Shimmer Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||||
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Promotion | Shimmer Women Athletes | ||||||||||||
Date established | August 7, 2008 | ||||||||||||
Date retired | November 1, 2021 | ||||||||||||
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The Shimmer Tag Team Championship (stylized as SHIMMER Tag Team Championship) is a professional wrestling tag team championship in Shimmer Women Athletes. The title is recognized nationally by Ring of Honor, and also by several independent promotions, including American Luchacore, Insanity Pro Wrestling and Shine Wrestling, where it has also been defended. It has also been defended in Japan at Joshi 4 Hope independent events.
Since the creation of the Shimmer Championship, there was a growing interest in creating a Shimmer Tag Team Championship. This was stemmed from a growing number of teams such as The Experience and The Minnesota Home Wrecking Crew, and frequent tag team matches on the cards of Shimmer events. In October 2008, the first champions were crowned when the duo of Ashley Lane and Nevaeh won a Gauntlet Match involving six teams at Shimmer Volume 21. [1]
No. | Overall reign number |
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Reign | Reign number for the specific team—reign numbers for the individuals are in parentheses, if different |
Days | Number of days held |
Defenses | Number of successful defenses |
+ | Current reign is changing daily |
No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||||
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Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Defenses | |||||
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1 | Ashley Lane and Nevaeh | October 19, 2008 | Volume 21 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 196 | 6 [2] | Nevaeh and Rayne defeated The Experience (Lexie Fyfe and Malia Hosaka) in a six–team Gauntlet match to become the inaugural champions. | [1] | |
2 | The Canadian NINJAs (Nicole Matthews and Portia Perez) | May 3, 2009 | Volume 26 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 692 | 5 [2] | [3] | ||
3 | Seven Star Sisters (Hiroyo Matsumoto and Misaki Ohata) | March 26, 2011 | Volume 37 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 1 | 2 [2] | [4] | ||
4 | Daizee Haze and Tomoka Nakagawa | March 27, 2011 | Volume 40 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 188 | 2 [2] | [4] | ||
5 | Ayako Hamada and Ayumi Kurihara | October 1, 2011 | Volume 41 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 169 | 6 [2] | During the year 2011 the title stopped being defended & featured in Ring of Honor and in 2014 the company permanently stopped their partnership with Ring of Honor. | [5] | |
Shimmer Women Athletes | ||||||||||
6 | The Queens of Winning (Courtney Rush and Sara Del Rey) | March 18, 2012 | Volume 48 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 111 | 0 [2] | This was a four corners tag team elimination match, also involving The Canadian NINJAs (Nicole Matthews and Portia Perez) and Regeneration X (Allison Danger and Leva Bates). | [6] | |
7 | The Canadian NINJAs (Nicole Matthews and Portia Perez) | July 7, 2012 | NCW Femmes Fatales IX | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 2 | 281 | 5 [2] | [7] | ||
8 | Global Green Gangsters (Kellie Skater and Tomoka Nakagawa) | April 14, 2013 | Volume 57 | Berwyn, IL | 1 (1, 2) | 727 | 13 [2] | This was a No Disqualification match. | [8] | |
9 | The Kimber Bombs (Cherry Bomb and Kimber Lee) | April 11, 2015 | Volume 72 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 442 | 5 [2] | [9] | ||
10 | Team Slap Happy (Evie and Heidi Lovelace) | June 26, 2016 | Volume 84 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 140 | 3 [2] | This was a four corners tag team elimination match, also involving BaleSpin (K. C. Spinelli and Xandra Bale) and Fly High WDSS (Kay Lee Ray and Mia Yim). | [10] | |
11 | Mount Tessa (Tessa Blanchard and Vanessa Kraven) | November 13, 2016 | Volume 89 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 363 | 6 [2] | [11] | ||
12 | Totally Tubular Tag Team (Delilah Doom and Leva Bates) | November 11, 2017 | Volume 97 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 344 | 6 [2] | [12] | ||
13 | Cheerleader Melissa and Mercedes Martinez | October 21, 2018 | Volume 107 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 377 | 4 [2] | This was a four-way tag team elimination match also involving The Blue Nation (Charli Evans and Jessica Troy) and The Killer Death Machines (Jessicka Havok and Nevaeh). | [13] | |
14 | Team Sea Stars (Ashley Vox and Delmi Exo) | November 2, 2019 | Volume 115 | Berwyn, IL | 1 | 730 | 5 [2] | [ citation needed ] | ||
— | Deactivated | November 1, 2021 | — | — | — | — | — | On November 1, 2021 this title became deactivated. |
As of June4, 2024
† | Indicates the current champion |
Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined defenses | Combined days |
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1 | Canadian NINJAs (Nicole Matthews and Portia Perez) | 2 | 10 | 973 |
2 | Team Sea Stars (Ashley Vox and Delmi Exo) | 1 | 5 | 730 |
3 | Global Green Gangsters (Kellie Skater and Tomoka Nakagawa) | 1 | 13 | 727 |
4 | The Kimber Bombs (Cherry Bomb and Kimber Lee) | 1 | 5 | 442 |
5 | Cheerleader Melissa and Mercedes Martinez | 1 | 4 | 377 |
6 | Mount Tessa (Tessa Blanchard and Vanessa Kraven) | 1 | 6 | 363 |
7 | Totally Tubular Tag Team (Delilah Doom and Leva Bates) | 1 | 5 | 344 |
8 | Ashley Lane and Nevaeh | 1 | 6 | 196 |
9 | Daizee Haze and Tomoka Nakagawa | 1 | 1 | 188 |
10 | Ayako Hamada and Ayumi Kurihara | 1 | 6 | 169 |
11 | Team Slap Happy (Evie and Heidi Lovelace) | 1 | 3 | 140 |
12 | The Queens of Winning (Courtney Rush and Sara Del Rey) | 1 | 0 | 111 |
13 | Seven Star Sisters (Hiroyo Matsumoto and Misaki Ohata) | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined defenses | Combined days |
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1 | Nicole Matthews | 2 | 10 | 973 |
Portia Perez | 2 | 10 | 973 | |
4 | Ashley Vox | 1 | 5 | 730 |
Delmi Exo | 1 | 5 | 730 | |
5 | Kellie Skater | 1 | 13 | 727 |
6 | Tomoka Nakagawa | 2 | 14 | 915 |
7 | Cherry Bomb | 1 | 5 | 442 |
Kimber Lee | 1 | 5 | 442 | |
9 | Cheerleader Melissa | 1 | 4 | 377 |
Mercedes Martinez | 1 | 4 | 377 | |
11 | Tessa Blanchard | 1 | 5 | 363 |
Vanessa Kraven | 1 | 5 | 363 | |
13 | Delilah Doom | 1 | 6 | 344 |
Leva Bates | 1 | 6 | 344 | |
15 | Ashley Lane | 1 | 6 | 196 |
Nevaeh | 1 | 6 | 196 | |
17 | Daizee Haze | 1 | 1 | 188 |
18 | Ayako Hamada | 1 | 7 | 169 |
Ayumi Kurihara | 1 | 7 | 169 | |
20 | Evie | 1 | 3 | 140 |
Heidi Lovelace | 1 | 3 | 140 | |
22 | Courtney Rush | 1 | 0 | 111 |
Sara Del Rey | 1 | 0 | 111 | |
24 | Hiroyo Matsumoto | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Misaki Ohata | 1 | 2 | 1 |
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