Raw Tag Team Champions
| WWE Raw Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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The current Raw Tag Team Championship belt
(2016–present) |
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| Promotion | WWE | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brand | Raw | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | October 20, 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion(s) |
The Hardy Boyz (Matt and Jeff Hardy) |
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| Date won | April 2, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| First champion(s) | Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit |
| Most reigns | As tag team: MNM (Joey Mercury and Johnny Nitro), Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel (3 times) As individual: Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio, Johnny Nitro/John Morrison, The Miz, and Kofi Kingston (4 times) |
| Longest reign | The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods) (483 days) |
| Shortest reign | John Cena and The Miz (9 minutes) |
| Oldest winner | Billy Gunn (50 years, 112 days) |
| Youngest winner | René Duprée (20 years, 267 days) |
| Heaviest champion | Big Show and Kane (820 lbs combined) (Big Show 500 pounds and Kane 320 pounds) |
| Lightest champion | Paul London and Brian Kendrick (365 lbs combined) |
The WWE Raw Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the Raw brand. It is one of two tag team championships for WWE's main roster, along with the SmackDown Tag Team Championship on the SmackDown brand. The current champions are The Hardy Boyz (Jeff and Matt Hardy), who are in their first reign as a team; individually, this is Jeff's first reign and Matt's second.
The championship was originally established as the WWE Tag Team Championship on October 20, 2002, and the team of Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit were the inaugural champions. It was introduced for the SmackDown brand as a second title for tag teams in the promotion to complement WWE's original World Tag Team Championship, which became exclusive to Raw. Both 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. As a result of the 2016 draft, the championship became exclusive to Raw with a subsequent rename, and SmackDown created the SmackDown Tag Team Championship as a counterpart title.
After the company's initial brand extension in the spring of 2002, the original World Tag Team Championship was reassigned that following summer to appear and be defended exclusively on the Raw brand, leaving the SmackDown brand without a tag team title. As a result, then-SmackDown General Manager Stephanie McMahon introduced the WWE Tag Team Championship and commissioned it to be the 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 in the tournament final to become the inaugural WWE Tag Team Champions.
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