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The Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Championship is a women's professional wrestling tag team championship owned by the
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. It is contested for mainly by teams consisting of two female wrestlers in Impact Wrestling, known as the Impact Knockouts, in Impact's women's division; however, the championship was once held by a male. The current champions are The Death Dollz ( Jessicka, Rosemary, and Taya Valkyrie). 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!''. Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won via the result of a scripted match. Sarita and
Taylor Wilde Shantelle Larissa Malawski (born January 26, 1986) is a Canadian professional wrestler. She is signed with Impact Wrestling, where she performs under the ring name Taylor Wilde. Malawski was under a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) contract fr ...
were the inaugural champions. They won a four-week tournament to crown the first champions. The longest reigning champions were
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and Eric Young, 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
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) at
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.


History

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(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. 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
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. On the August 20, 2009 episode of ''Impact!'', backstage interviewer
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, Tara,
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, 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. After a four-way match consisting of Hemme, Traci Brooks, Sarita, and Awesome Kong, TNA commentators Mike Tenay and
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announced that the tournament would began on the August 27 episode of ''Impact!''. The first champions were crowned at
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, where Sarita and Taylor Wilde defeated The Beautiful People. 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. On October 24, 2021 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.Eversince the KO Tag titles where 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 rechanged 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). 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
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pay-per-view in January 16, 2021. At the event, Fire N Flava ( Kiera Hogan and
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) defeated Havok and
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in the tournament final to win the revived titles.


Championship Tournaments


Inaugural championship tournament (2009)


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. The finals of the tournament would take place on the December 23 edition of ''Impact!''. Teams: * The Beautiful People (
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and Velvet Sky) * Daffney and Sarita * Madison Rayne and Tara *
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and Miss Tessmacher * Winter replaced Velvet Sky, who had been attacked backstage by Sarita.


Revival tournament (2020-2021)


Reigns

As of , , there have been 17 reigns shared between 27 wrestlers and 16 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. At 478 days, Eric Young and ODB hold the record for the longest reign in the title's history.
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'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. The Death Dollz ( Jessicka, Rosemary, and Taya Valkyrie) are the current champions in their first reign as a team. Individually, Rosemary is in her record tying third reign, while Jessicka and Valkyrie are each in their second. Jessicka and Valkyrie defeated VXT ( Chelsea Green and Deonna Purrazzo) on October 7, 2022 in Albany, New York at Bound for Glory to win the titles, with Rosemary also recognized as champion under the Freebird Rule.


See also

* Women's World Tag Team Championship


Notes


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External links


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