10 Championships in WWE you may not know existed

These championships are gone and forgotten
These championships are gone and forgotten

#6 WWE United States Tag Team Championship

Yikes!
Yikes!

Although this belt faded deeply into vagueness, it still holds a great piece of history in professional wrestling. What's so special about this old and ugly little thing you ask? I'm glad you did because the answer will surprise you.

Before there was the WWE World Heavyweight Championship or WWE the Intercontinental Championship, there was the WWWF United States Tag Team Championship.

When this title was created, Vince McMahon Sr. was still running WWE as a member of the National Wrestling Alliance under the name Capitol Wrestling Corporation. The title was also the initial version of the main tag team championship in the WWWF from 1963 until 1967.

It was retired after Bruno Sammartino and his tag team partner Spiros Arion captured it. Because Bruno was also the reigning WWWF Champion, he couldn't defend both titles, so the US Tag Team Championship was deactivated.

See, told you it was special. Now that you've become a wrestling guru, go surprise all your friends and family!


#5 WWE North American Heavyweight Championship

WWF North American Heavyweight Championship
WWF North American Heavyweight Championship

If you've ever wondered how the Intercontinental Championship got its name or what it represented, its predecessor, the WWF North American Heavyweight Championship, can shed some light on that.

The short-lived championship was introduced by WWE in 1978 and awarded to "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase after he signed with the WWWF. The final champion was Seiji Sakaguchi, who held the title for 532 consecutive days.

According to WWE, Pat Patterson "won a tournament" for the South American Heavyweight Championship in Brazil and unified it with the North American Heavyweight Championship to form the Intercontinental Championship.

In March 2018, the company introduced the NXT North American Championship for their weekly Wednesday night show though it does not carry the lineage of the original North American Championship.

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Edited by Kaushik Das
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