Who Is the WWE Tag Team Champion?
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- The WWE Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling championship in WWE.
- The current champions are The Usos, who are in their second reign as a team.
- The championship was created in 1971 as the WWE World Tag Team Championship, and it has been known by several names since its inception.
- The Usos are the only team to have held the championship on more than one occasion.
- The team of The Miz and John Morrison are the longest reigning champions in WWE history, holding the title for a total of six months.
The current WWE Tag Team Champions are The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston, and/or Xavier Woods).
The WWE Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling championship in WWE.
The WWE Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling championship in WWE. It is contested for by tag teams of two wrestlers. As of May 26, 2019, The Hardy Boyz (Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy) are the current champions, in their first reign as a team.
The title was established as the WWE World Tag Team Championship on October 20, 2002, as a part of WWE’s brand extension. The inaugural champions were Chris Jericho and The Rock. The title was originally intended to be exclusive to the SmackDown! brand, but was eventually unified with the World Tag Team Championship on August 16, 2010, making it available to wrestlers on both the Raw and SmackDown brands.
The titles were later split again on July 19, 2016 when Raw introduced the Raw Tag Team Championship for their tag teams while SmackDown kept the WWE Tag Team Championship for their brand’s tag teams; however, both titles were once again unified at WrestleMania 33 on April 2, 2017 when then-SmackDown General Manager Kurt Angle announced that at that night’s main event, whoever won a match between Raw’s challengers The Usos (Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso) and SmackDown’s champions Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton would become the sole holders of the WWE Tag Team Championship.
The current champions are The Usos, who are in their second reign as a team.
WWE Tag Team Champions are a professional wrestling WWE tag team championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the SmackDown brand. It is one of two tag team championships for WWE’s main roster, along with the Raw Tag Team Championship on the Raw brand. The current champions are The Usos, who are in their second reign as a team.
The title was established as the WWE Tag Team Championship on October 20, 2002, a title that was created and promoted by WWE’s then-developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW). It served as the primary tag team championship of OVW until 2007, when WWE reassigned OVW to Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW). In 2008, the championship was brought back to OVW when it became WWE’s third developmental territory, NXT. FCW became WWE’s second developmental territory in 2012 and ceased operating in favor of NXT that same year. As a result of the 2016 draft, the Tag Team Championship became exclusive to SmackDown and Raw while NXT gained its own tag team titles: the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic (for male teams) and Women’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic (for female teams).
The inaugural champions were Rated-RKO (Edge and Randy Orton), who won a tournament at No Mercy on October 20, 2002 to become the first ever champions. The team held onto the titles until January 7, 2007 when they were defeated by The Hardy Boyz (Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy). Overall there have been 71 different championship teams and 74 individual champions.
The championship was created in 1971 as the WWE World Tag Team Championship, and it has been known by several names since its inception.
The championship was created in 1971 as the WWE World Tag Team Championship, and it has been known by several names since its inception. The most recent name change occurred in 2016 when the championship was renamed the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship.
The WWE Raw Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the Raw brand. It is one of two tag team championships for WWE’s main roster, along with the SmackDown Tag Team Championship on the SmackDown brand. The current champions are The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford), who are in their first reign as a team.
WWE also promotes other tag team titles under its banner, such as the NXT Tag Team Championship on its developmental brand NXT and the now-defunct World Tag Team Championship (a original title of the company) and WCW Tag Team Championship (wrestlers brought over after WWE’s purchase of World Championship Wrestling in 2001).
The Usos are the only team to have held the championship on more than one occasion.
As of 2019, the Usos (Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso) are the current WWE Tag Team Champions in their second reign. They are the only team to have held the championship on more than one occasion. The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley) hold the record for most reigns as a team, with eight.
The team of The Miz and John Morrison are the longest reigning champions in WWE history, holding the title for a total of six months.
The two were originally scheduled to face off against each other at The Bash in 2009, but Morrison was injured and had to be replaced by Evan Bourne. Miz and Bourne went on to win the match, becoming the new WWE Tag Team Champions. Miz and Morrison officially became a team in November of 2019, and they have held the title ever since.
