Smackdown Tag Team Championship (Wrestling Era)

The Smackdown Tag Team Championship is the tag team Championship for the Smackdown brand. The current Champions are Bullet Club members Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows, who defeated Shield members Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose at the Hell in a Cell PPV on September Week 4.
=== History ===
Following the reintroduction of the WWE brand extension and subsequent draft on July 19, 2016, then-WWE Tag Team Champions The New Day were drafted to Raw, leaving SmackDown without a tag team championship. Over the course of the following month, SmackDown general manager Daniel Bryan stated that he wanted to build up the tag team division before introducing a championship. Immediately following SummerSlam on the August 23, 2016 episode of SmackDown Live, Bryan and SmackDown commissioner Shane McMahon introduced the SmackDown Tag Team Championship (Raw's title was subsequently renamed). An eight-team tournament was then scheduled to determine the inaugural champions, culminating in a final match at Backlash on September 11, 2016. The team of Heath Slater and Rhyno defeated The Usos in the tournament final to become the inaugural champions.
When unveiled, the championship belt design was nearly identical to the Raw Tag Team Championship, with the differences being that the leather straps were blue as opposed to the former's original black with a different stitching pattern, and the plates were silver as opposed to the former's original bronze. The Raw Tag Team Championship belt design was updated on December 19, 2016, with silver plates on red straps to bring both sets of titles more in line with each other.
The Wrestling Era began with Shield members Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose holding the Smackdown Tag Team Championships. On September Week 4, at the Hell in a Cell PPV, Bullet Club members Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows defeated Ambrose and Rollins to become the new Champions.
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