and
Taylor Wilde. TNA Knockout (formerly Impact Knockout), or just Knockout for short, 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 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 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 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 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 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. ==Championship Tournaments==