TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship

TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship 	TNA Knockout Tag Team Championship
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Currentchampion(s) 	Mary June Byrd and Courtney
Date won 	July 12, 2011
Promotion 	Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA)
Date established 	August 20, 2009
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 Knockouts 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!. Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won via the result of a scripted match. Nikki Phillips and [[Taylor Wilde|Lauren Ireland] were the inaugural champions. They won a four week tournament to crown the first champions. Angela McAlmond and Emily are the current champions in their first reign, after defeating Victoria Lehr and Courtney Savoie on December 9, 2010, at the tapings of the December 23 edition of Impact! in a tournament final to win the vacant title.
==History==
====TNA Knockout====
====Championship Tournament====
;Tournament bracket
====Belt designs====
==Reigns==
#	Team 	Reign	Date 	Daysheld	Event 	Notes 	
1	Nikki and Lauren Ireland 	1 	September 20, 2009	106 	No Surrender (2009)	Nikki and Ireland defeated The Beautiful People (Victoria Lehr and Brittany Mayer) in the finals of an eight-team tournament to crown the first TNA Knockout Tag Team Champions. 	
2	Tessa Smith and Akane Anai 	1 	January 4, 2010 	63 	TNA Impact 	 	
—	Vacated 	— 	March 8, 2010 	— 	TNA Impact 	Title held up after the championship was allegedly not defended for 30 days. 	
3	The Beautiful People(Riley Austin, Victoria Lehr and Brittany Mayer)	1 	March 8, 2010 	141 	TNA Impact 	Lehr and Mayer defeated the teams of Nikki and Lauren Ireland, Angela McAlmond and Courtney in a three-way match to win the vacant championship. Austin was also recognized as a champion and the three defended the titles under the Freebird rule.	
4	Akane Anai  (2) and Lauren Ireland (2) 	1 	July 27, 2010 	132 	TNA Impact 	Akane and Irlenad defeated Riley Austin and Brittany Mayer. This episode aired on tape delay on August 5, 2010. 	
—	Vacated 	— 	December 6, 2010 	— 	TNA Impact 	Title held up after the championship was not defended for 30 days. This episode aired on tape delay on December 9, 2010. 	
5	Angela McAlmond and Emily 	1 	December 9, 2010 	94 	TNA Impact 	McAlmond and Emily defeated Victoria Lehr and Courtney in the finals of a four-team tournament to win the vacant title. This episode aired on tape delay on December 23, 2010. 	
6	Mexican America(Mikki and Nikki (2)) 	1 	March 13, 2011 	1+ 	Victory Road (2011)	 	
7	Mary June Byrd and Courtney 	1 	Jule 12, 2011 	25+ 	Orlando, Florida 	Impact Wrestling 	This episode aired on tape delay on July 21, 2011.
====Combined reigns====
†	Indicates the current champions
====By teams====
Rank	Team 	# of reigns	Combined days
1 	The Beautiful People(Riley Austin, Victoria Lehr and Brittany Mayer)	1 	141
2 	Akane Anai and Lauren Ireland 	1 	132
3 	Nikki Phillips and Lauren Ireland 	1 	106
4 	Angela McAlmond and Emily 	1 	94
5 	Tessa Smith and Akane Anai 	1 	63
6 	Mikki and Nikki† 	1 	1+
====By wrestlers====
Rank	Wrestler 	# of reigns	Combined days
1 	Lauren Ireland 	2 	238
2 	Akane Anai 	2 	195
3 	Riley Austin 	1 	141
3 	Victoria Lehr 	1 	141
3 	Brittany Mayer 	1 	141
6 	Nikki Phillips 	1 	106
7 	Angela McAlmond†	1 	94+
7 	Emily† 	1 	94+
9 	Tssa Smith 	1 	63