World Tag Team Championship (WWE)

The **World Tag Team Championship** was a professional wrestling tag team championship in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was the original world tag team title of WWE. In 2009 it was unified with the WWE Tag Team Championship to make up the **Unified WWE Tag Team Championship**. It was retired in 2010. The last champions were The Hart Dynasty (David Hart Smith and Tyson Kidd).

## History

The championship was first introduced into the then _World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF)_ in 1971. Following its introduction into the WWWF Luke Graham and Tarzan Tyler became the first _WWWF Tag Team Champions_ on June 3. In 1979 the title became known as the _World Wrestling Federation (WWF) Tag Team Championship_ when the promotion renamed itself _World Wrestling Federation._

In 2001 at the Survivor Series Pay-per-view during the Invasion storyline, The Hardy Boyz, Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy who were the current _World Tag Team Champions_ and were competing for the _WWF_ took on The Dudley Boyz, Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley who were the current WCW World Tag Team Champions and were competing for _The Alliance_ in a title unification match inside a Steel Cage, The Dudleyz defeated The Hardyz and were named the last WCW Tag Team Champions while also becoming the _WWF Tag Team Champions_

After the WWF/WWE name change in 2002, the championship was referred to as the _World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Tag Team Championship_. After a period where the championship was to be freely defended on either Raw or SmackDown! the championship became exclusive to the Raw brand and was renamed _World Tag Team Championship_. The General Manager at this time, Stephanie McMahon created new WWE Tag Team Titles which were to be exclusive to the SmackDown! Brand.

At WrestleMania 25, The Colóns (Primo and Carlito) defeated WWE Tag Team Champions The Miz and John Morrison to unify both championships (which also meant it could be defended on all three brands: Raw, SmackDown and ECW). On August 16, 2010, the World Tag Team Championship was retired in favor of continuing the WWE Tag Team Championship (which then lost the "unified" name) with Bret Hart presenting new championship belts to the final World Tag Team Champions, The Hart Dynasty (David Hart Smith and Tyson Kidd).

There have been a total of 113 recognized teams and 164 recognized individual champions, who have had a combined 176 official reigns. The team with the most reigns is The Dudley Boyz with eight. Edge has the most individual reigns with 12. Two tag teams have held the titles for 365 or more days: Demolition (Ax and Smash), whose first reign set the record at 478 days and The Valiant Brothers (Jerry and Johnny Valiant). Demolition is also the team with the longest combined reign at 698 days, while Mr. Fuji has the longest combined reign as an individual at 932 days.

## Infobox (pro wrestling championship)

- **image**: Punk Tag Champ.jpg
- **caption**: CM Punk with the last championship design (2002–2010)
- **championshipname**: World Tag Team Championship
- **promotion**: WWE, WWWF/WWF/WWE
- **created**: June 3, 1971
- **titleretired**: August 16, 2010
- **mostreigns**: (as team) The Dudley Boyz (List of World Tag Team Champions (WWE), 8 reigns)

(as individual) Edge (wrestler), Edge (List of World Tag Team Champions (WWE), 12 reigns)
- **firstchamp**: Grady Johnson, Luke Graham and Camille Tourville, Tarzan Tyler
- **finalchamp**: The Hart Dynasty
- **longestreign**: Demolition (professional wrestling), Demolition
(478 days)
- **shortestreign**: Edge and Christian (<1 hour)
- **oldest**: Ric Flair
(57 years, 253 days)
- **youngest**: René Goguen, René Duprée
(19 years, 182 days)
- **heaviest**: Owen Hart and Yokozuna (wrestler), Yokozuna
(868 lb Combined
(Yokozuna 641 lb and Owen Hart 227 lb))
- **lightest**: Paul London and Brian Kendrick (380 lb Combined (Paul London 205 lb and Brian Kendrick 175lb))
- **pastnames**: * WWWF World Tag Team Championship
(1971–1979)
* WWF Tag Team Championship
(1979–1983)
* WWF World Tag Team Championship
(1983–2002)
* WWE Tag Team Championship
(2002)
* World Tag Team Championship
(2002–2010)
* Unified WWE Tag Team Championship
(2009–2010)