ROH World Tag Team Championship

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 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.

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]

Teams:

• Da Hit Squad (Mafia and Monsta Mack)
• Divine Storm (Chris Divine and Quiet Storm)
• The Full Blooded Italians (James Maritato and Tony Mamaluke)
• The Natural Born Sinners (Boogalou and Homicide)
• The Prophecy (Christopher Daniels and Donovan Morgan)
• The S.A.T. (Joel Maximo and Jose Maximo)
• American Dragon and Michael Modest
• Dick Togo and Ikuto Hidaka

1 ^ Neither team was able to compete after being attacked by The Carnage Crew before the start of their scheduled match.

Source: [4]

ROH World Tag Team Championship belts (left to right): first design (2002–2010, 2022–2023), second design (2010–2012), third design (2012–2017), fourth design (2018–2022).

The fourth design of the ROH World Tag Team Championship from years 2018 to 2022 is sort of like a circle like repetitive round crown on all five plates of the belt that is gold with red and silver diamonds all around the center and side plates (two side plates per side equaling to four 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]

Current ROH World Tag Team Champions Maxwell Jacob Friedman (front) and Adam Cole (back).

Overall, there have been 67 reigns among 71 different wrestlers and 41 different teams. The inaugural champions were The Prophecy (Christopher Daniels and Donovan Morgan), who defeated 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 441 days. The Briscoes (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) hold the record for the most reigns with 13 (both as a team and individually).

Better Than You Bay-Bay (Adam Cole and Maxwell Jacob Friedman) are the current champions in their first reign–both individually and as a team. They defeated Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher and Mark Davis) on August 27, 2023 in London, England at All In: Zero Hour to win the titles.

• ROH World Tag Team Championship title history at Cagematch.net