The WWE Raw Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship created and promoted by WWE. It is one of three male tag team championships among WWE’s three main brands, along with the WWE SmackDown Tag Team championship on Smackdown and the NXT Tag Team title on NXT. The current champions are The New Day, in their third reign as a team.
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The WWE Raw Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship created and promoted by WWE. It is one of three male tag team championships among WWE’s three main brands, along with the WWE SmackDown Tag Team championship on Smackdown and the NXT Tag Team title on NXT. The current champions are The New Day, who are in their third reign as a team; individually, this is the fifth reign for Kingston and third for Woods. The championship was originally established as the WWE Tag team Championship on October 20, 2002, and the team of Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit were the inaugural champions. It was introduced for the Smack down brand as a second title for tag teams in the promotion to complement WWE’s original World Tag Team Champion, which became exclusive to Raw. Both titles were unified in 2009 and were collectively referred to as the \”Unified WWE Tagteam Championship\” while officially remaining independently active until 2010.
As a result of the 2016 WWE Draft, the championship becameexclusive to Raw with a subsequent rename. In 2019, WWE’s former developmental territory NXT became the promotion’s third major brand when it was moved to the USA Network in September, thus making the NXTTag Team Championship the third major tag team title for men in WWE. The following night on Raw, Cesaro and Sheamus were scheduled to defend the titles against Braun Strowman and a partner of his choosing. This made Nicholas the youngest WWE champion in history, making him the youngest in WWE history to be crowned champion on the same night. The title was discontinued on August 29, 2011, but it was revived on July 19, 2016, following a list of list of WWE’s roster members. The titles were combined as the Unified WWE Team Championship in August 2010 with a single set of belts, and continued to be defended on any brand.
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