The
WWE Raw Tag Team Championship
The WWE Raw Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, representing the Raw brand division. It is one of two male tag team championships for WWE's main ros ...
is a
professional wrestling
Professional wrestling is a form of theater that revolves around staged wrestling matches. The mock combat is performed in a ring similar to the kind used in boxing, and the dramatic aspects of pro wrestling may be performed both in the ring or ...
world tag team championship contested in
WWE on the
Raw brand. Introduced as the WWE Tag Team Championship, it was WWE's third world tag team title, and sixth tag team title overall. After WWE bought the
promotions of
Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and
World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and unified the
WCW Tag Team Championship into its own title at
Survivor Series 2001, it
split its roster into two brands, Raw and
SmackDown. As WWE's
original World Tag Team Championship was designated exclusive to the Raw brand, SmackDown introduced the WWE Tag Team Championship as its own championship.
In 2007, after the initiation of the
ECW brand, the title was shared between the SmackDown and
ECW brands, thus inter-brand matches could take place for the title.
In 2009, the title was
unified with the World Tag Team Championship by
The Colóns (
Carlito and
Primo) at
WrestleMania XXV and became recognized as the "Unified WWE Tag Team Championship" until August 2010 when the World Tag Team Championship was decommissioned in favor of continuing the lineage of the WWE Tag Team Championship. In 2016, WWE reintroduced its brand split and the championship became exclusive to Raw. It was subsequently renamed to Raw Tag Team Championship after SmackDown introduced its
SmackDown Tag Team Championship.
The championship is generally contested in
professional wrestling matches, in which participants execute
scripted finishes rather than contend in
direct competition. The inaugural champions were
Kurt Angle and
Chris Benoit
Christopher Michael Benoit (; May 21, 1967 – June 24, 2007) was a Canadian professional wrestler. He worked for various pro-wrestling promotions during his 22-year career including most notably the World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestlin ...
, who won the title in a tournament final at
No Mercy on October 20, 2002.
The Usos (
Jey Uso and
Jimmy Uso) are the current champions in their third reign. They defeated previous champions
RK-Bro (
Randy Orton and
Riddle) in a
Winners Take All match on the May 20, 2022 episode of ''
SmackDown'' in
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids is a city and county seat of Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 198,917 which ranks it as the second most-populated city in the state after Detroit. Grand Rapids is th ...
. The Usos had also defended the SmackDown Tag Team Championship in the match, and with both titles, they are recognized as the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions.
As of , , there have been 88 reigns between 67 teams composed of 98 individual champions, and one vacancy. The team of
Cesaro and Sheamus and
The New Day (
Kofi Kingston and
Xavier Woods
Austin Watson (born September 4, 1986) is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the NXT brand under the ring name Xavier Woods. He appeared on WWE's NXT brand as one-half of the current NXT Tag ...
) have the most reigns as a team at four, while individually, Kingston and
Seth Rollins have the most with six. The New Day's second reign is also the longest reign at 483 days and they are the only team to hold the championship for over one consecutive year—
Big E is also credited for this reign as during New Day's first two reigns, Big E, Kingston, and Woods were all recognized as champion under the
Freebird Rule (Big E was split from the team in the
2020 WWE Draft).
John Cena and
The Miz's sole reign as a team is the shortest reign at 9 minutes, due to
The Corre invoking their rematch clause immediately after losing the title. As a team, The New Day (across its two different variants of team members) also have the longest combined reign at 627 days, while Kingston individually has the longest combined reign at 912 days (910 days as recognized by WWE).
Nicholas is the youngest champion at 10 years old (also making him the youngest champion in WWE history), while
Billy Gunn is the oldest champion at age 50.
Title history
Names
Reigns
As of , .
Combined reigns
As of , .
By team
By wrestler
See also
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List of World Tag Team Champions (WWE)
The World Tag Team Championship, originally known as the World Wrestling Federation Tag Team Championship, was a professional wrestling World Tag Team championship in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was unified with the WWE Tag Team ...
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Tag team championships in WWE
WWE (formerly the WWF, the WWWF, and Capitol Wrestling) has maintained at least one primary tag team championship for its male performers since 1958 (except for a two year interim between 1967 and 1969). During periods of brand division, separat ...
References
General
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Specific
External links
Official WWE Raw Tag Team Championship Title History
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WWE tag team champion lists