ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship
ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship belt
(2018–present)
Details
PromotionRing of Honor (ROH)
All Elite Wrestling (AEW)
Date establishedAugust 30, 2016[1]
Current champion(s)Bullet Club Gold
(Jay White and The Gunns (Austin Gunn and Colten Gunn))
Date wonJanuary 17, 2024
Statistics
First champion(s)The Kingdom
(Matt Taven, T. K. O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia)[2]
Most reignsAs Tag Team (3 reigns):

As Individual (4 reigns):

Longest reignMexa Squad
Bandido, Flamita and Rey Horus)
(374 days)
Shortest reignDalton Castle and The Boys
(Boy 1 and Boy 2)
(58 days)
Oldest championPCO
(51 years, 76 days)
Youngest championBandido
(24 years, 269 days)
Heaviest championShane Taylor
(315 lb (143 kg))[3]
Lightest championFlamita
(161 lb (73 kg))[4]

The ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by the Ring of Honor (ROH) promotion. Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a match with a predetermined outcome. Bullet Club Gold (Jay White and The Gunns (Austin Gunn and Colten Gunn) are the current champions in their first reign as a team.

History

The ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship title was officially announced in a press release on August 30, 2016,[5] and marked the first new title created by ROH in six years, following the 2010 creation of the ROH World Television Championship.[1][6][7] ROH promoted the title as the first time in nearly 25 years that a major American promotion had had a six-man tag team title.[8]

The tournament to crown the inaugural ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions took place between September 30 and December 2, 2016.[1] The tournament featured participants from the Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and Japanese New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotions, both of which ROH had partnerships with. ROH noted how six-man tag team matches were a staple of Mexican lucha libre and how NJPW had recently created its own six-man tag team championship, the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship.[6] Lio Rush was originally announced for the tournament, but ended up being replaced by NJPW wrestler Kushida.[9] However, Rush eventually returned to the team, replacing ACH in the final due to his departure from ROH.[10] The tournament started on September 30 at the All Star Extravaganza VIII pay-per-view (PPV),[11] with the remaining first round and semifinal matches taking place at the October 1 and 29 tapings of the weekly Ring of Honor Wrestling program.[12][13] The final of the tournament took place at the Final Battle PPV.[1]

The inaugural champions The Kingdom
(Matt Taven, T. K. O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia)

Inaugural championship tournament (2016)

Participants
First round Semifinals Final
         
ACH/White/Kushida Pin
Briscoes/Yano 14:00[14]
ACH/White/Kushida Pin
The Cabinet 11:42[18]
The Cabinet Pin
Kincaid/St. Giovanni/Ali 9:31[15]
White/Kushida/Rush Pin
The Kingdom 17:00[2]
Bullet Club Pin
The Kingdom 12:02[16]
The Kingdom Pin
Team CMLL 9:34[19]
Addiction/Kamaitachi Pin
Team CMLL 11:12[17]

Belt designs

The Original design of the ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship (2016–2018) is similar to the WCW World Six-Man Tag Team Championships but with different wording on both the center and side plates, different coloring and slightly different shaping of the title, sort of how the original ROH World Television Championship design was from years 2010 to 2012 was and also how the ROH TV titles second design from years 2012 to 2017 was as well but separating the belt from the other two the belt is slightly wider with two squares on the sides plate of the center piece.[20]

The championship belts were redesigned in New Year’s day of 2018.[21]

Reigns

Main article: List of ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions
Current champions Bullet Club Gold
(Jay White, Austin Gunn, and Colten Gunn)

There have been 17 reigns shared among 12 teams and 32 wrestlers. The Kingdom (Matt Taven, T. K. O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia) were the inaugural champions and they have the record with the most reigns at three as a team, while individually Vinny Marseglia/Vincent has the most reigns with four.

Bullet Club Gold (Jay White and The Gunns (Austin Gunn and Colten Gunn)) are the current champions in their first reign as a team and individually, They defeated Mogul Embassy (Brian Cage, Bishop Kaun, and Toa Liona) on January 17, 2024 in North Charleston, South Carolina on Dynamite to win the titles.

References

  1. ^ a b c d Caldwell, James (August 30, 2016). "ROH reveals new title – first champions to be determined at Final Battle". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  2. ^ a b Keller, Wade (December 2, 2016). "Keller's ROH Final Battle 2016 PPV report 12/2: Cole vs. O'Reilly, Cody Rhodes vs. Lethal, Cabana vs. Dalton, Briscoes vs. Young Bucks". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  3. ^ "Shane Taylor". Ring of Honor. February 2018. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
  4. ^ マット・ジャクソン. New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Archived from the original on August 21, 2017. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
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  6. ^ a b Johnson, Mike (August 30, 2016). "ROH adding six man tag team championship, tournament kicks off at October PPV". Pro Wrestling Insider. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  7. ^ "Daily Update: Raw ratings up, Kevins Owens reign, Del Rio in trouble, Suga Rashad". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. August 30, 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  8. ^ "ROH to introduce World Six-Man Tag Team Championship". Ring of Honor. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
  9. ^ Caldwell, James (September 27, 2016). "ROH ASE PPV – change to Six-Man Tag Tournament match; PPV line-up for Friday". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  10. ^ Powell, Jason (November 30, 2016). "11/30 Powell's Ring of Honor TV Review: Final push for Final Battle, Jay and Mark Briscoe vs. The Addiction, Jonathan Gresham vs. Lio Rush". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
  11. ^ Meltzer, Dave (September 30, 2016). "ROH All Star Extravaganza live results: Adam Cole vs. Michael Elgin". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  12. ^ "ROH Lowell, MA, TV tapings results: Trios tournament, Naito, Dragon Lee". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. October 1, 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  13. ^ "Buen papel de equipo CMLL en torneo de ROH". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). October 30, 2016. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  14. ^ Powell, Jason (September 30, 2016). "9/30 Powell's ROH All Star Extravaganza PPV live review: The Addiction vs. The Young Bucks vs. Motor City Machine Guns in a Ladder War for the ROH Tag Titles, Adam Cole vs. Michael Elgin for the ROH Title". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  15. ^ Metzger, Mike (October 19, 2016). "Metzger's ROH TV review 10/19: "One of ROH's best one-hour shows" with Lethal vs. Young, Bullet Club, War Machine, The Cabinet". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  16. ^ "ROH on SBG #268". Cagematch. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  17. ^ "ROH on SBG #269". Cagematch. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  18. ^ "ROH on SBG #267". Cagematch. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  19. ^ "ROH on SBG #270". Cagematch. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  20. ^ Unknown, NovaRC99. "ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship Render". Deviantart.com. Retrieved January 3, 2024.((cite web)): CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  21. ^ Currier, Joseph (January 1, 2018). "Video: ROH unveils more new title belt designs". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved January 2, 2018.

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