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WWE Tag Team Championship
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Current
champion(s):
Team Hell No
Kane & Daniel Bryan
Date won: September 16, 2012
Promotion: World Wrestling Entertainment
Brand: RAW & Smackdown
Date created: October 20, 2002
Date retired:
Other name(s): Unified WWE Tag Team Championship
Most reigns: MNM
Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel
(3 reigns)
First champion(s): Kurt Angle & Chris Benoit

The World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship in World Wrestling Entertainment. The championship is generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition.

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History

After the Brand Extension in World Wrestling Entertainment, the WWE Undisputed Championship and WWE Women's Championship became the only titles allowed to be defended on both the Raw and SmackDown! brands, while the remaining titles became exclusive to either brand. During a period of open free agency, the Tag Team Champions were signed to appear and defend the title on the Raw brand. The Tag Team Championship became exclusive to the Raw brand, leaving the SmackDown! brand without a tag team title. As a result, SmackDown General Manager Stephanie McMahon, introduced the new "WWE Tag Team Championship" and commissioned it to be the tag team title for the SmackDown! brand. She stated that the inaugural champions would be determined from an eight-team tournament. On October 20, 2002, the team of Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit defeated Rey Mysterio and Edge at No Mercy 2002 in the tournament final to become the first ever WWE Tag Team Champions.

On October 17, 2007, SmackDown! and ECW announced a talent sharing agreement, where wrestlers of either brand could appear on both shows. From then on, the title had been featured and defended on both brands. The titles first prominently appeared on ECW after John Morrison and The Miz began an eight-month-long reign on November 16, 2007. On April 5, 2009 at WrestleMania XXV, WWE Tag Team Champions The Colóns (Carlito and Primo) defeated World Tag Team Champions John Morrison and The Miz to unify both titles into what WWE referred to as the "Unified WWE Tag Team Championship."

On the August 16, 2010 episode of Raw, then-champions The Hart Dynasty (David Hart Smith and Tyson Kidd) were awarded a new physical representation of championship belts, signifying the consolidation of the unified titles to one championship. WWE confirmed via their website that these tag team titles would succeed the retiring World Tag Team Championship as WWE's only tag team championship. All title history after August 16, 2010 ceased for the World Tag Team Championship while the WWE Tag Team Championship's linage continued.

The Hart Dynasty lost the titles to Cody Rhodes and Drew McIntyre (later briefly named "The Dashing Ones"). TDO then lost the title to the Nexus team of John Cena and David Otunga. At the orders of Nexus leader Wade Barrett, Otunga then laid down and intentionally gave up the titles to the team of fellow members Justin Gabriel and Heath Slater.

Names

Name Years
WWWF World Tag Team Championship June 1971 – October 1979
WWF (World) Tag Team Championship October 1979 – May 2002
WWE Tag Team Championship May 2002 – October 2002
World Tag Team Championship October 2002 – April 2009
Unified WWE Tag Team Championship April 2009 - August 2010

2012 Tournament

It was announced on the September 28, 2012 edition of Smackdown taping in Buffalo, New York that a tag team tournament will take place to determine the #1 contenders to the WWE Tag Team titles.

Brackets

For finished brackets
  Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
                           
  Smackdown  Rhodes Scholars Pin  
9/28  The Uso Brothers 1:56  
  Raw  Rhodes Scholars Pin  
  10/8  Ryder & Marella TBA  
Main Event  Ryder & Marella Pin
  10/3  Kidd & Gabriel 4:04  
    RAW  Rhodes Scholars Pin
  10/22  Rey Mysterio & Sin Cara 11:16
  Smackdown  Kofi Kingston & R-Truth Pin  
10/5  The Prime Time Players 4:17  
  RAW  The Prime Time Players Pin
  10/8  Rey Mysterio & Sin Cara 7:14  
RAW  Epico & Primo Pin
  10/1  Rey Mysterio & Sin Cara 9:22  

Reigns

The current champions are Kane & Daniel Bryan who defeated Kofi Kingston & R-Truth on September 16, 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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See also

External links

Current World Wrestling Entertainment Championships
Raw
WWE Championship
United States Championship
SmackDown
World Heavyweight Championship
Intercontinental Championship
Dual-branded
WWE Tag Team Championship
Divas Championship
NXT
WWE NXT Championship
NXT Tag Team Championship
NXT Women's Championship

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