ROH World 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.

ROH World Tag Team Championship
Details
PromotionRing of Honor (ROH)
Date establishedSeptember 21, 2002
Current champion(s)Jay Lethal and Jonathan Gresham
Date wonDecember 13, 2019
Other name(s)
  • ROH Tag Team Championship

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 and Pro Wrestling Noah.[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.

On January 1, 2018, ROH announced on their YouTube page that their World Tag, Six Man World Tag Team, and World Television Championships will receive new designs which will debut at the next set of television tapings.

Inaugural tournament

Teams:

Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
         
The Prophecy
The S.A.T. Pin
The Prophecy
Togo/Hidaka Pin
Togo/Hidaka
The F.B.I Sub
The Prophecy
Dragon/Modest Pin
Dragon/Modest
Divine Storm Pin
Dragon/Modest
BYE
 
 

Source: [3]

Reigns
Main article: List of ROH World Tag Team Champions

Overall, there have been 56 reigns among 59 different wrestlers and 34 different teams. 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 team of Jay Lethal and Jonathan Gresham have the longest reign as champions with their first reign lasting 404+ days. The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) hold the record for the most reigns with 11 (both as a team and individually).

The team of Jay Lethal and Jonathan Gresham are the current champions in their first reign. They won the titles by defeating previous champions The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) at Final Battle on December 13, 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland to win the titles.

References
  1. 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
  2. "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
  3. "ROH Tag Team Championship Tournament (2002) results".
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