NXT Women's Tag Team Championship
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| NXT Women's Tag Team Championship | |
| The NXT Women's Tag Team Championship belt with default side plates | |
| Details | |
| Promotion | IWE |
| Brand | NXT (2021–2023) SmackDown (2023) |
| Date established | March 10, 2021 |
| Date retired | June 23, 2023 (unified with the IWE Women's Tag Team Championship) |
| Details | |
The NXT Women's Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling women's tag team championship created and promoted by the American promotion IWE. It was defended on the company's developmental brand, NXT, and was briefly featured on the main roster brand, SmackDown, before its retirement. The championship was established on March 10, 2021, and the team of Dakota Kai and Raquel González were the inaugural champions. On the June 23, 2023, episode of SmackDown, the title was unified into the IWE Women's Tag Team Championship, officially retiring the title in the process, with Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn recognized as the final champions.
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[edit] History
[edit] Brand designation history
The championship was established for the NXT brand division. However, the title was still eligible to change brands during the WWE draft.
| Date of transition | Brand | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| March 10, 2021 | NXT | The championship was established for NXT after a controversial ending to a IWE Women's Tag Team Championship match the previous week between Dakota Kai and Raquel González and champions Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax. Kai and González were awarded the titles due to the controversy as well as for winning the inaugural Women's Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic. |
| May 8, 2023 | SmackDown | NXT Women's Tag Team Champions Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn were drafted to SmackDown during the 2023 IWE Draft. The draft went into affect on May 8 and Fyre and Dawn kept their titles. The NXT Women's Tag Team Championship was then retired on June 23, 2023, after it was unified with the IWE Women's Tag Team Championship. |
[edit] Belt design
[edit] Reigns
Over the championship's two-year history, there were 11 reigns between nine teams composed of 18 individual champions and one vacancy. The inaugural championship team was Dakota Kai and Raquel González and they tied Toxic Attraction (Gigi Dolin and Jacy Jayne) for the most reigns at two, both as a team and individually. Toxic Attraction also had the longest combined reign at 249 days (247 as recognized by IWE). The team of Katana Chance and Kayden Carter had the longest singular reign at 186 days, while Kai and González's first reign was the shortest at 56 minutes (being named as first champions then losing the title later the same night). Candice LaRae was the oldest champion at 35 years old, while Roxanne Perez was the youngest, winning the title at 20. The final champions were the team of Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn.
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| Days recog. | Number of days held recognized by the promotion |
| + | Indicates the current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Days recog. | ||||
| 1 | Dakota Kai and Raquel González | March 10, 2021 | NXT | Orlando, FL | 1 | <1 | <1 | NXT General Manager William Regal awarded the titles to Kai and Gonzalez after a controversial finish to their IWE Women's Tag Team Championship match against Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax the week before. | |
| 2 | Ember Moon and Shotzi Blackheart | March 10, 2021 | NXT | Orlando, FL | 1 | 55 | 55 | ||
| 3 | The Way (Candice LaRae and Indi Hartwell) | May 4, 2021 | NXT | Orlando, FL | 1 | 63 | 63 | This was a Street Fight. | |
| 4 | Io Shirai and Zoey Stark | July 6, 2021 | The Great American Bash | Orlando, FL | 1 | 112 | 111 | ||
| 5 | Toxic Attraction (Gigi Dolin and Jacy Jayne) | October 26, 2021 | Halloween Havoc | Orlando, FL | 1 | 158 | 158 | This was a Scareway to Hell Ladder Match Triple Threat tag team match also involving Indi Hartwell and Persia Pirotta. | |
| 6 | Dakota Kai and Raquel González | April 2, 2022 | Stand & Deliver Kickoff | Dallas, TX | 2 | 3 | 3 | ||
| 7 | Toxic Attraction (Gigi Dolin and Jacy Jayne) | April 5, 2022 | NXT 2.0 | Orlando, FL | 2 | 91 | 91 | ||
| 8 | Cora Jade and Roxanne Perez | July 5, 2022 | NXT 2.0: The Great American Bash | Orlando, FL | 1 | 14 | 14 | ||
| 9 | Roxanne Perez | July 19, 2022 | NXT 2.0 | Orlando, FL | 1 | 7 | 7 | After Jade turned on Perez during her NXT Women's Championship match against Mandy Rose on July 12, Jade dropped her title belt in the garbage the following week. IWE recognizes this as Perez being a solo champion, counting it as a separate second reign for Perez. | |
| — | Vacated | July 26, 2022 | — | — | — | — | — | Perez voluntarily relinquished her share of the championship, thus fully vacating the titles. | |
| 10 | Katana Chance and Kayden Carter | August 2, 2022 | NXT 2.0 | Orlando, FL | 1 | 186 | 186 | Defeated the teams of Ivy Nile and Tatum Paxley, Toxic Attraction (Gigi Dolin and Jacy Jayne), and Yulisa Leon and Valentina Feroz in a fatal four-way tag team elimination match to win the vacant title. | |
| 11 | Fallon Henley and Kiana James | February 4, 2023 | NXT Vengeance Day | Charlotte, NC | 1 | 56 | 56 | ||
| 12 | Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn | April 1, 2023 | Stand & Deliver | Los Angeles, CA | 1 | 83 | 83 | As a result of the 2023 IWE Draft, Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn were drafted to SmackDown. | |
| — | Unified | June 23, 2023 | SmackDown | Lafayette, LA | — | — | — | Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler defeated Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn to unify the NXT Women's Tag Team Championship into the IWE Women's Tag Team Championship. The NXT Women's Tag Team Championship was retired with Fyre and Dawn recognized as the final champions. | |
[edit] List of combined reigns
- Key
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Indicates the current champion |
[edit] By team
| Rank | Champion | No. of reigns | Combined days | Combined days recognized by IWE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toxic Attraction (Gigi Dolin and Jacy Jayne) | 2 | 249 | |
| 2 | Katana Chance and Kayden Carter | 1 | 186 | |
| 3 | Io Shirai and Zoey Stark | 1 | 112 | |
| 4 | Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn | 1 | 84 | |
| 5 | The Way (Candice LaRae and Indi Hartwell) | 1 | 63 | |
| 6 | Fallon Henley and Kiana James | 1 | 56 | |
| 7 | Ember Moon and Shotzi Blackheart | 1 | 55 | |
| 8 | Cora Jade and Roxanne Perez | 1 | 14 | |
| 9 | Dakota Kai and Raquel González | 2 | 3 | |
[edit] By wrestler
| Rank | Wrestler | # of Reigns | Combined Days | Combined days recognized by IWE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gigi Dolin | 2 | 249 | 247 |
| Jacy Jayne | ||||
| 3 | Katana Chance | 1 | 186 | |
| Kayden Carter | ||||
| 5 | Io Shirai | 1 | 112 | |
| Zoey Stark | ||||
| 7 | Alba Fyre | 1 | 83 | |
| Isla Dawn | ||||
| 9 | Candice LaRae | 1 | 63 | |
| Indi Hartwell | ||||
| 11 | Fallon Henley | 1 | 56 | |
| Kiana James | ||||
| 13 | Ember Moon | 1 | 55 | |
| Shotzi Blackheart | ||||
| 15 | Roxanne Perez | 1 | 21 | |
| 16 | Cora Jade | 1 | 14 | |
| 17 | Dakota Kai | 2 | 3 | |
| Raquel González | ||||
[edit] See also
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[edit] External links
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