AEW World Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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Promotion | All Elite Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||
Date established | June 18, 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
Current champion(s) | FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) | ||||||||||||||||||
Date won | April 5, 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The AEW World Tag Team Championship is a men's professional wrestling world tag team championship created and promoted by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It is a standard tag team championship, being contested by teams of two wrestlers. Established on June 18, 2019, the inaugural champions were SoCal Uncensored (Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky). The current champions are FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler), who are in their record-tying second reign, both as a team and individually. They won the title by defeating The Gunns (Austin Gunn and Colten Gunn) in a Title vs. Career match on the April 5, 2023, episode of Dynamite.
On June 18, 2019, six months after the American professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) was founded,[1][2][3] 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,[4] featuring Best Friends (Trent? and Chuck Taylor), SoCal Uncensored (Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky), and Private Party (Marq Quen and Isiah Kassidy) with the winning team advancing to All Out for an opportunity at a first round bye in the AEW World Tag Team Championship tournament.[5] 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.[6] During the Buy In pre-show of Fyter Fest, Best Friends defeated Private Party and SoCal Uncensored to earn their spot at All Out.[7]
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.[8] At Fight for the Fallen, The Dark Order (Evil Uno and Stu Grayson) defeated Jurassic Express (Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus) and Angélico and Jack Evans to advance to All Out.[9] At the event on August 31, The Dark Order defeated Best Friends to receive the first round bye in the tournament.[10]
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 (Marq Quen and Isiah Kassidy) on October 9 during the second episode of Dynamite in Boston, Massachusetts.[11] It was later announced that the semifinals for the tournament would take place on the October 23 episode in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,[12] with the finals on the October 30 episode in Charleston, West Virginia.[13] On October 30, SoCal Uncensored (Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky) defeated The Lucha Brothers (Pentagón Jr. and Rey Fénix) in the tournament final to become the inaugural champions.[14]
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 (Marq Quen and Isiah Kassidy) | 13:39 | |||||||||||||
Private Party | Pin | |||||||||||||
The Lucha Brothers | 12:24 | |||||||||||||
The Lucha Brothers (Pentagón Jr. and Rey Fénix) | 11:31 | |||||||||||||
Jurassic Express (Jungle Boy and Marko Stunt)[note 1] | Pin | |||||||||||||
The Lucha Brothers | Pin | |||||||||||||
SoCal Uncensored | 12:36 | |||||||||||||
Best Friends (Trent? and Chuck Taylor) | 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] |
As of July 12, 2023, there have been 11 reigns between nine teams composed of 18 individual champions. The inaugural champions were SoCal Uncensored (Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky). The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) and FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) are tied for the most reigns at two, both as a team and individually. The Young Bucks are also the longest reigning and shortest reigning champions, with their first reign lasting 302 days while their second reign was 28 days, and they have the longest combined reign at 330 days. Kazarian is the oldest champion at 42 while Jungle Boy is the youngest at 24.
The current champions are FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler), who are in their record-tying second reign, both as a team and individually. They defeated The Gunns (Austin Gunn and Colten Gunn) in a Title vs. Career match on the April 5, 2023, episode of Dynamite in Elmont, New York.
No. | Overall reign number |
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Reign | Reign number for the specific team—reign numbers for the individuals are in parenthesis, if different |
Days | Number of days held |
+ | Current reign is changing daily |
As of July 12, 2023.
† | Indicates the current champion |
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Rank | Team | No. of reigns |
Combined days |
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1 | The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) |
2 | 330 |
2 | Kenny Omega and "Hangman" Adam Page | 1 | 228 |
3 | Jurassic Express (Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus) |
1 | 161 |
4 | FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) † |
2 | 161+ |
5 | The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens and Max Caster) |
1 | 140 |
6 | The Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero Miedo and Rey Fénix) |
1 | 122 |
7 | SoCal Uncensored (Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky) |
1 | 83 |
8 | Swerve in Our Glory (Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland) |
1 | 70 |
9 | The Gunns (Austin Gunn and Colten Gunn) |
1 | 56 |
Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined days |
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1 | Matt Jackson | 2 | 330 |
Nick Jackson | 2 | 330 | |
3 | "Hangman" Adam Page | 1 | 228 |
Kenny Omega | 1 | 228 | |
5 | Jungle Boy | 1 | 161 |
Luchasaurus | 1 | 161 | |
7 | Cash Wheeler † | 2 | 161+ |
Dax Harwood † | 2 | 161+ | |
9 | Anthony Bowens | 1 | 140 |
Max Caster | 1 | 140 | |
11 | Penta El Zero Miedo | 1 | 122 |
Rey Fénix | 1 | 122 | |
13 | Frankie Kazarian | 1 | 83 |
Scorpio Sky | 1 | 83 | |
15 | Keith Lee | 1 | 70 |
Swerve Strickland | 1 | 70 | |
17 | Austin Gunn | 1 | 56 |
Colten Gunn | 1 | 56 |