NXT Tag Team Championship

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NXT Tag Team Championship
File:NXT Tag Team Championship 2017.png
The NXT Tag Team Championship belt with default side plates
(2017–present)
Details
Current champion(s) The Undisputed Era (Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong)
Date won June 21, 2018
Date established January 23, 2013
Promotion WWE
Brand NXT
Past design(s) 125px

The NXT Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling tag team championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE for their developmental brand, NXT. It is the seventh overall male tag team championship to have existed in the WWE. Introduced on January 23, 2013, the inaugural champions were the British Ambition (Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey). The current champions are The Undisputed Era (Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong), who are in their second reign.

History

The inaugural NXT Tag Team Champions, the British Ambition: Adrian Neville (top) and Oliver Grey (bottom)

The championship was introduced on the January 23, 2013, episode of NXT where it was announced by special guest Shawn Michaels that there would be a tournament to crown the inaugural champions.[1] On the January 31, 2013 taping of NXT (aired on February 13), the British Ambition (Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey) defeated The Wyatt Family (Luke Harper and Erick Rowan) to become the inaugural champions.[2] However, in the first defense of the title, Neville and Bo Dallas defended the NXT Tag Team Championship against The Wyatt Family due to Grey being injured, where they lost. Dallas was not recognized as champion.[3][4] On the June 20 taping (aired July 17), Neville and Corey Graves defeated The Wyatt Family for the titles, making Neville the first person to hold the title on more than one occasion.[5] On June 8, 2016, The Revival (Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder) became the first team to hold the championship on more than one occasion when they defeated American Alpha (Chad Gable and Jason Jordan) at NXT TakeOver: The End.

On April 1, 2017, at WrestleMania Axxess, NXT General Manager William Regal announced that all of the NXT title belts would be redesigned. The new title belts were unveiled at NXT TakeOver: Orlando that same night and given to the winners of their respective matches. As a result, the NXT Tag Team Championship's updated design are the first-ever tag team title belts in WWE with removable side plates; the default side plates feature the WWE logo, which are customized with the current champion's logos as a similarity of the name plate feature.[6]

Inaugural tournament

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
                 
The Wyatt Family
(Luke Harper and Erick Rowan)		 Pin[7]
Percy Watson and Yoshi Tatsu
The Wyatt Family
(Luke Harper and Erick Rowan)		 Pin[7]
Bo Dallas and Michael McGillicutty
Bo Dallas and Michael McGillicutty Pin[7]
Primo & Epico
The Wyatt Family
(Luke Harper and Erick Rowan)
British Ambition
(Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey)		 Pin
British Ambition
(Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey)		 Pin[7]
3MB
(Drew McIntyre and Heath Slater)
British Ambition
(Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey)		 Pin[7]
Kassius Ohno and Leo Kruger
Kassius Ohno and Leo Kruger Sub[7]
Alex Riley and Derrick Bateman

Reigns

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Main article: List of NXT Tag Team Champions

As of June 4, 2024, there have been 14 different championship teams, and 29 individual champions with the team of The Revival (Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder) and The Undisputed Era (Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong) holding the most reigns at two. Individually, Adrian Neville, Dawson, Wilder, O'Reilly and Strong have the most reigns, also at two.[5] The inaugural champions were the British Ambition (Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey). The team with the longest reign is The Ascension (Conor O'Brian/Konnor and Rick Victor/Viktor) who held the title for 364 days (WWE recognizes it as 344 days)[8][9] while the shortest reign belongs to Moustache Mountain (Tyler Bate and Trent Seven), who held the title for two days. However, due to tape delays, which are the dates that WWE recognizes for the NXT Tag Team Championship's history, they will recognize Moustache Mountain's reign at 15 days (beginning on June 26, 2018 and ending on July 11, 2018). Tyler Bate holds the record as the youngest champion when he won it at 21, while the oldest is Bobby Fish when he won it at 38.

The current champions are The Undisputed Era (Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong), who in their second reign both as a team and as individuals. They defeated Moustache Mountain (Tyler Bate and Trent Seven) at the NXT tapings in Winter Park, Florida on June 21, 2018 (aired July 11).

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ WWE officially recognizes it as 344 days

References

General

Specific

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