TNA World Tag Team Championship The TNA World Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship owned by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( TNA ) promotion . It is primarily contested within TNA ' s tag team division . It was created and debuted on May 14 , 2007 at the taping of TNA ' s primary television program , " TNA Impact ! " . It was officially introduced worldwide on the May 17 , 2007 edition of TNA ' s online podcast TNA Today . Like most professional wrestling championships , the title is won as a result of a scripted match . There have been a total of 35 reigns shared between 36 wrestlers and 27 teams . The current champions are Angel Ortiz and Mike Draztic of the Latin American Xchange ( LAX ) 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 National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA ) governing body , subsequently becoming an official NWA territory as NWA – TNA . On June 19 , 2002 , NWA – TNA held its first show : a weekly pay - per - view ( PPV ) event . The main event of the telecast was a twenty – man Gauntlet for the Gold 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 . Ken Shamrock defeated Malice to win the vacant championship with Ricky Steamboat as Special Guest Referee 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 A . J . Styles and Jerry Lynn defeated The Rainbow Express ( Bruce and Lenny Lane ) 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 and the Team 3D pairing of Brother Devon 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 card , Cage was scheduled to defend the NWA World Heavyweight Championship against Kurt Angle and Sting in a match involving three competitors , also known as a Three - Way match . Team 3D were set to defend the NWA World Tag Team Championship against the team of Scott Steiner and Tomko and the team made up of Hernandez and Homicide , who were known as The Latin American Xchange ( 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 . However , the ring announcer s for the encounters proclaimed the matches as being strictly for the " World Heavyweight Championship " or the " World Tag Team Championship " . Team 3D defeated Steiner and Tomko and LAX in the first Three Way championship bout to retain the " World Tag Team Championship " . In the second Three Way championship encounter , Angle defeated Cage and Sting to win the " World Heavyweight Championship " . On May 17 , 2007 , Jeremy Borash and TNA ' s primary authority figure at the time , Jim Cornette , unveiled the TNA World Tag Team Championship belt on that day ' s edition of TNA ' s online podcast " TNA Today " and awarded it to Team 3D ; in the process making them the first official champions . Belt designs . During the championship ' s entire history , it has had one design . It begins with a leather strap that is covered with four small gold plates that has an imprint of the earth 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 . Current champions . The current champions are Angel Ortiz and Mike Draztic of the Latin American Xchange ( LAX ) , who are in their first reign both individually and as a team . They defeated Decay , Reno Scum , and the team of Garza Jr . and The Loredo Kid in a four - way match to win the vacant titles on March 4 , 2017 in Orlando , Florida during the " Impact Wrestling " tapings ( will air March 30 ) .