NEW WWE Tag Champions Crowned On Monday Night Raw
First-time titleholders get the full fireworks display to celebrate their shock title win.
Chelsea Green & Sonya Deville are your new WWE Women's Tag Team Champions, defeating Raquel Rodriguez & Liv Morgan on Monday Night Raw.
The complaining duo had no need to speak to a manager after their match, knocking off the champs less than three weeks after they had won the titles at Money in the Bank. They were undoubtedly aided by Rodriguez sustaining a knee injury during a backstage brawl with WWE Women's World Champion Rhea Ripley. That injury fed into Raquel's defeat, costing her team the titles.
Can @YaOnlyLivvOnce win this match for her team with @RaquelWWE at a disadvantage?#WWERaw pic.twitter.com/pWWaFgkHzN
— WWE (@WWE) July 18, 2023
The women's tag titles have traded hands pretty frequently, with four title changes taking place in the three months since WrestleMania 39. That's more than out-of-the-ordinary in today's WWE, where longer title reigns are the norm. There also have been three different duos to hold the titles this month, with Ronda Rousey & Shayna Baszler losing the tag titles at Money in the Bank two weeks ago.
Green & Deville earned the title shot by knocking off four other tag teams in a tag turmoil match on Raw two weeks ago, effectively cleaning out the division of established and thrown-together tandems.
For Green & Deville, Monday marked the first time either woman has won a title in WWE. And nobody can tell them that Rodriguez's injury factored into this decision.