WWE Tag Team Championship
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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 #DIY (Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa), who are in their first reign, both as a team and individually. They won the title from previous champions A-Town Down Under (Austin Theory and Grayson Waller) on the July 5, 2024, episode of SmackDown.
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Promotion | WWE | ||||||||||||||||||
Brand | SmackDown | ||||||||||||||||||
Date established | August 23, 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
Current champion(s) | #DIY (Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa) | ||||||||||||||||||
Date won | July 5, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||
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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 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.