<Tr> <Th> Lightest champion </Th> <Td> American Alpha (Chad Gable and Jason Jordan) (447 lbs combined) </Td> </Tr> <P> The WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the SmackDown brand . It is one of two tag team championships for WWE's main roster, along with the Raw Tag Team Championship on the Raw brand . The current champions are The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso), who are in their record third reign, both as a team and individually . </P> <P> Unveiled on the August 23, 2016 episode of SmackDown Live, it was created to be the counterpart title to the then - WWE Tag Team Championship, which became exclusive to Raw as a result of the 2016 WWE draft . That title was subsequently renamed after the crowning of the inaugural SmackDown Tag Team Champions, Heath Slater and Rhyno . </P> <P> Following the reintroduction of the WWE brand extension and subsequent draft on July 19, 2016, then - WWE Tag Team Champions The New Day were drafted to Raw, leaving SmackDown without a tag team championship . Over the course of the following month, SmackDown general manager Daniel Bryan stated that he wanted to build up the tag team division before introducing a championship . Immediately following SummerSlam on the August 23, 2016 episode of SmackDown Live, Bryan and SmackDown commissioner Shane McMahon introduced the SmackDown Tag Team Championship (Raw's title was subsequently renamed). An eight - team tournament was then scheduled to determine the inaugural champions, culminating in a final match at Backlash on September 11, 2016 . The team of Heath Slater and Rhyno defeated The Usos in the tournament final to become the inaugural champions . </P>

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