WWE Yolo County Tag Team Championship
| WWE Yolo County Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||||
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| File:Yolo County Tag Team Championship.jpg One of the Yolo County Tag Team Championship belts | |||||||||||||
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| Promotion | WWE | ||||||||||||
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| Date won | June 11, 2019 | ||||||||||||
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The Yolo County Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling championship introduced by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE. It was introduced as part of a storyline involving Heavy Machinery (Otis and Tucker), Erick Rowan and Daniel Bryan. Heavy Machinery are the current champions, in their first reign.
History[edit]
On June 11, 2019 the then-reigning champions, AJ Kirsh and Dave Dutra, agreed to appear on WWE's Smackdown Live television show to put the championship on the line against reigning WWE SmackDown Tag Team Champions Daniel Bryan and Rowan in a unification match.[1][2] The scheduled match was interrupted by Bryan and Rowan's storyline rivals Heavy Machinery (Otis and Tucker), turning the unification match into a title defense against Heavy Machinery instead at Bryan's request.[3] Heavy Machinery defeated Kirsh and Dutra in exactly two minutes to start their reign as WWE Yolo County Tag Team Champions.[4] [5]
Belt design[edit]
The two identical belts that symbolizes the WWE Yolo County Tag Team Championship are both made out of corrugated cardboard,[6][7] cut out with a large center plate in front and wide straps to each side to allow the championship to wear the belts around their waists.[8] The front plates read "Yolo County" at the top, curved with the top of the face plate "Tag Team" horizontally across the middle,.[8] and "Champions" curved up at the bottom of the face plate, in black marker.[8] The two straps are adorned by several hand drawn stars in red or blue.[8][9]
Reigns[edit]
As of November 2, 2024, there have been two reigns. The inaugural championship team was AJ Kirsh and Dave Dutra. Heavy Machinery have the longest reign at 1,971+ days, while AJ Kirsh and Dave Dutra have the shortest reign at less than 10 minutes. The title history prior to June 11, 2019 is unknown, making it unclear of Kirsh and Dutra were the first champions or not. The current champions are SmackDown's Heavy Machinery (Otis and Tucker). They won the titles by defeating the previous champions in a tag team match, on an episode of Smackdown Live on June 11, 2019, in Sacramento, California.
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| (NLT) | Championship change took place "no later than" the date listed |
| <1 | Reign lasted less than a day |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||||
| Championship history is unrecorded from prior to June 11, 2019. | ||||||||||
| 1 | AJ Kirsh and Dave Dutra | (NLT) June 11, 2019 | Smackdown Live | Sacramento, CA | 1 | [Note 2] | [1] | |||
| 2 | Heavy Machinery (Otis and Tucker) |
June 11, 2019 | Smackdown Live | Sacramento, CA | 1 | 1,971+ | Originally scheduled to be a championship unification match against Daniel Bryan and Erick Rowan but Heavy Machinery came out and was granted a title match instead. | [1] | ||
Reception[edit]
The introduction of the until then obscure title seemed to be favorably received by the fans in attendance, who chanted "YOLO".[10] The reception was in stark contrast to the reception of the last championship introduced by WWE, the WWE 24/7 Championship that was loudly booed when introduced on May 20, 2019.[11][12][13] At least one commentator, Byron Saxton, could not believe what he saw, stating that "those cannot be real".[14] The debut of the championship also received international coverage upon it's WWE.[15] The Yolo Country Tag Team Championship title change was a part of the top rated TV show on cable in the timeslot.[16]
Footnotes[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bath, Dave (June 11, 2019). "WWE Smackdown Live results: New Day vs. Ziggler, Owens & Zayn". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
tag team champions take on the YOLO County tag team champions AJ Kirsh and Dave Dutra in a unification match.
- ↑ Leclaire, Brandon (June 11, 2019). "Leclair's WWE SmackDown report 6/11: Alt perspective, detailed coverage of New Day vs. KO/Zayn/Ziggler, Stomping Grounds hype, and more". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
Bryan said the audience was in for a real treat because the planet’s tag team champions are putting their tag team titles on the line against the “YOLO county champions” in a title unification match.
- ↑ Bath, Dave (June 11, 2019). "WWE Smackdown Live results: New Day vs. Ziggler, Owens & Zayn". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
He challenged them to take on the Yolo Country Tag Team champions.
- ↑ Bath, Dave (June 11, 2019). "WWE Smackdown Live results: New Day vs. Ziggler, Owens & Zayn". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
Heavy Machinery dominated the match. Otis hit the Caterpillar. Tucker tossed one of the guys in the air, and Otis caught him. They hit the Compacter for the win
- ↑ Leclaire, Brandon (June 11, 2019). "Leclair's WWE SmackDown report 6/11: Alt perspective, detailed coverage of New Day vs. KO/Zayn/Ziggler, Stomping Grounds hype, and more". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
winners: Heavy Machinery in 2:00
- ↑ Bath, Dave (June 11, 2019). "WWE Smackdown Live results: New Day vs. Ziggler, Owens & Zayn". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
The Yolo belts are made of cardboard
- ↑ Leclaire, Brandon (June 11, 2019). "Leclair's WWE SmackDown report 6/11: Alt perspective, detailed coverage of New Day vs. KO/Zayn/Ziggler, Stomping Grounds hype, and more". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
The two local wrestlers in the ring carried cardboard titles.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 "Heavy Machinery pose with the Yolo County Tag Team Titles: WWE.com Exclusive, June 11, 2019". WWE. June 11, 2019. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
- ↑ Wilkinson, Matthew (June 11, 2019). "Watch Heavy Machinery pose with the Yolo County Tag Team Championship". Pro Wrestling dot Com. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
- ↑ Bath, Dave (June 11, 2019). "WWE Smackdown Live results: New Day vs. Ziggler, Owens & Zayn". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
The fans chanted “Yolo.”
- ↑ Johnson, Mike (May 20, 2019). "WWE'Snewst championship is..." PWInsider. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
- ↑ Satin, Ryan (May 20, 2019). "WATCH: Mick Foley Unveils New WWE 24/7 Title, First Champion Crowned". Pro Wrestling Sheet. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
- ↑ Keller, Wade (May 20, 2019). "5/20 WWE Raw Results: Keller's report on Money in the Bank fallout, will Brock Lesnar announce his intensions, Mick Foley reveals new WWE Title". Pro Wresting Torch. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
- ↑ Leclaire, Brandon (June 11, 2019). "Leclair's WWE SmackDown report 6/11: Alt perspective, detailed coverage of New Day vs. KO/Zayn/Ziggler, Stomping Grounds hype, and more". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
“Those can’t be real,” Saxton said.
- ↑ Ocampo, Ernesto (June 11, 2019). "Resultados Smackdown Live (11-06-10) - Regresa the New Day". Súper Luchas (in Spanish). Retrieved June 12, 2019.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ Tedesco, Mike (June 12, 2019). "WWE Smackdown Ratings: Viewers drop below 2 million, WWE still comes in at #1 on cable". WrestleView. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
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