| WWE Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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 The current WWE Tag Team Championship belt with default side plates (2024–present) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | WWE | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brand | SmackDown | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | August 23, 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champions | The MFTs (Solo Sikoa andTama Tonga) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | January 23, 2026 | ||||||||||||||||||
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TheWWE Tag Team Championship is a men'sprofessional wrestlingworld tag team championship created and promoted by theAmericanpromotionWWE, defended on theSmackDownbrand division. It is one of two male tag team championships for WWE's main roster, along with theWorld Tag Team Championship onRaw. The current champions areThe MFTs (Solo Sikoa andTama Tonga), who are in their first reign as a team, while individually, it is Sikoa's first reign and Tonga's second, and the second for the stable as a whole.[c] They won the title by defeatingThe Wyatt Sicks (Dexter Lumis andJoe Gacy) on the January 23, 2026, episode ofSmackDown.
The championship was originally established as theSmackDown Tag Team Championship on August 23, 2016, andHeath Slater and Rhyno were the inaugural champions. It was introduced for the SmackDown brand as a second title for tag teams in the promotion to complement the previous WWE Tag Team Championship, which became exclusive to Raw in the2016 WWE Draft following the reintroduction of the brand split and renamed as Raw Tag Team Championship. From May 2022 until April 2024, both titles were held and defended together as theUndisputed WWE Tag Team Championship, with each maintaining their individual lineages. Under the Undisputed banner, both titles simultaneously became the first tag team championships to be defended in the main event of WWE's flagship event,WrestleMania, which occurred as the main event ofWrestleMania 39 Night 1 in April 2023. The titles would again be defended in the main event of apay-per-view andlivestreaming event atNight of Champions the following month. The titles were then split atWrestleMania XL in April 2024 with the SmackDown Tag Team Championship subsequently renamed as the WWE Tag Team Championship with the Raw title becoming the World Tag Team Championship.
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DuringWWE's originalbrand split (2002–2011), in which theprofessional wrestling promotion divided its roster into "brands" where wrestlers were assigned to exclusively perform on each brands' respective weekly television program, the men'sworld tag team championship of theSmackDown brand was the previousWWE Tag Team Championship, which was established in 2002 to be the counterpart to the promotion's originalWorld Tag Team Championship, which was designated toRaw. AtWrestleMania 25 in April 2009, the titles wereunified as theUnified WWE Tag Team Championship, although both titles remained independently active until August 2010 when the original World Tag Team Championship was deactivated in favor of the WWE Tag Team Championship, which then became the sole tag team championship in WWE, available to both brands. The first brand split then ended in August 2011.[1][2]
In July 2016, WWE reintroduced the brand split and during the2016 draft, reigning WWE Tag Team ChampionsThe New Day (Big E,Kofi Kingston, andXavier Woods) were drafted to Raw, leaving SmackDown without a tag team title. Over the course of the following month, SmackDown general managerDaniel Bryan stated that he wanted to build up thetag team division before introducing a championship. Immediately followingSummerSlam on the August 23, 2016, episode ofSmackDown Live, Bryan and SmackDown commissionerShane McMahon introduced the SmackDown Tag Team Championship; the WWE Tag Team Championship was subsequently renamed Raw Tag Team Championship.[3][4] An eight-team tournament was then scheduled to determine the inaugural champions, culminating in a final match atBacklash on September 11, 2016.[5][6][7] The team ofHeath Slater andRhyno defeatedThe Usos (Jey Uso andJimmy Uso) in the tournament final to become the inaugural champions.[8]
In 2019, WWE'sdevelopmental territoryNXT became the promotion's third major brand when it was moved to theUSA Network in September, thus making theNXT Tag Team Championship the third major tag team title for men in WWE.[9] However, this recognition was reversed when NXT reverted to its original function as a developmental brand in September 2021.[10]
During the May 20, 2022, episode ofSmackDown, reigning SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos (Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso) defeated reigning Raw Tag Team ChampionsRK-Bro (Randy Orton andRiddle) in aWinners Take All match to claim both championships and become recognized as the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions. WWE had billed the match as a championship unification match; however, both titles remained independently active.[11] The Usos had defended both titles together across both brands as theUndisputed WWE Tag Team Championship, but on a couple of occasions in early 2023, they also defended the titles separately.[12][13]
In the main event ofWrestleMania 39 Night 1, The Usos (Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso) defended the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship against the team ofKevin Owens andSami Zayn. This subsequently made both the Raw and SmackDown titles the first tag team championships to be defended in the main event of WWE's flagship event,WrestleMania. At the event,Owens and Zayn defeated The Usos to become champions.[14] The titles would again be defended in the main event of apay-per-view andlivestreaming event atNight of Champions the following month on May 27 when Owens and Zayn retained the titles againstThe Bloodline (Roman Reigns andSolo Sikoa).[15]
AtWrestleMania XL Night 1 on April 6, 2024,The Judgment Day (Finn Bálor andDamian Priest) defended the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship in aSix-Pack Tag Team Ladder match in which both sets of championships had to be retrieved for the match to end. As a result, the championships were split withA-Town Down Under (Austin Theory andGrayson Waller) winning the SmackDown Tag Team Championship whileAwesome Truth (The Miz andR-Truth) won the Raw title.[16] On the April 19 episode ofSmackDown, the SmackDown Tag Team Championship was renamed as the WWE Tag Team Championship with a new set of title belts.[17] This came just a few days after the Raw Tag Team Championship was renamed as the World Tag Team Championship with its own new title belts.[18]
| Quarterfinals SmackDown August 23–30, 2016 | Semifinals SmackDown September 6, 2016 | Final Backlash September 11, 2016 | ||||||||||||
| American Alpha (Chad Gable andJason Jordan) | Pinfall | |||||||||||||
| Breezango (Fandango andTyler Breeze) | 10:13[19] | |||||||||||||
| American Alpha | Pinfall | |||||||||||||
| The Usos | 0:28[21] | |||||||||||||
| The Usos (Jey Uso andJimmy Uso) | Pinfall | |||||||||||||
| The Ascension (Konnor andViktor) | 3:49[19] | |||||||||||||
| The Usos[note 1] | 10:02[8] | |||||||||||||
| Heath Slater and Rhyno | Pinfall | |||||||||||||
| The Hype Bros (Mojo Rawley andZack Ryder) | Pinfall | |||||||||||||
| The Vaudevillains (Aiden English andSimon Gotch) | 2:50[20] | |||||||||||||
| The Hype Bros | 7:03[21] | |||||||||||||
| Heath Slater and Rhyno | Pinfall | |||||||||||||
| The Headbangers (Mosh andThrasher) | 2:54[20] | |||||||||||||
| Heath Slater and Rhyno | Pinfall | |||||||||||||
When the championship was first introduced as the SmackDown Tag Team Championship, they featured the same physical design as the 2010 to 2016 version of the previous WWE Tag Team Championship (which became the Raw Tag Team Championship), with the differences being that the leather straps were blue as opposed to the former's original black and the plates were silver as opposed to the former's original copper. The renamed Raw Tag Team Championship belts were then updated on December 19, 2016, with silver plates on red straps to bring both sets of titles in line with each other. While all other WWE championship belts were updated to feature customizable side plates for the champion's logos, the Raw and SmackDown tag titles were the only championship belts in the promotion that lacked this feature.[5]
In conjunction with the SmackDown Tag Team Championship being renamed as WWE Tag Team Championship on April 19, 2024, the belts also received a new design. The updated design resembles the title belts of the original World Tag Team Championship used from 1985 to 2002 and the 2002 to 2010 version of the previous WWE Tag Team Championship belts. Unlike WWE's other championship belts of the modern era, which have three plates (a centerplate and two side plates), the WWE Tag Team Championship has five gold plates on a black leather strap. At the center of the center plate is a globe with the WWE logo over it. Above the globe at the top of the plate is a crown, while below the globe are two black banners. The first black banner says "TAG TEAM" written in gold while the one below that says "WRESTLING CHAMPIONS", also written in gold. On the opposing sides of the globe are two dragons facing inwards.Filigree fills in the rest of the plate, which has an ornamented border. Like all of WWE's championship belts, the two inner side plates feature a removable center section which can be replaced with the reigning champion's logo; the default side plates feature the WWE logo over a globe. The two smaller outer side plates have a shield design with two wrestlers grappling.[17]
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As of February 16, 2026, overall there have been 38 reigns between 25 teams composed of 47 individual champions, and one vacancy. The team ofHeath Slater and Rhyno were the inaugural champions.The New Day (Kofi Kingston andXavier Woods) have the most reigns at seven, both as a team and individually, and their seventh is the shortest reign for the title at 3 days (2 days as recognized by WWE); during their first six reigns,Big E was also recognized as champion under theFreebird Rule.The Usos (Jey Uso andJimmy Uso) have the longest singular reign at 622 days for their fifth reign, and they have the longest combined reign as a team at 1,002 days, while individually, Jey has the longest combined reign at 1,011 days (1,010 days as recognized by WWE). The oldest champion isShane McMahon, winning the title at 49 years old, while the youngest isDominik Mysterio when he won it at 24.
The current champions areThe MFTs (Solo Sikoa andTama Tonga), who are in their first reign as a team, while individually, it is Sikoa's first reign and Tonga's second, and the second for the stable as a whole (the first reign was when the stable was originally known as The Bloodline). They won the title by defeatingThe Wyatt Sicks (Dexter Lumis andJoe Gacy) on the January 23, 2026, episode ofSmackDown inMontreal, Quebec, Canada.[22]
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| Preceded by | WWE's top tag team championship 2016–present | Succeeded by Current |