TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship The TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling women ' s tag team championship owned by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( TNA ) promotion . It was contested for exclusively by teams consisting of two female wrestlers in TNA , known as knockouts , in TNA ' s women ' s division . While active , it and the TNA Women ' s Knockout Championship were 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 ! " . Sarita and Taylor Wilde were the inaugural champions . They won a four week tournament to crown the first champions . The final champions were ODB and Eric Young , who held the titles for a record 478 days . On the June 20 , 2013 episode of Impact Wrestling , Knockouts Division Executive Brooke Hogan stripped ODB and Young of the title due to the fact that Young is male . This ultimately resulted in the titles being deactivated , as it ' s no longer listed among TNA ' s active championships . History . Championship Tournament . On 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 Knockouts Tag Team Champions . 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 . Kong and Saeed wound up winning the match , and moving to the next round of the tournament . On the September 3 episode of " Impact ! " , the team of Hemme and Tara defeated the team of Hamada and Sojournor Bolt to move onto round two of the tournament . The next week on " Impact ! " , the team of Sarita and Taylor Wilde defeated Alissa Flash and Daffney to also advance to round two . Later in that same episode , Angelina Love and Velvet Sky ( collectively known as The Beautiful People defeated the team of Madison Rayne and Roxxi . 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 Hemme and Tara . The first bout pitted Hemme and Tara against The Beautiful People , with the latter being victorious . Sarita and Wilde won the second encounter over Kong and Saeed . The finals for the tournament were then set for TNA ' s No Surrender PPV event , with The Beautiful People versus Sarita and Wilde . Sarita and Wilde defeated Madison Rayne , a substitute for Angelina Love who had been released from her contract prior to the event , and Velvet Sky ( also collectively known as The Beautiful People ) on September 20 at No Surrender to become the first official TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions . Belt designs . The actual physical title belts were first shown at No Surrender . The belts 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 words " Knockouts Tag Team " above it and the words " Wrestling Champion " below . 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 Knockouts Tag Team Champions . At 478 days , Eric Young and ODB hold the record for the longest reign in the title ' s history . Awesome Kong ' s and Hamada ' s only reign holds the record for the shortest reign in the title ' s history at 63 days . As of June 27 , 2013 , the championships are retired due to TNA not having enough female talent for a tag team division .