WWE Tag Team Championship

This article is about WWE's tag team title originally established in 2016 as the SmackDown Tag Team Championship and was renamed in 2024. For the title that went by this name from 2002 to 2016 and currently defended on Raw, see World Tag Team Championship (WWE). For the title that briefly went by this name in mid-2002, see World Tag Team Championship (WWE, 1971–2010). For other WWE tag team titles, see Tag team championships in WWE.

WWE Tag Team Championship
The current belt with default side plates (2024–present)
Details
PromotionWWE
BrandSmackDown
Date establishedAugust 23, 2016
Current champion(s)The Motor City Machine Guns
(Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin)
Date wonOctober 25, 2024
Other name(s)
Statistics
First champion(s)Heath Slater and Rhyno
Most reignsAs tag team (7 reigns):

As individual (7 reigns):

Longest reignThe Usos
(Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso)
(5th reign, 622 days)
Shortest reignThe New Day
(Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods)
(7th reign, 3 days)
Oldest championShane McMahon
(49 years, 12 days)
Youngest championDominik Mysterio
(24 years, 41 days)
Heaviest championThe Wyatt Family
(Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper, and Randy Orton)
(810 lb (370 kg) combined)
Lightest championThe Mysterios
(Rey Mysterio and Dominik Mysterio)
(375 lb (170 kg) combined)

The WWE Tag Team Championship is a men's professional wrestling world tag team championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, defended on the SmackDown brand division. It is one of two male tag team championships for WWE's main roster, along with the World Tag Team Championship on Raw. The current champions are The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin), who are in their first reign, both as a team and individually. They won the titles by defeating The Bloodline (Tama Tonga and Tonga Loa) on the October 25, 2024 episode of SmackDown.

The championship was originally established as the SmackDown Tag Team Championship on August 23, 2016, and Heath 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 the 2016 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 the Undisputed 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 of WrestleMania 39 Night 1 in April 2023. The titles would again be defended in the main event of a pay-per-view and livestreaming event at Night of Champions the following month. The titles were then split at WrestleMania 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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