10 Championships in WWE you may not know existed

#4 WWE International Tag Team Championship

Inaugural WWF International Tag Team Champions Toru Tanaka and Mitsu Arakawa

This championship was held by notable wrestlers such as Bruno Sammartino, Toru Tanaka, and Mitsu Arakawa. The title was established in 1969 and the inaugural champions were The Rising Suns (pictured above) who won a kayfabe tournament to become the first champions.

In 1972, the championship was sold to the defunct National Wrestling Federation promotion and in 1985 it resurrected in NJPW. After WWE ended their partnership with the Japanese promotion, the International Tag Team Championship was once again deserted.

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#3 WWE Intercontinental Tag Team Championship

Perro Aguayo & Japanese mainstay Gran Hamada

Woah, WWE really had a lot of tag titles in those days. Couldn't they just stick to one instead or retiring and creating new ones? Anyway, the final Tag Team Championship we're going to look at today is a title you've most likely never heard of, just like every other belt in this feature, the Intercontinental Tag Team Championship.

We already talked about how the IC Title got its name, so is it similar to the IC Tag Titles? Did a tag team also win a fictitious tournament in South America to unify two championships? The answer is no.

The WWF Intercontinental Tag Team Championship was never even defended in the United States. In fact, it was only held by one tag team -- ever. The title was created due to WWE's association with another Japanese promotion, Universal Wrestling Federation.

The first and last IC Tag Team Champions were Perro Aguayo and Gran Hamada. After WWE severed all ties with UWF, the title was deactivated in July 1991, the same year it was created. Talk about obscurity.