The 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.
| ROH World Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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 ROH World Tag Team Championship belt (2005–2010, 2022–2023) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | Ring of Honor (ROH) All Elite Wrestling (AEW) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | September 21, 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) | The Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero Miedo and Rey Fénix) | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Lucha Bros (Penta El Zero Miedo and Rey Fénix) are the current champions in their first reign, both as a team and individually.
HistoryEdit
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 title belts, and instead presented Christopher Daniels & 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 & Roderick Strong defeated Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino on July 9, 2006, while on a tour in Japan with Dragon Gate and Pro Wrestling Noah.[2] Since then, the title has also been defended in the United Kingdom.
Since originating in 2002, the title belts were introduced in 2003 and redesigned in 2005, 2010, 2012, 2018, and 2023. On March 31, 2023, the sixth belt design debuted at Supercard of Honor.[3]
Inaugural championship tournament (2002)Edit
Teams:
- Da Hit Squad (Mafia & Monsta Mack)
- Divine Storm (Chris Divine & Quiet Storm)
- The Full Blooded Italians (James Maritato & Tony Mamaluke)
- The Natural Born Sinners (Boogalou & Homicide)
- The Prophecy (Christopher Daniels & Donovan Morgan)
- The S.A.T. (Joel Maximo & Jose Maximo)
- American Dragon & Michael Modest
- Dick Togo & Ikuto Hidaka
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
| The Prophecy | ||||||||||||||
| The S.A.T. | Pin | |||||||||||||
| The Prophecy | ||||||||||||||
| Togo & Hidaka | Pin | |||||||||||||
| The F.B.I. | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Togo & Hidaka | ||||||||||||||
| The Prophecy | ||||||||||||||
| Dragon & Modest | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Divine Storm | Pin | |||||||||||||
| Dragon & Modest | ||||||||||||||
| Dragon & Modest | Bye | |||||||||||||
| Da Hit Squad 1 | DNP | |||||||||||||
| Natural Born Sinners 1 | DNP | |||||||||||||
1 ^ Neither team was able to compete after being attacked by The Carnage Crew before the start of their scheduled match.
Source: [4]
Belt designsEdit
The fifth design of the ROH World Tag Team Championship from years 2017 to 2022 is sort of like a circle like repetitive round crown on all 5 plates of the belt that is gold with red and silver diamonds all around the center and side plates (2-side plates per side equaling to 4-side plates total) with also gold wording in the middle with black outlining on them and on the side of the belts plates that say ROH Tag Team but in the main middle center plate separating it from the sides has the extra words World and champions in the middle.[5]
ReignsEdit
Overall, there have been 65 reigns among 67 different wrestlers and 38 different teams. The inaugural champions were The Prophecy (Christopher Daniels & Donovan Morgan), who defeated "The American Dragon" & Michael Modest on September 21, 2002, to become the champions. The team of Jay Lethal & Jonathan Gresham have the longest reign as champions with their first reign lasting 441 days. The Briscoes (Jay Briscoe & Mark Briscoe) hold the record for the most reigns with 13 (both as a team and individually).
The Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero Miedo and Rey Fénix) are the current champions in their first reign, both as a team and individually. They defeated Top Flight (Dante Martin and Darius Martin), The Kingdom (Matt Taven and Mike Bennett), Aussie Open (Mark Davis and Kyle Fletcher), and La Facción Ingobernable (Rush and Dralístico) in a "Reach for the Sky" ladder match at Supercard of Honor on March 31, 2023, in Los Angeles, California to win the vacant titles. The previous champions were The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe & Mark Briscoe), and following Jay's death in a car accident on January 17, 2023, Mark formally vacated the titles.[6]
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 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
- ^ Tessier, Colin (March 31, 2023). "New ROH World Tag Team Champions Crowned At ROH Supercard Of Honor". Wrestle Zone. Retrieved April 2, 2023.
- ^ "ROH Tag Team Championship Tournament (2002) results".
- ^ Belts, Wick. "ROH World Tag Team Championship Replica Review". YouTube. Retrieved April 18, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Pizzazz, Manolo; Rueter, Sean (March 31, 2023). "ROH Supercard of Honor 2023 live results: Claudio Castagnoli vs. Eddie Kingston world title fight, more!". Cageside Seats. Retrieved April 2, 2023.
External linksEdit
- ROH World Tag Team Title History at Cagematch.net