ROH World Tag Team Championship

ROH World Tag Team Championship

ROH World Tag Team Championship belt (April 2010-present)
Details
Current champion(s) The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe)[1]
Date won December 23, 2011[1]
Promotion Ring of Honor
Date established September 21, 2002
Other name(s) ROH Tag Team Championship

The Ring of Honor (ROH) World Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship contested for in the American professional wrestling promotion Ring of Honor. The championship is generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants usually execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition. The current ROH World Tag Team title belts were designed and crafted by All Star Championship Belts.[2]

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History

The ROH Tag Team Championship was introduced at Unscripted on September 21, 2002, where ROH held a tournament to crown the first champions. At the time, ROH did not have actually title belts, and instead presented Christopher Daniels and Donovan Morgan, the winners of the tournament, with a trophy.[3]

The title became the ROH World Tag Team Championship after then champions Austin Aries and Roderick Strong defeated Naruki Doi and Masato Yoshino on July 9, 2006 while on a tour in Japan with Dragon Gate.[4] Since then, the title has also been defended in the United Kingdom.

In 2010 the title belt, along with the ROH World Championship, was redesigned.

Reigns

Main article: List of ROH World Tag Team Champions

The inaugural champions were The Prophecy (Christopher Daniels and Donovan Morgan), who defeated "The American Dragon" and Michael Modest on September 21, 2002 to become the champions. The Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli) have the longest reign as champions with their second reign lasting 363 days. The Briscoe Brothers (Jay and Mark) are the current champions and are in their record breaking seventh reign as a team (and individually) after defeating the Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team (Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin) at Final Battle 2011 on December 23, 2011.[1] Overall, there have been 31 reigns among 35 different wrestlers and 20 different teams.

References

  1. ^ a b c Namako, Jason (December 24, 2011). "ROH Final Battle iPPV Results - 12/23/11". WrestleView. http://www.wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1324707181. Retrieved December 24, 2011. 
  2. ^ "Ring of Honor tag team championship". All Star Championship Belts. http://allstarchampionshipbelts.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=11732525. Retrieved 2011-06-27. 
  3. ^ J.D. Dunn (2006-03-31). "Dark Pegasus Video Review: Ring of Honor - Unscripted". 411Mania.com. http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/video_reviews/38747/Dark-Pegasus-Video-Review:-Ring-of-Honor---Unscripted.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-15. "Dragon and Modest destroy the tag team title trophy, but the Prophecy now holds all of the Ring of Honor titles" 
  4. ^ "ROH Official Title History". Ring of Honor. ROHWrestling.com. 2006-07-06. http://www.rohwrestling.com/titlehistory/. Retrieved 2009-04-15. "Aries & Strong defeated Masato Yoshino & Naruki Doi in Japan on 7/9/06 to make the ROH Tag Titles into World Tag Team Titles" 

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ROH World Tag Team Champions