ROH World Tag Team Championship
| ROH World Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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 The Kingdom, with the title belts in October 2015. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | Ring of Honor (ROH) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | September 21, 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | September 30, 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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.[1]
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.[2] 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.
In 2012, the title belts were redesigned again, with the company's current logo.
Reigns
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 current champions are The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson), who are in their second reign as a team and individually. They defeated former champions The Addiction (Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian) and The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) on September 30, 2016, in Lowell, Massachusetts in a three-way Ladder War VI at All Star Extravaganza VIII to win the title. Overall, there have been 45 reigns among 48 different wrestlers and 28 different teams.
References
- ↑ J.D. Dunn (2006-03-31). "Dark Pegasus Video Review: Ring of Honor - Unscripted". 411Mania.com. 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
- ↑ "Ring of Honor World Tag Team Championship". Ring of Honor. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
Aries & Strong defeated Masato Yoshino & Naruki Doi in Japan on 7/9/06 to make the ROH Tag Titles into World Tag Team Titles
External links
- Ring of Honor's official title history page
- ROH Tag Team Championship History
- Gallery for the ROH World tag team title belts