World Tag-Team Championship

World Tag Team Championship
The World Tag Team Championship belt's final design (used from 2002 to 2010)
Details
Promotion	WWWF/WWF/WWE
Date established	June 3, 1971
Date retired	August 16, 2010
Past design(s)
Other name(s)
WWWF World Tag Team Championship (1971–1979) WWF Tag Team Championship (1979–1983) WWF World Tag Team Championship (1983–2002) WWE Tag Team Championship (2002) World Tag Team Championship (2002–2010) Unified WWE Tag Team Championship (2009–2010)
Statistics First champion(s) Luke Graham and Tarzan Tyler Final champion(s) The Hart Dynasty Most reigns (as team) The Dudley Boyz (8 reigns) (as individual) Edge (12 reigns) Longest reign Demolition (478 days) Shortest reign Edge and Christian (<1 hour) Oldest winner Ric Flair (57 years, 253 days) Youngest winner René Duprée (19 years, 182 days) Heaviest champion Owen Hart and Yokozuna (868 lb Combined (Yokozuna 641 lb and Owen Hart 227 lb)) Lightest champion Paul London and Brian Kendrick (380 lb Combined (Paul London 205 lb and Brian Kendrick 175lb))

(as team) The Dudley Boyz (8 reigns)

The World Tag Team Championship was the original professional wrestling world tag team championship contested for in the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) promotion. Originally established by the then-World Wide Wrestling Federation on June 3, 1971 (renamed to World Wrestling Federation in 1979), it served as the only title for tag teams in the promotion until the then-World Wrestling Federation (WWF) bought World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in March 2001, which added their tag team championship. Both titles were unified in November 2001, retiring WCW's championship and continuing WWF's.

In 2002, the company was renamed to WWE and a second WWE Tag Team Championship was established after the introduction of the WWE brand extension, where wrestlers and championships became exclusive to a WWE brand. Both titles were unified in 2009 into the "Unified WWE Tag Team Championship", but remained independently active until the World Tag Team Championship was decommissioned in 2010. The championship was contested in professional wrestling matches. Bouts for the title headlined WWF events including In Your House 3, Fully Loaded: In Your House, and 2001's Backlash. The inaugural champions were the team of Luke Graham and Tarzan Tyler, and the final champions were The Hart Dynasty.