TnT TnT ( also referred to as Tara & Tessmacher ) was a professional wrestling tag team , consisting of Tara and Brooke Tessmacher . The team was working with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling . On July 21 , Tara and Ms . Tessmacher won the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship from Mexican America ( Rosita and Sarita ) . History . Total Nonstop Action Wrestling . TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions ( 2011 ) . At the tapings of the July 21 edition of " Impact Wrestling " , Tara and Miss . Tessmacher defeated Mexican America ( Rosita and Sarita ) to win the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship . With the win , Tara became one of six TNA Knockouts ( along with Angelina Love , Awesome Kong , Madison Rayne , Taylor Wilde and Gail Kim ) to have held both the Knockouts Championship and Knockouts Tag Team Championship . Tessmacher and Tara made their first title defense on August 7 at Hardcore Justice , defeating Mexican America in a rematch . On the September 29 edition of " Impact Wrestling " , Tara was defeated by her former partner Madison Rayne in a match to determine the third and final challenger for the Women ' s Knockout Championship at Bound for Glory . On October 20th edition of " Impact Wrestling " Tara and Tessmacher made their second title defence defeating Angelina Love and Winter . On the November 3 edition of " Impact Wrestling " , Tara and Tessmacher lost the Knockouts Tag Team Championship to Gail Kim and Madison Rayne . On the November 17 episode of " Impact Wrestling " , both members of TnT , competed in a gauntlet match to earn a title match with the new Women ' s Knockout Champion , Gail Kim , but were both eliminated . Brooke was eliminated by Velvet Sky and Tara was eliminated by Mickie James who would go on to win the gauntlet match . Pursuit of the TNA Women ' s Knockouts Championship ( 2012 ) . On the January 26 , 2012 edition of " Impact Wrestling " , Tara defeated Mickie James and Velvet Sky in a three - way match to earn a match for the Women ' s Knockout Championship . On February 12 at Against All Odds , Tara was unsuccessful in her title challenge against Gail Kim . On the April 5 episode of Impact Wrestling , Tara competed in a six - way match to become the number one contender to Gail Kim ' s Women ' s Knockout Championship also involving Velvet Sky , Angelina Love , Madison Rayne , Mickie James , and Winter , but the eventual winner was Sky . On the April 19th edition of " Impact Wrestling " , both members of TnT , competed in an 8 woman tag team match that saw TnT , Mickie James , and Velvet Sky against Gail Kim , Madison Rayne and Mexican America ( Rosita and Sarita ) where Brooke pinned Gail after Velvet stopped Gail from pinning Brooke with her feet on the ropes . The following week , Brooke challenged Gail to a match and won . On May 3rd , Brooke pinned Gail Kim again when she teamed up with Velvet Sky to take on Gail and Madison Rayne . Because of these wins Brooke was named # 1 contender for Gail ' s title at Sacrifice . On the May 10th edition of " Impact Wrestling " , Brooke defeated Velvet Sky but was laid out by Gail after the match . On May 13 at Sacrifice , Tessmacher failed in her title challenge against Kim when Kim pinned Brooke with her feet on the ropes . On the June 7 episode of " Impact Wrestling " , a week after Brooke Hogan ' s TNA debut , Tessmacher defeated her TnT partner Tara , Mickie James and Velvet Sky in a four - way match to earn another shot at Gail Kim and the Women ' s Knockout Championship at Slamiversary . At Slammiversary , Tessmacher defeated Kim to win the Women ' s Knockout Championship . On the June 21 episode of " Impact Wrestling " Tessmacher made her first successful title defense , defeating Mickie James . On the July 12 episode of " Impact Wrestling " , Tessmacher successfully defended her title in a rematch against Gail Kim . On August 2nd , Tara competed in a # 1 contenders match for Brooke ' s title that also involved Mickie James , Gail Kim , and Madison Rayne . Rayne would go on to win the match after Rayne ' s " boyfriend " Earl Hebner declared Rayne the winner when Tara had clearly pinned Rayne . On August 12 at Hardcore Justice , Tessmacher lost the title to Madison Rayne , who had referee Earl Hebner on her side again , ending her reign at 63 days . She would regain the title from Rayne in a rematch four days later on " Impact Wrestling " with Taryn Terrell as the referee . At No Surrender , Tessmacher defeated tag team partner Tara to retain the Knockouts Championship . Four days later on " Impact Wrestling " , Tara congratulated Tessmacher on her victory , only to attack Tessmacher afterwards , turning Tara into a villainess and ending TnT .