Impact Wrestling introduced the Knockouts Championship at the 2007 Bound For Glory PPV under the name TNA Women's World Championship. The company announced a 10-woman gauntlet match at the PPV to crown the inaugural champion, which saw Gail Kim overcoming the odds to become the first-ever Knockouts Champion.
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Since then, 25 Knockouts have held the prestigious championship over the years. The championship has added some prestige to the careers of those who have held it so far, and most of them are still competing in an elite level across various promotions. With that said, let's take a look at ten former Knockouts Champions and find out what they're up to these days.
10 Taryn Terrell
Taryn Terrell became the seventh person to win the Knockouts Championship after she defeated Havok and Gail Kim on the November 19, 2014, episode of Impact.
She held the title for 279 days before dropping it to Brooke Tessmacher in June 2015. It is her only run with the title so far, and her first stint with the company ended in January 2016. She is still an active in-ring performer to this date and competes in occasional matches at various NWA events, and her last match took place on June 2022 against Taya Valkyrie in a losing effort.
9 Tara
Also known to the WWE fans as Victoria, Tara is a former 5-time Knockouts Champion in Impact Wrestling. She won the title for the first time in June 2009 and held it in four other instances until January 2013, with her fourth reign being the longest with 104 days.
She is also a former 2-time WWE Women's Champion and is one of the most decorated female wrestlers in the industry. She's now happily retired from in-ring competition in 2019 but returned for one last match when she entered the 2021 WWE Women's Royal Rumble match.
8 Miss Tessmacher
Miss Tessmacher has won the Knockouts Championship on three occasions in Impact Wrestling under different names throughout her time with the company between 2010 and 2015.
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She left the company in November 2015 due to her pregnancy and returned in January 2017 for a short stint which ended in June. Following that, Tessmacher hasn't returned to in-ring competition as of this writing and hasn't announced her retirement either. Apart from her career in pro wrestling, Tessmacher is also a licensed real estate agent and is taking care of business in the Houston area.
7 Allie
Allie is a former 2-time Knockouts Champion in Impact Wrestling who competed for the company between 2013 and 2019. She won the title for the first time in August 2016 and once again in January 2018, with the latter reign lasting 102 days.
Impact Wrestling chose to let her go by not renewing her contract in 2019, which allowed her to make her debut for All Elite Wrestling, where she's currently performing under the name Bunny. She competed in regular matches for All Elite Wrestling since her signing in 2019, but is now taking some time off to recover from an injury.
6 Sienna
Sienna became a 2-time Knockouts Champion and a 1-time GFW Women's Champion during her time in Impact Wrestling between 2016 and 2018.
She won the Knockouts Title for the first time in June 2016 and the second time in July 2017, with the second reign being longer, with 126 days. She left the company in 2018 and competed in the 2018 WWE Mae Young Classic tournament, in which she lost to Mia Yim in the first round. She is now working in the independent circuit and with NWA under the name Allysin Kay, and her last recorded match took place at the 2022 ROH Death Before Dishonor event.
5 Winter
Winter was part of the Impact Wrestling roster between 2010 and 2012 in her first run and between 2018 and 2019 in her second. During the time, she went on to capture the Knockouts Championship on two occasions and had short runs from August to October 2011.
She left Impact Wrestling in 2019 and hasn't made her return to the company to this date. However, she continued to compete in the independent circuit and performed in various independent companies, and her last recorded match took place on April 9, 2021. Despite not making any in-ring appearances after that, she continued to post regular updates about herself and recently revealed that she officially became an American citizen.
4 Taylor Wilde
Taylor Wilde became the 18th wrestler to win the Impact Knockouts Championship when she defeated Awesome Kong on the July 10, 2008, episode of Impact. That remains her only reign with the title as she never got her hands back on the title until her exit from the company in November 2021.
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She left Impact Wrestling due to personal reasons, which kept her on the sidelines for quite some time before she made her return to in-ring competition at an independent event in June 2022.
3 Angelina Love
Angelina Love is one of the most decorated wrestlers in Impact Wrestling history, as she has held the Knockouts Championship six times in her career so far and has also held the Knockouts Tag Team Championship on one occasion.
Her final run with Impact Wrestling ended in 2017, when she asked for her release from the company, which was granted immediately. After the exit, she went on to compete in the independent circuit and ROH, where she got her hands on the Woman of Honor Championship. She is currently under contract with the NWA and is continuing to perform for the promotion while also having occasional matches in the indies.
2 Gail Kim
As mentioned before Gail Kim is the first wrestler to hold the Knockouts Championship and has a total of seven reigns with the title throughout her time with Impact Wrestling.
Her last run as an in-ring performer ended in 2019 after Tessa Blanchard defeated Gail Kim at the Rebellion PPV. However, despite stepping down from in-ring competition, Gail Kim hasn't walked away from pro-wrestling as a whole as she's continuing her association with Impact Wrestling in a backstage role as a Producer.
1 Awesome Kong
Awesome Kong has held the Impact Knockouts Championship on two occasions throughout her career with Impact Wrestling. She proved to be a dominant champion by holding on to the title for long durations in both her reigns, with the second being longer, with 178 days.
She got released from her Impact contract in 2016 after a legitimate backstage altercation with Reby Hardy. After making a few appearances in the indies, Kong made her debut for All Elite Wrestling, where she appeared till February 2020 after parting ways with them due to creative differences. She announced her retirement from in-ring competition in August 2021 to put an end to her 20-year career.
