigns):

Longest reign Eric Young and ODB
(1st Reign, 478 days)
Shortest reign Jordynne Grace and Rachael Ellering
(1st Reign, 20 days)
Oldest champion Tara
(40 years, 152 days)
Youngest champion Rosita
(20 years, 76 days)
Heaviest champion Decay
(Havok and Rosemary)
(414 pounds (188 kg) combined)
Lightest champion Mexican America
(Rosita and Sarita )
(226 pounds (103 kg) combined)

The TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Championship is a women's professional wrestling tag team championship owned by the professional wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. It is contested for mainly by teams consisting of two female wrestlers in Impact Wrestling, known as the TNA Knockouts, in Impact's women's division; however, the championship was once held by a male. The current champions are Killer Kelly and Masha Slamovich, who are in their first reign.

Contents

The creation of the championship was announced on August 20, 2009 during a backstage segment on Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's (TNA), now Impact Wrestling'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

Impact Knockout (formerly TNA Knockout), or just Knockout for short, is the term used by Impact Wrestling (formerly TNA's Total Nonstop Action Wrestling) to refer to its onscreen female employees; this is similar to World Wrestling Entertainment and the Divas pseudonym they then used. [2] In October 2007 at TNA's Bound for Glory PPV event, TNA established their first women's championship, with Gail Kim winning a 10 knockout gauntlet match to become the first TNA Women's Knockout Champion. [3]

On the August 20, 2009 episode of Impact!, backstage interviewer Lauren, who was standing with and about to interview Christy Hemme, Tara, Taylor Wilde, and Sarita, announced that TNA were planning to host an eight-team single elimination tag team tournament to crown the first-ever TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions. [4] After a four-way match consisting of Hemme, Traci Brooks, Sarita, and Awesome Kong, TNA commentators Mike Tenay and Taz announced that the tournament would began on the August 27 episode of Impact!. [4] [5] The first champions were crowned at No Surrender, where Sarita and Taylor Wilde defeated The Beautiful People. [6] [7]

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. On 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] [N 1] 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
The Main Event Mafia
(Sharmell and Traci Brooks)		3:00 [12]
Awesome Kong and Raisha Saeed 3:00 [13]
Sarita and Taylor WildePin
Sarita and Taylor Wilde Pin
Alissa Flash and Daffney 5:00 [14]
Sarita and Taylor WildePin
The Beautiful People (Velvet Sky and Madison Rayne*) 5:00 [7]
The Beautiful People
(Angelina Love and Velvet Sky)		Pin
Madison Rayne and Roxxi 3:00 [14]
The Beautiful PeoplePin
Christy Hemme and Tara 4:00 [13]
Hamada and 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 TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship, after one half of the previous champions, Hamada, had been released by the promotion, and set up a four–team tournament to determine new champions. [15] The finals of the tournament would take place on the December 23 edition of Impact!. [16]

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 NevaehPin
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 FlavaPin
Fire 'N Flava
(Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz)		Pin
Team Sea Stars
(Ashley Vox and Delmi Exo)		7:10 [19]
Fire 'N FlavaPin
Rosemary and Taya Valkyrie 7:58
Deonna Purrazzo and Kimber Lee 6:59
Rosemary and Taya Valkyrie Pin

Championship belt designs

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

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Current champions MK Ultra (Killer Kelly and Masha Slamovich).

As of December26, 2023, there have been 20 reigns shared between 30 wrestlers and 19 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.

MK Ultra (Killer Kelly and Masha Slamovich) are the current champions in their first reign as a team and individually. They defeated The Coven (KiLynn King and Taylor Wilde) on July 15, 2023 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada at Slammiversary. [21]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Ever since the KO Tag titles were established in 2009 the titles name was always called the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championships when the titles were revived in 2020 the titles name was changed again to the Impact Knockouts Tag Team Championship taking off the TNA prefix and changing it to the Impact prefix (a year prior to that the titles name was changed to the Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Championships).

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