List of TNA Knockouts World Champions explained

The TNA Knockouts World Championship is a women's professional wrestling world championship owned by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). It is primarily contested for in TNA's women's division, though it has been challenged one time by a male competitor (Cody Deaner). It was introduced on October 14, 2007, at TNA's Bound for Glory pay-per-view (PPV) event under the name "TNA Women's World Championship";[1] it was later renamed "TNA Women's Knockout Championship" in 2008. The word "Knockout" in the championship's name alludes to the term TNA Knockout, which TNA uses to refer to its female wrestlers.[2]

Being a professional wrestling championship, it is won via a scripted ending to a match or awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline. All title changes have occurred at TNA-promoted events; reigns that occurred on TNA's primary television program, Impact!, usually aired on tape delay and as such are listed with the day the tapings occurred, rather than the air date. The inaugural champion was Gail Kim who defeated Ms. Brooks, Christy Hemme, Awesome Kong, Roxxi Laveaux, Velvet Sky, Shelly Martinez, Jackie Moore, ODB, and Angelina Love in a ten–Knockout gauntlet match.[1] Taya Valkyrie's first reign is the longest in the title's history, with 377 days. Gail Kim's seventh reign holds the record for shortest reign in the title's history at 18 hours, due to her relinquishing the title because of her retirement.[3] Overall, there have been 64 reigns shared among 26 wrestlers, with four vacancies.

Title history

Names

NameDuration
TNA Women's World ChampionshipOctober 14, 2007—2008
TNA Women's Knockout Championship2008—2010
TNA Knockouts Championship2010—March 1, 2017
Impact Wrestling Knockouts ChampionshipMarch 2, 2017—July 2, 2017
Unified GFW Knockouts ChampionshipJuly 2, 2017—August 17, 2017
GFW Knockouts ChampionshipAugust 17, 2017—September 18, 2017
Impact Knockouts ChampionshipSeptember 18, 2017 – 2021
Impact Knockouts World Championship2021–January 13, 2024
TNA Knockouts World ChampionshipJanuary 13, 2024–

Reigns

Combined reigns

As of, .

Indicates the current champion
RankWrestlerNo. of
reigns
data-sort-type="number"Combined
days
17 711
23 +
33 531
45 445
55 404
61 377
72 347
81 279
91 266
106 226
115 222
122 187
131 182
143 156
151 147
162 145
174 144
182 131
191 121
201 106
212 103
221 87
231 65
242 53
251 50
261 3

References

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Angle gets stung at Bound For Glory. Chris. Sokol. October 14, 2007. September 21, 2009. SLAM! Sports: Wrestling. Canadian Online Explorer. June 29, 2012. https://archive.today/20120629172343/http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/PPVReports/2007/10/15/4577676.html. usurped.
  2. TNA DVDs. Knocked Out: The Women of TNA Wrestling. TNA Home Video.
  3. Web site: Current Champions List at TNAWrestling.com. September 21, 2009. Total Nonstop Action. TNA Entertainment. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110518142626/http://www.tnawrestling.com/roster/Wrestler-Roster. May 18, 2011.