Both women did, however, win the Divas Championship one time apiece while teaming together. Given the handicap nature of the title match, both Layla and McCool began to sell themselves as "co-champions" with each wrestler taking possession of one-half of the belt. The Intercontinental Championship's early years have been praised. He defeated Bobby Lashley on the October 10, 2022, episode of Raw. 74 Eddie Guerrero With "SmackDown" consultant Vickie Guerrero in their back pocket, LayCool ran roughshod on the rest of the Divas. [6] The title was then on the line in a winner takes all triple threat match in the main event of WrestleMania 35 in April 2019, where Flair defended the title against Raw Women's Champion Ronda Rousey and Lynch, who won the match. The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest length is considered. On the surface, Ruby Riott, Liv Morgan, and Sara Logan seemed to have little in common, but found an on-screen kinship through the unity and trust they displayed in one another on screen. McCool typically performed as the "A-side"of the team as the de facto Divas champion, with Layla helping out in a support role. Each gender division has a primary and tag team championship, while the men's division also has a secondary championship. The WWE Women's Tag Team Championship subsequently ceased being available to NXT. One other difference was that a banner reading "Women's" was underneath the WWE logo. However, a neck injury forced Paige out of action at the end of 2017 with Rose and Deville continuing on as a tag team. Kendall panned the recent reigns as forgettable and wrote that the title had "turned into a prop to be lugged around, rather than a title that should bestow prestige. Ronda Rousey is the current champion in her second reign. WWE recognizes Lesnar's reign as beginning on September 18, 2003, when the episode aired on tape delay. Like many tag teams to come together abruptly and randomly, Jax and Baszler teased dissent even before winning the belts back from Asuka and Charlotte Flair at the 2021 Royal Rumble. On the sides of the center, plate is two halves of the globe. The two came together on screen for the first time as members of Absolution, a stable that Paige a judge on their season of "Tough Enough" innovated. The pairing began as an odd couple tag team, but evolved into a legitimate pairing with both stars complementing one another in the ring. "[36][37] Steve Cook of 411Mania wrote that "nearly anybody that was a big deal in WWE held the championship at some point. 1991-2001. [25], In July 2016, WWE reintroduced the brand split. He won the vacant title by defeating Carmelo Hayes, Von Wagner, Nathan Frazer, and Oro Mansah in a five-man ladder match at Halloween Havoc. Moreover, their ascension in NXT has helped foster new babyfaces for the women's division such as Cora Jade and Roxanne, as well as tag teams likeKayden Carter and Katana Chance. For their female performers, a tag team championship existed from 1983 to 1989. WWE (formerly the WWF, the WWWF, and Capitol Wrestling) has maintained at least one primary tag team championship for its male performers since 1958 (except for a two year interim between 1967 and 1969).During periods of brand division, separate tag team titles have been used on each brand.. For their female performers, a tag team championship existed from 1983 to 1989. Their reign at the time was the longest in over 15 years. Martin and Kai's history of teaming together can be traced back to 1979, though they made their WWF debut in 1985. The 12 Best Women's Tag Teams In WWE History, often lacking enough teams to be truly competitive, known as The IInspiration in Impact Wrestling, fatal four-way match at NXT Takeover: San Antonio, installed as their manager and mouthpiece, got to know each other on a personal level during the "WWE Tough Enough", told Chris Jericho on an episode of "Talk is Jericho". During the following year's Superstar Shake-up, Intercontinental Champion Dean Ambrose was moved to the Raw brand, making the title exclusive to Raw. Christian won the battle royal to win the championship and restore a secondary singles title for Raw wrestlers to compete for. [3] The NXT Women's Championship would become WWE's third main women's title when the NXT brand, formerly the promotion's developmental territory, became WWE's third major brand in September 2019 when it was moved to the USA Network. [1] A six-pack elimination challenge was then scheduled for Backlash on September 11, 2016, to determine the inaugural champion. The championship continued until 1989, when the promotion abandoned it due to lack of performers in the division. 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He defeated Ricochet on the June 10, 2022 episode of SmackDown in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. WCW World Championship. Wrestlers assigned to the two main brands exclusively compete on the weekly television programs, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown, respectively, albeit with some exceptions. [13], The men's tag team championship is the NXT Tag Team Championship, which is held by two-time champions Pretty Deadly (Elton Prince and Kit Wilson). As of November 10, 2022, among the three current brands, 16 wrestlers officially hold championships (including three double champions). It was held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw, SmackDown, and ECW brand divisions.The event took place on June 29, 2008, at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.While it was the second During their first reign, the title was known as the WWE Tag Team Championship, but midway through their second reign, it was renamed to Raw Tag Team Championship following the reintroduction of the. During the 2016 draft, then-Intercontinental Champion The Miz was drafted to SmackDown. Over Bischoff's objections, Raw co-general manager Stone Cold Steve Austin reactivated the Intercontinental Championship on the May 5, 2003 episode of Raw and declared any former champion on the Raw roster eligible to enter a battle royal at Judgment Day for the title. Makes sense.". WWE is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Stamford, Connecticut. ECW Championship. The WWE Intercontinental Championship is a professional wrestling championship contested in and owned by the American promotion WWE on the SmackDown brand.The title was introduced into the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in 1979. Capitol Wrestling set up its first tag team championship, the NWA United States Tag Team Championship in 1958. [10] The title was defended for a second time in Saudi Arabia at Crown Jewel in 2021, where Becky Lynch retained against Bianca Belair and Sasha Banks in a triple threat match. 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. The main roster features two jointly defended world championships, two jointly defended tag team championships, and two brand specific secondary championships for the men's division, while there are two brand specific world championships and and a dual branded tag team championship for the women's division. A Harley Quinn, which was Liv Morgan and a beast, which was Sarah [Logan]. The WWE Women's Tag Team Championship is shared by Raw and SmackDown. 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. During her first two reigns, she was known as Nikki Cross. Originally known in NXT as The Iconic Duo, Royce and Kay quickly became fixtures on the program, even occasionally competing as singles stars, once comprising one-half of a fatal four-way match at NXT Takeover: San Antonio in pursuit of the NXT Women's Championship. [24] Following the end of the first brand split on August 29, 2011, the title could be defended on both Raw and SmackDown. There were two side plates, which were skinny and matched the curve of the center plate. According to Kai's shoot interview, the Fabulous Moolah, who owned the rights to the women's titles the WWF used during the era, had not yet sold McMahon her tag team championship. In what has become a prominent feature of the majority of WWE's championship belts, the side plates can be customized with the champion's logo. Coming in line with all other women's championships in WWE, the plates are on a white leather strap instead of black.[16]. They can even complete each other's sentences. During the 2021 WWE Draft, previous champion Charlotte Flair was drafted by SmackDown, while Becky Lynch, who held the SmackDown Women's Championship, was drafted by Raw. On the October 22, 2021 episode of SmackDown, the night that draft results took effect, Lynch and Flair exchanged titles by order of WWE official Sonya Deville to keep the championships on their respective brands. Both Asuka and Alexa have been WWE Women's Tag Team Champions before with different partners (Asuka with Kairi Sane as the Kabuki Warriors, Alexa with Nikki Cross as Bliss-Cross). It was also the first women's professional wrestling championship to be defended in Saudi Arabia, which occurred at Super ShowDown in 2020, and again at Crown Jewel in 2021. [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. The SmackDown Women's Championship has been contested in the main event of three WWE pay-per-view events: TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs in 2018 and, along with the Raw Women's Championship, WWE's flagship event WrestleMania in 2019, and by itself on Night 1 of WrestleMania in 2021. The title is held by Damage CTRL (Dakota Kai and Iyo Sky) of the Raw brand, who are in their record-tying second reign as team; it is also their second reign individually. On the May 30 tapings of NXT (aired June 5), WWE's Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon announced that there would be an eight-woman single-elimination tournament, featuring four women from NXT and four from WWE's main roster competing to be crowned the first NXT Women's Champion. The current champion is Gunther, who is in his first reign. The tag team came to be following the split of Natalya's Hart Dynasty stable. When The Glamour Girls returned to America, Kai said the WWF fired the duo for their cooperation with Moolah and quietly abandoned the women's tag team division. Some pairs would survive, while others would either fall to the wayside or result in an inevitable feud. The team, which came to be out of a longstanding rivalry between the two in NXT, took on many different forms during its life on the main roster. Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville came together as one of several tag teams inspired by their real-life friendship. WWE: Current Superstars. Famed manager "The Mouth of the South" Jimmy Hart took an interest in the tag team and offered to help. By 1988, wrestling magazine Pro Wrestling Illustrated was calling for the establishment of a secondary WWF Intercontinental Tag Team Championship (modelled on the WCW United States Tag Team Championship) due to the glut of tag team competition in the promotion. The WWE Women's Tag Team Championship would continue to be defended on NXT until March 2021. Rose was the show's runner-up, but both wrestlers grew tremendously during their time on the show and were hired to developmental contracts with NXT. The NXT Women's Championship is a women's professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE.It is defended on the NXT brand division, the promotion's developmental territory.Introduced on April 5, 2013, the inaugural champion was Paige.The current champion is Mandy Rose, who is in her first reign. The WWE Divas Championship was a women's professional wrestling championship in the WWE promotion.The championship was generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants executed scripted finishes rather than contending in direct competition.The word "Divas" in the championship's name refers to the pseudonym WWE Diva, which WWE used After WWE bought the promotions of Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and World Championship Wrestling WrestleMania was taped on March 25 and 26, but it is unknown which day this match was taped. [2] Lynch became the inaugural champion when she last eliminated Carmella. 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. Logan wasreleased by the company in the midst of Riott's feud with Morgan, leaving Riott and Morgan as a tag team upon their reconciliation, which came after Riott stood up for her former stablemate in the face of bullying from The IIconics. The WWE Hardcore Championship was a hardcore wrestling championship in WWE which was contested under "hardcore" rules (no disqualifications, no countouts, and pinfalls count anywhere).In the latter part of the title's history, a rule was implemented allowing anyone to challenge the champion at any place or time, provided a referee was present (dubbed the "24/7 This page was last edited on 6 November 2022, at 16:26. Like the majority of WWE's other championships, the belt features two side plates with a removable center section that can be customized with the champion's logos; the default side plates consist of the WWE logo over a globe.[27]. toggle menu. Becky Lynch was the inaugural champion. During his first three reigns, the title was known as the WWE Tag Team Championship. WWE currently divides its roster between three brands, which are where wrestlers exclusively perform on a weekly basis, albeit with some exceptions. The World Tag Team Championship was the original professional wrestling world tag team championship in the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) promotion, and the promotion's third tag team championship overall. Two years later, however, NXT reverted to its original function as WWE's developmental brand. The WWE Women's Championship was a women's professional wrestling championship in the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) promotion. Later that year, the European and Hardcore championships were unified into the Intercontinental Championship, which itself was unified into the World Heavyweight Championship. Though the formation of McCool and Layla came about quietly with little to no fanfare, the act caught on and established both wrestlers as focal points of the Divas division. Their on-screen chemistry was always apparent, however, with their friendship obvious to the viewer in spite of how inherently different they seemed to be as personalities. 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Le WWE Raw Tag Team Championship (que l'on peut traduire par championnat par quipe de Raw) est un championnat de catch utilis par la World Wrestling Entertainment, uniquement dans la division Raw.Le titre est l'un des deux championnats par quipe du main roster de la WWE, avec le championnat par quipe de SmackDown, utilis dans la division SmackDown. It is one of two secondary championships for WWE's main roster, along with the WWE United States Championship on Raw. [1][2][3] During the June 20 tapings of NXT (aired July 24), Paige defeated Emma in the tournament final to become the inaugural champion. The WWE initially struggled to create viable tag teams, and under Vince McMahon's creative direction made a half-hearted attempt to pair women almost randomly. The monthly pay-per-view and livestreaming events feature wrestlers from both brands. It is one of two women's world titles for WWE's main roster, along with the WWE Raw Women's Championship on Raw. Their styles meshed well together in the ring. During this reign, the title was known as the WWWF International Tag Team Championship. After the match was first tested at a house show in October 1987, the first Royal A new tournament began the following week. The duo won the WWE Women's TagTeam Championship for the first time at WrestleMania 38. During their first six reigns, the title was known as the WWF World Tag Team Championship. [40] Also in 2013, Darren Gutteridge of Pro Wrestling Dot Net wrote that the "title has proven an albatross for the past decade, with almost all title holders doomed to tread water, usually only beating people decisively when the title is on the line". 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Both Dolin and Jayne can shine as individuals or as a unit and have already proven themselves to be an asset to the company. "He wanted a Joker, which was me. The two teamed for a full calendar year, disbanding after Phoenix left the company,only to reunite seven years later for a match at WrestleMania 35. [12], In August 2022, WWE announced that the NXT UK brand would go on hiatus and would relaunch as NXT Europe in 2023. Paige is the youngest champion, winning it at the age of 20, while Shayna Baszler is the oldest, winning the championship at 38. However, Gigi Dolin and Jacy Jayne carry the group as a tag team and are already two-time champions in the NXT women's tag division. The title headlined a pay-per-view event for the first time at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs in December 2018, where Becky Lynch defended it in a triple threat Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match against Charlotte Flair and Asuka, which Asuka won; this was also the first women's TLC triple threat match. In November 2001, the then-WCW United States Championship was unified into the Intercontinental Championship. Mandy Rose is the current champion in her first reign. 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Pat Patterson, holder of the WWF North American Heavyweight Championship, was awarded the title (with the kayfabe The left side features the continents of North and South America as well as Africa and Europe, while the globe on the left shows Asia and Australia; both globes show a portion of Antarctica. The tournament to determine the new WWF Intercontinental Champion after former champion Stone Cold Steve Austin forfeited the belt after his neck injury. Bayley's second reign is the longest singular reign at 380 days, while Flair's fourth reign is the shortest at 4 minutes and 55 seconds. With a full-time main roster debut imminent, Toxic Attraction will seek to become the first pair of women to have held the NXT Women's Tag Team Championship and the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship. NXT serves as the developmental brand for the main roster (though was considered a third main brand from 2019 to 2021).[1][2]. The team of Japanese stars defended their belts all over WWE, even in NXT on one occasion against Tegan Nox and Dakota Kai. The WWE United States Championship is a professional wrestling championship contested in the American promotion WWE on the Raw brand.It was originally known as the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship and began as a regional championship created by and defended in Jim Crockett Jr.'s Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, a territory of the National Wrestling The end of the match saw Nikki Cross interfere and attack Alexa Bliss behind the. Listing of professional wrestlers who have won the WWE Raw Women's Championship, "Charlotte def. 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). The WWE Raw Women's Championship[1] is a women's professional wrestling world championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the Raw brand. The following week, Kofi Kingston won a tournament to become the new champion, but Mr. McMahon reverted Long's decision. Pedro Morales held the championship for a record total of 619 days and The Honky Tonk Man had the longest uninterrupted reign at 454 days, from June 2, 1987, until August 29, 1988. The Fiend for the WWE Universal Championship, Mandy Rose vs. Sonya Deville in a No DQ, loser leaves WWE match, Asuka challenges for two titles", "WrestleMania 37 results: Powell's live review of night two with Roman Reigns vs. Asuka is the oldest champion, having won the title at 37, while Alexa Bliss is the youngest when she won it at 25. Following the brand split on March 25, 2002, all titles in WWE became exclusive to either the Raw brand or SmackDown brand. 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