From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

World Tag Team Championship
The Hurricane with the World Tag Team Championship belt
Details
Current champion(s)	Hardcore Holly and Cody Rhodes
Date won	December 10, 2007
Promotion	World Wrestling Entertainment
Brand	RAW
Date created	1971
Other name(s)	WWWF World Tag Team Championship WWF World Tag Team Championship WWF Tag Team Championship WWE Tag Team Championship
Statistics Most reigns (as team) The Dudley Boyz (8 reigns) (as individual) Edge (11 reigns) First champion(s) Luke Graham and Tarzan Tyler Longest reign Demolition (478 days) Shortest reign Edge and Christian (<1 hour) Oldest champion Ric Flair (55 years, 253 days) Youngest champion René Duprée (19 years, 182 days) Heaviest champion Owen Hart & Yokozuna (868 lbs Combined (Yokozuna 641 lb & Owen Hart 227 lb)) Lightest champion Paul London and Brian Kendrick (380lbs Combined (Paul London 205lb & Brian Kendrick 175lb))

The World Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship in World Wrestling Entertainment. It is the original world tag team title of WWE. Currently, it is exclusive to the RAW brand.

The World Tag Team Championship was originally known as the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) World Tag Team Championship. Following the title's introduction in 1971, Luke Graham and Tarzan Tyler became the inaugural champions on June 3. Then, in 1979, the name of the promotion was changed to World Wrestling Federation, thus the title was renamed the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) World Tag Team Championship. The title began to be referred to as simply the WWF Tag Team Championship for short in the mid 90s.^[1]

In March 2001, the World Wrestling Federation purchased World Championship Wrestling. Following this, the "Invasion" storyline was orchestrated, in which WCW was ultimately dismantled. On the conclusion of the "Invasion" at Survivor Series 2001, the WCW Tag Team Championship and the WWF Tag Team Championship were unified in a Steel cage match when the WCW Tag Team Champions, The Dudley Boyz, defeated the WWF Tag Team Champions, The Hardy Boyz. As a result, The Dudley Boyz were named the last WCW Tag Team Champions and became the new WWF Tag Team Champions.

After the WWF/WWE name change in 2002, the championship was subsequently referred to as the World Wrestling Enterainment (WWE) Tag Team Championship. Then, during a period of open free agency after the Brand Extension, RAW General Manager Eric Bischoff was able to sign the Tag Team Champions to the RAW brand after they had originally been drafted to the SmackDown! brand. As a result the Tag Team Championship became exclusive to the RAW brand, thus leaving the SmackDown! brand without a tag team title. Following Bischoff's actions, SmackDown! General Manager Stephanie McMahon introduced a new WWE Tag Team Championship and commissioned it to be the exclusive tag team title for the SmackDown! brand. With the introduction of the World Heavyweight Championship on the RAW brand after the WWE Championship was moved to the SmackDown! brand, the Tag Team Championship on RAW was now being referred to as the World Tag Team Championship. This was done so that the names of both tag team titles would mirror the names of the top championships on their respective brands. However, when the WWE Championship and World Heavyweight Championship switched brands during the 2005 Draft Lottery, neither of the tag team titles were renamed.

The current champions are Hardcore Holly and Cody Rhodes, who are in their first reign as a team. This is Holly's third individual reign and Rhodes' first. They defeated Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch for the title on the December 10, 2007 RAW 15th Anniversary Spectacular in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

• WWE Tag Team Championship
• List of World Tag Team Champions (WWE)
• List of World Tag Team Championship reigns by length

• World Tag Team Title History