WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship

Not to be confused with WWE Raw Tag Team Championship, World Tag Team Championship (WWE), or NXT Tag Team Championship.

The WWE Tag Team Championship, formerly known as the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship, is a professional wrestling tag team championship in WWE. It is wrestled for on the SmackDown brand since the return of the brand extension in 2016. From May 20, 2022 to April 6, 2024 it was defended as one with the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship as the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship. The first champions were Heath Slater and Rhyno.^[1]

WWE Tag Team Championship
Kevin Owens (left) and Sami Zayn (right) with both the 2016–2024 designs of the SmackDown (blue) and the Raw Tag Team Championship belts (red).
Details
Promotion	WWE
Brand	SmackDown
Date established	August 23, 2016
Current champion(s)	The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford)
Date won	March 14, 2025
Other name(s)
WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship (2016–2024) Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship (2022–2024)[a] WWE Tag Team Championship (2024–present)
Statistics First champion(s) Heath Slater and Rhyno Most reigns As tag team (7 reigns): The New Day[b] As individual (7 reigns): Kofi Kingston Xavier Woods Longest reign The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso) (5th reign, 622 days) Shortest reign The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) (7th reign, 3 days) Oldest winner Shane McMahon (49 years, 12 days) Youngest winner Dominik Mysterio (24 years, 41 days) Heaviest champion The Wyatt Family (Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper, and Randy Orton) (810 lb (370 kg) combined) Lightest champion The Mysterios (Rey and Dominik Mysterio) (375 lb (170 kg) combined)

Right now the champions are The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford), who are in their second reign, both as a team and individually. They defeated #DIY (Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa) on the March 14, 2025, episode of SmackDown in Barcelona, Spain.^[2]

History

Tournament to crown the first champions (2016)

With the return of the WWE Brand Extension in the middle of 2016,^[3][4] a draft took place in July 19. The WWE Tag Team Champions The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) was drafted to Raw. As a result, SmackDown Live was left without a tag team title.^[5] On the August 23, 2016 episode of SmackDown Live, Shane McMahon introduced the SmackDown Tag Team Championship.^[6] A tournament was created for determined the first champions.^[6] The final match took place at Backlash on September 11, 2016, and Heath Slater and Rhyno beat The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso) to win the title.^[1]

Tournament bracket

Quarterfinals SmackDown (8/23, 8/30)[6][7]

Semifinals SmackDown (9/6)[8]

Final Backlash (9/11)

1

American Alpha (Chad Gable and Jason Jordan)

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8

Breezango (Fandango and Tyler Breeze)

10:13

American Alpha†

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The Usos

0:28

5

The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso)

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4

The Ascension (Konnor and Viktor)

3:49

The Usos

10:02

Heath Slater and Rhyno

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3

The Hype Bros (Mojo Rawley and Zack Ryder)

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6

The Vaudevillains (Aiden English and Simon Gotch)

2:50

The Hype Bros

7:03

Heath Slater and Rhyno

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7

The Headbangers (Mosh and Thrasher)

2:54

2

Heath Slater and Rhyno

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† Chad Gable got injuryed after beating The Usos and American Alpha were removed from the final. The Usos then beat The Hype Bros at Backlash to replace American Alpha in the final.

Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship (2022–2024)

On the May 20, 2022, episode of SmackDown, reigning SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos defeated Raw Tag Team Champions RK-Bro (Randy Orton and Riddle) in a Winners Take All match to win both championships and become recognized as the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions. WWE called the match as a championship unification match; however, both titles remained independently active. The Usos defended both titles together across both brands as the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship, but on a couple of occasions in early 2023, they also defended the titles separately.

In the main event of WrestleMania 39 Night 1, The Usos defended the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship against the team of Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn. This subsequently made both the Raw and SmackDown titles the first tag team championships to be defended in the main event of WWE's biggest event, WrestleMania. At the event, Owens and Zayn defeated The Usos to become champions. 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 on May 27 when Owens and Zayn defeated The Bloodline (Roman Reigns and Solo Sikoa).

At WrestleMania XL Night 1 on April 6, 2024, the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship was defended in a Six-Pack Tag Team Ladder match in which both sets of titles had to be retrieved to win. The titles were split as Austin Theory and Grayson Waller retrieved the SmackDown titles while The Awesome Truth (The Miz and R-Truth) retrieved the Raw titles.^[9] Thirteen days later on SmackDown, the championship was renamed to WWE Tag Team Championship and was also redesigned.^[10]

Reigns

Key

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
+	Current reign is changing daily

No.	Champion	Championship change			Reign statistics			Notes	Ref.
		Date	Event	Location	Reign	Days	Days recog.
1	Heath Slater and Rhyno	September 11, 2016	Backlash	Richmond, VA	1	84	83	As a result of the 2016 WWE draft, the WWE Tag Team Championship became exclusive to Raw, so SmackDown created the SmackDown Tag Team Championship; Raw's title was then renamed. Slater and Rhyno defeated The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso) in the tournament final to become the first champions.	[1]
2	The Wyatt Family (Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper, and Randy Orton)	December 4, 2016	TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs	Dallas, TX	1	23	23	Wyatt and Orton won the match, but Harper was also recognized as champion under the Freebird Rule.	[11][12]
3	American Alpha (Chad Gable and Jason Jordan)	December 27, 2016	SmackDown	Rosemont, IL	1	84	83	This was a fatal four-way tag team elimination match, also involving Heath Slater and Rhyno, and The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso). Luke Harper and Randy Orton represented The Wyatt Family and were last to be pinned.	[13]
4	The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso)	March 21, 2017	SmackDown	Uncasville, CT	1	124	123		[14]
5	The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods)	July 23, 2017	Battleground	Philadelphia, PA	1	28	27	Kingston and Woods won the match, but Big E was also recognized as champion under the Freebird Rule.	[15]
6	The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso)	August 20, 2017	SummerSlam	Brooklyn, NY	2	23	23	Match aired live on WWE Network and YouTube as part of the SummerSlam Kickoff show. Big E and Xavier Woods represented The New Day.	[16]
7	The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods)	September 12, 2017	SmackDown	Las Vegas, NV	2	26	25	This was a Sin City Street Fight. Big E and Kingston won the match, but Woods was also recognized as champion under the Freebird Rule.	[17]
8	The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso)	October 8, 2017	Hell in a Cell	Detroit, MI	3	182	182	This was a Hell in a Cell match. Big E and Xavier Woods represented The New Day.	[18]
9	The Bludgeon Brothers (Harper (2) and Rowan)	April 8, 2018	WrestleMania 34	New Orleans, LA	1	135	135	This was a triple threat tag team match, also involving The New Day (represented by Big E and Kofi Kingston). Harper was previously known as Luke Harper.	[19]
10	The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods)	August 21, 2018	SmackDown	Brooklyn, NY	3	56	55	This was a No Disqualification match. Kingston and Woods won the match, but Big E was also recognized as champion under the Freebird Rule.	[20]
11	The Bar (Cesaro and Sheamus)	October 16, 2018	SmackDown 1000	Washington, D.C.	1	103	102	Big E and Xavier Woods represented The New ä Day.	[21]
12	The Miz and Shane McMahon	January 27, 2019	Royal Rumble	Phoenix, AZ	1	21	21		[22]
13	The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso)	February 17, 2019	Elimination Chamber	Houston, TX	4	51	51		[23]
14	The Hardy Boyz (Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy)	April 9, 2019	SmackDown	Brooklyn, NY	1	21	20		[24]
—	Vacated	April 30, 2019	SmackDown	Columbus, OH	—	—	—	The Hardy Boyz (Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy) vacated the title due to Jeff suffering a knee injury that required surgery.	[25]
15	Daniel Bryan and Rowan	May 7, 2019	SmackDown	Louisville, KY	1 (1, 2)	68	68	Defeated The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso) to win the vacant title.	[26]
16	The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods)	July 14, 2019	Extreme Rules	Philadelphia, PA	4	63	62	This was a triple threat tag team match, also involving Heavy Machinery (Otis and Tucker). Big E and Woods won the match. At the time, Kingston was the reigning WWE Champion and he was not listed as tag team champion with Big E and Woods, but after The New Day won their sixth title on April 17, 2020, Kingston was also credited for this reign under the Freebird Rule.	[27][28][29][30]
17	The Revival (Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson)	September 15, 2019	Clash of Champions	Charlotte, NC	1	54	54	Big E and Xavier Woods represented The New Day.	[31]
18	The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods)	November 8, 2019	SmackDown	Manchester, England	5	111	110	Big E and Kingston won the match. At the time, Woods was inactive due to injury and he was not recognized as champion with Big E and Kingston, but after The New Day won their sixth title on April 17, 2020, Woods was retroactively credited for this reign under the Freebird Rule.	[32]
19	The Miz and John Morrison	February 27, 2020	Super ShowDown	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	1 (2, 1)	50	50	Big E and Kofi Kingston represented The New Day.	[33]
20	The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods)	April 17, 2020	SmackDown	Orlando, FL	6	93	92	This was a Triple Threat match between Big E representing The New Day, Jey Uso representing The Usos, and The Miz representing himself and John Morrison. Big E pinned The Miz to win the titles. During this reign, Woods was inactive due to injury, but was credited for this reign under the Freebird Rule.	[34]
21	Shinsuke Nakamura and Cesaro	July 19, 2020	The Horror Show at Extreme Rules	Orlando, FL	1 (1, 2)	82	82	This was a tables match. Big E and Kofi Kingston represented The New Day.	[35]
22	The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods)	October 9, 2020	SmackDown	Orlando, FL	7	3	2	Kingston and Woods won the titles as part of The New Day with Big E; however, the two were drafted to the Raw brand as part of the 2020 WWE Draft immediately after their win, splitting them from Big E and marking their first reign without him.	[36]
23	The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford)	October 12, 2020	Raw	Orlando, FL	1	88	88	As a result of the 2020 WWE Draft, The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) were drafted to Raw while then-Raw Tag Team Champions The Street Profits were drafted to SmackDown. To keep the championships on their respective brands, WWE official Adam Pearce had the two teams change their championships.	[37]
24	Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode	January 8, 2021	SmackDown	St. Petersburg, FL	1	128	127		[38]
25	The Mysterios (Rey and Dominik Mysterio	May 16, 2021	WrestleMania Backlash	Tampa, Florida	1	63	62		[39]
26	The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso)	July 18, 2021	Money in the Bank Kickoff	Fort Worth, TX	5	622	622	On the May 20, 2022, episode of SmackDown, The Usos defeated Raw Tag Team Champions RK-Bro (Randy Orton and Riddle) in a Winners Take All match, becoming listed as the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions. WWE mistakenly lists the end of this reign on April 2, 2023.	[40][41]
27	Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn	April 1, 2023	WrestleMania 39 Night 1	Inglewood, CA	1	154	154	This match was also for The Usos' Raw Tag Team Championship. WWE's official title history mistakenly lists the date as April 2, 2023.	[42]
28	The Judgment Day (Finn Bálor and Damian Priest)	September 2, 2023	Payback	Pittsburgh, PA	1	35	35	This was a Steel City Street Fight that was also for Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn's Raw Tag Team Championship.	[43]
29	Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso	October 7, 2023	Fastlane	Indianapolis, IN	1 (1, 6)	9	9	This match was also for The Judgment Day's Raw Tag Team Championship.	[44]
30	The Judgment Day (Finn Bálor and Damian Priest)	October 16, 2023	Raw	Oklahoma City, OK	2	173	173	This match was also for Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso's Raw Tag Team Championship.	[45]
	A-Town Down Under (Austin Theory and Grayson Waller)	April 6, 2024	WrestleMania XL Night 1	Philadelphia, PA	1	90	90	This was a Six-Pack Tag Team Ladder match for both the SmackDown and Raw Tag Team Championships also featuring The Awesome Truth (The Miz and R-Truth), #DIY (Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa), The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods), and New Catch Republic (Pete Dunne and Tyler Bate). Both sets of titles were hung above the ring and the match continued until both sets of titles were won. The Awesome Truth won the Raw Tag Team Championship while Theory and Waller won the SmackDown Tag Team Championship.	[9]
32	#DIY (Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa)	July 5, 2024	SmackDown	Toronto, ON, Canada	1	28	28		[46]
33	The Bloodline (Tama Tonga, Jacob Fatu, and Tonga Loa)	August 2, 2024	SmackDown	Cleveland, OH	1	84	84	Tonga and Fatu originally won the championship, but Bloodline leader Solo Sikoa ordered Fatu to give up his half of the title to Tonga Loa on the August 23 episode of SmackDown so that Fatu could be Sikoa's personal enforcer.	[47]
34	The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin)	October 25, 2024	SmackDown	Brooklyn, NY	1	42	42		[48]
35	#DIY (Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa)	December 6, 2024	SmackDown	Minneapolis, MN	2	98	98		[49]
36	The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford)	March 14, 2025	SmackDown	Barcelona, Spain	2	47+	47+		[2]

Combined reigns

As of April 30, 2025.

By team

†	Is the current champion(s)

Rank	Team	No. of reigns	Combined days	Combined days rec. by WWE
1	The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso)	5	1,002	1,001
2	The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods)	7	377	371
3	The Judgment Day (Finn Bálor and Damian Priest)	2	208	207
4	Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn	1	154	153
5	The Bludgeon Brothers (Harper and Rowan)	1	135
6	Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode	1	128	127
7	#DIY † (Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa)	2	126
8	The Bar (Cesaro and Sheamus)	1	103	102
9	The Street Profits † (Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford)	2	130+
10	A-Town Down Under (Austin Theory and Grayson Waller)	1	90
11	The Bloodline (Tama Tonga, Jacob Fatu, and Tonga Loa)	1	84
	American Alpha (Chad Gable and Jason Jordan)	1	84	83
	Heath Slater and Rhyno	1
14	Shinsuke Nakamura and Cesaro	1	82
15	Daniel Bryan and Rowan	1	68
16	The Mysterios (Rey and Dominik Mysterio)	1	63	62
17	The Revival (Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson)	1	54
18	The Miz and John Morrison	1	50
19	The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin)	1	42
20	The Wyatt Family (Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper, and Randy Orton)	1	23
21	The Hardy Boyz (Jeff and Matt Hardy)	1	21	20
	The Miz and Shane McMahon	1	21
23	Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso	1	9
24	The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods)	1	3	2

By wrestler

Individually, Jey Uso has the longest combined reign at 1,011 days (1,010 days as listed by WWE).

Rank	Wrestler	No. of reigns	Combined days	Combined days rec. by WWE
1	Jey Uso	6	1,011	1,010
2	Jimmy Uso	5	1,002	1,001
3	Kofi Kingston	7	380	373
	Xavier Woods
5	Big E	6	377	371
6	Finn Bálor	2	208	207
	Damian Priest
8	Rowan	2	203
9	Cesaro	2	185	184
10	(Luke) Harper	2[c]	158
11	Kevin Owens	1	154	153
	Sami Zayn
13	Dolph Ziggler	1	128	127
	Robert Roode
15	Johnny Gargano	2	126
	Tommaso Ciampa
17	Sheamus	1	103	102
18	Angelo Dawkins †	2	130+
	Montez Ford †
20	Austin Theory	1	90
	Grayson Waller
22	Tama Tonga	1	84
	Chad Gable	1	84	83
	Heath Slater	1
	Jason Jordan	1
	Rhyno	1
27	Shinsuke Nakamura	1	82
28	The Miz	2	71
29	Daniel Bryan	1	68
30	Tonga Loa	1	63
	Dominik Mysterio	1	63	62
	Rey Mysterio
33	Dash Wilder	1	54
	Scott Dawson
35	John Morrison	1	50
36	Alex Shelley	1	42
	Chris Sabin
38	Bray Wyatt	1	23
	Randy Orton
40	Jeff Hardy	1	21	20
	Matt Hardy
	Shane McMahon	1	21
	Jacob Fatu	1
44	Cody Rhodes	1	9

Notes

1. Together with the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship.
2. For their first six reigns, Big E, Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods are all listed as champion under the Freebird rule, but for their seventh reign, only Kingston and Woods are listed as champion as Big E was split from the team as a result of the 2020 WWE Draft.
3. During his second reign, his ring name was simply "Harper".