New Raw and SmackDown Tag Team Champions have been crowned - and they’re not held by the same team.

During WrestleMania 40’s Six-Pack Ladder match, The Judgement Day’s Finn Balor and Damian Priest came crashing down around them as The Awesome Truth and A-Town Down Under climbed the ladder to secure the Raw and SmackDown doubles titles, respectively. Grayson Waller pulled down the SmackDown titles for he and Austin Theory first but before Theory could retrieve the Raw titles, too, he was knocked off a ladder.

With the red brand’s Tag Team Championships still swinging in the balance, it would be R-Truth who ultimately won for him and The Miz, removing Damian Priest from the equation with a Royal Rumble 2008-like Attitude Adjustment over the top rope. This marked Truth’s first victory at ‘The Showcase of the Immortals’.

Rumours of WWE splitting the Tag Team Championships had been speculated upon since September 2023 as BWE reported that there were plans to split them “very soon”. Cultaholic Wrestling followed up in October, reporting that screen tests had taken place for new title designs. News on whether or not new Tag Team Championship designs will be revealed remains unknown.

When Were The Tag Team Championships Unified?

WWE has operated with two sets of Tag Team Championships since August 2016 when the brand split was reintroduced but in May 2022, The Usos - the defending SmackDown Tag Team Champions - dethroned RK-Bro to add the Raw titles to their collection, too. Both sets of championships have been defended collectively ever since, with Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn, The Judgement Day, and Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso having been recognised as holding both sets of titles.