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58-594: As an individual (4 reigns): The TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Championship is a women's professional wrestling tag team championship owned by the professional wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). It is contested for mainly by teams consisting of two female wrestlers in TNA, known as the TNA Knockouts ; however, the championship was once held by a male. The current champions are Spitfire ( Dani Luna and Jody Threat ) in their second reign as

116-497: A Six-man tag team match . Other notable matches saw Manik and Deonna Purrazzo retain the X Division and Knockouts Championships respectively, with Manik defeating Chris Bey and Rohit Raju in a Triple Threat match and Purrazzo defeating Taya Valkyrie . The event also saw Matt Cardona make his debut in Impact Wrestling, defeating Ace Austin by disqualification. On October 14, 2020, at Bound for Glory , it

174-519: A Winner Takes All triple threat match for the Raw and SmackDown Women's championships in what would be the first time that female superstars would main event WWE's flagship event. Nikki and Brie Bella, twin sisters who were inducted into WWEs Hall of Fame is 2021, came out of retirement for 2022 Women's Royal Rumble. Brie was the first to win a WWE Championship, but Nikki held the championship twice and held that reign longer than Brie. Promotions such as

232-595: A Cell match. At the 2017 Money in the Bank pay-per-view, the first-ever Women's Money in the Bank ladder match was held with the winner receiving a contract for a SmackDown Women's Championship match. The following month, WWE would hold a women's wrestling tournament called the Mae Young Classic , named after the late Mae Young . In 2018, the January Royal Rumble pay-per-view would feature

290-511: A gold center plates and two side plates with red and black designing and wording in the middle of the center of the gold middle plate that reads 'Knockouts Tag Team TNA Wrestling Champions' with red and white diamonds in the middle and on the side plates as well as a globe on each of the side plates. Overall, there have been 25 reigns shared between 32 wrestlers and 20 teams. The inaugural champions were Sarita and Taylor Wilde , who defeated The Beautiful People ( Madison Rayne and Velvet Sky) in

348-484: A junior heavyweight version of the NWA World Women's Championship (the predecessor to the original WWE Women's Championship ) in a tournament back in 1958, was recognized by most NWA promoters as champion by default. In WWE, female professional wrestlers are members of one of the promotion's four women's divisions who compete in both singles competition and tag teams . WWE has six active women's championships:

406-407: A men's promotion, had a small women's division that competed with women wrestlers from other promotions. All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (est. 1968) was the dominant joshi puro organization from the 1970s to the 1990s. AJW's first major star was Mach Fumiake in 1974, followed in 1975 by Jackie Sato and Maki Ueda (the "Beauty Pair"). In the early 1980s, Jaguar Yokota and Devil Masami became

464-701: A new WWE Women's Championship , which has a separate title history from the original. WWE then reintroduced the brand extension in July 2016 and the Women's Championship (now Raw Women's Championship) became exclusive to Raw. In August 2016, SmackDown created the SmackDown Women's Championship as a counterpart title. In WWE's NXT brand, women compete for the NXT Women's Championship, which was established in 2013. The NXT UK brand would create its counterpart title,

522-621: A rematch clause, however, which he would invoke at Hard To Kill, but on the December 21 Impact , Bey was able to "finesse" his way into the match, making the championship bout into a three-way match . On the December 8 episode of Impact! , Rosemary and Taya Valkyrie eliminated Impact Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo and Kimber Lee in the first round of the Impact Knockouts Tag Team Championship tournament, with Rosemary pinning Lee. At Final Resolution

580-468: A team and individually. The creation of the championship was announced on August 20, 2009, during a backstage segment on TNA's primary television program TNA Impact! . Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won via the result of a scripted match. Sarita and Taylor Wilde were the inaugural champions. They won a four-week tournament to be crowned the first champions. The longest reigning champions were Eric Young and ODB , who held

638-590: A women's division. The top of the division is the CMLL World Women's Championship . Keiko "Bull" Nakano won the first CMLL championship in 1992. That same year, wrestling promoter Antonio Peña left the CMLL to form a new promotion called the Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA). In addition to the annual Reina de Reinas Championship (Queen of Queens Championship), AAA also organizes

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696-482: Is a dramatic enactment of wrestling as a spectator sport . As is the norm for this sport, women's professional wrestling is organized by wrestling federations called promotions . Some promotions are exclusively for women, while others have separate divisions for women. Among the nations that have women's professional wrestling are Australia , Bolivia , Canada , Japan , Mexico , the United Kingdom , and

754-476: Is another one of Shimmer's sister promotions and was founded as a developmental program for the latter company. In 2018, they began a partnership with Impact Wrestling, which saw Impact talent compete at Rise events. Women's wrestling has maintained a recognized world champion since 1937, when Mildred Burke won the original World Women's title . She then formed the World Women's Wrestling Association in

812-490: Is the term used by TNA's Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (formerly Impact Wrestling) to refer to its onscreen female employees; this is similar to World Wrestling Entertainment and the Divas pseudonym they then used. In October 2007 at TNA's Bound for Glory PPV event, TNA established their first women's championship, with Gail Kim winning a 10 knockout gauntlet match to become the first TNA Women's Knockout Champion . On

870-586: The 2019 Elimination Chamber pay-per-view . Impact's women's championship is the Knockouts World Championship , which debuted on October 14, 2007. Its inaugural champion was Gail Kim , who won the title at Bound for Glory 2007 . The promotion's tag team championship is known as the Knockouts World Tag Team Championship . The title was introduced at No Surrender 2009 and its inaugural champions were

928-569: The Impact Knockouts Tag Team Championship , which was last used by the company in 2013, with the new champions being determined by an eight-team tournament which began on the November 17, 2020 episode of Impact! with the final taking place at Hard to Kill. On the same episode, in the first match of the tournament, Havok and Nevaeh defeated Tenille Dashwood and Alisha to advance to the next round. On

986-558: The NXT UK brand. The Fabulous Moolah is recognized as WWE 's first Women's Champion , with her reign beginning in 1956. In 2002, WWE began what was called the WWE brand extension , where wrestlers and championships became exclusive to one of WWE's brands. At first, the Women's Championship could be defended on any brand, but later that year, it became exclusive to the Raw brand. In 2008, WWE created

1044-494: The NXT UK Women's Championship , in 2018. The WWE Women's Tag Team Championship was announced on the December 24, 2018 edition of Monday Night Raw . The inaugural champions were The Boss 'n' Hug Connection (Sasha Banks & Bayley) who defeated The IIconics (Peyton Royce & Billie Kay), The Riot Squad (Liv Morgan & Sarah Logan), Nia Jax & Tamina, Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville and Naomi & Carmella at

1102-603: The Naked Women's Wrestling League showcased nude females "battling" in the ring for titillation. The NWWL broadcast shows around the world, and its wrestlers were featured in magazines such as Penthouse , Playboy , and Maxim . In Japan, women's professional wrestling is called joshi puroresu ( 女子プロレス ) , or joshi puro for short. Women's wrestling is usually handled by promotions that specialize in joshi puroresu , rather than by divisions of otherwise male-dominated promotions. Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling ,

1160-606: The Pro Wrestling Women's Alliance (PWWA) in 2007. This independent promotion is affiliated with Pro Wrestling Alliance Australia , as well as with Shimmer Women Athletes . They also had affiliations with Global Force Wrestling of the United States while the latter was active. It is the only all-female wrestling promotion in Australia. In Bolivia , female wrestlers called Fighting Cholitas dress in

1218-525: The SmackDown Women's Championship . Becky Lynch would become the inaugural champion at Backlash after winning a Six-pack elimination challenge . The following month, at Hell in a Cell , Charlotte would face Sasha Banks in a match for the Raw Women's Championship in what would be the first time a women's match was the main event of a WWE pay-per-view, as well as the first-ever women's Hell in

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1276-627: The TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship , after one half of the previous champions, Hamada , had been released by the promotion, and set up a four–team tournament to determine new champions. The finals of the tournament would take place on the December 23 edition of Impact! . * Winter replaced Velvet Sky, who had been attacked backstage by Sarita. The original design of the Knockout Tag Team Championship from 2009 to 2013 has red leather,

1334-581: The United States . In the United States, there are currently four major professional wrestling promotions that have a unified division with a title: WWE , Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), Ring of Honor (ROH), and All Elite Wrestling (AEW), in addition to a number of independent promotions with women's wrestling divisions and championships. TNA's female wrestlers are branded as the Knockouts , while ROH's female talent were formally known as

1392-768: The WWE Divas Championship as a counterpart title for the SmackDown brand. The two titles were eventually unified in September 2010. The Women's Championship was then retired in favor of keeping the Divas Championship, which became briefly known as the Unified WWE Divas Championship. The brand extension ended in 2011. In April 2016 at WrestleMania 32 , the Divas Championship was retired and subsequently replaced with

1450-728: The WWE Raw Women's Championship (which is the successor to the WWE Divas Championship , which in turn succeeded the original WWE Women's Championship created in 1956) for the Raw brand, the WWE SmackDown Women's Championship for the SmackDown brand, the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship , the NXT Women's Championship and NXT Women's Tag Team Championship for the NXT brand, and the NXT UK Women's Championship for

1508-587: The Women of Honor banner, culminating in the creation of the Women of Honor World Championship in December 2017 and the announcement at Final Battle 2017 of a tournament to crown the first champion. Stars from Japan 's World Wonder Ring Stardom also participated in the tournament. Sumie Sakai became the inaugural Women of Honor Champion when she won the title at Supercard of Honor XII in 2018. In 2015, WWE revamped its women's divisions by hiring mainly independent wrestlers as opposed to models, initially known as

1566-747: The Women of Honor , and WWE's female talent were known as the Divas until 2016. Three notable women-only promotions are Shimmer Women Athletes (est. 2005) in Illinois ; the World Wrestling Network 's Shine Wrestling brand (est. 2012) in Florida , which is a sister to Shimmer; and Women of Wrestling (WOW) (est. 2000, 2012) in Los Angeles . Shimmer is recognized as the earliest and most prominent promotion to take women's wrestling more seriously. In addition to Shine, Rise Wrestling

1624-873: The World Mixed Tag Team Championship , in which tag teams of one woman and one man compete. In 2000, businessman Luciano Alberto Garcia de Luna started an all-woman promotion company called Lucha Libre Femenil (LLF) in Monterrey . Current notable independent promotions include Pro-Wrestling: EVE , Bellatrix Female Warriors , The British Bombshells, and Fierce Females. Notable British women wrestlers include: Lady Blossom , Xia Brookside , Nikki Cross , Blair Davenport , Sadie Gibbs , Jamie Hayter , Laura James , Jetta , Klondyke Kate , Katie Lea , Dani Luna , Millie McKenzie , Tegan Nox , Paige , Jemma Palmer , Kay Lee Ray , etc. Pro wrestler Madison Eagles and her husband Ryan co-founded

1682-475: The " Diva's Revolution " and later known as the "Women's Revolution". NXT TakeOver: Respect , held on October 7, 2015, saw then- NXT Women's Champion Bayley defend her title against Sasha Banks in a 30–minute Iron Man match in the main event . This was the first women's match to headline a major WWE event, and the first time in WWE history that a women's match had this stipulation. A new WWE Women's Championship

1740-402: The "junior heavyweight" class in men's wrestling. Arsion 's Sky High of Arsion Championship (est. 1999) and NEO Japan's High Speed Championship (est. 2009) are two such titles. In 2010, former Arsion and JDStar promoter Rossy Ogawa, retired wrestler Fuka Kakimoto , and veteran wrestler Nanae Takahashi started a new joshi puro promotion, World Wonder Ring Stardom . Stardom, considered

1798-537: The 1990s include Manami Toyota , Bull Nakano , Akira Hokuto , Cutie Suzuki , Aja Kong , Megumi Kudo , Shinobu Kandori , Kyoko Inoue , Takako Inoue (who is unrelated to Kyoko), Dynamite Kansai , and Mayumi Ozaki . Some joshi have a high-flying style that precedes the X Division of men's wrestling in North America. Since, for cultural reasons, women wrestlers are not divided into weight classes , these wrestlers compete for special titles comparable to

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1856-525: The August 20, 2009 episode of Impact! , backstage interviewer Lauren , who was standing with and about to interview Christy Hemme , Tara , Taylor Wilde , and Sarita , announced that TNA were planning to host an eight-team single elimination tag team tournament to crown the first-ever TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions. After a four-way match consisting of Hemme, Traci Brooks , Sarita, and Awesome Kong , TNA commentators Mike Tenay and Taz announced that

1914-399: The November 24 episode of Impact! , Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz defeated Team Sea Stars ( Ashley Vox and Delmi Exo ) to advance to the next round. On the following episode, Jordynne Grace and Jazz defeated Killer Kelly and Renee Michelle to advance. On the December 8 episode of Impact! , Taya Valkyrie and Rosemary defeated Deonna Purrazzo and Kimber Lee to advance. On

1972-473: The company was more restrictive in its COVID-19 safety mandates) and would be replaced by Moose , who had been engaged in a feud with Swann and Willie Mack for the prior few weeks. At Final Resolution, Manik, who is really TJP in disguise, returned to Impact Wrestling and answered Rohit Raju 's Impact X Division Championship 'Defeat Rohit' challenge; resulting in Manik winning the title. TJP had to wear

2030-485: The current champions in their second reign as a team and individually. They defeated Masha Slamovich and Tasha Steelz (standing in for the injured Alisha Edwards ) on September 13, 2024 at Victory Road in San Antonio, Texas to win the titles. Women%27s professional wrestling Mid 20th Century 1970s and 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s and 2020s Professional wrestling

2088-450: The early 1950s and recognized herself as the first champion, although the championship would be vacated upon her retirement in 1956. The National Wrestling Alliance however, ceased to acknowledge Burke as their Women's World champion in 1954, and instead acknowledged June Byers as champion after a controversial finish to a high-profile match between Burke and Byers that year. Upon Byers' retirement in 1964, The Fabulous Moolah , who won

2146-532: The final taking place at the Hard To Kill pay-per-view on January 16, 2021. At the event, Fire 'N Flava ( Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz ) defeated Havok and Nevaeh in the tournament final to win the revived titles. * Madison Rayne had rejoined the Beautiful People and replaced Angelina Love due to her release prior to the finals. On the December 9, 2010, edition of Impact! TNA vacated

2204-438: The finals of an eight-team tournament to crown the first TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions. At 478 days, Eric Young and ODB hold the record for the longest reign in the title's history. MK Ultra ( Masha Slamovich and Killer Kelly )'s second reign holds the record for the shortest reign in the title's history at 14 days. Young is the first and only male wrestler to have held the title. Spitfire ( Dani Luna and Jody Threat ) are

2262-489: The first-ever women's Royal Rumble match in the main event, which would be the longest women's match in WWE history. The following month, at the 2018 Elimination Chamber pay-per-view , the first-ever women's Elimination Chamber match took place. Later that year, WWE would present its first all-women's pay-per-view event: WWE Evolution . The Women's Evolution would culminate at WrestleMania 35 in 2019, where Charlotte Flair , Becky Lynch , and Ronda Rousey would compete in

2320-499: The following Saturday, Purrazzo would successfully defend her championship against Rosemary. On the Impact! after Final Resolution, Rosemary and Valkyrie would be eliminated from the tag title tournament by Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz, after Purrazzo and Lee neutralized Rosemary from the match away from the referee's view. On part one of The Best of Impact in 2020 , Valkyrie congratulated Purrazzo on her Impact rookie year, but claimed it

2378-577: The following episode, Tasha Steelz and Kiera Hogan defeated Taya and Rosemary to advance to the finals. On January 5, Havok and Nevaeh defeated Jazz and Jordynne Grace to move on to Hard To Kill At All Elite Wrestling 's " Winter Is Coming ", a special episode of AEW Dynamite that aired on December 2, Kenny Omega defeated Jon Moxley to win the AEW World Championship for the first time, following assistance from Impact Co-Executive Vice President and color commentator Don Callis , who

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2436-418: The incident, Omega and Callis announced that Omega would team up with Gallows and Anderson to face Swann, Sabin and Shelley in a six-man tag team match at Hard To Kill. However, on January 15, 2020, Impact announced that Shelley had been withdrawn from the match due to "unavoidable circumstances" (later, Shelley revealed he could not work for Impact since he was working also as a physical therapy clinician and

2494-539: The main event, the Impact World Champion , Rich Swann , confronted Anderson backstage only for Anderson to attack Swann. Anderson was then attacked himself by Sabin and Alex Shelley , which resulted in Anderson's tag team partner and fellow Impact World Tag Team Champion Doc Gallows attacking Sabin and Shelley. Swann then superkicked Gallows, but was then attacked with a hazard sign by Omega. Following

2552-407: The mask after he lost their previous title match, which stipulated that TJP could never challenge for the title so long as Raju held it. On the following edition of Impact , Chris Bey agreed to a non-title match with Manik, believing that unmasking him would give Rohit the title back. However, Raju accidentally got Bey disqualified when he struck Manik in full view of the official. Raju still had

2610-474: The premier joshi promotion in modern times, was purchased by New Japan Pro-Wrestling parent company Bushiroad in 2019. In April 2024, Rossy Ogawa (formerly of AJPW and Stardom) founded a new women's promotion called Dream Star Fighting Marigold or Marigold . In Mexico, professional wrestling is called lucha libre ("free fight"), and women wrestlers are called luchadoras . The Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), or World Wrestling Council, has

2668-703: The reactivated Impact Knockouts Tag Team Championship 's first champions since 2013, with Fire N Flava ( Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz ) defeating Havok and Nevaeh to win the titles. The main event saw the AEW World Champion Kenny Omega and the Impact World Tag Team Champions The Good Brothers ( Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson ) defeat the Impact World Champion Rich Swann , Chris Sabin , and Moose in

2726-623: The stars of a second wave of women wrestlers who succeeded the glamor-oriented generation defined by the Beauty Pair. That decade later saw the rise of the " Crush Gals " Chigusa Nagayo and Lioness Asuka , a tag team who achieved a level of mainstream success as women wrestlers that not only was unprecedented in Japan, but unheard of in the history of women's professional wrestling. The Crush Gals' long-running feud with Kaoru "Dump" Matsumoto and her Gokuaku Domei ("Atrocious Alliance") stable

2784-552: The team of Sarita and Taylor Wilde . The titles were initially deactivated on the June 20, 2013 episode of Impact! , but their return was announced at Bound for Glory 2020 . At Hard To Kill , Fire N Flava ( Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz ) won a tournament to become the tag team champions. ROH's has sporadically featured women's wrestling matches at its shows, dating back to a former working relationship with Shimmer. By 2017, ROH had been regularly featuring women's wrestling under

2842-539: The titles being deactivated. On October 24, 2020 at the Bound for Glory pay-per-view, Madison Rayne announced that after nearly eight years of inactivity, Impact Wrestling would revive the Knockouts Tag Team Championship. It was also announced that an eight-team tournament would take place over the next two months to determine the next champions. The brackets were announced in November, with

2900-494: The titles for a record 478 days before the 2013 deactivation of the titles due to Eric Young being a male talent. On October 24, 2020, at Bound For Glory , the revival of the titles were officially announced by Madison Rayne , with a tournament to award the revived championships taking place. On January 16, 2021, the tournament finals were won by Fire 'N Flava ( Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz ) at Hard To Kill . TNA Knockout (formerly Impact Knockout), or just Knockout for short,

2958-466: The tournament would begin on the August 27 episode of Impact! . The first champions were crowned at No Surrender , where Sarita and Taylor Wilde defeated The Beautiful People. During the first years of the title, it was vacated twice due to one half of the champions being released. On March 8, 2010, Awesome Kong left TNA after an incident with Bubba the Love Sponge. In December of that year, Hamada

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3016-538: The traditional clothing of the Aymara people . They were the inspiration for the comic book Super Cholita , which premiered in 2007. NCW Femmes Fatales is an independent promotion founded in 2009; its headquarters are in Montreal . In 2023, wrestler Nikki Cross completed her master's degree in history; her dissertation was on the subject of women's wrestling. Hard To Kill (2021) The event crowned

3074-523: The works for almost ten years and Omega dubbing himself as "The Collector". At Final Resolution , Omega and Callis appeared alongside Omega's former Bullet Club stablemate and one half of the current Impact World Tag Team Champions , Karl Anderson , in which Omega urged Anderson to revert to "the real Machine Gun", in reference to Anderson's days in Bullet Club alongside Omega. On the next edition of Impact! , after Anderson defeated Chris Sabin in

3132-530: Was announced that Hard To Kill would take place on January 16, 2021. The event featured ten professional wrestling matches that involves different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines . Wrestlers portrayed villains , heroes , or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. At Bound for Glory , Impact wrestler and commentator, Madison Rayne , announced that after months of speculation, Impact will be reviving

3190-581: Was extremely popular in Japan; their televised matches were some of the highest-rated broadcasts in the history of Japanese television, and the promotion regularly filled arenas to capacity. In the 1990s, US wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer rated several joshi puroresu matches five stars —a rarely-awarded perfect score on the Cornette scale—in his periodical the Wrestling Observer Newsletter . Prominent joshi wrestlers of

3248-425: Was released. On February 28, 2011, ODB and Eric Young defeated Gail Kim and Madison Rayne to win the titles. Young also became the only male to win the championship. They only defended the titles two times, but held the belts for 478 days. On the June 20, 2013 episode of Impact Wrestling , Knockouts Division Executive Brooke Hogan stripped ODB and Young of the title because Young is a male. This ultimately resulted in

3306-454: Was unveiled and contested at WrestleMania 32 on April 3, 2016, between then- Divas Champion Charlotte Flair , Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks in a triple threat match. After Wrestlemania, the Diva's Championship and the "Diva's" branding would be retired. Following the 2016 WWE Brand Extension , the new Women's Championship would become exclusive to the Raw brand, resulting in the creation of

3364-412: Was working as a special guest commentator during the match. After the match, Omega and Callis fled to a car with Callis stating Omega will appear on the December 8 episode of Impact! to explain what happened. During that episode, Omega and Callis explained the partnership between the two of them during an interview with Impact commentator Josh Mathews , with Callis saying that this partnership had been in

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