World Tag Team Championship (WWE)

This article is about WWE's tag team title established in 2002 and renamed in 2024. For the other WWE tag team title that has this title's original name that is currently defended on SmackDown, see WWE Tag Team Championship. For the title of the same name existing from 1971 to 2010, see World Tag Team Championship (WWE, 1971–2010). For other WWE tag team championships, see Tag team championships in WWE.
World Tag Team Championship
The current World Tag Team Championship belt with default side plates (2024–present)
Details
PromotionWWE
BrandRaw
Date establishedOctober 3, 2002
Current champion(s)The Judgment Day
(Finn Bálor and JD McDonagh)
Date wonJune 24, 2024
Other name(s)
Statistics
First champion(s)Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit
Most reignsAs a tag team (4 reigns):

As an individual (6 reigns):

Longest reignThe New Day
(Big E, Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods)[d]
(2nd reign, 483 days)
Shortest reignJohn Cena and The Miz
(9 minutes)
Oldest championR-Truth
(52 years, 78 days)
Youngest championNicholas
(10 years)
Heaviest championBig Show and Kane
(808 lbs combined)
Lightest championPaul London and Brian Kendrick
(365 lbs combined)

The World Tag Team Championship is a men's professional wrestling world tag team championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, defended on the Raw brand division. It is one of two male tag team championships for WWE's main roster, along with the WWE Tag Team Championship on SmackDown. The current champions are The Judgment Day (Finn Bálor and JD McDonagh), who are in their first reign as a team; individually, it is the first for McDonagh and third for Bálor, who previously held the title twice as part of Judgment Day with Damian Priest. They won the title by defeating Awesome Truth (The Miz and R-Truth) on the June 24, 2024, episode of Raw.

The championship was originally established as the WWE Tag Team Championship on October 3, 2002, and the team of Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit were the inaugural champions. It was introduced for the SmackDown brand as a second title for tag teams in the promotion to complement WWE's original World Tag Team Championship, which became exclusive to 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 and was renamed as the Raw Tag Team Championship, with SmackDown creating their own counterpart, the SmackDown 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 Raw Tag Team Championship subsequently renamed as the World Tag Team Championship with the SmackDown title becoming the WWE Tag Team Championship.
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