List of TNA World Tag Team Champions

Current champions The System (Brian Myers (left) and Eddie Edwards (right)).

The TNA World Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling championship contested for in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's (TNA) tag team division. After the formation of TNA in June 2002, the company executives signed a contractual agreement with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) that allowed them control of the NWA World Heavyweight and World Tag Team Championships.[1] TNA subsequently changed their name to NWA–TNA, making them an official member of the NWA in the process. In May 2007, the NWA ended their five-year partnership with TNA, and thus regained control of the NWA World Heavyweight and World Tag Team Championships.[1] As a result, TNA created the TNA World Heavyweight and World Tag Team Championships, which were unveiled on TNA's online podcast TNA Today on the May 15 and May 17, 2007 editions.[2][3] In the respective editions, the championships were awarded to the last NWA champions under TNA banner by Jeremy Borash and TNA's primary authority figure Jim Cornette. The championship was officially presented to the public and awarded to the first official champions, Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray), on May 17.[3] The championship was renamed to its original names in January 2024 when the promotion returned to the TNA banner.

Title reigns are determined either by professional wrestling matches between different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines, or by scripted circumstances. Wrestlers were portrayed as either villains or heroes as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches for the championship. Reigns that were won on episodes of TNA's primary television program, TNA Impact!, aired on television two to nine days from the date the match was taped. The inaugural champions were Team 3D, who were awarded the championship by being the last NWA World Tag Team Champions under TNA banner. The Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) and Beer Money, Inc. (Bobby Roode and James Storm) hold the record for most reigns as a team, with five. The longest reign as of July 2020 is 380 days by The North (Ethan Page and Josh Alexander), who set the record in their first reign.

Although the title is a World Tag Team Championship, supposedly only intended for tag teams, three different wrestlers have held the championship by themselves—Samoa Joe, Kurt Angle and Matt Morgan.[4] 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 and Morgan held the championship after (kayfabe) injuring his championship partner. Overall, there have been 68 reigns shared between 71 wrestlers and 45 teams. The current champions are The System (Brian Myers and Eddie Edwards), who are in their first reign as a team. Individually, this is Myers's second reign and Edwards' sixth reign.

  1. ^ a b "NWA/Trobich strips TNA/Cage/Team 3D of NWA branded Championships". National Wrestling Alliance. Archived from the original on 2009-05-24. Retrieved 2009-03-21.
  2. ^ The 5/15 "TNA Today" - New World Title revealed!. Total Nonstop Action. YouTube. 2007-05-15. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 2009-04-08.
  3. ^ a b 5/17 Edition Of TNA Today - New Tag Team Titles. Total Nonstop Action. YouTube. 2007-05-17. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 2009-04-08.
  4. ^ "TNA World Tag Team Championship history". Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. TNA Wrestling.com. 2007-09-28. Archived from the original on 2010-03-07. Retrieved 2009-04-05.