AEW World Tag Team Championship

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AEW World Tag Team Championship
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The AEW World Tag Team Championship belts
Details
Promotion All Elite Wrestling
Date establishedOctober 30, 2019
Current champion(s) The Hurt Syndicate
(Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin)
Date wonJanuary 22, 2025
Statistics
First champion(s) SoCal Uncensored
(Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky)
Most reignsAs tag team (3 reigns):

As individual (3 reigns):

Longest reign The Young Bucks
(Matt/Matthew Jackson and Nick/Nicholas Jackson)
(1st reign, 302 days)
Shortest reign Sting and Darby Allin
(25 days)
Oldest champion Sting
(64 years, 324 days)
Youngest champion Jungle Boy
(24 years, 203 days)
Heaviest championSwerve In Our Glory
(Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland)
(541 lbs combined)
Lightest champion The Young Bucks
(Matt/Matthew Jackson and Nick/Nicholas Jackson)
(350 lbs combined)

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 October 30, 2019, the inaugural champions were SoCal Uncensored (Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky). The current champions are The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin), who are in their first reign, both as a team and individually. They won the title by defeating Private Party (Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen) on Dynamite on January 22, 2025.

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History

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Inaugural champions SoCal Uncensored (Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky)

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]

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 (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 Brothers12:24
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 Uncensored12:36
Best Friends
(Trent? and Chuck Taylor)		Pin
SoCal Uncensored
(Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky) [note 2] 		9:57
SoCal Uncensored13:59
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 (Trent? and Chuck Taylor) at All Out to receive a first round bye.

Belt design

The AEW World Tag Team Championship belts were designed by Ron Edwardsen of Red Leather Belts. They have five gold plates on a black leather strap. The center plate has a blue globe at its center. At the center of the globe is AEW's logo, below the logo is a black banner that says "TAG TEAM" in gold, and below that is a nameplate for the reigning champions. Above the globe is a black banner that says "WORLD" in gold and below the globe is another black banner that says "CHAMPION" in gold. On either side of the center plate are two side plates each that each prominently display AEW's logo. The inner side plates additionally have a wrestler performing a piledriver while the outer side plates show a wrestler performing a standing choke hold. After FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) first won the title in September 2020, the belts received a minor update with a relief AEW logo on the center plate. [15]

Reigns

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Current champions The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin)

As of January28, 2025, there have been 16 reigns between 13 teams composed of 26 individual champions and one vacancy. The inaugural champions were SoCal Uncensored (Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky). The Young Bucks (Matt/Matthew Jackson and Nick/Nicholas Jackson) have the most reigns at three, both as a team and individually. The Young Bucks are also the longest reigning champions for their first reign, which lasted 302 days, and they have the longest combined reign at 522 days. Sting and Darby Allin have the shortest reign at 25 days as they vacated the title due to Sting's retirement. Sting is also the oldest champion at 64 while Jungle Boy is the youngest at 24.

The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin) are the current champions in their first reign, both as a team and individually. They defeated Private Party (Marq Quen and Isiah Kassidy) on the January 22, 2025, episode of Dynamite in Knoxville, Tennessee. [16]

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