WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship

The WWE Tag Team Championship, formerly known as the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship, is a professional wrestling tag team championship in WWE. It is wrestled for on the SmackDown brand since the return of the brand extension in 2016. From May 20, 2022 to April 6, 2024 it was defended as one with the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship as the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship. The first champions were Heath Slater and Rhyno. 

Right now the champions are MFTs (Solo Sikoa and Tama Tonga), who are in their first reign as a team, while individually, it is Sikoa's first reign and Tonga's second, and the second for the stable as a whole. They won the title by defeating The Wyatt Sicks (Dexter Lumis and Joe Gacy) on the January 23, 2026, episode of SmackDown in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

 History 

 Tournament to crown the first champions (2016) 
With the return of the WWE Brand Extension in the middle of 2016, a draft took place in July 19. The WWE Tag Team Champions The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) was drafted to Raw. As a result, SmackDown Live was left without a tag team title. On the August 23, 2016 episode of SmackDown Live, Shane McMahon introduced the SmackDown Tag Team Championship. A tournament was created for determined the first champions. The final match took place at Backlash on September 11, 2016, and Heath Slater and Rhyno beat The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso) to win the title.

 Tournament bracket 

† Chad Gable got injured after beating The Usos and American Alpha were removed from the final. The Usos then beat The Hype Bros at Backlash to replace American Alpha in the final.

 Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship (2022–2024) 
On the May 20, 2022, episode of SmackDown, reigning SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos defeated Raw Tag Team Champions RK-Bro (Randy Orton and Riddle) in a Winners Take All match to win both championships and become recognized as the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions. WWE called the match as a championship unification match; however, both titles remained independently active. The Usos defended both titles together across both brands as the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship, but on a couple of occasions in early 2023, they also defended the titles separately.

In the main event of WrestleMania 39 Night 1, The Usos defended the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship against the team of Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn. This subsequently made both the Raw and SmackDown titles the first tag team championships to be defended in the main event of WWE's biggest event, WrestleMania. At the event, Owens and Zayn defeated The Usos to become champions. The titles would again be defended in the main event of a pay-per-view and livestreaming event at Night of Champions the following month on May 27 when Owens and Zayn defeated The Bloodline (Roman Reigns and Solo Sikoa).

At WrestleMania XL Night 1 on April 6, 2024, the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship was defended in a Six-Pack Tag Team Ladder match in which both sets of titles had to be retrieved to win. The titles were split as Austin Theory and Grayson Waller retrieved the SmackDown titles while The Awesome Truth (The Miz and R-Truth) retrieved the Raw titles. Thirteen days later on SmackDown, the championship was renamed to WWE Tag Team Championship and was also redesigned.

 Reigns 

 Combined reigns 
As of  , .

 By team  
†Is the current champion(s) 	
RankTeamNo. ofreignsCombineddays	Combined daysrec. by WWE1  5  1,002  1,0012  7  377  3713The Judgment Day   2  208  2074The Street Profits  2 2075The Wyatt Sicks   1 6Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn  1  154  1537  1 1358Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode  1  128  1279 2  12610 1  103  10211A-Town Down Under  1 9012The Bloodline1841 84 83Heath Slater and Rhyno115Shinsuke Nakamura and Cesaro 1 8216Daniel Bryan and Rowan  1 6817The Mysterios 1  63  6218 1 5419The Miz and John Morrison 1 5020The Motor City Machine Guns   1 4221The MFTs † 1 +22 1 2324 1  21  20The Miz and Shane McMahon 1 2126Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso 1 9

 By wrestler 
RankWrestlerNo. ofreignsCombineddays	Combined daysrec. by WWE1  6  1,011  1,0102  5  1,002  1,0013 7 380 3735  6  377  3716 2 208 2078 2 20710  2 20311 1  13  2  185  18414 2 15815 1 154 15317 1 128 12719 2 21 †  2 +22  1  103 10223 1 9025 1 84 83 1 1129  1 8230  2 7131  1 6832163 1 63 6235 1 5437  1 5038 1 4240 † 1 +41 1 2343 1 21 20   1 21147  1 9

 Notes 

 References 

 Other websites 
 Official WWE Tag Team Title History

Category:World Wrestling Entertainment championships
Category:2016 establishments