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AEW World Tag Team Championship
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The AEW World Tag Team Championship belts
Details
PromotionAll Elite Wrestling
Date establishedOctober 30, 2019
Current championsFTR
(Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood)
Date wonNovember 22, 2025
Statistics
First championsSoCal Uncensored
(Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky)
Most reignsAs tag team (3 reigns):

As individual (3 reigns):

Longest reignThe Young Bucks
(Matt/Matthew Jackson and Nick/Nicholas Jackson)
(1st reign, 302 days)
Shortest reignSting and Darby Allin
(25 days)
Oldest championSting
(64 years, 324 days)
Youngest championJungle Boy
(24 years, 203 days)
Heaviest championSwerve In Our Glory
(Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland)
(541 lbs combined)
Lightest championThe 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). FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) are the current champions in their third reign, both as a team and individually. They won the titles by defeating Brodido (Brody King and Bandido) at Full Gear on November 22, 2025.

History

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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

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The first official match of the tournament was announced on the August 9, 2019, episode of Dynamite with The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) facing Private Party (Marq Quen and Isiah Kassidy).[11]

1st Round
Dynamite
October 9–16, 2019
Semifinals
Dynamite
October 23, 2019
Final
Dynamite
October 30, 2019
      
The Young Bucks
(Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson)
13:39
Private Party
(Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen)
Pinfall
Private Party 12:24
The Lucha Brothers Pinfall
The Lucha Brothers
(Pentagón Jr. and Rey Fénix)
Pinfall
Jurassic Express[a]
(Jungle Boy and Marko Stunt)
11:31
The Lucha Brothers 12:36[12]
SoCal Uncensored
(Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky)
Pinfall
Best Friends
(Trent? and Chuck Taylor)
9:57
SoCal Uncensored[b]
(Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky)
Pinfall
SoCal Uncensored
(Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky)
Pinfall
The Dark Order[c]
(Evil Uno and Stu Grayson)
13:59
  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

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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.[13]

Reigns

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File:FTR in August 2023 as AEW World Tag Team Champions.jpg
Current and record-tying 3-time champions FTR (Cash Wheeler (right) and Dax Harwood (left)).

As of May 13, 2026, there have been 18 reigns between 14 teams composed of 28 individual champions and one vacancy. The Young Bucks (Matt/Matthew Jackson and Nick/Nicholas Jackson) and FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) 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.

FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) are the current champions in their third reign, both as a team and individually. They won the titles by defeating Brodido (Brody King and Bandido) at Full Gear in Newark, New Jersey on November 22, 2025.[14]

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