WWE Women's Tag Team Championship
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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 in WWE, thus is defended across both main roster brand divisions, Raw and SmackDown, and the developmental brand, NXT. The current champions are Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill from SmackDown, who are in their first reign, both as a team and individually. They defeated The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka and Kairi Sane) at Backlash France on May 4, 2024.
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Promotion | WWE | ||||||||||||||||||
Brand | Raw (2019–present) SmackDown (2019–present) NXT (2019–2021; 2023–present) | ||||||||||||||||||
Date established | December 24, 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
Current champion(s) | Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill | ||||||||||||||||||
Date won | May 4, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The championship was announced on the December 24, 2018, episode of Monday Night Raw. Bayley and Sasha Banks, then going by the team name of The Boss 'n' Hug Connection, became the first champions in February 2019 and were part of the Raw brand during their inaugural reign. The title was originally established to be available to Raw, SmackDown, and NXT, but after a controversial finish to a title defense in March 2021, the NXT Women's Tag Team Championship was created, thus the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship became no longer available to NXT. After the titles were unified in June 2023, however, NXT's title was retired, and the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship became eligible to NXT once again. The title has been contested in the headlining match of one WWE pay-per-view and livestreaming event: TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs in 2019.
The title is distinct from the WWF Women's Tag Team Championship that was contested from 1983 to 1989 and does not share its lineage.