Evolve Tag Team Championship

Evolve Tag Team Championship
Details
Current champion(s) Catch Point (Drew Gulak and Tracy Williams)
Date won April 2, 2016[1]
Date established November 10, 2015[2]
Promotion Evolve

The Evolve Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling tag team championship owned by the Evolve promotion. The inaugural champions were crowned on January 24, 2016, at the end of an eight-team tournament.[5]

Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. There have been two reigns shared among two teams and four wrestlers. Catch Point (Drew Gulak and Tracy Williams) are the current champions in their first reign both individually and as a team.[1]

History

Evolve was founded in 2009 by Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA) booker Gabe Sapolsky, Full Impact Pro (FIP) owner Sal Hamaoui and independent wrestler Davey Richards and held its first event on January 16, 2010.[6][7] On November 25, 2011, Evolve and DGUSA announced the unification of the two promotions, which would result in Evolve recognizing the Open the Freedom Gate and Open the United Gate Championships as its top two titles.[8] On December 22, 2014, WWNLive, the parent company of both Evolve and DGUSA, announced it was putting DGUSA on hiatus until it could secure more Japanese wrestlers for the promotion's shows.[9] The Open the United Gate Championship continued being defended at Evolve shows until May 30, 2015, when reigning champions Johnny Gargano and Rich Swann retired the title and asked for a new Evolve tag team title to be created in its place.[10] On September 22, Evolve announced that it would start putting more emphasis on the promotion's tag team division and would create the new title, if the experiment turned out successful.[11] On November 10, 2015, Evolve sent out a press release, officially announcing the creation of the Evolve Tag Team Championship.[2]

Championship tournament

Evolve announced that the inaugural champions would be determined in a tournament taking place over Evolve 53, Evolve 54 and Evolve 55 from January 22 to 24, 2016, in Orlando, Florida.[2] The first three teams participating in the tournament were revealed in the press release announcing the creation of the title.[2] The rest of the teams were announced throughout the rest of November 2015 along with the clarification that the tournament would be contested in a single-elimination format with eight participating teams.[12][13] The first round matches were announced on January 19, 2016.[14] Timothy Thatcher was originally announced for the tournament, but he was forced to pull out due to a staph infection and was replaced by Sami Callihan.[15]

Participating teams
First round
(January 22) 		Semifinals
(January 23) 		Finals
(January 24)
         
Callihan and Sabre Pin
Hero and End [16]
Hero and End Pin
Roppongi Vice [17]
Roppongi Vice Pin
Carr and Barry [16]
Hero and End Sub
Galloway and Gargano [5]
Nese and Konley Pin
The Bravado Brothers [16]
The Bravado Brothers Sub
Galloway and Gargano [17]
Galloway and Gargano Pin
Gulak and Perkins [16]

Title history

# Order in reign history
Reign The reign number for the specific wrestler listed
Event The event in which the title was won
Successful defenses The number of successful defenses the champion had during his reign
— Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign
N/A The information is not available or is unknown
+ Indicates the current reign is changing daily
# Team Reign Date Days
held		 Location Event Notes Ref(s)
1 Drew Galloway and Johnny Gargano 1 January 24, 2016 69 Orlando, Florida Evolve 55 Galloway and Gargano defeated Chris Hero and Tommy End in the finals of an eight-team tournament to become the inaugural champions. [5]
2 Catch Point
(Drew Gulak and Tracy Williams)		 1 April 2, 2016 27+ Dallas, Texas Evolve 59 [1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Caldwell, James (April 2, 2016). "4/2 Evolve 59 iPPV Results – Ricochet vs. Ospreay main event, big title change & angle, USA vs. Europe, Kota Ibushi, more leading into WWN Supershow". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Namako, Jason (November 16, 2015). "Evolve to crown first tag champions in January 2016". Wrestleview. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Drew Galloway". Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Archived from the original on January 24, 2016. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Roster". Pro Wrestling Guerrilla. Archived from the original on January 24, 2016. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
  5. 1 2 3 Trionfo, Richard (January 24, 2016). "Complete Evolve 55 iPPV report: first Evolve tag champions crowned, Style Battle concludes, who is the next challenger for Timothy Thatcher?". Pro Wrestling Insider. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
  6. ↑ Mehaffy, Gary (November 9, 2009). "Gabe Sapolsky interview on Dragon Gate, Evolve". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  7. ↑ Radican, Sean (February 16, 2010). "Radican's Evolve DVD Review Series: Evolve 1 - Richards vs. Ibushi, Sawa vs. TJP". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Evolve evolves -- now unified with DGUSA". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. November 25, 2011. Archived from the original on November 28, 2011. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  9. ↑ Caldwell, James (December 22, 2014). "WWNLive news: Update on the future of Dragon Gate USA, several new matches for Evolve Florida tour". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  10. ↑ Radican, Sean (June 3, 2015). "Radican's "Evolve 43" iPPV report 5/30 - Hero-Lee MOTYC, debut of Speedball, Galloway-Busick main event". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  11. ↑ "9.22.15". WWNLive. September 22, 2015. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
  12. ↑ Caldwell, James (November 30, 2015). "Complete Evolve Tag Tournament field". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  13. ↑ Namako, Jason (November 30, 2015). "More info on Evolve tag tournaments in January 2016". Wrestleview. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  14. ↑ Johnson, Mike (January 19, 2016). "First round of Evolve tag title tournament Friday announced, last chance for iPPV sale & bonus". Pro Wrestling Insider. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
  15. ↑ "Evolve 53-55 Weekend Preview, Line-ups & iPPV Info". Pro Wrestling Torch. January 22, 2016. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
  16. 1 2 3 4 "Evolve 53 iPPV results: Chris Hero & Tommy End vs. Zack Sabre Jr. & Sami Callihan". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. January 23, 2016. Retrieved January 23, 2016.
  17. 1 2 Trionfo, Richard (January 23, 2016). "Evolve 54 iPPV coverage: who is in the tag title tournament finals?, William Regal makes an appearance, Style Battle continues, and more". Pro Wrestling Insider. Retrieved January 24, 2016.

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