Shimmer Tag Team Championship

Shimmer Tag Team Championship

Inaugural champions Ashley Lane and Nevaeh with the Shimmer Tag Team Championship belts
Details
Current champion(s) Ayako Hamada and Ayumi Kurihara
Date won October 1, 2011[1]
Promotion Shimmer Women Athletes
Date established August 7, 2008

The Shimmer Tag Team Championship (stylized as SHIMMER Tag Team Championship) is a professional wrestling tag team championship in Shimmer Women Athletes. The titles are recognized nationally by Ring of Honor, and also by several independent promotions, including American Luchacore and Insanity Pro Wrestling, where they have also been defended.

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History

Since the creation of the Shimmer Championship, there was a growing interest in creating a Shimmer Tag Team Championship. This was stemmed from a growing number of teams such as The Experience and the Minnesota Home Wrecking Crew, and frequent tag team matches on the cards of Shimmer events. In October 2008, the first champions were crowned when the duo of Ashley Lane and Nevaeh won a Gauntlet Match involving six teams at Shimmer Volume 21.[2]

Lane and Nevaeh as well as being the first Shimmer Tag Team Champions also hold the distinction of being the first Shimmer champions to defend their titles outside of Shimmer or either of its sister companies (Full Impact Pro and Ring of Honor). On November 1, Lane and Nevaeh defended their titles at an Insanity Pro Wrestling show against "Sassy" Stephie Sinclair and Hellena Heavenly.[3] On November 22 they made their third defense of the belts at an Heartland Wrestling Association event, defeating the team of Mary Elizabeth and Hailey Hatred[4]

After successfully defending the titles in Shimmer against The Canadian NINJAs (Nicole Matthews and Portia Perez), The International Home Wrecking Crew (Jetta and Rain) and Amazing Kong and Sara Del Rey, Lane and Nevaeh lost the titles to the Canadian NINJAs in a rematch on May 3, 2009, at the tapings of Shimmer Volume 26.

Nicole Matthews and Portia Perez made their first Shimmer Tag Team Title defense on October 18, 2009, at an Anarchy Championship Wrestling event titled A Nightmare on Tenth Street, where they defeated Rachel Summerlyn and Jessica James via disqualification.[5]

On April 10, 2010, at the tapings of Volume 29, Matthews and Perez made their first Shimmer Tag Team Title defense in Shimmer, defeating the team of Cheerleader Melissa and Shimmer Champion MsChif.[6]

On April 2, 2011, Daizee Haze and Tomoka Nakagawa defended the title for the first time on pay-per-view as part of Ring of Honor's Honor Takes Center Stage event in Atlanta, Georgia, defeating the team of Ayumi Kurihara and Hiroyo Matsumoto.[7]

Current champions

The current champions are Ayako Hamada and Ayumi Kurihara, who are in their first reign as champions. They defeated Daizee Haze and Tomoka Nakagawa on October 1, 2011 in Berwyn, Illinois at the tapings of Volume 41.[1]

Title history

# Order in reign history
Reign The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed
Event The event in which the title was won
Wrestler name (#) The number represents the individual reigns of a wrestler when this is distinct from the tag team's reign.
+ Indicates the current reign is changing daily
# Team Reign Date Days
held		 Successful defenses Location Event Notes
1 Ashley Lane and Nevaeh 1 02008-10-19 October 19, 2008 &10000000000000196000000196 5 Berwyn, Illinois Volume 21 Defeated The Experience (Lexie Fyfe and Malia Hosaka) in a Six Team Gauntlet match to become the first champions.[2]
2 The Canadian NINJAs
(Nicole Matthews and Portia Perez)		 1 02009-05-03 May 3, 2009 &10000000000000692000000692 5 Berwyn, Illinois Volume 26 [8]
3 Seven Star Sisters
(Hiroyo Matsumoto and Misaki Ohata)		 1 02011-03-26 March 26, 2011 &100000000000000010000001 2 Berwyn, Illinois Volume 37 [9]
4 Daizee Haze and Tomoka Nakagawa 1 02011-03-27 March 27, 2011 &10000000000000188000000188 1 Berwyn, Illinois Volume 40 [9]
5 Ayako Hamada and Ayumi Kurihara 1 02011-10-01 October 1, 2011 &10000000000000161000000161+ 3 Berwyn, Illinois Volume 41 [1]

References

General
Specific
  1. ^ a b c Martin, Adam (2011-10-02). "Report of the SHIMMER Volume 41, 42 tapings". WrestleView. http://www.wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1317578653. Retrieved 2011-10-02. 
  2. ^ a b "Shimmer Vol 21 & 22 Results". Shimmer Women Athletes. Visuex. http://www.visuex.com/shimmer/modules.php?name=Events&file=shows/vol21and22. Retrieved 2009-03-30. 
  3. ^ "Ashley & Nevaeh to defend Tag Titles this weekend!". http://shimmerwomen.proboards50.com/index.cgi?board=shimmer&action=display&thread=2636. Retrieved 2008-11-03. 
  4. ^ "HWA 11/22 Middletown, OH - SHIMMER Tag Title Match". http://shimmerwomen.proboards50.com/index.cgi?board=shimmer&action=display&thread=2693. Retrieved 2008-11-24. 
  5. ^ "ACW/IWA-Texas A Nightmare On Tenth Street". Cagematch. http://cagematch.de/?id=1&nr=48904. Retrieved 2010-03-25. 
  6. ^ Lansdell, Chris (2010-04-11). "SHIMMER Taping Results: Volumes 29 and 30". 411Mania. http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/news/135535/SHIMMER-Taping-Results:-Volumes-29-and-30.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-11. 
  7. ^ Caldwell, James; Radican, Sean (2011-04-02). "ROH Internet PPV report 4/2: Caldwell & Radican's ongoing "virtual-time" coverage of live ROH PPV from Atlanta". Pro Wrestling Torch. http://pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/otherppvs/article_48974.shtml. Retrieved 2011-04-02. 
  8. ^ Csonka, Larry (2009-05-05). "SHIMMER Volumes 25 and 26 Results". 411mania. http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/news/103741/Shimmer-Volumes-25-and-26-Results.htm. Retrieved 2011-03-28. 
  9. ^ a b Martin, Adam (2011-03-28). "Indy News #2: SHIMMER Vol. 37, 38, 39, 40 results". WrestleView. http://www.wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1301285470. Retrieved 2011-03-28. 

See also