TNA World Tag Team Championship

The TNA World Tag Team Championship was a world tag team championship owned by the Impact Wrestling promotion. It is primarily contested within Impacts'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.

NWA World Tag Team Championship[]

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling formed in May 2002. Later that same year, TNA were granted control over the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and NWA World Tag Team Championship 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. 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 Lane and Lenny Lane) in a tournament final to win the championship

Creation of the TNA Titles[]

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 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 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 announcers 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, Kurt 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. TNA still recognize NWA Title holders in TNA as TNA Championships making the TNA exclusive part of the NWA lineage defacto TNA Title lineage.

In 2017 when TNA was purchased by Anthem Sports, the TNA name was dropped and the titles were recreated as the Impact Wrestling (Breifly GFW Tag Team Chmpionships.

Championship Lineage[]

TV Airdates used where appropriate

NWA World Tag Team Championship[]

Vacated - June 28, 2002 - The Shanes vacate the titles per request of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, who gets full control over the titles.

A.J. Styles and Jerry Lynn: July 3, 2002 - TNA Weekly PPV #3

Vacated - August 14, 2002

America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris and James Storm): September 18, 2002 - TNA Weekly PPV #12
The Disciples of The New Church (Brian Lee and Slash): November 13, 2002 - TNA Weekly PPV #21
America's Most Wanted 2: January 8, 2003 - TNA Weekly PPV #27
Triple X (Christopher Daniels, Low Ki and Elix Skipper): January 22, 2003 - TNA Weekly PPV #29

Vacated - February 5, 2003

Triple X 2: March 12, 2003 - TNA Weekly PPV #36
Jerry Lynn (2) and The Amazing Red: April 16, 2003 - TNA Weekly PPV #41
Triple X 3 May 7, 2003 - TNA Weekly PPV #44
America's Most Wanted 3: June 25, 2003 - TNA Weekly PPV #51
Simon Diamond and Johnny Swinger: August 27, 2003 - TNA Weekly PPV #60
3Live Kru (B.G. James, Ron Killings and Konnan): November 26, 2003 - TNA Weekly PPV #72
The Red Shirt Security (Kevin Northcutt and Joe Legend)
January 28, 2004 7 Nashville, TN Weekly PPV #79
A.J. Styles and Abyss: February 4, 2004 - TNA Weekly PPV #80

Vacated - March 3, 2004

Kid Kash and Dallas: March 31, 2004 - TNA Weekly PPV #88
D'Lo Brown and El Gran Apolo: April 14, 2004 - TNA Weekly PPV #90
Kid Kash and Dallas 2: April 21, 2004 - TNA Weekly PPV #91
America's Most Wanted 4: June 4, 2004 - TNA Impact
The Naturals (Chase Stevens and Andy Douglas): July 7, 2004 - TNA Weekly PPV #102
Chris Harris and Elix Skipper: September 8, 2004 - TNA Weekly PPV #111
Christopher Daniels and James Storm: September 24, 2004 - TNA Impact
Team Canada (Bobby Roode and Eric Young): October 15, 2004 - TNA Impact
3Live Kru 2: November 7, 2004 - TNA Victory Road 2004
Team Canada 2: December 5, 2004 - TNA Turning Point 2004
America's Most Wanted 5: January 16, 2005 - TNA Final Resolution 2005
The Naturals 2: April 26, 2005 - TNA Impact

Vacated - October 5, 2005

The Naturals 3: October 8, 2005 - NWA 57th Anniversary Show
America's Most Wanted 6: October 22, 2005 - TNA Impact
A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels: June 18, 2006 - TNA Slammiversary 2006
The Latin American Xchange (Homicide and Hernandez): August 24, 2006 - TNA Impact
A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels 2: September 24, 2006 - TNA No Surrender 2006
The Latin American Xchange 2: October 22, 2006 - TNA Bound for Glory 2006
Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon): April 15, 2007 - TNA Lockdown 2007 Vacated - May 13, 2007 - Team 3D is stripped of the titles when NWA and TNA sever their business relationship. NWA regains control of the titles while TNA creates the new TNA World Tag Team Championship.