"On the October 27 episode of ""Raw"", Punk and Kofi Kingston defeated Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase to win the World Tag Team Championship. The duo were members of Team Batista at Survivor Series, where their team lost to Team Orton on November 23. Punk then entered in a number one contender Intercontinental Championship tournament, defeating Snitsky and John Morrison in the first two rounds. Punk and Kingston lost the World Tag Team Championship to John Morrison and The Miz on December 13 at a live event. The next day at Armageddon, Punk defeated Rey Mysterio to win the tournament."
"CM Punk Phillip Jack Brooks (born October 26, 1978), better known by the ring name CM Punk, is an American mixed martial artist, comic book writer and retired professional wrestler. He is currently signed to both the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he competes in the welterweight division, and to Cage Fury Fighting Championships (CFFC), where he works as a commentator. He is perhaps best known for his time in WWE, where he is recognized as the sixth longest reigning WWE Champion of all-time. Brooks began his professional wrestling career on the American independent circuit, primarily with Ring of Honor"
"Tag World Grand Prix as CP Munk – the 'Straight Edge' Chipmunk (Almond Free, Acorn Free and Better Than You), a parody of CM Punk as it was a large chipmunk costume with 'CM Punk-style' markings (including a large Pepsi logo on his arm and tape over his fists with an 'X' drawn on each). He was partnered by 'Colt Ca-Bunny' (a parody of Colt Cabana, Punk's tag-team partner, in the form of a rabbit costume) who was actually Joker. They would defeat ROH students Matt Turner & Anthony Franco in the first round, but lose to Eddie Kingston &"
"World Tag Team Champions with Soldat Ustinov when he left) as Volkoff's partner in 1987 after Volkoff's regular partner The Iron Sheik was fired. The team made their debut on the October 24, 1987 edition of 'WWF Superstars of Wrestling', defeating Lance Allen and Sonny Rodgers. The team then appeared in a 10-man battle royal on the following episode of WWF Superstars on October 31, 1987. As with the previous pairing of Volkoff and The Iron SHiek, the Bolsheviks were managed by Slick. The pair made their first pay-per-view (PPV) appearance together in the 10 team elimination match at the"
"General Manager Mike Adamle announced that the two men would face off at SummerSlam, making it the first time ever that the two men had faced off against each other, a match that had been six years in the making. Both men won the World Tag Team Championship against Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase Jr. in a tag team match. They lost the title a week later in a rematch. Another main feud on the Raw brand was between John ""Bradshaw"" Layfield (JBL) and CM Punk for the World Heavyweight Championship. JBL became the number one contender for Punk's title,"
"World Tag Team Championship (AJPW) The World Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling tag team championship in Japanese promotion All Japan Pro Wrestling. It was created on June 10, 1988 as a unification of two previous tag team titles in All Japan; the PWF Tag Team Championship, and the NWA International Tag Team Championship; when the PWF champions Jumbo Tsuruta and Yoshiaki Yatsu defeated NWA champions The Road Warriors. As with the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship, it is symbolized by four belts, two for each wrestler, representing the former PWF and NWA titles. It is currently the top of"
"CMLL World Tag Team Championship The CMLL World Tag Team Championship (""CMLL Campeonato Mundial de Parejas"" in Spanish) is a professional wrestling World Tag Team Championship promoted by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; Spanish for ""World Wrestling Council"") in Mexico and is for two-man tag teams only. The championship was created in 1993 to replace the Mexican National Tag Team Championship and is still promoted by CMLL to this day. It is the top championship promoted by CMLL, with the CMLL Arena Coliseo Tag Team Championship and the Occidente Tag Team Championship considered lower ranked, regional tag team championships."
"World Tag Team Championship, although Michaels made many attempts to superkick Cena during the road to No Way Out. On the February 16, 2007 episode of ""SmackDown!"", Undertaker and Batista again teamed up to face Rated-RKO and were victorious via pinfall. The secondary feud heading into No Way Out was between Chris Benoit and The Hardys against MNM and Montel Vontavious Porter (MVP). This feud began shortly after MNM reformed, when they challenged the reunited Hardys at December to Dismember in a losing effort. They then continued to wrestle on episodes of ""Raw"", ""ECW"", and ""SmackDown!"" until Armageddon, when Mercury"
"World Tag Team Championship. Storm and Roode won, after Storm performed a ""Last Call"" on Hernandez, with a belt wrapped around his boot. Hector Guerrero, LAX's manager, was at ringside, however, and got the match restarted by informing the referee about what had happened. LAX then retained, leading to Roode, Storm, and Jacqueline attacking LAX. The next week, LAX challenged Storm and Roode to a Fan's Revenge Lumberjack match at Victory Road. Roode and Storm then began calling themselves ""Beer Money, Inc."", sometimes shortened to simply ""Beer Money"", with their name based on their individual gimmicks (Storm's beer-drinking cowboy gimmick"
"Tag Team match main event of , where Austin was partnered with Ken Shamrock, Goldust and The Legion of Doom. At SummerSlam, Austin and Owen Hart faced each other with Hart's Intercontinental Championship on the line and an added stipulation that Austin would have to kiss Hart's buttocks if he lost. During the match, Hart botched a piledriver and dropped Austin on his head, resulting in a legitimate broken neck and temporary paralysis for Austin. As Hart stalled by baiting the audience, Austin managed to crawl over and pin Hart using a roll-up to win the Intercontinental Championship. A visibly"
"The World's Greatest Tag Team The World's Greatest Tag Team was a professional wrestling tag team, which also used the name Wrestling's Greatest Tag Team. The team consisted of Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin. Originally formed in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), they started out captained by Kurt Angle, during which time they were known as Team Angle. They also wrestled for several other independent promotions. Haas and Benjamin made their debut on the SmackDown! brand in December 2002, and won the WWE Tag Team Championship in February 2003. After losing the championship in May, Haas and Benjamin were fired from"
"World Tag Team Championship. Varsity Club members Mike Rotunda and Steve Williams defended the titles against the Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal). Nikita Koloff served as the special guest referee. The leader of Varsity Club, Kevin Sullivan was Rotunda and Williams' manager but was sent to backstage by Koloff for misbehaviour. Rotunda got the early momentum by dropkicking Animal but Animal powerslammed him as Rotunda tried to perform a high-flying maneuver. Hawk and Williams were tagged in. Hawk dominated Williams by performing a Powerslam and a Fist Drop. Williams rolled out to the ringside area but Hawk hit him with"
"ICW Tag Team Championship The ICW Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling Championship (professional wrestling) owned by Scotland's Insane Championship Wrestling promotion. Complimenting ICW's two established singles titles (ICW World Heavyweight Championship and ICW Zero-G Championship), the Tag Team Championship was first established on September 2, 2012 when The S.T.I (Dickie Divers and William Grange) won a tournament final to become the inaugural champions. The titles were defended outside of the United Kingdom for the first time on February 29, 2016 at a show in Dublin, Ireland. The current champions are The P.O.D (Ashton Smith and Rampage Brown), who"
"money for his family. The event, the ""Haas Memorial Tag Team Tournament"", was held at Recreation Station in Toms River and featured a number of wrestlers from World Wrestling Entertainment. The tournament had a unique format with the first round matches being three-way matches with double elimination rules, as opposed to traditional single team matches, and included PCW Tag Team Champions The United Nations (Tiger Khan & Prophet), Steve Corino & Amazing Red, The S.A.T. (Jose and Joel Maximo), Chris Divine & Quiet Storm, Malice & Seven, Da Hit Squad, Joey Matthews & Christian York, Bo Dupp & Matt Vandal"
"SmackDown Tag Team Championship. In January 2017, WWE stated that the aforementioned championships were acceptable substitutes for their counterpart titles in the Grand Slam, but have not yet confirmed if they are part of the Triple Crown. No holders of these two titles has held the other required titles to become a Triple Crown or Grand Slam champion. CM Punk holds the record for completing the Triple Crown in the shortest amount of time between the first and third title. It took him 203 days between June 2008 and January 2009. This broke Diesel's previous record of 227 days set"
"World Tag Team Champions John Morrison and The Miz in a Lumberjack match, which has a number of wrestlers surround the ring in order to keep any competitor from avoiding the match, to unify the World Tag Team Championship and WWE Tag Team Championship. The Colóns won the encounter after Primo executed the Backstabber on Morrison. As the event went live on pay-per-view, Nicole Scherzinger sang ""America the Beautiful"". The Money in the Bank ladder match was the start of the event as the participants: CM Punk, Kane, Mark Henry, MVP, Shelton Benjamin, Kofi Kingston, Christian, and Finlay (wrestler), fought"
"World Tag Team Championship on January 22, 1996 on Nitro when they defeated Harlem Heat. During their reign, Luger was a heel and Sting was a face. During their reign, they feuded with Harlem Heat and the returning Road Warriors. They finally lost the titles on June 24, 1996 to Harlem Heat when The Outsiders caused a distraction at ringside, during a match, which also included The Steiner Brothers. Their team ended in September 1996 when Luger believed that Sting joined the New World Order (nWo). In reality, it was The nWo Sting, and Sting soon turned his back on"
"CM Punk. R-Truth then began to contend for the WWE Tag Team Championship with Kofi Kingston and competing against Primo and Epico and Dolph Ziggler and Jack Swagger, which they both won and lost respectively. On the February 27 episode of ""Raw"", R-Truth and Kingston failed to capture the WWE Tag Team Championship from Primo and Epico in a Triple Threat Tag Team Match, also involving Ziggler and Swagger. At WrestleMania XXVIII, R-Truth and Kingston were members of Team Teddy to face Team Johnny in a twelve-man tag team match to determine the general manager of both brands, which was"
"fellow Nexus member Michael McGillicutty to win the WWE Tag Team Championship from Kane and The Big Show with the help interference from fellow New Nexus members Mason Ryan and Punk. They made their only successful title defense against The Usos on the July 29 episode of ""SmackDown"". After CM Punk left the New Nexus when his WWE contract expired on July 17, Otunga and McGillicutty competed against Santino Marella and Zack Ryder on the August 1 episode of ""Raw"" without any Nexus gear or armbands, and with all Nexus logos removed from their TitanTron, effectively signaling the end of"
"on to lose the titles back to Cade and Murdoch just three days later at another house show on that South African tour. The World Tag Team Championship changed hands again at a house show on December 13, 2008 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, when John Morrison and The Miz defeated CM Punk and Kofi Kingston. On January 15, 2012 in Oakland, CA, Air Boom (Evan Bourne) & Kofi Kingston (Air Boom) on the January 15th 2012 dropped the Tag Team Titles to Primo & Epico (due to a suspension to Evan Bourne) at a House Show in Oakland, CA Due"
"integrated into his gimmick. The tattoos as a whole, due to their large quantity and variety, have also become an attribute identifiable to Punk. The most important of the individual tattoos in Punk's character—whether through association, symbol, or mantra—are the following: At UFC 181, on December 6, 2014, Punk announced that he had signed a multi-fight contract with Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). When asked if he would compete under his ring name or birth name, he told the ""Las Vegas Sun"": ""I've come this far with CM Punk. That's what people know. I'm trying to stick with that. I'm not"
"Randy Orton, and the World Tag Team Champions Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase. Soon after coming to his rescue, Punk and Kingston were paired together more often, and on the October 27 ""Raw"", the duo won the World Tag Team Championship. He was also involved at Survivor Series in the traditional ten-men elimination tag team match on the side of Team Batista, but was eliminated by Orton. Kingston and Punk lost the World Tag Team Championship to John Morrison and The Miz at a WWE live event on December 13. At No Way Out, Kingston was scheduled to compete in"
"1991, WWF-affiliated promotion UWF Japan introduced the WWF Intercontinental Tag Team Championship, claimed by the team of Perro Aguayo and Gran Hamada. This title was abandoned when the affilaition ended that same year. Similarly, back in May 1985, Tatsumi Fujinami and Kengo Kimura beat Dick Murdoch and Adrian Adonis in a tournament final in Japan for a revival of the old International Tag Team Title of 1969-1971, only for the title to be abandoned again when New Japan and the WWF fell out in October In 2001, the WWF bought rival company WCW, acquiring the WCW World Tag Team Championship,"
"the team pinned would drop their titles to the winners. La Revolución was not involved in the result, which saw the CWA titlists best their CWS counterparts. Footnotes Bibliography WWC World Tag Team Championship The WWC World Tag Team Championship is the tag team title contested for in the Puerto Rican professional wrestling promotion, the World Wrestling Council. On February 11, 2017, Thunder and Lightning defended the WWC World Tag Team Championship against Stateline (Damien Angel and Eddie Taurus) in Lorain, Ohio, this as part of Cleveland Knights Championship Wrestling's Chase for the Grail event. With WWC immersed in a"
"and Batista defeated JBL and Kane in a tag team match. After the match, on-screen authority figure, Mike Adamle announced that at SummerSlam, Batista would face John Cena in a standard match. On the following episode of ""Raw"", Cena and Batista defeated Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase to capture the World Tag Team Championship. On the August 11 episode of ""Raw"", Cena and Batista lost the tag team championship to Rhodes and DiBiase in a tag team rematch. On the August 4 episode of ""Raw"" Adamle announced that JBL and Chris Jericho would face CM Punk in a two-on-one match"
"days. The Midnight Express also held the most reigns overall as a tag team and individually, with three. WCW United States Tag Team Championship The WCW United States Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team championship contested for in the United States-based Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) promotions. The title was only contestable by male tag teams and in tag team matches. In 1986, NWA President and JCP owner Jim Crockett, Jr.<ref name=""WCW/JCP""></ref> introduced the championship to replace and consolidate the old NWA Mid-Atlantic and Georgia National titles, under the name ""NWA United States"
"PG-13 (professional wrestling) PG-13 was the tag team of J.C. Ice and Wolfie D who worked for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and United States Wrestling Association (USWA). PG-13 briefly competed in Puerto Rico for the World Wrestling Council (WWC) in 1995, W*ING in Japan, Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) in 1997 and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 2000. They were members of the original incarnation of the Nation of Domination in the USWA. In the United States Wrestling Association in the early 1990s, Jamie Dundee turned on his father and became J.C. Ice, a rapper. Dundee formed a tag team"
"XPW World Tag Team Championship The XPW World Tag Team Championship was introduced at ""Baptized in Blood III"" in 2002 by Xtreme Pro Wrestling and the championship was decided in a 4-Way Elimination Tag Team match that featured Mexico's Most Wanted (Halloween and Damián 666), The New Panthers (K. Malik Shabazz and Raphael Muhammed), the team of Pogo the Clown and Juantastico, and the team of American Wild Child and Shady. Only two teams would end up holding the XPW World Tag Team Championship on two occasions. Youthanazia, the team of Josh Prohibition and M-Dogg 20, were the final champions."
"XPW World Tag Team Championship The XPW World Tag Team Championship was introduced at ""Baptized in Blood III"" in 2002 by Xtreme Pro Wrestling and the championship was decided in a 4-Way Elimination Tag Team match that featured Mexico's Most Wanted (Halloween and Damián 666), The New Panthers (K. Malik Shabazz and Raphael Muhammed), the team of Pogo the Clown and Juantastico, and the team of American Wild Child and Shady. Only two teams would end up holding the XPW World Tag Team Championship on two occasions. Youthanazia, the team of Josh Prohibition and M-Dogg 20, were the final champions."
"Punk, Colt Cabana, William Regal and Chris Jericho gave words of support. During this time he worked with cancer charities to raise funds and made a couple of non-wrestling appearances at shows. In June 2015, it was announced that Travis had beaten cancer and would be returning to the ring. He wrestled Sha Samuels for PCW in his return match on 7 August 2015, before capturing the PWE Tag Team Championship with Lou King Sharp in Scotland . He was victorious in singles competition against Chris Tyler for HOPE Wrestling in Nottingham and against his Project Ego partner Martin Kirby"
"CM Punk. At Night of Champions, after the referee was distracted while The Miz attempted a pin, Miz assaulted him, causing Awesome Truth to lose a WWE Tag Team Championship match to Air Boom (Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne) by disqualification. Seeking retribution, Miz and Truth later attacked both Triple H and CM Punk during their No Disqualification match in the main event. Because of their actions from the previous night, R-Truth and The Miz were fired by Triple H on the September 19 episode of ""Raw"". At the conclusion of the main event match at Hell in a Cell,"
"Tag Team Championship by defeating Ricky Steamboat and Dustin Rhodes, the team to whom Anderson and Zbyszko lost the belts, for the championship and held on to the belts for five months before they lost them to the Steiner Brothers. The Dangerous Alliance was a dominant force in WCW. At one point during 1992, they held every title except the WCW World Title, which was held by their main opponent and arch enemy Sting. The war between the Dangerous Alliance and Sting and friends escalated until it was decided to settle it in a double ring War Games Match at"
"the titles (will air on tape delay at a later date). Individually, James Storm holds the record with seven reigns, while Beer Money and The Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) share the record of five reigns as a team. Although the title is a World Tag Team Championship, three wrestlers have held the championship by themselves — Samoa Joe, Kurt Angle, and Matt Morgan. Joe held the championship during his entire reign alone; however, Angle held the championship alone for 15 days until Sting won a match involving three other competitors to become Angle's partner, and Morgan held the"