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The NXT UK Tag Team Championship was a men's professional wrestling title owned by WWE and competed for by tag teams of NXT UK. It was created on June 18, 2018, during the first night of the 2018 United Kingdom Championship Tournament. There was an announcement during the tournament that another 4-team tournament would happen and it would decide the first NXT UK Tag Team Champions. The semi-finals of this tournament happened in November 2018 and the final happened in January 2019. There, Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake and Zack Gibson) beat Moustache Mountain (Tyler Bate and Trent Seven) to become the first champions.[1]
| NXT UK Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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First champions, Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake and Zack Gibson) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | WWE | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | 18 June 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date retired | 4 September 2022 (unified with the NXT Tag Team Championship) | ||||||||||||||||||
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In August 2022, WWE announced that the NXT UK brand would end and restart as NXT Europe at a later time.[2] So the NXT UK Tag Team Championship was retired on 4 September 2022 at Worlds Collide. At the event, Pretty Deadly (Elton Prince and Kit Wilson) defeated NXT Tag Team Champions The Creed Brothers (Brutus Creed and Julius Creed), Gallus (Mark Coffey and Wolfgang), and reigning champions Brooks Jensen and Josh Briggs in a fatal four-way tag team elimination match to make the NXT UK Tag Team Championship into one with the NXT Tag Team Championship. Jensen and Briggs are listed as the last NXT UK Tag Team Champions. Pretty Deadly went on as the unified NXT Tag Team Champions.[3]
| Semifinals NXT UK 24 and 25 November 2018 (aired 2 and 9 January 2019) | Final TakeOver: Blackpool 12 January 2019 | ||||||||
| Moustache Mountain (Trent Seven and Tyler Bate) | Pin | ||||||||
| Gallus (Mark Coffey and Wolfgang) | 14:39 | ||||||||
| Moustache Mountain | 23:45 | ||||||||
| James Drake and Zack Gibson | Pin | ||||||||
| James Drake and Zack Gibson | Pin | ||||||||
| Flash Morgan Webster and Mark Andrews | 9:19 | ||||||||
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| Days recog. |
Number of days held recognized by the promotion |
| † | Championship change is unrecognized by the promotion |
| <1 | Reign lasted less than a day |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Days recog. | ||||
| 1 | Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake and Zack Gibson) |
12 January 2019 | TakeOver: Blackpool | Blackpool, England | 1 | 231 | 230 | Defeated Moustache Mountain (Trent Seven and Tyler Bate) in the finals of a four-team tournament to become the first champions. | [1] |
| 2 | Flash Morgan Webster and Mark Andrews | 31 August 2019 | TakeOver: Cardiff | Cardiff, Wales | 1 | 34 | 47 | This was a triple threat tag team match, also including Gallus (Mark Coffey and Wolfgang). WWE list the end of this reign on 17 October 2019, when the episode aired on tape delay. |
[4] |
| 3 | Gallus (Mark Coffey and Wolfgang) |
4 October 2019 | NXT UK | Brentwood, England | 1 | N/A | 497 | WWE lists the start of this reign on 17 October 2019 and the end on 25 February 2021, when the episodes aired on tape delay. The actual date they lost the title is unknown. | [5] |
| 4 | Pretty Deadly (Lewis Howley and Sam Stoker) |
25 February 2021 (air date) |
NXT UK | London, England | 1 | N/A | 287 | WWE lists the start of this reign on 25 February 2021, when the episode aired on tape delay. The actual date the match took place is unknown. | [6] |
| 5 | Moustache Mountain (Trent Seven and Tyler Bate) |
9 December 2021 (air date) |
NXT UK | London, England | 1 | N/A | 175 | WWE lists the start of this reign on 9 December 2021, when the episode aired on tape delay. The actual date the match took place is unknown. | [7] |
| 6 | Ashton Smith and Oliver Carter | 21 April 2022 | NXT UK | London, England | 1 | 62 | 21 | This was a triple threat tag team match, also involving Die Familie (Teoman and Rohan Raja). WWE lists the start of this reign on 2 June 2022 and the end on 23 June 2022, when the episodes aired on tape delay. | [8] |
| — | Vacated | 22 June 2022 | NXT UK | London, England | — | — | — | Vacated after Ashton Smith injured his knee. Aired on tape delay on 23 June 2022. |
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| 7 | Brooks Jensen and Josh Briggs | 22 June 2022 | NXT UK | London, England | 1 | 74 | 73 | This was a fatal four-way tag team elimination match, also involving Die Familie (Teoman and Rohan Raja), Dave Mastiff and Jack Starz, and Mark Andrews and Wild Boar for the vacant titles. WWE lists the start of this reign on 23 June 2022, when the episode aired on tape delay. | [9] |
| — | Unified | 4 September 2022 | Worlds Collide | Orlando, Florida, U.S. | — | — | — | Pretty Deadly (Elton Prince and Kit Wilson) defeated NXT Tag Team Champions The Creed Brothers (Brutus Creed and Julius Creed), Gallus (Mark Coffey and Wolfgang), and NXT UK Tag Team Champions Brooks Jensen and Josh Briggs in a fatal four-way tag team elimination match to make the NXT UK Tag Team Championship into one with the NXT Tag Team Championship. The NXT UK Tag Team Championship was retired with Jensen and Briggs list as the final champions. Pretty Deadly went on as the unified NXT Tag Team Champions. | [3] |
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