The side plates also reflected this coloring the side plate on the black side was dominated by a black background behind the WWE logo while the side plate on the gold side had a dominant gold background behind the WWE logo. On one belt, the left side of the center plate was black with "Tag" written in gold while the right side of the center plate was gold with "Team" written in black the other belt was the opposite. A unique feature of this original design was that the two belts were slightly different. The plates were on a black leather strap. The two side plates contained the WWE logo. Prominently down the center of the plate was a vertical NXT logo in gold to the left center side of the logo read "Tag" while the right center side read "Team". The center plate was an irregular polygon. The original NXT Tag Team Championship belts featured a simple design. One-time champions Blake and Murphy (right and left), shown here with the original NXT Tag Team Championship belts
Jensen and Briggs were recognized as the final NXT UK Tag Team Champions, while Pretty Deadly went forward as the unified NXT Tag Team Champions. On September 4, 2022, at Worlds Collide, Pretty Deadly (Elton Prince and Kit Wilson) defeated Gallus ( Mark Coffey and Wolfgang), reigning NXT Tag Team Champions The Creed Brothers (Brutus Creed and Julius Creed), and NXT UK Tag Team Champions Brooks Jensen and Josh Briggs in a fatal four-way tag team elimination match to unify the NXT UK Tag Team Championship into the NXT Tag Team Championship.
As such, NXT UK's championship's were unified into their respective NXT championship counterparts. In August 2022, WWE announced that the NXT UK brand would go on hiatus and would relaunch as NXT Europe in 2023. However, WWE revamped NXT in September 2021 and returned the brand to its original function as a developmental territory. This would become official in September 2019 when NXT was moved to the USA Network, thus making the NXT Tag Team Championship the third major tag team title for men in WWE, along with the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship and WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship. On June 8, 2016, The Revival ( Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder) became the first team to hold the championship on more than one occasion when they defeated American Alpha ( Chad Gable and Jason Jordan) at TakeOver: The End.Īlthough NXT had been established as WWE's developmental territory, over the years it grew to establish itself as WWE's third major brand. On the June 20 taping of NXT (aired July 17), Neville and Corey Graves defeated The Wyatt Family for the title, making Neville the first two-time champion. In the first title defense, however, Neville and Bo Dallas defended the title against The Wyatt Family due to Grey being injured, where they lost Dallas was not recognized as champion. On the January 31 taping of NXT ( aired February 13), British Ambition ( Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey) defeated The Wyatt Family ( Luke Harper and Erick Rowan) in the tournament final to become the inaugural champions. The following year on the January 23 episode of NXT, special guest and WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels announced that there would be an eight-team single-elimination tournament to crown the first NXT Tag Team Champions. In June 2012, WWE established NXT as their developmental territory, replacing Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW). The inaugural NXT Tag Team Champions, the British Ambition: Adrian Neville (top) and Oliver Grey (bottom) In September 2022, the NXT UK Tag Team Championship was unified into the NXT Tag Team Championship. Two years later, however, NXT reverted to its original function as WWE's developmental brand. In September 2019, the company began promoting NXT as its " third brand" when the NXT television program was moved to the USA Network. Introduced on January 23, 2013, the inaugural championship team was British Ambition ( Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey). They won the title by defeating previous champions The New Day ( Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods), Pretty Deadly ( Elton Prince and Kit Wilson), and Chase University ( Andre Chase and Duke Hudson) in a fatal four-way tag team match at NXT Vengeance Day on February 4, 2023. The current champions are Gallus ( Mark Coffey and Wolfgang), who are in their first reign, both as a team and individually. It is defended on NXT, the promotion's developmental brand.
#NXT TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS PROFESSIONAL#
The NXT Tag Team Championship is a men's professional wrestling tag team championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE. ( Conor O'Brian/Konnor and Rick Victor/Viktor)
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