TNA World Tag Team Championship

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TNA World Tag Team Championship
A black leather strap decorated with gold and sliver plaques.
The TNA World Tag Team Championship
(May 2007 — Present)
Details
Current champion(s) The British Invasion (Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams)[1][2]
Date won October 18, 2009
Promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Date established May 17, 2007[3]

The TNA World Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship owned by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion. It is primarily contested within TNA's tag team division. It was created and debuted on May 14, 2007 at the taping of TNA's primary television program, TNA Impact!.[4] It was officially introduced worldwide on the May 17, 2007 edition of TNA's online podcast TNA Today.[3]

Title reigns are determined either by professional wrestling matches between wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines, or by scripted circumstances. Wrestlers are portrayed as either villains or heroes as they follow a series of tension-building events, which culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches for the championship. Title changes that happen on episodes of Impact! air on television two to nine days from the date the match was taped. There have been a total of 14 reigns shared between 21 wrestlers and 11 teams.[2] The current champions are The British Invasion (Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams), who are in their first reign as champions.[1]

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[edit] History

The Total Nonstop Action Wrestling promotion formed in May 2002.[5] Later that same year TNA were granted control over the NWA World Heavyweight and World Tag Team Championships by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) governing body; subsequently becoming an official NWA territory as NWA–TNA.[6] On June 19, 2002, NWA–TNA held its first show; a weekly pay-per-view (PPV) event.[7] The main event of the telecast was a twenty–man Gauntlet for the Gold match—involves all twenty men trying to throw each other over the top rope and down to the floor in order to eliminate them, until there is two men left who wrestle a standard match—to become the first ever TNA–era NWA World Heavyweight Champion.[7] Ken Shamrock defeated Malice to win the vacant championship with Ricky Steamboat as Special Guest Referee at the event.[7] TNA crowned the first TNA–era NWA World Tag Team Champions at their third weekly PPV event on July 3, 2002, when the team of A.J. Styles and Jerry Lynn defeated The Rainbow Express (Bruce and Lenny Lane) in a tournament final to win the championship.[8]

[edit] Creation

A black leather strap decorated with gold and sliver plaques.
A close-up of the center plate of the current design of the TNA World Tag Team Championship

The NWA World Heavyweight and World Tag Team Championships were contested for in TNA until the morning of May 13, 2007.[6] On that day, NWA's Executive Director Robert Trobich announced that the NWA were ending their five–year agreement with TNA, which had allowed them full control over both titles.[6] Trobich went on to state that effective that morning, then-NWA World Heavyweight Champion Christian Cage and the Team 3D pairing of Brother Ray and Brother Devon, then-NWA World Tag Team Champions, were stripped of their respective championships.[6] The motivation behind these actions was because Cage refused to defend the NWA World Heavyweight Championship against wrestlers from NWA territories.[6] That same day, TNA were scheduled to produce their Sacrifice 2007 PPV event, in which both Cage and Team 3D were to defend their respective championships.[9] On the card, Cage was scheduled to defend the NWA World Heavyweight Championship against Kurt Angle and Sting in a match involving three competitors, also known as a Three Way match.[9] Team 3D were set to defend the NWA World Tag Team Championship against the team of Scott Steiner and Tomko and the team made up of Homicide and Hernandez, who were known as The Latin American Xchange (LAX), in another Three Way match.[9]

That night before each contest, the onscreen graphic used to refer to the champions and their respective championships, credited both Cage and Team 3D as still being NWA Champions.[10] However, the ring announcers for the encounters proclaimed the matches as being strictly for the "World Heavyweight Championship" or the "World Tag Team Championship".[10] Team 3D defeated Steiner and Tomko and LAX in the first Three Way championship bout to retain the "World Tag Team Championship".[11] In the second Three Way championship encounter, Angle defeated Cage and Sting to win the "World Heavyweight Championship".[11]

On May 17, 2007, Jeremy Borash and TNA's primary authority figure at the time, Jim Cornette, unveiled the TNA World Tag Team Championship belt on that day's edition of TNA's online podcast TNA Today and awarded it to Team 3D; in the process making them the first official champions.[2][3]

[edit] Reigns

Main article: List of TNA World Tag Team Champions

The inaugural champions were Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray), who were awarded the championship on the May 17, 2007 edition of TNA Today.[2][3] At 184 days, A.J. Styles and Tomko (A.J. Styles and Tomko)'s only reign is the longest in the title's history.[2] Eric Young/Super Eric's and Kaz's only reign holds the record for shortest reign in the title's history at less than one day.[2] Beer Money, Inc. (Robert Roode and James Storm) hold the record for most reigns, with three.[2] Roode and Storm are tied for most reigns by a single competitor, with three a piece.[2] As of December 2009, The British Invasion (Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams) are the current champions in their first reign.[1][2] They defeated The Main Event Mafia (Booker T and Scott Steiner), Beer Money, Inc., and Team 3D in a four way Full Metal Mayhem Tag Team match on October 18, 2009 at TNA's Bound for Glory PPV event. Although the title is a World Tag Team Championship, supposedly only intended for tag teams, two different wrestlers have held the championship by themselves—Samoa Joe and Kurt Angle.[12] Joe held the championship during his entire reign alone; however, Angle held the championship alone for 15 days until Sting won a match involving three other competitors to become Angle's partner.[2] Overall, there have been 14 reigns shared between 21 wrestlers and 11 teams.[2]

[edit] See also

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c "Current Champions List at TNAWrestling.com". TNAWrestling.com. http://www.tnawrestling.com/content/blogsection/5/37/. Retrieved 2009-06-03. 
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Oliver, Earl. "TNA World Tag Team Championship reign history". Solie.org. http://solie.org/titlehistories/wttnaction.html. Retrieved 2009-06-03. 
  3. ^ a b c d 5/17 Edition Of TNA Today - New Tag Team Titles. Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. 17. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lg4i2C6zws&feature=player_embedded. Retrieved 2009-06-03. 
  4. ^ Caldwell, James (2007-05-18). "Caldwell's TNA Impact report /17: Angle-Rhino, Daniels-Raven, blood, Gore, and Stomper". PW Torch.com. http://pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/TV_Reports_9/article_20292.shtml. Retrieved 2009-06-03. 
  5. ^ Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. TNA Wrestling: Year One. TNA Home Video. 
  6. ^ a b c d e "NWA/Trobich strips TNA/Cage/Team 3D of NWA branded Championships". National Wrestling Alliance. http://revver.com/video/267425/nwatmtrobich-strips-tnacageteam-3-d-of-nwatm-branded-championships/. Retrieved 2009-05-20. 
  7. ^ a b c Martin, Adam. "Full NWA-TNA pay per view results - 6/19/02". WrestleView.com. http://www.wrestleview.com/messages1/1971.shtml. Retrieved 2009-06-12. 
  8. ^ Martin, Adam. "Full NWA-TNA pay per view results - 7/3/02". WrestleView.com. http://www.wrestleview.com/messages1/2063.shtml. Retrieved 2009-07-13. 
  9. ^ a b c Martin, Adam (2007-05-13). "Complete match order for tonight's TNA Sacrifice PPV in Orlando, Florida". WrestleView.com. http://www.wrestleview.com/news2006/1179085740.shtml. Retrieved 2009-07-08. 
  10. ^ a b "Total Nonstop Action Wrestling presents: Sacrifice (2007)". TNA Sacrifice. In Demand. 2007-05-13.
  11. ^ a b Sokol, Chris (2007-05-14). "World title picture muddied after good Sacrifice". Slam Sports: Wrestling. Canadian Online Explorer. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/PPVReports/2007/05/14/4178802.html. Retrieved 2009-05-20. 
  12. ^ "TNA World Tag Team Championship history". TNA Wrestling.com. 2007-09-28. http://www.tnawrestling.com/content/view/218/84/. Retrieved 2009-06-03. 

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