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WWE Tag Team Championship
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The Miz and John Morrison | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | November 13, 2007 (aired November 16, 2007) |
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| Promotion | World Wrestling Entertainment | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brand | SmackDown! | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date created | October 20, 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship in World Wrestling Entertainment. Currently, it is exclusive to the SmackDown! brand, though its current holders are representatives of the ECW brand.
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After the Brand Extension in World Wrestling Entertainment, the WWE Undisputed Championship and WWE Women's Championship became the only titles allowed to be defended on both the RAW and SmackDown! brands, while the remaining titles became exclusive to either brand. During a period of open free agency, RAW General Manager Eric Bischoff was able to sign the Tag Team Champions to the RAW brand after they had originally been drafted to the SmackDown! brand. As a result the Tag Team Championship became exclusive to the RAW brand, thus leaving the SmackDown! brand without a tag team title. Following Bischoff's actions, SmackDown! General Manager Stephanie McMahon introduced the new WWE Tag Team Championship and commissioned it to be the exclusive tag team title for the SmackDown! brand. She stated that the inaugural champions would be determined from an eight-team tournament. On October 20, 2002, the team of Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit, defeated Rey Mysterio and Edge at No Mercy 2002 in the tournament final to win the new WWE Tag Team Championship.
With the introduction of the World Heavyweight Championship on the RAW brand after the Undisputed title was moved to the SmackDown! brand and became the WWE Championship again, the Tag Team Championship on RAW was now being referred to as the World Tag Team Championship. This was done so that the names of both tag team titles would mirror the names of the top championships on their respective brands. However, when the WWE Championship and World Heavyweight Championship switched brands during the 2005 Draft Lottery, neither of the tag team titles were renamed.
The current champions are The Miz and John Morrison, who are in their first reign as a team. Individually, this is Morrison's fourth reign (the first three were under the name Johnny Nitro as part of MNM with Joey Mercury), and the first for Miz. They defeated Matt Hardy and Montel Vontavious Porter on the November 16, 2007 edition of SmackDown!.
- List of WWE Tag Team Champions
- List of WWE Tag Team Championship reigns by length
- World Tag Team Championship (WWE)
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Brand Championships
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RAW: WWE • Intercontinental • World Tag Team • Women's SmackDown!: World Heavyweight • United States • Tag Team • Cruiserweight ECW: ECW |
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Developmental Championships
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Ohio Valley Wrestling: Heavyweight • Television • Southern Tag Team • Women's Florida Championship Wrestling: Southern Heavyweight |
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Other accomplishments
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Royal Rumble • Money in the Bank • King of the Ring • Diva Search |
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Championship lists
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List of current champions in WWE WWE (reigns) • Intercontinental (reigns) • World Tag Team (reigns) • Women's (reigns) World Heavyweight (reigns) • United States (reigns) • Tag Team (reigns) • Cruiserweight (reigns) ECW (reigns) |