AEW World Tag Team Championship

The AEW World Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship created and promoted by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It was officially announced on June 18, 2019. The inaugural champions were SoCal Uncensored (Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky). The current champions are The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson), who are in their first reign.

AEW World Tag Team Championship
The AEW World Tag Team Championship belts
Details
PromotionAll Elite Wrestling
Date establishedJune 18, 2019
Current champion(s)The Young Bucks
(Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson)
Date wonNovember 7, 2020

History

On June 18, 2019, six months after the American professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) was founded,[1][2][3][4] a tournament was announced to crown the promotion's inaugural tag team champions. That same day, a three-way tag team match for AEW's event Fyter Fest on June 29 was scheduled,[5] featuring Best Friends (Chuck Taylor and Trent Beretta), SoCal Uncensored (Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky), and Private Party (Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen) with the winning team advancing to All Out for an opportunity at a first round bye in the AEW World Tag Team Championship tournament.[6] Later, AEW's President and Chief Executive Officer Tony Khan announced that the tournament would occur on episodes of their TNT show, later revealed as Dynamite.[7] During the Buy In pre-show of Fyter Fest, Best Friends defeated Private Party and SoCal Uncensored to earn their spot at All Out.[8]

On July 11, AEW's Executive Vice President and wrestler Matt Jackson announced a second three-way tag team match to take place at Fight for the Fallen on July 13 with the winners facing Best Friends at All Out.[9] At Fight for the Fallen, The Dark Order (Evil Uno and Stu Grayson) defeated Jurassic Express (Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus), and Angelico & Jack Evans to advance to All Out.[10] At the event on August 31, The Dark Order defeated Best Friends to receive the first round bye in the tournament.[11]

Inaugural tournament

The first official match of the AEW World Tag Team Championship Tournament was announced on August 9, 2019, with The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) facing Private Party (Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen) on October 9 during the second episode of Dynamite in Boston, Massachusetts.[12] It was later announced that the semifinals for the tournament would take place on the October 23 episode in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,[13] with the finals on the October 30 episode in Charleston, West Virginia.[14] On October 30, SoCal Uncensored (Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky) defeated Lucha Brothers (Pentagón Jr. and Rey Fénix) in the tournament final to become the inaugural champions.[15]

Quarterfinals
Dynamite
October 9 and 16, 2019 		Semifinals
Dynamite
October 23, 2019 		Final
Dynamite
October 30, 2019
         
The Young Bucks
(Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) 		Pin
Private Party
(Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen) 		13:39
Private Party Pin
Lucha Brothers 12:24
Lucha Brothers
(Pentagón Jr. and Rey Fénix) 		11:31
Jurassic Express
(Jungle Boy and Marko Stunt)[note 1] 		Pin
Lucha Brothers Pin
SoCal Uncensored 12:36
Best Friends
(Chuck Taylor and Trent?) 		Pin
SoCal Uncensored
(Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky)[note 2] 		9:57
SoCal Uncensored 13:59
The Dark Order Pin
The Dark Order
(Evil Uno and Stu Grayson)
BYE[note 3]
  1. Stunt replaced Luchasaurus due to a hamstring injury.
  2. Sky replaced Christopher Daniels after he was injured in an attack by the Lucha Brothers prior to the match.
  3. The Dark Order defeated Best Friends (Chuck Taylor and Trent?) at All Out to receive a first round bye.

Reigns
Current champions The Young Bucks, shown here with the ROH (around waist) and IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships (on shoulders)

As of February 4, 2021, there have been four reigns between four teams composed of eight individual champions. The inaugural champions were SoCal Uncensored (Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky). Kenny Omega and Adam Page's reign is the longest at 228 days, while FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) have the shortest reign at 63 days. Kazarian is also the oldest champion at 42 while Page is the youngest at 28.

The current champions are The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson), who are in their first reign. They won the titles by defeating previous champions FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) on November 7, 2020 in Jacksonville, Florida at Full Gear where FTR's manager Tully Blanchard was barred from ringside with a further stipulation that had The Young Bucks lost, they would have never been able to challenge for the title again.

Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
+ Current reign is changing daily
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign Days
1 SoCal Uncensored
(Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky)		 October 30, 2019 Dynamite Charleston, West Virginia 1 83 Defeated Lucha Brothers (Pentagón Jr. and Rey Fénix) in the tournament final to become the inaugural champions. [15]
2 Kenny Omega and Adam Page January 21, 2020 Chris Jericho's Rock 'N' Wrestling Rager at Sea Part Deux: Second Wave Nassau, Bahamas 1 228 Took place aboard Norwegian Pearl.
Taped and aired as part of the January 22 episode of Dynamite.		 [16]
3 FTR
(Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood)		 September 5, 2020 All Out Jacksonville, Florida 1 63 [17]
4 The Young Bucks
(Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson)		 November 7, 2020 Full Gear Jacksonville, Florida 1 89+ Had The Young Bucks lost, they would have never been able to challenge for the championship again.
FTR's manager Tully Blanchard was barred from ringside.		 [18]


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