The NXT Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling tag team championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on their developmental brand, NXT. Introduced on January 23, 2013, the inaugural champions were the British Ambition (Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey). The current champions are Chase University (Andre Chase and Ridge Holland) who are in their first reign as a team, Chase is in his record-equalling second reign.
Reigns[]
No. | Champions (Tag team name) |
Reign | Date | Days held | Location | Event | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | British Ambition (Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey) |
1 | January 31, 2013 | 91 | Winter Park, FL | NXT | Defeated The Wyatt Family in the finals of eight-team tournament to become the inaugural champions. Bo Dallas replaced Grey when he was injured. Aired on tape delay on February 13, 2013. |
2 | The Wyatt Family (Luke Harper and Erick Rowan) |
1 | May 2, 2013 | 49 | Winter Park, FL | NXT | Defeated British Ambition's Adrian Neville and Bo Dallas, who filled in for the injured Oliver Grey. Aired on tape delay on May 8, 2013. |
3 | Adrian Neville (2) and Corey Graves | 1 | June 20, 2013 | 84 | Winter Park, FL | NXT | Aired on tape delay on July 17, 2013. |
4 | The Ascension (Konnor and Viktor) |
1 | September 12, 2013 | 364 | Winter Park, FL | NXT | Aired on tape delay on October 2, 2013. During their reign, their ring names were shortened to Konnor and Viktor, respectively. |
5 | The Lucha Dragons (Kalisto and Sin Cara) |
1 | September 11, 2014 | 126 | Winter Park, FL | NXT TakeOver: Fatal 4-Way | |
6 | Blake and Murphy | 1 | January 15, 2015 | 219 | Winter Park, FL | NXT | Aired on tape delay on January 28, 2015. During their reign, their ring names were shortened to Blake and Murphy, respectively. |
7 | The Vaudevillains (Aiden English and Simon Gotch) |
1 | August 22, 2015 | 78 | Brooklyn, NY | NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn | |
8 | The Revival (Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson) |
1 | November 8, 2015 | 80 | Winter Park, FL | NXT | Aired on tape delay on November 11, 2015 |
9 | American Alpha (Jason Jordan and Chad Gable) |
1 | January 27, 2016 | 133 | Winter Park, FL | NXT | |
10 | The Young Bucks (Nick Jackson and Matt Jackson) |
1 | June 8, 2016 | 96 | Winter Park, FL | NXT TakeOver: The End | |
11 | TM-61 (Nick Miller and Shane Thorne) |
1 | September 7, 2016 | 141 | Winter Park, FL | NXT | |
— | Vacated | — | January 26, 2017 | — | Winter Park, FL | NXT | TM-61 vacated the titles after Thorne suffered a knee injury. |
12 | The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) |
1 | January 28, 2017 | 434 | San Antonio, TX | NXT TakeOver: San Antonio | The Briscoe Brothers defeated The Authors of Pain to win the vacant titles. |
13 | SAnitY (Alexander Wolfe and Big Damo) |
1 | April 7, 2018 | 133 | London, England | NXT TakeOver: London II | This was a triple threat tag team match that also included The Street Profits and was also for the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic Cup. |
14 | War Machine (Hanson and Raymond Rowe) |
1 | August 18, 2018 | 287 | Brooklyn, NY | NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn 4 | |
15 | The Street Profits (Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins) |
1 | June 1, 2019 | 347 | Bridgeport, CT | NXT Takeover: XXV | |
16 | Imperium (Fabian Aicher and Marcel Barthel) |
1 | May 13, 2020 | 144 | Winter Park, FL | NXT | |
17 | Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch | 1 | October 4, 2020 | 387 | Orlando, FL | NXT TakeOver 31 | |
18 | Imperium (Fabian Aicher and Marcel Barthel) |
2 | October 26, 2021 | 189 | Orlando, FL | Halloween Havoc | |
19 | Pretty Deadly (Elton Prince and Kit Wilson) |
1 | May 3, 2022 | 131 | Orlando, FL | Spring Breakin' | |
20 | Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake and Zack Gibson) |
1 | September 11, 2022 | 146 | Orlando, FL | Destiny | This was a fatal four-way tag team elimination match, also involving WWE UK Tag Team Champions Brooks Jensen and Josh Briggs, and Gallus (Mark Coffey and Wolfgang) for both the WWE UK Tag Team Championship into the NXT Tag Team Championship. Grizzled Young Veterans last eliminated Pretty Deadly to win both championships. |
20 | Gallus (Mark Coffey and Wolfgang) |
1 | February 4, 2023 | 176 | Charlotte, NC | Vengeance Day | This was a fatal four-way tag team match that also included Pretty Deadly (Elton Prince and Kit Wilson) and Chase University (Andre Chase and Duke Hudson) |
21 | The Family (Tony D'Angelo and Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo) |
1 | July 30, 2023 | 86 | Cedar Park, TX | The Great American Bash | |
22 | Chase University (Andre Chase and Duke Hudson) |
1 | October 24, 2023 | 21 | Orlando, FL | Halloween Havoc Night 1 | |
23 | Alpha Academy (Chad Gable and Otis) |
1 | November 14, 2023 | 144 | Orlando, FL | NXT | |
24 | Nathan Frazer and A-Kid | 1 | April 6, 2024 | 129 | Philadelphia, PA | Stand & Deliver | |
25 | Chase University (Andre Chase (2) and Ridge Holland) |
1 | August 13, 2024 | 249+ | Orlando, FL | NXT |
Combined reigns[]
By team[]
Rank | Team | No. of reigns |
Combined days |
---|---|---|---|
1 | The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) |
1 | 434 |
2 | The Ascension (Konnor and Viktor) |
1 | 364 |
3 | Blake and Murphy | 1 | 219 |
4 | TM-61 (Nick Miller and Shane Thorne) |
1 | 141 |
5 | American Alpha (Chad Gable and Jason Jordan) |
1 | 133 |
SAnitY (Alexander Wolfe and Big Damo) |
1 | ||
7 | The Lucha Dragons (Kalisto and Sin Cara) |
1 | 126 |
8 | War Machine † (Hanson and Raymond Rowe) |
1 | 2436+ |
9 | The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) |
1 | 96 |
10 | British Ambition (Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey) |
1 | 91 |
11 | Adrian Neville and Corey Graves | 1 | 84 |
12 | The Revival (Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder) |
1 | 80 |
13 | The Vaudevillains (Aiden English and Simon Gotch) |
1 | 78 |
14 | The Wyatt Family (Luke Harper and Erick Rowan) |
1 | 49 |