WWE NXT Tag Team Championship

The NXT Women’s Tag Team Championship is one of the prestigious tag team championships in the women’s division of the WWE’s developmental brand NXT. The title is one among the two women’s tag team championships in WWE, and is made exclusive for the NXT. The title was introduced as a part of the brand development and growing women’s tag team division.

History of NXT Women’s Tag Team Championship

WWE established the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship in December 2018 as the sole women’s tag team championship for Raw, SmackDown and NXT. In 2021, NXT conducted the first-ever Women’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic Tournament and announced that the winning team would get an opportunity to face the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax (from Raw) for the championship title. Raquel Gonzalez and Dakota Kai won the inaugural tournament and competed for the sole tag team titles for women. However, they lost the match in a controversial way, as WWE official Adam Pierce sent a second referee and declared that Kai had submitted to Baszler, although Kai was not the legal woman. This led to a backstage argument between the WWE General Manager Adam Pierce and the NXT General Manager William Regal.

The following week on NXT, William Regan unveiled the brand new NXT Women’s Tag Team Championship and crowned Raquel Ganzalez and Dakota Kai as the inaugural NXT Women’s Tag Team Championship as a prize for winning the first-ever Women’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic Tournament. It subsequently became the official tag team championship on the NXT women’s division, by making the WWE Women’s tag Team Championship no longer available for the NXT brand.

As of May 2023, the championship has been through 11 reigns, 9 teams, 18 individual champions, and one vacancy. Raquel Gonzalez & Dakota Kai and The Toxic Attraction (Gigi Dolin & Jacy Jayne) have the most number of championship reigns of two times. Katana Chance & Kayden Carter had the longest reign as champions for 186 days. Raquel Gonzalez & Dakota Kai’s first reign is the shortest reign of 56 minutes. Toxic Attractions's Gigi Dolin & Jacy Jayne had the longest combined reign of 249 days. Raquel Gonzalez & Dakota Kai have the shortest combined reign of 3 days. Roxanne Perez is the youngest to win the women’s tag team title at age 20 and Candice LeRae is the oldest to win the title at age 35. Although the title is made exclusive for the NXT brand, the title is now eligible to change brands as the current NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions were drafted to the SmackDown roster.

Current NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions

Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn are the current NXT Women’s Tag team Champions on their first reign, both individually and as a team. On April 1, 2023, they won the tag team championship from Fallon Henley and Kiana James at NXT Stand & Deliver. The current champions are now moved to the main roster “SmackDown” with their titles, making it eligible to defend the titles on the SmackDown brand.

List of NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions

Belt Design

The NXT Women’s Tag Team Championship was unveiled by William Regal on the March 10, 2018 episode of NXT. The belt has been designed similar to the men’s NXT Tag Team Championship, with certain exceptions. The strap was made of white leather and is smaller when compared to the men’s tag team titles. The belt has three plates, designed in both gold and silver. The center main plate looks quite similar to the men’s tag team titles, instead of the “Tag Team” banner on the top it was written as “Women’s Tag Team” and it misses the WWE logo in the middle. The side plates are made customizable to install champion’s logo, but on default it comes with a NXT vertical logo.