During the December 24, 2018 Raw, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon officially announced that a new Women's Tag Team Championship would be introduced in 2019.

On the January 14, 2019, episode of Raw, the championship belts were unveiled by Alexa Bliss on her segment, "A Moment of Bliss". After the unveiling, Bliss announced that the inaugural champions would be decided at Elimination Chamber on February 17, 2019, in a tag team Elimination Chamber match, featuring three teams from Raw and three teams from SmackDown, making the titles non-exclusive to either brand, and the inaugural campions were The Boss 'n' Hug connection, the name of Bayley and Sasah Banks Team . On the February 18 Raw, it was announced that the titles would also be defended on the NXT brand