NXT UK Tag Team Championship

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]

NXT UK Tag Team Championship
First champions, Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake and Zack Gibson)
Details
Promotion	WWE
Date established	18 June 2018
Date retired	4 September 2022 (unified with the NXT Tag Team Championship)
Statistics First champion(s) Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake and Zack Gibson) Final champion(s) Brooks Jensen and Josh Briggs Longest reign Gallus (Mark Coffey and Wolfgang) (497 days)[a] Shortest reign Flash Morgan Webster and Mark Andrews (34 days)[b] Oldest winner Trent Seven (40 years, 110 days) Youngest winner Brooks Jensen (20 years, 306 days) Heaviest champion Brooks Jensen and Josh Briggs (511 lbs combined) Lightest champion Flash Morgan Webster and Mark Andrews (303 lbs combined)

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

	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

Key

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
†	Championship change is unrecognized by the promotion
<1	Reign lasted less than a day

No.	Champion	Championship change			Reign statistics			Notes	Ref.
		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.	[4]
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.
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

1. 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.
2. 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).