The title belt was handed over formally to the WWF upon the purchase of WCW. Once there were 30 competitors remaining (except in 1997, where the number was 20), all competitors would enter the center ring and continue During this reign, the title was known as the WWWF International Tag Team Championship. Tournament brackets The team of Perro Aguayo and Gran Hamada won the inaugural championship on January 7, 1991. Online speculation began when WWE announced their first all female event, Evolution, for October, but the titles did not appear. WWE Women's Championship. Learn how and when to remove this template message, "WCW Hardcore Championship Titles Database CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WCW_Hardcore_Championship&oldid=1107904300, World Championship Wrestling championships, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles needing additional references from January 2016, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 1 September 2022, at 13:43. [2] After the purchase, the WWF continued the use of the championship as a part of a storyline called The Invasion, which involved a rivalry between former WCW wrestlers and original WWF wrestlers before the purchase of WCW. The idea to bring back the titles was apparently changed, as the match ended up a standard six-man tag match. The title was abandoned at an unknown date, During his first three reigns, the title was known as the WWE Tag Team Championship. 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[3] The inaugural champions, under the NWA, were The Minnesota Wrecking Crew (Gene Anderson and Ole Anderson), who were announced to have won the titles after winning a tournament in January 1975.[4]. WWE Women's Tag Team Championship: Dakota Kai and Iyo Sky: 1 September 12, 2022: 50+ Pittsburgh, PA: Defeated Aliyah and Raquel Rodriguez on the September 12 episode of Raw. WWE recognizes their reign as lasting 47 days due to, 2018 United Kingdom Championship Tournament, fatal four-way tag team elimination match, Professional wrestling in the United Kingdom, "WWE announces new UK-based brand, holding tournament to crown UK Champion, Nigel McGuinness on announce team", "WWE announces NXT UK brand with two additional championships to be introduced", "WWE announces new U.K. [1] As a result of Gordy and Williams being the WCW World Tag Team Champions when they became NWA World Tag Team Champions, both titles were defended together until WCW left the NWA in September 1993. As a result of the 2016 draft, the championship became exclusive to Raw and was renamed the Raw Tag Team Championship, and SmackDown created the SmackDown Tag Team Championship as a counterpart title. During this reign, the title was known as the NWA United States Tag Team Championship. The NXT UK Tag Team Championship was a men's professional wrestling tag team championship that was created and promoted by the American promotion WWE. The New Day won the title as the WWE Tag Team Championship, but midway through this reign, it was renamed to Raw Tag Team Championship following the reintroduction of the, WWE recognizes The Ascension's reign as lasting 344 days (October 2, 2013 September 11, 2014) due to, The actual length of their reign is undeterminable as the real date they lost the title is unknown, but WWE recognizes the reign as lasting 497 days (October 17, 2019 February 25, 2021) due to, The event that they lost the title was taped across two days, and it is currently not known which date they lost the titles. Brian Knobbs and Funk hold the record for most reigns with three each and Smiley holds the record for most cumulative days as champion. The title was unified with the WWF Tag Team Championship, and the final champions recognized by the WWF, were The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley). Originally, WCW was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), which had numerous member promotions. The title is only contestable by male tag teams and in tag [3] This never took place, but in 1991, WWF-affiliated promotion UWF Japan introduced the WWF Intercontinental Tag Team Championship, claimed by the team of Perro Aguayo and Gran Hamada. The belt was created in response to the growing popularity of hardcore wrestling in North America. Hardcore Championship. This reign includes lengthy periods of dormancy for the title and the NXT UK brand owing to the, They won the title as the WWE Tag Team Championship, but midway through this reign, it was renamed to Raw Tag Team Championship following the reintroduction of the. In September 1993, WCW's withdrawal from the NWA was made official, and the NWA World Tag Team Championship was returned to the NWA; the title was reactivated by the NWA in 1995.[1]. During his first reign, the title was known as the WWE Tag Team Championship. WCW World Championship. Plus, get every WWE Premium Live Event, your favorite shows, new movies, live sports, and more. The WCW World Six-Man Tag Team Championship was a championship contested in World Championship Wrestling throughout 1991. The championship was created by MACW in 1975. Its been held by a variety of guys, some better than others with a few good reigns. Complete WWE title history for the Raw Tag Team Championship. The following list shows the longest reigning champion for each tag team championship created and/or promoted by WWE, with the exception of the WWF Intercontinental Tag Team Championship. [5] The title was won in Australia, Canada, Germany, and the United States. On July 12, 1992, Gordy and Williams won the, Title won in a tag-team triangle match also involving the team of. Title reigns were determined either by professional wrestling matches with different tag teams, a duo of wrestlers, involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines or were awarded the title due to scripted circumstances. The WWE United Kingdom Championship (later renamed NXT United Kingdom Championship) was established that same day,[1] however, it was not until mid-2018 when NXT UK was formally established as the United Kingdom-based brand, and sister brand of the American-based NXT. With the number of cruiserweights signed, it was decided to expand the visibility of the division, and create a tag team title for the cruiserweights in February 2001.. During this reign, the title was known as the WWF World Tag Team Championship. On January 17, 2008, the NWA withdrew its recognition of every WCW World Tag Team Champion linked to the NWA World Tag Team Championship, officially stating that their titles were formed in 1995. The title was abandoned in 1989 due to lack of depth in the division. In a press conference at The O2 Arena on 15 December 2016, the American professional wrestling promotion WWE announced plans to establish a United Kingdom-based brand on which professional wrestlers from the country would compete. Midway through his fourth reign, it was renamed to Raw Tag Team Championship following the reintroduction of the, During their first six reigns, the two were part of a trio with. Skip to main content 1997-2001. Norman Smiley held the record for the longest official reign at 51 days. Lost the titles at a TV taping 7 days before winning them. At Survivor Series in November 2001, then WCW Tag Team Champions, The Dudley Boyz, defeated then-WWF Tag Team Champions The Hardy Boyz (Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy) to unify the WCW and WWF Tag Team Championships. [4], In August 2022, WWE announced that the NXT UK brand would go on hiatus and would relaunch as NXT Europe in 2023. In 1979, the promotion became the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and the tag titles were renamed the WWF Tag Team Championship until 1983 when they became the WWF World Tag Team Championship. El WCW World Heavyweight Championship o Campeonato Mundial Peso Pesado de la WCW fue un campeonato de lucha libre profesional de categora mundial en la World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Months later, on the May 23 and 30 editions of WCW Magazine during WCW Worldwide, announcer Eric Bischoff mentioned that the Six-Man Tag Team Titles would be on the line at Beach Blast 1992, when Bobby Eaton, Arn Anderson and Steve Austin faced Barry Windham, Dustin Rhodes and Nikita Koloff. Wrestlers were portrayed as either villains or fan favorites as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches for the championship. The NXT Tag Team Championship is a men's professional wrestling tag team championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE.It is defended on the NXT brand division, the promotion's developmental territory.Introduced on January 23, 2013, the inaugural championship team was British Ambition (Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey).The current The former was then retired and WWE (the former WWF) officially recognizes The Dudley Boyz as the final WCW Tag Team Champions. Sidney Raymond Eudy (born December 16, 1960) is an American former professional wrestler.He is best known for his various Sid gimmicks, each distinguished by the ring names Sid Justice, Sid Vicious, and Sycho Sid in World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, later WWE).. Eudy is a six-time world champion, having won the WWF Championship Established on 18 June 2018, the inaugural championship team was James Drake and Zack Gibson. The shrewd executive declared that the first champions would be the duo that survived a brutal tournament. [1] The title was defended in Hardcore matches, in which there were few rules and restrictions and weapons were allowed. Brooks Jensen and Josh Briggs are recognized as the final champions. The WCW World Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling World Tag Team Championship contested for in World Championship Wrestling (WCW). During his eighth reign, the title was known as the WWE Tag Team Championship. Flair was booked by WCW to lose the championship to Rick Rude in the 1993 Fall Brawl event. 1998-2002. The WWE Women's Tag Team Championship subsequently ceased being available to NXT. In May 1985, Tatsumi Fujinami and Kengo Kimura beat Dick Murdoch and Adrian Adonis in a tournament final in Japan for a revival of the old International Tag Team Title of 19691971, only for the title to be abandoned again when New Japan and the WWF fell out in October 1985. WWE recognizes The Kabuki Warriors' reign as lasting 181 days due to, The event that they lost the title was taped across two days, and it is not known which date they lost the title. It was considered a revived version of the NWA World Six-Man Tag Team Championship that was used in Jim Crockett Promotions; however, unlike the former version, which was often held by main eventers in between singles title feuds, this title was mostly used to push midcarders. [2] When they left the WWWF, taking the titles with them, the promotion established their own original world tag team championship, the WWWF World Tag Team Championship. Watch every Premium Live Event and enjoy some of your favorite WWE content on Shahid. It was defended on the NXT UK brand division, a sister brand of WWE's developmental territory NXT based in the United Kingdom. It was abandoned in November 1991.[1]. During his first five reigns, the title was known as the NWA United States Tag Team Championship. During their first six reigns, the title was known as the WWF World Tag Team Championship. In March 2001, all WCW assets were purchased by the then World Wrestling Federation (WWF) after AOL/Time Warner discontinued their involvement in wrestling programming. This became the WWWF's tag team title until 1971, mostly being held by The Mongols. Before the promotion's purchase, the final champions recognized by WCW were Sean O' Haire and Chuck Palumbo; they were also the first champions under the titles operation in the WWF. Since that time, many great tandems have staked claim to the coveted titles, including D-Generation X, John Morrison & The Miz and Los Guerreros. During her first two reigns, she was known as Nikki Cross. The exact length of a title reign is uncertain; the combined length may not be correct. This title reign by Palumbo and O'Haire was the final recognized by WCW before its assets were bought by the WWF; titles renamed to WCW Tag Team Championship. The WCW World Six-Man Tag Team Championship was a championship contested in World Championship Wrestling throughout 1991. [7] In addition, WWE's former developmental territory NXT established the NXT Tag Team Championship in January 2013, which became one of WWE's main titles for male tag teams in September 2019 when NXT became recognized as WWE's third major brand. But before that, the U.S. WCW Tag Team Championship (WWF) (2001) Statistics; First champion(s) The Minnesota Wrecking Crew (Gene and Ole Anderson) Final champion(s) The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley) Most reigns: As Tag Team (10 reigns): Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray) As Individual (11 reigns): Booker T; Longest reign: This page was last edited on 1 November 2022, at 16:31. The Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray) held the most reigns as a tag team (10), and Booker T held the most individual reigns (11), which is the same number of times the title was vacated. Gold and black divider bars with red jewels at each end separated the center plate from the belt's two side plates. The promotion would go without a women's tag team championship for many years. Female performers were also in favor of adding a women's tag team championship. Despite the title's name in MACW, the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) did not recognize its own NWA World Tag Team Championship until 1992, when the NWA held a tournament to crown the first tag team recognized by all of the NWA territories. The title was abandoned at an unknown date, without ever being lost to another team. History. At 282 days, Doom's reign during WCW's NWA withdrawal was the longest in the championship's history. La World Championship Wrestling stata una federazione di wrestling statunitense con sede nella citt di Atlanta (), fondata l'11 ottobre 1988 da Ted Turner e scioltasi il 26 marzo 2001.. Fondata sulle basi della Jim Crockett Promotions, federazione che fece parte del circuito della National Wrestling Alliance dal 1952 al 1988, la World Championship Wrestling nacque quando The NWA United States Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team championship contested for previously in the United States-based Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), World Championship Wrestling (WCW) promotions, with the title now in current use by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). Title was the second-most-important championship in WCW. The title was renamed the RawTag Team Championship following the 2016 WWE Brand Extension Draft. Talk of reviving the titles began circulating in 2012, when a WWE.com article was posted in favor of resurrecting the titles. On the December 24 episode of Monday Night Raw, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon officially announced that a new WWE Women's Tag Team Championship would debut in 2019 (and would not carry the lineage of the original title). On July 12, 1992, the WCW World Tag Team Championship was unified with the NWA World Tag Team Championship, which was created earlier that year by the NWA as its prime tag team championship. [5], After WWF's initial brand extension in the spring of 2002 and the renaming of the company as World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), the tag titles became the WWE Tag Team Championship and champions Billy and Chuck were drafted to the SmackDown brand. Eventually, the rules were changed so that matches began in the backstage area but would only end by pinfall in the ring, but later were changed back to 'Falls Count Anywhere' rules. 1991-2007. Titles won in a Triple Threat Street Fight against. Afterwards Norman Smiley was crowned first official WCW hardcore champion. During both of their reigns, the title was known as the WWWF International Tag Team Championship. This page was last edited on 14 October 2022, at 22:24. The WCW World Tag Team Championship (previously NWA (Mid-Atlantic) World Tag Team Championship) was a professional wrestling world tag team championship in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and later the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). The belt was not defended again nor was it featured on the final episode of Nitro which was also known as "Night of Champions". On November 18, 2001, the championship was deactivated after its use in the Invasion storyline. Launched in 1971 initially by Georgia Championship Wrestling, the program existed through various incarnations under different names before becoming WCW Saturday Night in 1992. Subsequently, the NXT UK Tag Team Championship was retired on 4 September 2022 at Worlds Collide. On 18 June during the first night of the 2018 United Kingdom Championship Tournament, the NXT UK Tag Team Championship, along with the NXT UK Women's Championship, was announced for the NXT UK brand. The two titles were unified in 2009 and were collectively referred to as the "Unified WWE Tag Team Championship" while officially remaining independently active until the World Tag Team Championship was formally decommissioned in 2010,[5][6] leaving the newer title as WWE's only tag team championship. Specific record for each championship. On 4 September 2022 at Worlds Collide, the title was unified into the NXT Tag Team Championship, officially retiring the title in the process, with the team of Brooks Jensen and Josh Briggs recognized as the final champions. Event was known as "The Final Conflict". [2][3] A four-team single-elimination tournament took place on the 24 and 25 November tapings of NXT UK (aired 2 and 9 January 2019, respectively). NXT Women's Tag Team Championship: Katana Chance and Kayden Carter: 1 August 2, 2022: 91+ Orlando, Florida Watch every Premium Live Event and enjoy some of your favorite WWE content on Disney + HotStar. to Booker T and Test. Este campeonato fue desactivado tras ser unificado con el Campeonato de la WWF; sin embargo, su diseo de cinturn de campeonato se mantuvo vigente en la A banner above the upper globe read "UK Tag Team" while a banner below the lower globe read "Champions". Another title, the NXT UK Tag Team Championship, debuted for NXT's sister brand NXT UK in 2019, but is recognized as being a step below the other three. The actual length of the reign is undeterminable, as the actual date Gallus lost the championship is unknown. One of those titles was the NWA World Tag Team Championship, which was operated by the NWA member Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling (MACW), the predecessor of WCW. He is best known for his first run with WWF, where he held the WWF Intercontinental Championship for a record 64 weeks The WWE Women's Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling women's tag team championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE.It is the only women's tag team championship for WWE's main roster, thus is defended across both the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions.The current champions are Alexa Bliss and Asuka from Raw, who During periods of brand division, separate tag team titles have been used on each brand. The WCW World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship originally used in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and later, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE).It was the original world title of the World Championship Wrestling promotion, spun off from the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.It existed in [6], The championship belts were unveiled by WWE Chief Operating Officer and NXT head Triple H and NXT UK General Manager Johnny Saint on the 14 October 2018 tapings of NXT UK in Plymouth. The match had a stipulation that if Steamboat and Youngblood were to lose, they would never be a tag team again. On the March 10, 2021 episode of NXT, NXT General Manager William Regal established the NXT Women's Tag Team Championship, naming Dakota Kai and Raquel Gonzlez as the first champions, due to the controversial ending of their match for the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship the week prior and their having won the first Women's Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic. James Drake and Zack Gibson were the inaugural champions. Established in 2002, the WWE Tag Team Championships were considered the most prestigious prize in tag team wrestling. During this reign, the title was known as the WWWF World Tag Team Championship. The following list shows the top 10 tag team championship reigns in WWE history. The WWE Raw Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, defended on the Raw brand division.It is one of two male tag team championships for WWE's main roster, along with the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship on SmackDown.The current champions are The Usos Sign up for Peacock to watch. This title was abandoned when the affiliation ended later that same year. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WCW_World_Six-Man_Tag_Team_Championship&oldid=1116511501, World Championship Wrestling championships, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Junkyard Dog, Ricky Morton and Tommy Rich (106 days), The York Foundation (Ricky Morton, Tommy Rich and Terrance Taylor) (57 days). The following lists shows the wrestlers with the most reigns for each tag team championship created and/or promoted by WWE. Title renamed the WCW World Tag Team Championship during this reign following WCW breaking ties with the NWA. That summer, however, The Un-Americans (Christian and Lance Storm) would win the championship and shortly thereafter transfer it to the Raw brand where it was later renamed the World Tag Team Championship, effectively leaving the SmackDown brand without a tag team title. The final hardcore champion in WCW was Meng, who defeated Crowbar and reigning champ Terry Funk at WCW Sin on January 14, 2001. Bischoff later awarded the title to Big Vito as a reward for helping him take it from Funk. The WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, defended on the SmackDown brand division.It is one of two male tag team championships for WWE's main roster, along with the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship on Raw.The current champions are The Christopher Keith Irvine (born November 9, 1970), better known by the ring name Chris Jericho, is an American-Canadian professional wrestler and singer.He is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is the leader of the Jericho Appreciation Society stable.He also represents AEW's sister promotion Ring of Honor (ROH), where he is the current ROH World There were only six reigns between six teams composed of 12 individual champions during the title's four-year existence. Created by World Championship Wrestling in 1995, the World War 3 battle royale involved a three-ring setup and 60 competitors; 20 wrestlers started in each of the three rings in which they would wrestle under regular battle royale rules. Other notable champions are: 3 Count, who won and defended the belt as a trio; Brian Knobs, who held the belt a record three times and was the one to defeat 3 Count at Uncensored 2000; and Terry Funk, a two-time champion who also held the title for a period of almost two months, from April to June 2000, when he was defeated by Eric Bischoff at a WCW Monday Nitro in Atlanta, Georgia. Previous held the championship under the name "Creative Control". The shortest reign was that of Carl Ouellet, who was awarded the title after Lance Storm gave it up but lost it 38 minutes later to Norman Smiley.