ROH World 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 title belts, and instead presented Christopher Daniels and Donovan Morgan (The Prophecy), the winners of the tournament, with a trophy.

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. Since then, the title has also been defended in the United Kingdom.

On December 10, 2022 at Final Battle The Briscoe Brothers became record setting 13-time champions. During their reign, one-half of The Briscoe Brothers Jay Briscoe died in a car accident on January 17, 2023. His brother Mark Briscoe kept the title until it was vacated at Supercard of Honor on March 21, 2023.

Inaugural championship tournament (2002)

Tournament bracket

ROH Wrestling tapings ROH Wrestling tapings ROH Wrestling tapings | RD1-team1 = The Prophecy (Christopher Daniels and Donovan Morgan) | RD1-team2 = The S.A.T. (Joel Maximo and Jose Maximo) | RD1-score1 = 7:21 | RD1-score2 = Pin | RD1-team3 = The Full Blooded Italians aka The F.B.I. (James Maritato and Tony Mamaluke) | RD1-team4 = Dick Togo and Ikuto Hidaka | RD1-score3 = Pin | RD1-score4 = 9:42 | RD1-team5 = Divine Storm (Chris Divine and Quiet Storm) | RD1-team6 = American Dragon and Michael Modest | RD1-score5 = Pin | RD1-score6 = 6:23 | RD1-team7 = Da Hit Squad (Mafia and Monsta Mack) | RD1-team8 = The Natural Born Sinners (Boogalou and Homicide) | RD1-score7 = DNP | RD1-score8 = DNP | RD2-team1 =The Prophecy (Christopher Daniels and Donovan Morgan) | RD2-team2 = Dick Togo and Ikuto Hidaka | RD2-score1 = 14:24 | RD2-score2 = Pin | RD2-team3 = American Dragon and Michael Modest | RD2-team4 = | RD2-score3 = Bye | RD2-score4 = | RD3-team1 = The Prophecy (Christopher Daniels and Donovan Morgan) | RD3-team2 = American Dragon and Michael Modest | RD3-score1 = 14:42 | RD3-score2 = Pin

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

Belt designs

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.

The sixth 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.

Reigns

Main article: List of ROH World Tag Team Champions

Overall, there have been 71 reigns among 75 different wrestlers and 43 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).

The current champions are La Facción Ingobernable (Sammy Guevara and The Beast Mortos), who are in their first reign as a team, but first for Mortos and third for Guevara individually. They won the vacant titles by defeating Tommy Billington and Adam Priest at Final Battle in Columbus, Ohio on December 5, 2025. Previous champions Guevara and Rush vacated the titles due to Rush suffering a knee injury.

Notes

References

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