WWE Tag Team Championship (2010–present)


 * The current tag team championship defended in WWE. The championship established in 2002, see WWE Tag Team Championship (2002–2010)

The WWE Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship used by the professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It is the direct successor to the promotion's former tag team titles: the World Tag Team Championship and the pre-2010 WWE Tag Team Championship. The championship is generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition. The current, consolidated WWE Tag Team Championship holds the combined lineage of WWE's original World Tag Team Championship which dates back to 1971 and the WWE Tag Team Championship that was established in 2002.

History
In late 2008 and early 2009, WWE Tag Team Champions The Colóns (Carlito and Primo) feuded with the World Tag Team Champions John Morrison and The Miz, with the two teams exchanging victories in non-title matches and retaining their respective titles against each other. On the March 17 edition of ECW, it was announced that at WrestleMania XXV both teams would defend their titles against each other and the winning team would hold both titles. The Colons defeated Morrison and Miz, and thus unified the titles into the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship.

The WWE Tag Team Championship is available to both currently active WWE brands. Because of this, the champions can appear on either Raw or SmackDown. On the August 16, 2010 episode of Raw, the unification of both titles was renamed to simply the 'WWE Tag Team Championship' while a new set of tag team belts were presented to the champions, The Hart Dynasty, by Bret Hart.

It should be noted that on WWE.com's official title history the WWE Tag Team Championship's history links to that of the WWE's original World Tag Team Championship.

Reigns
The current champions are The Hart Dynasty (David Hart Smith and Tyson Kidd), who are in their first reign as the successors to the World and WWE Tag Team Championships; since their reign the title has been replaced by the post-2010 WWE Tag Team Championships. They won the original titles from ShoMiz (The Big Show and The Miz) on the April 26, 2010 edition of Raw in Richmond, VA. The longest title reign since becoming unified was Jeri-Show (Chris Jericho and The Big Show) at 140 days and the shortest reign was Chris Jericho and Edge at 28 days.