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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 (

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, and

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). 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 ''

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''. Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won via the result of a scripted match. Sarita and

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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

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, with a tournament to award the revived championships taking place. On January 16, 2021, the tournament finals were won by

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(

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and Tasha Steelz) 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

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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

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winning a 10 knockout gauntlet match to become the first

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. On the August 20, 2009 episode of ''Impact!'', backstage interviewer Lauren, who was standing with and about to interview

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, Tara,

, 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

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consisting of Hemme,

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, Sarita, and

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, TNA commentators

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and Taz announced that the tournament would began on the August 27 episode of ''Impact!''. The first champions were crowned at No Surrender, 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

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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,

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

pay-per-view in January 16, 2021. At the event, Fire N Flava (

and Tasha Steelz) 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,

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, 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

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) *

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and Sarita *

and Tara *

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and Miss Tessmacher *

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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 (

, and

) 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 (

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and

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) on October 7, 2022 in

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at Bound for Glory to win the titles, with Rosemary also recognized as champion under the

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Notes

References

External links

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