![]() The Usos ( Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso) are the current champions in their third reign. ![]() The inaugural champions were Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit, who won the title in a tournament final at No Mercy on October 20, 2002. The championship is generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition. It was subsequently renamed to Raw Tag Team Championship after SmackDown introduced its SmackDown Tag Team Championship. In 2016, WWE reintroduced its brand split and the championship became exclusive to Raw. In 2009, the title was unified with the World Tag Team Championship by The Colóns ( Carlito and Primo) at WrestleMania XXV and became recognized as the "Unified WWE Tag Team Championship" until August 2010 when the World Tag Team Championship was decommissioned in favor of continuing the lineage of the WWE Tag Team Championship. In 2007, after the initiation of the ECW brand, the title was shared between the SmackDown and ECW brands, thus inter-brand matches could take place for the title. As WWE's original World Tag Team Championship was designated exclusive to the Raw brand, SmackDown introduced the WWE Tag Team Championship as its own championship. After WWE bought the promotions of Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and unified the WCW Tag Team Championship into its own title at Survivor Series 2001, it split its roster into two brands, Raw and SmackDown. ![]() Introduced as the WWE Tag Team Championship, it was WWE's third world tag team title, and sixth tag team title overall. The WWE Raw Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship contested in WWE on the Raw brand. Three-time and current champions The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso), shown here in their previous gimmick and with the 2010–2016 version of the belts.
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