NXT UK Tag Team Championship
championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE
The NXT UK Tag Team Championship was a men's professional wrestling title owned by WWE and competed for by tag teams of NXT UK. It was created on June 18, 2018, during the first night of the 2018 United Kingdom Championship Tournament. There was an announcement during the tournament that another 4-team tournament would happen and it would decide the first NXT UK Tag Team Champions. The semi-finals of this tournament happened in November 2018 and the final happened in January 2019. There, Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake and Zack Gibson) beat Moustache Mountain (Tyler Bate and Trent Seven) to become the first champions.[1]
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| Date established | 18 June 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date retired | 4 September 2022 (unified with the NXT Tag Team Championship) | ||||||||||||||||||
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In August 2022, WWE announced that the NXT UK brand would end and restart as NXT Europe at a later time.[2] So the NXT UK Tag Team Championship was retired on 4 September 2022 at Worlds Collide. At the event, Pretty Deadly (Elton Prince and Kit Wilson) defeated NXT Tag Team Champions The Creed Brothers (Brutus Creed and Julius Creed), Gallus (Mark Coffey and Wolfgang), and reigning champions Brooks Jensen and Josh Briggs in a fatal four-way tag team elimination match to make the NXT UK Tag Team Championship into one with the NXT Tag Team Championship. Jensen and Briggs are listed as the last NXT UK Tag Team Champions. Pretty Deadly went on as the unified NXT Tag Team Champions.[3]
Tournament
change| Semifinals NXT UK 24 and 25 November 2018 (aired 2 and 9 January 2019) | Final TakeOver: Blackpool 12 January 2019 | ||||||||
| Moustache Mountain (Trent Seven and Tyler Bate) | Pin | ||||||||
| Gallus (Mark Coffey and Wolfgang) | 14:39 | ||||||||
| Moustache Mountain | 23:45 | ||||||||
| James Drake and Zack Gibson | Pin | ||||||||
| James Drake and Zack Gibson | Pin | ||||||||
| Flash Morgan Webster and Mark Andrews | 9:19 | ||||||||
Reigns
change| No. | Overall reign number |
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| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
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Number of days held recognized by the promotion |
| † | Championship change is unrecognized by the promotion |
| <1 | Reign lasted less than a day |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
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| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Days recog. | ||||
| 1 | Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake and Zack Gibson) |
12 January 2019 | TakeOver: Blackpool | Blackpool, England | 1 | 231 | 230 | Defeated Moustache Mountain (Trent Seven and Tyler Bate) in the finals of a four-team tournament to become the first champions. | [1] |
| 2 | Flash Morgan Webster and Mark Andrews | 31 August 2019 | TakeOver: Cardiff | Cardiff, Wales | 1 | 34 | 47 | This was a triple threat tag team match, also including Gallus (Mark Coffey and Wolfgang). WWE list the end of this reign on 17 October 2019, when the episode aired on tape delay. |
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| 3 | Gallus (Mark Coffey and Wolfgang) |
4 October 2019 | NXT UK | Brentwood, England | 1 | N/A | 497 | WWE lists the start of this reign on 17 October 2019 and the end on 25 February 2021, when the episodes aired on tape delay. The actual date they lost the title is unknown. | [5] |
| 4 | Pretty Deadly (Lewis Howley and Sam Stoker) |
25 February 2021 (air date) |
NXT UK | London, England | 1 | N/A | 287 | WWE lists the start of this reign on 25 February 2021, when the episode aired on tape delay. The actual date the match took place is unknown. | [6] |
| 5 | Moustache Mountain (Trent Seven and Tyler Bate) |
9 December 2021 (air date) |
NXT UK | London, England | 1 | N/A | 175 | WWE lists the start of this reign on 9 December 2021, when the episode aired on tape delay. The actual date the match took place is unknown. | [7] |
| 6 | Ashton Smith and Oliver Carter | 21 April 2022 | NXT UK | London, England | 1 | 62 | 21 | This was a triple threat tag team match, also involving Die Familie (Teoman and Rohan Raja). WWE lists the start of this reign on 2 June 2022 and the end on 23 June 2022, when the episodes aired on tape delay. | [8] |
| — | Vacated | 22 June 2022 | NXT UK | London, England | — | — | — | Vacated after Ashton Smith injured his knee. Aired on tape delay on 23 June 2022. |
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| 7 | Brooks Jensen and Josh Briggs | 22 June 2022 | NXT UK | London, England | 1 | 74 | 73 | This was a fatal four-way tag team elimination match, also involving Die Familie (Teoman and Rohan Raja), Dave Mastiff and Jack Starz, and Mark Andrews and Wild Boar for the vacant titles. WWE lists the start of this reign on 23 June 2022, when the episode aired on tape delay. | [9] |
| — | Unified | 4 September 2022 | Worlds Collide | Orlando, Florida, U.S. | — | — | — | Pretty Deadly (Elton Prince and Kit Wilson) defeated NXT Tag Team Champions The Creed Brothers (Brutus Creed and Julius Creed), Gallus (Mark Coffey and Wolfgang), and NXT UK Tag Team Champions Brooks Jensen and Josh Briggs in a fatal four-way tag team elimination match to make the NXT UK Tag Team Championship into one with the NXT Tag Team Championship. The NXT UK Tag Team Championship was retired with Jensen and Briggs list as the final champions. Pretty Deadly went on as the unified NXT Tag Team Champions. | [3] |
Notes
change- ↑ This is listed as the second longest tag team championship reign in WWE (behind The Usos' fifth reign with the SmackDown Tag Team Championship at 622 days). But the actual length of the reign is unknown, as the actual date Gallus lost the championship is unknown. So the reign length shown here is what WWE officially lists for the reign.
- ↑ Because of tape delays, WWE lists their reign as lasting 47 days, and instead name Ashton Smith and Oliver Carter's reign the shortest reign at 21 days (Smith and Carter's reign actually lasted 62 days).
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Powell, Jason (January 12, 2019). "1/12 Powell's NXT UK Takeover: Blackpool live review – Rhea Ripley vs. Toni Storm for the NXT UK Women's Championship, Pete Dunne vs. Joe Coffey for the WWE UK Championship, Trent Seven and Tyler Bate vs. Zack Gibson and James Drake to become the first NXT UK Tag Champions". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
- ↑ Defelice, Robert (August 18, 2022). "WWE Announces The Impending Launch Of 'NXT Europe' Final NXT UK Event To Be 'Worlds Collide' On 9/4". Fightful. Retrieved August 18, 2022.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Moore, John (September 4, 2022). "NXT Worlds Collide results: Moore's live review of NXT Champion Bron Breakker vs. NXT UK Champion Tyler Bate in a unification match, NXT Women's Champion Mandy Rose vs. NXT UK Women's Champion Meiko Satomura vs. Blair Davenport in a unification match, Carmelo Hayes vs. Ricochet for the NXT North American Championship". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
- ↑ Powell, Jason (August 31, 2019). "8/31 Powell's NXT UK Takeover: Cardiff live review – Walter vs. Tyler Bate for the WWE UK Championship, Toni Storm vs. Kay Lee Ray for the NXT UK Women's Championship, Zack Gibson and James Drake vs. Mark Andrews and Flash Morgan Webster vs. Mark Coffey and Wolfgang for the NXT UK Tag Titles". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
- ↑ Owen, Dei (October 4, 2019). "NXT UK TV Taping spoilers: Night One in Brentwood". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
- ↑ Gibbons, Laurence (February 25, 2021). "2/25 NXT UK TV results: Gibbons' review of Mark Coffey and Wolfgang vs. "Pretty Deadly" Sam Stoker and Lewis Howley for the NXT UK Tag Titles, Xia Brookside vs. Nina Samuels, Bailey Matthews vs. Tyler Bate, Lana Austin vs. Aoife Valkyrie". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved February 25, 2021.
- ↑ Gibbons, Laurence (December 9, 2021). "12/9 NXT UK TV results: Gibbons' review of "Pretty Deadly" Lewis Howley and Sam Stoker vs. "Moustache Mountain" Tyler Bate and Trent Seven for the NXT UK Tag Team Championship, Emilia McKenzie vs. Blair Davenport, Sha Samuels vs. Sam Gradwell, Jordan Devlin promo". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved March 12, 2022.
- ↑ Lambert, Jeremy (April 21, 2022). "Spoiler: Title Change And Major Turn At 4/21 NXT UK Tapings". Fightful. Retrieved April 21, 2022.
- ↑ Gronemann, Markus (June 23, 2022). "NXT UK results: Tag Team Championship four-way elimination match Sarray, Brooks Jensen and Josh Briggs made their newsworthy NXT UK debuts". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved June 24, 2022.