The World Tag Team Championship, originally known as the WWWF World Tag Team Championship, was a professional wrestling world tag team championship in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). The title had various names over the years due to company name changes, from its establishment in 1971 in the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF), to World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1979, and then WWE in 2002; the championship took on its final unbranded name later that same year. In April 2009, it was unified with the WWE Tag Team Championship, with the two titles together then recognized as the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship while remaining independently active. On August 16, 2010, however, the World Tag Team Championship was decommissioned in favor of continuing the lineage of the WWE Tag Team Championship (which became the Raw Tag Team Championship in 2016 before assuming the name of World Tag Team Championship in 2024).
There were a total of 176 reigns between 113 teams composed of 164 individual champions, and nine vacancies. The first champions were Luke Graham and Tarzan Tyler and the final champions were The Hart Dynasty (David Hart Smith and Tyson Kidd). The team with the most reigns was The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley) with eight, while individually, Edge had the most at 12. Only two tag teams held the title for 365 or more days: Demolition (Ax and Smash), whose first reign was the longest reign for the title at 478 days, and The Valiant Brothers (Jimmy Valiant and Johnny Valiant). As a team, Demolition also had the longest combined reign at 698 days across three reigns, while individually, Mr. Fuji had the longest combined reign at 932 days across five reigns.
The following is a chronological list of teams that have been World Tag Team Champions by ring name.
Title history
Names NameYearsWWWF World Tag Team ChampionshipJune 3, 1971 – March 1, 1979WWF World Tag Team ChampionshipMarch 1, 1979 – December 26, 1983WWF Tag Team ChampionshipDecember 26, 1983 – May 6, 2002WWE Tag Team ChampionshipMay 6, 2002 – October 7, 2002World Tag Team ChampionshipOctober 7, 2002 – August 16, 2010Unified WWE Tag Team ChampionshipApril 5, 2009 - August 16, 2010
Reigns
Combined reigns
By team RankTeamNo. ofreignsCombineddays1Demolition 3 69812Mr. Fuji and Professor Tanaka 3 5693Hart Foundation 2 4834The New Age Outlaws 5 4685The Wild Samoans 3 4316Money Inc. 3 4117Valiant Brothers 1 3708Mr. Fuji and Mr. Saito 2 3639Smoking Gunns 3 33110The British Bulldogs 1 29411Dudley Boyz 8 28112Adrian Adonis and Dick Murdoch 1 27913Owen Hart and The British Bulldog 1 24614Chief Jay Strongbow and Billy White Wolf 1 23715Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch 3 230Valiant Brothers 1 23017Brutus Beefcake and Greg Valentine 1 22618The Quebecers 3 216The Spirit Squad 1 21620Tony Garea and Rick Martel 2 213Legion of Doom 2 21322Edge and Christian 7 20623Hardcore Holly and Cody Rhodes 1 20224Luke Graham and Tarzan Tyler 1 18625Tony Parisi and Louis Cerdan 1 18526Tony Garea and Dean Ho 1 175Owen Hart and Yokozuna 2 17528La Résistance 3 17429Ivan Putski and Tito Santana 1 17330Executioners 1 16831The Nasty Boys 1 15532Tony Atlas and Rocky Johnson 1 15433Kane and Big Show 1 15334Strike Force 1 15235The Hardy Boyz 6 15136The Yukon Lumberjacks 1 148Jules Strongbow and Chief Jay Strongbow 2 14838The Hurricane and Rosey 1 140Jeri-Show 1 14040U.S. Express 2 13741Headshrinkers 1 12442Billy and Chuck 2 11743Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase Jr. 2 113John Morrison and The Miz 1 11345The Hart Dynasty 1 11246King Curtis Iaukea and Mikel Scicluna 1 11147Colossal Connection 1 10948Tony Garea and Larry Zbyszko 1 10549Haystacks Calhoun and Tony Garea 1 104Dino Bravo and Dominic DeNucci 1 10451La Résistance 1 9852Evolution 2 9253The Steiner Brothers 2 88Two Dudes with Attitude 2 8855William Regal and Tajiri 1 8656The Natural Disasters 1 8557The Colóns 1 8458Moondogs 1 8159The Acolytes/APA 3 7960The Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff 1 7861Rated-RKO 1 77ShoMiz 1 7763The Brain Busters 1 76William Regal and Lance Storm 2 76Kane and Rob Van Dam 1 7666The Blackjacks 1 7467Kane and X-Pac 2 6968Dominic DeNucci and Victor Rivera 1 6769Jeff Jarrett and Owen Hart 1 64The Un-Americans 1 6471Shawn Michaels and John Cena 1 6372Christian and Chris Jericho 1 62Eugene and William Regal 1 6274Karl Gotch and Rene Goulet 1 57D-Generation X 1 5776"Stone Cold" Steve Austin and Dude Love 1 55Chris Benoit and Edge 2 5578Bodydonnas 1 49"Stone Cold" Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels 1 4980CM Punk and Kofi Kingston 1 4781Moondogs 1 4582Spike Dudley and Tazz 1 4383The Corporation 1 4284Brothers of Destruction 2 4185Dominic DeNucci and Pat Barrett 1 3886Sonny King and Chief Jay Strongbow 1 3687Booker T and Rob Van Dam 1 3588The Right to Censor 1 3489Kane and Mankind 2 3390Chris Benoit and Chris Jericho 1 2991The Headbangers 1 28Chris Jericho and Edge 1 2893Too Cool 1 2794The Two-Man Power Trip 1 22Booker T and Goldust 1 2296The Unholy Alliance 2 21Hurri-Kane 1 2198Edge and Hollywood Hulk Hogan 1 1999Rico and Rikishi 1 16100"Stone Cold" Steve Austin and The Undertaker 1 15Rock 'n' Sock Connection 3 15The Holly Cousins 1 15103Booker T and Test 1 13104Diamond Dallas Page and Kanyon 1 12105The Godwinns 2 9106Chris Jericho and The Rock 1 8Ric Flair and Roddy Piper 1 8108The 1-2-3 Kid and Marty Jannetty 1 7Chief Morley and Lance Storm 1 7John Cena and Batista 1 7111Mankind and Al Snow 1 6112Paul London and Brian Kendrick 1 3113Men on a Mission 1 2114Bob Backlund and Pedro Morales 1 1The 1-2-3 Kid and Bob Holly 1 1Cactus Jack and Chainsaw Charlie 1 1The Rock and The Undertaker 1 1
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By wrestler
RankWrestlerNo. ofreignsCombineddays1Mr. Fuji 5 9322Billy Gunn/Billy 10 9163Ax 3 698Smash 3 6985Johnny Valiant 2 6006Tony Garea 5 5977Professor Tanaka 3 5698Mike Rotundo/I.R.S. 5 5489Davey Boy Smith/The British Bulldog 2 54010Owen Hart 4 48511Bret Hart 2 483Jim Neidhart 2 48313Road Dogg 5 46814Afa 3 431Sika 3 43116Chief Jay Strongbow 4 42117Ted DiBiase 3 41118Kane 9 39319Big Show 5 39120Edge 12 38521Jimmy Valiant 1 37022Rick Martel 3 36523Mr. Saito 2 36324Christian 9 33225Bart Gunn 3 33126Tito Santana 2 32527Cody Rhodes 3 31528Dynamite Kid 1 29429Bubba Ray Dudley 8 281D-Von Dudley 8 28131Adrian Adonis 1 279Dick Murdoch 1 27933Sylvain Grenier 4 27234Chris Jericho 5 267 35Shawn Michaels 5 25736Billy White Wolf 1 23737Jerry Valiant 1 230Trevor Murdoch 3 230Lance Cade 3 23040Brutus Beefcake 1 226Greg Valentine 1 22642William Regal 4 22443Bob Holly/Hardcore Holly 3 21844Pierre 3 216Jacques 3 216Johnny 1 216Kenny 1 216Mikey 1 216Mitch 1 216Nicky 1 21651Animal 2 213Hawk 2 21353Dominic DeNucci 2 20954The Miz 2 19055Luke Graham 1 186Tarzan Tyler 1 18657Louis Cerdan 1 185Tony Parisi 1 18559Yokozuna 2 175Dean Ho 1 17561Robért Conway 3 17462Ivan Putski 1 17363Executioner #1 1 168Executioner #2 1 16865The Hurricane 2 16166Brian Knobbs 1 155Jerry Sags 1 15568Tony Atlas 1 154Rocky Johnson 1 15470Matt Hardy 6 151Jeff Hardy 6 15172Yukon Pierre 1 148Eric 1 148Jules Strongbow 2 148Crush 1 14876Lance Storm 4 14777"Stone Cold" Steve Austin 4 14178Rosey 1 140Fatu/Rikishi 2 14080Barry Windham 2 13781Rex 1 12682Samu 1 12483Chuck 2 11784Ted DiBiase (Jr.) 2 113John Morrison 1 11386David Hart Smith 1 112Tyson Kidd 1 11288King Curtis Iaukea 1 111Mikel Scicluna 1 111Rob Van Dam 2 11191Dude Love/Cactus Jack/Mankind 8 11092André the Giant 1 109Haku 1 10994Larry Zbyszko 1 10595Haystacks Calhoun 1 104Dino Bravo 1 10497Ric Flair 3 10098Batista 3 9999René Duprée 1 98100Rick Steiner 2 88Scott Steiner 2 88Diesel 2 88103Tajiri 1 86104Earthquake 1 85Typhoon 1 85106Chris Benoit 3 84Carlito 1 84Primo 1 84109Moondog Spot 1 81110Bradshaw 3 79Faarooq 3 79Triple H 2 79113The Iron Sheik 1 78Nikolai Volkoff 1 78The Undertaker 6 78116The 1-2-3 Kid/X-Pac 4 77Randy Orton 1 77118Arn Anderson 1 76Tully Blanchard 1 76120Blackjack Mulligan 1 74Blackjack Lanza 1 74122Booker T 3 70John Cena 2 70124Victor Rivera 1 67125Jeff Jarrett 1 64126Eugene 1 62127Karl Gotch 1 57Rene Goulet 1 57129Skip 1 49Zip 1 49131CM Punk 1 47Kofi Kingston 1 47133Moondog King 1 45134Spike Dudley 1 43Tazz 1 43136The Big Boss Man 1 42Ken Shamrock 1 42138Pat Barrett 1 38139Sonny King 1 36140Bull Buchanan 1 34The Goodfather 1 34142Mosh 1 28Thrasher 1 28144Grand Master Sexay 1 27Scotty 2 Hotty 1 27146The Rock 5 24147Goldust 1 22148Hollywood Hulk Hogan 1 19149Rico 1 1615Crash Holly 1 15151Test 1 13152Diamond Dallas Page 1 12Kanyon 1 12154Henry O. Godwinn 2 9Phineas I. Godwinn 2 9156Roddy Piper 1 8157Marty Jannetty 1 7Chief Morley 1 7159Al Snow 1 6160Paul London 1 3Brian Kendrick 1 3162Mabel 1 2Mo 1 2164Bob Backlund 1 1Pedro Morales 1 1Chainsaw Charlie 1 1
See also List of former championships in WWE Tag team championships in WWE
References
Notes
External links Official World Tag Team Championship Title History Wrestling-Titles.com: WWE World Tag Team Title