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WWE Women's Tag Team Championship
The WWE Women's Tag Team Championship belt with default side plates
Details
PromotionWWE
BrandRaw
(2019–present)
SmackDown
(2019–present)
NXT
(2019–2021; 2023–present)
Date establishedDecember 24, 2018
Current champion(s)Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill[a]
Date wonAugust 31, 2024
Statistics
First champion(s)The Boss 'n' Hug Connection
(Bayley and Sasha Banks)
Most reignsAs tag team (2 reigns):

As individual (4 reigns):

Longest reignThe Kabuki Warriors
(Asuka and Kairi Sane)
(1st reign, 171 or 172 days)[c]
Shortest reignAlexa Bliss and Asuka
(5 days)[d]
Oldest championLita
(47 years, 319 days)
Youngest championRhea Ripley
(24 years, 344 days)
Heaviest championNia Jax and Shayna Baszler
(408 pounds (185 kg) combined)
Lightest championCarmella and Queen Zelina
(210 pounds (95 kg) combined)

The WWE Women's Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling women's tag team championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE. It is the only women's tag team championship in WWE, thus is defended across both main roster brand divisions, Raw and SmackDown, and the developmental brand, NXT. The current champions are Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill from SmackDown, who are in their record-tying second reign as a team and second reign for each individually. They won the title by defeating The Unholy Union (Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn) at Bash in Berlin on August 31, 2024. Due to an injury incurred by Cargill, Naomi is filling in for her as of December 13, 2024.

The championship was announced on the December 24, 2018, episode of Monday Night Raw. Bayley and Sasha Banks, then going by the team name of The Boss 'n' Hug Connection, became the first champions in February 2019 and were part of the Raw brand during their inaugural reign. The title was originally established to be available to Raw, SmackDown, and NXT, but after a controversial finish to a title defense in March 2021, the NXT Women's Tag Team Championship was created, thus the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship became no longer available to NXT. After the titles were unified in June 2023, however, NXT's title was retired, and the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship became eligible to NXT once again. The title has been contested in the headlining match of one WWE pay-per-view and livestreaming event: TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs in 2019.

The title is distinct from the WWF Women's Tag Team Championship that was contested from 1983 to 1989 and does not share its lineage.

History

Inaugural champions The Boss 'n' Hug Connection (Sasha Banks and Bayley) who became the inaugural champions at Elimination Chamber 2019.

In 1989, the then-World Wrestling Federation (WWF) abandoned the WWF Women's Tag Team Championship due to a lack of women's tag teams in the division. This remained true up through the 2000s—in 2002, the WWF was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). In the early 2010s, the women's division began growing, and in 2012, WWE.com ran an article supporting the resurrection of the Women's Tag Team Championship.[1] In 2014, The Bella Twins (Brie Bella and Nikki Bella) discussed a desire to establish a Divas Tag Team Championship—from 1999 to 2016, female performers were referred to as Divas and their top championship from 2010 to 2016 was the WWE Divas Championship.[2][3][4][5] The idea for a women's tag team championship was seemingly forgotten about until mid-2018; in an interview with Sky Sports, WWE's Chief Brand Officer at the time, Stephanie McMahon, stated that in regards to the title debuting, "Not quite yet, but that's absolutely something we've heard loud and clear from our fan base and it's something we're keen on implementing as soon as we are able to".[6] Prior to WWE's first all-female pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event, Evolution, in October, speculations—including comments from the company's female performers—arose that the promotion would debut the title at the event.[7][8] Just prior to the event, Stephanie said that the title would be coming "sooner than we think";[6] however, it was not debuted at Evolution. Speculation died down after the event, however, on the December 3, 2018, episode of Monday Night Raw, when questioned by a fan about what they wanted to bring to the women's division in 2019, Bayley and Sasha Banks stated that they wanted to become the inaugural WWE Women's Tag Team Champions.[9]

During the December 24, 2018, special Christmas episode of Raw, WWE's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at the time, Vince McMahon, officially announced that a new WWE Women's Tag Team Championship would be introduced in 2019.[10] On the January 14, 2019, episode of Raw, the championship belts were unveiled by Alexa Bliss during her segment, "A Moment of Bliss". After the unveiling, Bliss announced that the inaugural champions would be decided at Elimination Chamber on February 17, 2019, in a tag team Elimination Chamber match, featuring three teams from Raw and three teams from SmackDown, making the title available to both brands.[11][12][13] On the February 18 episode of Raw, it was revealed that the titles could also be defended on the NXT brand.[14]

To determine the three teams from Raw, qualification matches were held and began on the January 28 episode of Raw. The teams of Nia Jax & Tamina and The Riott Squad (Liv Morgan and Sarah Logan) qualified by defeating the teams of Alexa Bliss & Mickie James and Natalya & Dana Brooke, respectively.[15] The following week, The Boss 'n' Hug Connection (Bayley and Sasha Banks) defeated Alicia Fox & Nikki Cross to win Raw's final spot.[16] No qualification matches were held to determine the three teams from SmackDown due to its smaller roster, and instead, each team declared their participation.[17] The team of Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville announced theirs on the January 29 episode of SmackDown Live,[18] The IIconics (Billie Kay and Peyton Royce) confirmed their entry via Twitter,[19] and Carmella & Naomi accepted the final spot on the February 5 episode.[20] The Boss 'n' Hug Connection would go on and win the match, lastly eliminating Rose & Deville by way of Banks submitting Deville, to become the inaugural champions.[14]

The title headlined a pay-per-view and livestreaming event for the first time at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs in 2019. The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka and Kairi Sane) defended the championship against Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair in the first women's tag team Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match, where The Kabuki Warriors retained.[21]

On the March 3, 2021, episode of NXT, reigning WWE Women's Tag Team Champions Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler defended the championship against NXT's Dakota Kai and Raquel González, who had earned the title opportunity for winning the inaugural Women's Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic. The match ended in controversy, however, as the referee was taken out and Adam Pearce, the WWE official of Raw and SmackDown at the time, sent a second referee to the ring, who ruled that Kai submitted to Baszler, although Kai was not the legal woman.[22] The following week, in response to the controversy, then-NXT General Manager William Regal established the NXT Women's Tag Team Championship for the brand as to not deal with Raw and SmackDown's politics any longer, and awarded the championship to Kai and González. The WWE Women's Tag Team Championship effectively became no longer available to NXT.[23][24]

During the May 16, 2022, episode of Raw, reigning champions Sasha Banks and Naomi reportedly walked out after a meeting with Vince McMahon due to a creative dispute.[25] WWE released an official statement, in which the company stated that Banks and Naomi "walked into WWE Head of Talent Relations John Laurinaitis' office with their suitcases in hand, placed their tag team championship belts on his desk and walked out".[26] The two were originally booked for the show's main event, which had to be reworked.[25][27] On the following episode of SmackDown, it was announced that Banks and Naomi had been suspended indefinitely, therefore the title was vacated (they both later left the company although Naomi returned in January 2024). A tournament was also announced to determine new champions.[28][29] On the August 5 episode of SmackDown, Adam Pearce announced that the tournament would begin on the August 8 episode of Raw.[30] Although the championship was no longer defended on NXT, one team from the brand competed in the tournament as part of the SmackDown bracket.[31] The team of Aliyah and Raquel Rodriguez (formerly Raquel González) won the tournament to win the vacant championship.[32]

As a result of the 2023 WWE Draft, reigning NXT Women's Tag Team Champions Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn were drafted to SmackDown and took the titles with them, claiming they would defend the title across all three brands, although they never did and only had non-title matches on SmackDown. On the June 9 episode, as they were about to have an in-ring interview, Fyre and Dawn were interrupted by reigning WWE Women's Tag Team Champions Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler, who challenged Fyre and Dawn to a championship unification match, which was accepted and scheduled for the June 23 episode of SmackDown.[33] Rousey and Baszler won to become the undisputed WWE Women's Tag Team Champions, thus making the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship available to NXT once again. The NXT Women's Tag Team Championship was subsequently retired in the process.[34]

According to Fightful, the unification match was planned to happen right after the draft, but due to various injuries within the division, it got delayed. Fightful also noted there had been confusion regarding the original creation of the NXT Women's Tag Team Championship, as the company already had the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship and there were not many women's tag teams in the division. Furthermore, it was noted that the plan after the unification was that the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship would appear on NXT programming "when needed", which was the original plan for the title.[35]

WWE Women's Tag Team Championship Tournament (2022)

After Sasha Banks and Naomi had been suspended indefinitely and the titles had been vacated, SmackDown commentator Michael Cole announced that there would be a tournament to declare new champions.[29] The tournament began on the August 8 episode of Raw and was held across episodes of Raw and SmackDown until its conclusion on the August 29 episode of Raw.[31]

Quarterfinals
Raw
(August 8 and 15)
SmackDown
(August 12 and 19)
Semifinals
Raw
(August 22)
SmackDown
(August 26)
Finals
Raw
(August 29)
         
Tamina and Dana Brooke 10:00
Iyo Sky and Dakota Kai Pin[36]
Iyo Sky and Dakota Kai Pin[41]
Raw
Alexa Bliss and Asuka 18:30
Alexa Bliss and Asuka Sub[37]
Nikki A.S.H. and Doudrop 9:00
Iyo Sky and Dakota Kai 11:30
Raquel Rodriguez and Aliyah Pin[32]
Raquel Rodriguez and Aliyah Pin[38]
Shotzi and Xia Li 9:35
Raquel Rodriguez and Aliyah Pin[42]
SmackDown
Natalya and Sonya Deville[f] 8:00
Toxic Attraction (NXT)
(Gigi Dolin and Jacy Jayne)
[e]
Pin[40]
Natalya and Sonya Deville 8:48

Belt design

The championship belts were unveiled by wrestler Alexa Bliss on the January 14, 2019, episode of Raw. The belts feature three plates on a white leather strap, which is smaller than the men's titles. The three plates are outlined in gold while the inner portion is mostly silver. The WWE logo is affixed at the top of the circular center plate, which has four protruding edges. At the center, the word "Tag Team" is prominently written in gold. Above that is a gold banner that reads "Women's" while below is a gold banner that reads "Champions". The design uses Greek-based elements, such as the center plate being encircled by a meander pattern with a margent ornamentation in the inner circle (the men's tag titles for Raw and SmackDown were also Greek inspired prior to their respective redesigns in 2024). Like all of WWE's championship belts, the two side plates feature a removable center section that can be customized with the champion's logos; the default side plates feature the WWE logo on a globe. Generally, the reigning team will have one side plate on each belt dedicated to each champion, unless the team has a name (e.g., The Kabuki Warriors).[12]

Reigns

Record-tying two-time (as a team) and current champions Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill. As of December 13, 2024, Naomi is filling in for an injured Cargill, but is not recognized as champion.

As of December 23, 2024, there have been 27 reigns between 21 teams composed of 34 individual champions and two vacancies. The inaugural championship team was Bayley and Sasha Banks, who at the time went by the team name of The Boss 'n' Hug Connection. As a team, they are tied with the teams of Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross, Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler, Damage CTRL (Dakota Kai and Iyo Sky), The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka and Kairi Sane), Raquel Rodriguez and Liv Morgan, and Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill for the most reigns at two, while individually, Asuka holds the record with four reigns. As a team, The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka and Kairi Sane) have the longest reign at 171–172 days (180 days as recognized by WWE due to tape delay), while the team of Bliss and Asuka have the shortest reign at 5 days (4 days as recognized by WWE). As a team, The Kabuki Warriors have the longest combined reign at 270–271 days (278 days as recognized by WWE due to tape delay), while individually, Asuka has the longest combined reign at 317–318 days (323 days as recognized by WWE due to tape delay). Lita is the oldest champion, winning the title at 47 years old, while Rhea Ripley is the youngest, winning it at 24.

Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill from SmackDown are the current champions in their record-tying second reign as a team and second reign for each individually. They won the title by defeating The Unholy Union (Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn) at Bash in Berlin on August 31, 2024, in Berlin, Germany.[43] As of December 13, 2024, Naomi is filling in for an injured Cargill, but is not recognized as champion.[44]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ As of December 13, 2024, Naomi is filling in for an injured Cargill.
  2. ^ During their first reign, they went by the team name of The Boss 'n' Hug Connection.
  3. ^ The exact date they lost the title is unknown, but WWE recognizes 180 days due to tape delay.
  4. ^ 4 days as recognized by WWE.
  5. ^ Toxic Attraction replaced Nikkita Lyons and Zoey Stark because Stark was not medically cleared to compete and Lyons was denied entry to Canada due to her being unvaccinated against COVID-19.[39]
  6. ^ Toxic Attraction (Gigi Dolin and Jacy Jayne) was removed from the match due to an injury suffered by Dolin. A "Last Chance" fatal four-way match featuring Tamina and Dana Brooke vs. Natalya and Sonya Deville vs. Nikki A. S. H. and Doudrop vs. Shotzi and Xia Li took place on the August 26 episode of SmackDown to determine their replacement.

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