The GFW World Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team championship used during a brief period when Impact Wrestling rebranded as Global Force Wrestling (GFW) in mid-2017. The title was a continuation of the TNA World Tag Team Championship, established in May 2007 after TNA split from the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA).
That championship was first renamed the Impact Wrestling World Tag Team Championship in March 2017 when Anthem Sports & Entertainment rebranded TNA to Impact Wrestling, and then renamed again just months later as part of a merger with Global Force Wrestling (GFW), a promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett.
In late June 2017, Anthem announced it had entered an agreement to acquire the rights to GFW. Impact Wrestling subsequently rebranded as GFW beginning in early July, and all Impact Wrestling championships were renamed under the GFW banner.
The Impact Wrestling World Tag Team Championship became the GFW World Tag Team Championship. At the same time, the separate GFW Tag Team Championship from the original Global Force Wrestling promotion, established in October 2015, was unified into the title at Slammiversary XV on July 2, 2017. LAX (Santana and Ortiz) were the final holders of the original GFW tag title.
The championship initially carried a “Unified” designation, which was dropped in August 2017. A recolored version of the GFW Tag Team Championship belt design from the original promotion was introduced at Destination X 2017, featuring the Global Force Wrestling logo and globe imagery along with “Tag Team Champions” text on the main plate. The side plates carried both GFW and GFW Impact logos.
The merger proved short-lived. Jeff Jarrett took an indefinite leave of absence from the company in September 2017, and Anthem began reverting to the Impact Wrestling branding.
On September 18, 2017, the GFW name was dropped from the championship, and it became the Impact World Tag Team Championship. Anthem officially terminated its business partnership with Jeff Jarrett and Global Force Entertainment on October 23, 2017, and the GFW logos on the tag team championship belt were physically covered with Impact Wrestling nameplates as an interim solution.
OVE (Ohio Versus Everything), the team of Dave Crist and Jake Crist, were among the champions during this stretch. The GFW chapter lasted only about two and a half months and was shaped more by corporate restructuring than by developments in the tag team division itself.
