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WWETag Title Lineage

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, separate tag team titles have been used on each brand. The lineage and names of titles change regually and can be hard to keep track of.

  • World Tag Team Championship: 1971 – 2010
  • WWE Tag Team Championship: 2002-2010
  • WWE (Unified) Tag Team Championship / WWE Raw Tag Team Championship: 2010 to Present
  • WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship: 2016-present

Championships History[]

The World Tag Team Championship was the original world tag team championship in WWE, and the promotion's third tag team championship overall. Originally established by the then-World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) on June 3, 1971 (renamed World Wrestling Federation in 1979), it served as the only title for tag teams in the promotion until the then-World Wrestling Federation (WWF) bought World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in March 2001, which added their tag team championship. Both titles were unified in November 2001, retiring WCW's championship and continuing WWF's.

In 2002, the company was renamed WWE. Following the introduction of the WWE Brand Extension, where wrestlers and championships became exclusive to a WWE brand, the World Tag Team Championship became exclusive to Raw, while a second WWE Tag Team Championship was established for the SmackDown brand. Both titles were unified in 2009 into the "Unified WWE Tag Team Championship", but remained independently active until the World Tag Team Championship was decommissioned in 2010 in favor of continuing the newer championship.

The new WWE Tag Team Championship championship established on October 3, 2002. It was introduced for SmackDown to complement the World Tag Team Championship on Raw. Both titles were unified in 2009 and were collectively referred to as the "Unified WWE Tag Team Championship" while officially remaining independently active until the World Tag Team Championship was formally decommissioned in 2010. As a result of the 2016 WWE Draft, the championship became exclusive to Raw with a subsequent rename, with SmackDown then creating their own counterpart title. As the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship, the Raw and SmackDown 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 of WrestleMania 39 Night 1 in April 2023.

The third set of tag titles were unveiled on the August 23, 2016, episode of SmackDown. That title was subsequently renamed after the crowning of the inaugural SmackDown Tag Team Champions, Heath Slater and Rhyno.

Championship Lineages[]

World Tag Team Championship: 1971-2010[]

  • WWWF World Tag Team Championship: June 3, 1971 – March 29, 1979
  • WWF World Tag Team Championship: March 29, 1979 – December 26, 1983
  • WWF Tag Team Championship: December 26, 1983 – May 6, 2002
  • WWE Tag Team Championship: May 6, 2002 – October 7, 2002
  • WWE World Tag Team Championship: October 7, 2002 – April 5, 2009
  • Unified WWE Tag Team Championship: April 5, 2009 - August 16, 2010

World Wide Wrestling Federation Tag Team Championship

Philadelphia, PA

World Wrestling Federation Tag Team Championship

WWE Tag Team Championship 2000

WWE Tag Team Championship

WWE World Tag Team Championships

WWE World Tag Team Championship

Lumberjack match to unify the World Tag Team and WWE Tag Team Championships. The titles became known as the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship.

WWE Tag Team Championship: 2002-2010[]

WWE Tag Team Championship 2002

The WWE World Tag Team Championship and WWE Tag Team Championship were unified on April 5, 2009 to create the WWE Unified Tag Team Championship.

WWE (Undisputed) / Raw / World Tag Team Championship: 2010 to present[]

WWE Unified Tag Team Championship

WWE Tag Team Championship

WWE Raw Tag Team Championship

VACATED - April 9 2018 - Raw

WWE/SmackDown Tag Team Championship: 2016 to Present[]

VACATED - April 30 2019 - Jeff Hardy was injured and needed surgery.

See Also[]

WWE Tag Teams

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