WOTU Tag Team Championships (RLS Championship)

The WOTU Tag Team Championships were the women's team-based championships fought for in UNION Wrestling, being recognised in the alternative wrestling scene as being "the highest women's tag team championships- and overall team based championships- in the United Kingdom and Ireland".1 They debuted in March 2022, before being retired in March 2024.
Kenzie Starr and Terri Law, the inaugural champions, made history by becoming the first superstars born in the 21st Century to hold any championship in UNION Wrestling, with Starr being the youngest champion ever. The final holders of the titles were Better Than You, the team of Elsa and Gaia Cassidy.
==History==
The belts were created by Jackie Compton and Jordan "The Cowpoke" Hamer in 2022, as a way of ensuring complete parity between the men's and women's divisions going into the Reboot Era. Director of Wrestling Eddie Hamer had previously been hesitant to create this kind of championship due to the thin tag team division, an issue he'd had with the men's championships earlier in the promotion's history.
Despite these reservations, the championships were contested for the first time at UNION Bring Down The House, where Kenzie Starr & Terri Law shocked favourites siSTARZ (Sitara & Indira) to win the titles.2 
They defended the championships successfully against the siSTARZ at Bring Down the House '23, before defeating Bad Dreams (Miss Deeds & Nightmare D0ll) at UNION Uneasy Alliance 2023. They would lose the championships to Better Than You (Elsa & Gaia Cassidy) at UNION Hardcore Brawl in June, before failing to win them back at UNION London Calling 2024.
In the run-up to UNION Open Challenge, Eddie Hamer confirmed that the WOTU Tag Team Championships would be retired at the event, due to the pressures of building a sizeable women's roster "organically" being compromised by the need for "potentially unnatural partnerships". He went on to tell assembled press that a third, and brand new, singles championship would debut for the women's division after the season ended with Open Challenge, with the winners at that event being recognised as the final champions, and getting "some kind of advantage" in the race to crown a new champion.3
==Reigns==
# 	Champions 	Won 	Reign in Defences
1 	Kenzie Starr & Terri Law 	Won vacant titles against siSTARZ at UNION Bring Down The House	3
2 	Better Than You (Elsa & Gaia Cassidy)	Defeated Starr & Law at UNION Hardcore Brawl 2023 	-
Deactivated	Deactivated 	Deactivated 	Deactivated
*=Defences include those on live shows during non-stream hiatuses or special events.
==Trivia==
*Like all UNION Wrestling championships, the Tag Team title reigns are measured in number of defences, rather than a timescale such as days or weeks. This was done primarily to further set UNION apart from other promotions.4
==Behind-the-Scenes/Notes==
#The "alternative wrestling scene" being my posh little name for the universe I've created as a complete whole.
#The "shock" there was real, as I lost by accident... but I'm actually glad, in this case, as I like the team.
#This is down to me finding it difficult to fully populate the division quickly, with teams that make actual sense. Three singles titles will hopefully be much more manageable.
#This is actually to make it easier to update the pages on here, having to do so only after defences rather than daily or weekly.
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