The TNA World Tag Team Championship is a men's

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which is owned by the

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(TNA)

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. The current champions are The Nemeth Brothers (

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and

Ryan Nemeth Ryan Nemeth (born November 4, 1984) is an American professional wrestler, writer, actor, and comedian. As a wrestler, he is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he performs under his real name, and is one-half of the TNA World Ta ...

), who are in their first reign as a team and individually. The TNA World Tag Team Championship was created and debuted on May 14, 2007, at the taping of TNA's primary television program, ''

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''. It was officially introduced worldwide on the May 17, 2007, edition of TNA's online

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''. Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a pre-determined match.

History

The Total Nonstop Action Wrestling promotion formed in May 2002. Later that same year, TNA were granted control over the NWA World Heavyweight and World Tag Team Championships by the

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(NWA) governing body, subsequently becoming an official NWA

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as NWA–TNA. On June 19, 2002, NWA–TNA held its first show: a weekly pay-per-view (PPV)

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. The

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of the telecast was a twenty–man

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match—involving all twenty men trying to throw each other over the top rope and down to the floor in order to eliminate them, until there are two men left who wrestle a standard match—to become the first ever TNA–era NWA World Heavyweight Champion.

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defeated Malice to win the vacant championship with

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at the event. 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

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and

Jerry Lynn Jeremy Lynn (born June 12, 1963), better known by the ring name Jerry Lynn, is an American retired professional wrestler signed with All Elite Wrestling as a producer and coach. Lynn has worked for professional wrestling promotion, promotions ...

defeated The Rainbow Express (

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and

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) in a tournament final to win the championship.

Creation

The NWA World Heavyweight and World Tag Team Championships were contested for in TNA until the morning of May 13, 2007. 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. Trobich went on to state that effective that morning, then-NWA World Heavyweight Champion

Christian Cage William Jason Reso (born November 30, 1973) is a Canadian Professional wrestling, professional wrestler and actor. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he performs under the ring name Christian Cage and is the leader of The Patriarch ...

and the

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pairing of

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and Brother Ray, then-NWA World Tag Team Champions, were stripped of their respective championships. The motivation behind these actions was that Cage refused to defend the NWA World Heavyweight Championship against wrestlers from NWA territories. 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. On the

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, Cage was scheduled to defend the NWA World Heavyweight Championship against

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and

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in a

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. Team 3D were set to defend the NWA World Tag Team Championship against the team of

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and Tomko and the team made up of Hernandez and

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, who were known as

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(LAX), in another three-way match. That night before each contest, the on-screen graphic used to refer to the champions and their respective championships, credited both Cage and Team 3D as still being NWA Champions. Team 3D defeated Steiner and Tomko and LAX in the three-way tag team match to retain the "World Tag Team Championship", while Angle defeated Cage and Sting to win the "World Heavyweight Championship". On May 17, 2007,

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and TNA's primary authority figure at the time,

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, unveiled the TNA World Tag Team Championship belt on that day's edition of TNA's online

'' and awarded it to Team 3D as a result of them being the NWA Tag Team Champions before the NWA/TNA split; in the process making them the first official champions.

Championship Tournaments

TNA World Tag Team Championship Tournament (2015)

Between March 14 and March 16, 2015 episodes of ''

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'' a tournament was held to crown new TNA World Tag Team Champions.

Impact World Tag Team Championship #1 Contendership Tournament (2023)

On August 2, 2023 a new four man tag team tournament was announced where the winners will face

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( Mark Andrews and

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) (with their female valet

Dani Luna Chloe Smyth (born 2 March 1999), known under the ring name Dani Luna, is an English professional wrestler who is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and is a two-time TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Champion with Jody Threat. She also wr ...

in their corner) for the

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s at Impact Pay-per-view

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of year 2023.

Championship belt designs

File:Austin Aries 2013.jpg, The original 2007 design of the TNA World Tag Team Championship belts, with

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. The North with Impact belts-1a.jpg, The 2019 design of the Impact World Tag Team Championships with

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, it had a leather strap covered with four small gold plates that has an imprint of the

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centered in the middle with TNA's official logo at the top of each. The center golden plate of the belt also has an imprint of a globe, with TNA's official logo engraved over it. The words "World Tag Team" are placed above the globe, while the words "Wrestling Champion" are placed below it. At Destination X 2017, a recolored version of the GFW Tag Team Championships from the original promotion was revealed as the new tag team championships. The main plate had the Global Force Wrestling logo to the left and the words "Tag Team Champions" centered on the bottom of the belt. The top of the main plate had a globe, with a bird below it. The side plates had the words "Tag Team" on the top and "Champions" on the bottom, with the ''

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'' logo on the left side plate and the GFW logo on the right side plate. After Jeff Jarrett left the company and took the GFW name with him, all championships have been updated with an Impact Wrestling logo to cover the GFW logo. At Redemption on April 22, 2018, Impact revealed new championships. The main plate is oblong, similar to the

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. It has the Impact logo at a diagonal angle centered between the words "Tag Team" on the top and "Champion" on the bottom. It features two designs of an owl above and below the words. At Hard to Kill on January 13, 2024, new championships were used for the first time as part of Impact Wrestling's rebrand to return to being TNA Wrestling. The new belts had actually been presented to the reigning champs, the ABC (Ace Austin and Chris Bey) on social media in the days leading up to the PPV.

Reigns

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''. At days, The North's (

and

) reign is the longest in the title's history. Eric Young/Super Eric and Kaz's only reign holds the record for shortest reign in the title's history at a half day. Individually, James Storm holds the record with seven reigns, while Beer Money and The Wolves (

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and Eddie Edwards) share the record of five reigns as a team. Although the title is a

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, three wrestlers have held the championship by themselves — Samoa Joe, Kurt Angle, and Matt Morgan. Joe held the championship during his entire reign alone; however, Angle held the championship alone for 15 days until

won a match involving three other competitors to become Angle's partner, and Morgan held the title after turning on and (

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) injuring his tag team championship partner Hernandez. Overall, there have been 73 reigns shared between 73 wrestlers and 48 teams. The current champions are The Nemeth Brothers (

and

), who are in their first reign as a team. They defeated

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(

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and

Matt Hardy Matthew Moore Hardy (born September 23, 1974) is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler and actor. He is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he a former List of TNA World Tag Team Champions, three time TNA Wor ...

) on April 27, 2025 at

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to win the titles.

References

External links

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