TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship

The TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling women's tag team championship owned by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion. It is contested for exclusively by teams consisting of two female wrestlers in TNA, known as knockouts, in TNA's women's division. It and the TNA Women's Knockout Championship are the only women's championships contested for in TNA.

The creation of the championship was announced on August 20, 2009 during a backstage segment on TNA's primary television program TNA Impact!.[2] Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won via the result of a scripted match. Sarita and Taylor Wilde were the inaugural champions. They won a four week tournament to crown the first champions. The current champions are Awesome Kong and Hamada, who are in their first reign.

Championship Tournament
A close-up on the plates of the TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship beltOn the August 20, 2009 episode of Impact!, backstage interviewer Lauren, who was standing with and about to interview Christy Hemme, Tara, Taylor Wilde, and Sarita, announced that TNA were planning to host an eight-team single elimination tag team tournament to crown the first-ever TNA Knockout Tag Team Champions.[9] After a four-way match consisting of Hemme, Traci Brooks, Sarita, and Awesome Kong, TNA commentators Mike Tenay and Taz announced that the first round match of the tournament would take place on the August 27 episode of Impact! with Kong and Raisha Saeed facing Brooks and Sharmell.[9] [10] Kong and Saeed wound up winning the match, and moving to the next round of the tournament.[11] On the September 3 episode of Impact!, the team of Tara and Hemme defeated the team of Hamada and Sojournor Bolt to move onto round two of the tournament.[12] The next week on Impact!, the team of Sarita and Taylor Wilde defeated Daffney and Alissa Flash to also advance to round two.[13] Later in that same episode, Angelina Love and Velvet Sky (collectively known as The Beautiful People) defeated the team of Madison Rayne and Roxxi.[14] Round two began on the September 17 episode of Impact!, with the encounters of Kong and Saeed versus Sarita and Wilde and The Beautiful People versus Tara and Hemme. The first bout pitted Tara and Hemme against The Beautiful People, with the latter being victorious.[15] Wilde and Sarita won the second encounter over Kong and Saeed.[16] The finals for the tournament were then set for TNA's No Surrender PPV event, with The Beautiful People versus Sarita and Wilde.[17] Sarita and Wilde defeated Madison Rayne, a substitute for Angelina Love who had been released prior to the event from her contract, and Velvet Sky (also collectively known as The Beautiful People) on September 20 at No Surrender to become the first official TNA Knockout Tag Team Champions.[18]
 * Tournament Bracket

Belt designs
The actual physical title belts were first shown at No Surrender. The titles introduced have a red strap with two small gold plates and one large gold plate. In the center of each plate stands a figure resembling a globe made out of gold. On the outer edge of the plate are red gems, which circle the entire plate. The center golden plate of the belt has TNA's official logo engraved in the very center with the word "Knockouts Tag Team" above it and the words "Wrestling Champion" below.[N 2]

Reigns
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 Knockout Tag Team Champions.[18] At 106 days, Sarita and Wilde's only reign is the longest in the title's history. The shortest reign in the title's history marks in at 22 days. As of January 2010, the team of Awesome Kong and Hamada are the current champions in their first reign.[1] Overall, there have been 2 reigns shared between 4 wrestlers and 2 teams.

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1. Taylor Wilde and Sarita def. The Beautiful People (Madison Rayne and Velvet Sky) in the finals of an eight-team tournament to crown the first Champions with a springboard dropkick/german suplex combination.

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'''2. Awesome Kong and Hamada def. Sarita and Taylor with a missile dropkick/sitout powerbomb combination. ''' __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________