There are few records of tag wrestling in Britain before the war, though Greg Oliver's book on North American teams includes a 1937 showbill for a card in West Bromwich. It features Rene LeBelle & Ron Gazely vs Red Brokau & Mike Futa in what is billed as 'Team Wrestling - First Time Here'. The team concept is promoted as 'Sensation Direct From America!', which fits in with research showing the first recorded US tag match took place nine months earlier.

However, tag wrestling didn't become a regular attraction until the 1960s wrestling peak. The first televised bout appears to have aired on 28 September 1963 with Bert Royal and Vic Faulkner against Alan Colbeck and either Ivan Penzecoff or Chic Purvey. Surprisingly the gimmick received little advance publicity and actually replaced singles bouts listed in that week's TV Times (Britain's equivalent to TV Guide). Faulkner and Royal (billed as the Royal Brothers, though both were legitimately named Hessle) would go on to be likely Britain's longest-running team of all time, with their last televised bout coming 18 years later in 1981.

On-screen tag matches were generally kept as a special attraction in this era, though they often made up a feature bout on the year's biggest TV date, the afternoon of the FA Cup Final football match. The first of these featured Royal and Faulkner against Mick McManus and Steve Logan.  Later Cup Final day shows included the likes of the Black Diamonds (Abe Ginsberg and Eric Cutler), Roy & Tony St Clair, and the Hells Angels (Adrian Street and Bobby Barnes).

Likely the biggest drawing tag match in Britain took place at Wembley Arena on 11 June 1980 pitting Big Daddy and Wayne Bridges against Yasa Fuji and John Quinn. The bout was not televised and is thus much less remembered than the other two Wembley Arena shows featuring Daddy in singles bouts against Quinn and Giant Haystacks.

As previously detailed here, Daddy was virtually a full-time tag wrestler during the 1980s, usually with a young and far more athletic partner who would do most of the in-ring work. This effectively meant most Joint Promotions main events in this time were tag matches, though Daddy's near-invincible status meant few long-term heel teams were established with any credibility. Of course, any would-be full-time babyface team usually likely found itself losing to Daddy's next opponents to set them up. For this reason, most of the regular duos of the 80s tended to be at lighter weights.

The January 1964 edition of The Wrestler includes an article by John Fremantle championing the idea of adding tag titles at various weights (with the limits applying to the team's combined weights).  However, this never came to pass in the Joint Promotions era and the first significant tag championship was controlled by All Star in the late 1980s and early 1990s, an era dominated by the Liverpool Lads (Robbie Brookside and Doc Dean), the Superflies (Ricky Knight and Jimmy Ocean) and Task Force 1 (Vic Powers and Steve Prince). Sadly the titles lost some credibility when the promotion seemingly lost interest in maintaining continuity around the various regular venues, causing confusion among fans who exchanged results.

In the 21st century, the fragmentation of the scene into many more smaller groups, along with a decline in the proportion of the crowd suspending disbelief (arguably a more important requirement for the emotions provoked by tag matches), mean there are fewer full-time tag teams.

Perhaps the best known on the 'new school' side was the New Breed, a pair of FWA grapplers roughly equivalent to ECW's Eliminators in their combination of innovative double-team offence and an inconsistent approach to traditional storytelling and psychology. Today there are at least 27 different teams holding championship gold around the country, but those working full-time schedules tend to concentrate on singles action.