strowman won tag team championship at wrestlemania 34.
strowman won tag team championship at wrestlemania 34.
who won tag team championship at wrestlemania 34?
strowman
after defeating the revival (dash wilder and scott dawson), raw tag team champions cesaro and sheamus said they had defeated every tag team on raw and issued an open challenge to any tag team to face them at wrestlemania. on the march 12 episode, general manager kurt angle scheduled a tag team battle royal with the winning team receiving a championship match at wrestlemania. braun strowman interjected himself into the match and won. the following week, angle decided that strowman would receive a raw tag team championship match at wrestlemania as long as he found a partner. strowman said that he did not need a partner, but would have one. he defeated both cesaro and sheamus in singles matches, but did not reveal his partner prior to the event.
wrestlemania 34
in the aftermath of suzuki-gun's july 22 win, archer had also made a challenge for the iwgp tag team championship, held by hiroyoshi tenzan and satoshi kojima, but did not specify who his partner for the match would be. on august 13, harry smith, later renamed davey boy smith, jr., was revealed as archer's partner and the newest member of suzuki-gun. on october 8 at king of pro-wrestling, archer and smith, now known as the k.e.s. (killer elite squad), defeated kojima and tenzan to win the iwgp tag team championship. k.e.s. made their first successful title defense on november 11 at power struggle, defeating tenzan and kojima in a rematch. from november 20 to december 1, k.e.s. took part in the round-robin portion of the 2012 world tag league, finishing with a record of four wins and two losses, advancing to the semifinals of the tournament in the second place in their group. on december 2, k.e.s. defeated always hypers (togi makabe and wataru inoue) to advance to the finals of the tournament, archer's second in a row. later that same day, k.e.s. was defeated in the finals of the 2012 world tag league by sword & guns (hirooki goto and karl anderson). on january 4, 2013, at wrestle kingdom 7 in tokyo dome, k.e.s. defeated sword & guns in a rematch to retain the iwgp tag team championship. on february 10 at the new beginning, archer and smith defeated tenzan and kojima for their third successful defense of the iwgp tag team championship. on march 3 at new japan's 41st anniversary event, archer unsuccessfully challenged shinsuke nakamura for the iwgp intercontinental championship. on april 5, archer and smith made their fourth successful defense of the iwgp tag team championship against nakamura and tomohiro ishii. on april 20, archer and smith defeated ryan genesis and scot summers in houston, texas to not only retain the iwgp tag team championship, but to also win the nwa world tag team championship. on may 3 at wrestling dontaku 2013, k.e.s. lost the iwgp tag team championship back to tencozy in a four-way match, which also included takashi iizuka and toru yano, and manabu nakanishi and strong man, though neither archer nor smith was involved in the finish. k.e.s. received a rematch for the title on june 22 at dominion 6.22 in a three-way match, which also included iizuka and yano, but were unable to regain the title, when kojima pinned archer for the win. on august 1, archer entered the 2013 g1 climax. the tournament concluded on august 11 with a match, where archer defeated his tag team partner davey boy smith, jr., costing smith a spot in the finals and giving archer a record of four wins and five losses. on november 9 at power struggle, k.e.s. faced tencozy and the irongodz (jax dane and rob conway) in a two-fall three-way match. in the first fall, they lost the nwa world tag team championship to the irongodz, but came back in the second to defeat tencozy for the iwgp tag team championship. from november 24 to december 8, k.e.s. took part in the 2013 world tag league. after winning their round-robin block with a record of five wins and one loss, they were eliminated from the tournament in the semifinals by their old rivals, tencozy. on january 4, 2014, at wrestle kingdom 8 in tokyo dome, k.e.s. lost the iwgp tag team championship to the winners of the tournament, bullet club (doc gallows and karl anderson). k.e.s. received a rematch for the title on february 9 at the new beginning in hiroshima, but were again defeated by bullet club. on may 25 at back to the yokohama arena, k.e.s. failed to regain the nwa world tag team championship from tencozy in a three-way match, which also included rob conway and wes brisco. on june 21 at dominion 6.21, k.e.s. received another shot at the nwa world tag team championship, this time in a regular tag team match, but were again defeated by tencozy. from july 23 to august 8, archer took part in the 2014 g1 climax, where he finished tied sixth in his block with a record of four wins and six losses. on october 13 at king of pro-wrestling, k.e.s. defeated tencozy to regain the nwa world tag team championship. from november 22 to december 5, k.e.s. took part in the 2014 world tag league. the team finished their block with a record of four wins and three losses, narrowly missing the finals of the tournament.
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