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Post by LiamMcDuggle on Apr 15, 2024 21:48:56 GMT -5
-Founded on Smackdown by Stephanie McMahon. They were initially called the "WWE Tag Team Titles" and were used so SmackDown had a counter to Raw's World Tag Team Titles
-The OG Design was specifically created to be an evolved version of the WWF Tag Title, but were rushed to TV and used on SmackDown. This was partially caused by the WWF having to change its name to WWE and VKM just not caring about lineage
-Title was unified with the RAW exclusive World Tag Team championship
-VKM not caring about lineage decided to carry on with the history of these titles, despite the OG's being 40+ years. Titles were then known as the "WWE World Tag Titles"
-Penny belt was born (RIP)
-After Shane introduced SmackDown's tag titles, the WWE World Tag Titles were rebranded as the RAW tag titles, even though they were created to initially be a SmackDown exclusive belt
-Titles were unified and (mostly) defended as the "WWE Unified Tag Championship" to fit in the Bloodline storyline
- Titles were un-unified when Truth and Miz won
-RAW Tag Titles rebranded the "World Tag Championship", taking the name of the titles they replaced.
There have been a lot of confusing title histories in wrestling, but this has to be up there.
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Post by ChitownKnight on Apr 15, 2024 21:55:50 GMT -5
I don’t understand why they ended the lineage of the belt that went back 40 years and kept the ones with Benoit as the first champ
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Post by Jonathan Michaels on Apr 15, 2024 22:11:41 GMT -5
-Founded on Smackdown by Stephanie McMahon. They were initially called the "WWE Tag Team Titles" and were used so SmackDown had a counter to Raw's World Tag Team Titles -The OG Design was specifically created to be an evolved version of the WWF Tag Title, but were rushed to TV and used on SmackDown. This was partially caused by the WWF having to change its name to WWE and VKM just not caring about lineage -Title was unified with the RAW exclusive World Tag Team championship -VKM not caring about lineage decided to carry on with the history of these titles, despite the OG's being 40+ years. Titles were then known as the "WWE World Tag Titles" -Penny belt was born (RIP) -After Shane introduced SmackDown's tag titles, the WWE World Tag Titles were rebranded as the RAW tag titles, even though they were created to initially be a SmackDown exclusive belt -Titles were unified and (mostly) defended as the "WWE Unified Tag Championship" to fit in the Bloodline storyline - Titles were un-unified when Truth and Miz won -RAW Tag Titles rebranded the "World Tag Championship", taking the name of the titles they replaced. There have been a lot of confusing title histories in wrestling, but this has to be up there. Let’s not forget that when the Colons beat Miz and Morrison at Mania 25, they “unified” the two tag belts but for over a year they were still considered seperate titles until after Hart Dynasty won them from ShoMiz, then the “unified” was dropped and the old belts were discontinued. The two sets of belts being considered separately active for that time resulted in The Miz technically being the only person in WWE history to hold three seperate belts at the same time, when he won the US title to go with both tag belts. |
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Post by LiamMcDuggle on Apr 15, 2024 22:16:02 GMT -5
-Founded on Smackdown by Stephanie McMahon. They were initially called the "WWE Tag Team Titles" and were used so SmackDown had a counter to Raw's World Tag Team Titles -The OG Design was specifically created to be an evolved version of the WWF Tag Title, but were rushed to TV and used on SmackDown. This was partially caused by the WWF having to change its name to WWE and VKM just not caring about lineage -Title was unified with the RAW exclusive World Tag Team championship -VKM not caring about lineage decided to carry on with the history of these titles, despite the OG's being 40+ years. Titles were then known as the "WWE World Tag Titles" -Penny belt was born (RIP) -After Shane introduced SmackDown's tag titles, the WWE World Tag Titles were rebranded as the RAW tag titles, even though they were created to initially be a SmackDown exclusive belt -Titles were unified and (mostly) defended as the "WWE Unified Tag Championship" to fit in the Bloodline storyline - Titles were un-unified when Truth and Miz won -RAW Tag Titles rebranded the "World Tag Championship", taking the name of the titles they replaced. There have been a lot of confusing title histories in wrestling, but this has to be up there. Let’s not forget that when the Colons beat Miz and Morrison at Mania 25, they “unified” the two tag belts but for over a year they were still considered seperate titles until after Hart Dynasty won them from ShoMiz, then the “unified” was dropped and the old belts were discontinued. The two sets of belts being considered separately active for that time resulted in The Miz technically being the only person in WWE history to hold three seperate belts at the same time, when he won the US title to go with both tag belts. This is also the reason why Cody is technically a double world champion right now. Honestly, they should have someone go back and cleanup all this mess. |
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on Apr 15, 2024 22:18:17 GMT -5
I don’t understand why they ended the lineage of the belt that went back 40 years and kept the ones with Benoit as the first champ At some point, Vince lost the plot and just started making nonsensical choices while refusing to put any attention or care into anything beyond his initial reaction to anything. |
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Apr 15, 2024 22:19:39 GMT -5
What Raw did I miss?
So much head spinning right now....
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on Apr 15, 2024 22:22:27 GMT -5
What Raw did I miss? So much head spinning right now.... New tag belts. They look great in photos, okay on TV. |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Apr 16, 2024 2:26:39 GMT -5
Didn't the belts swap brands one more time than that? Like the tag champions changed shows so they swapped championships too or some shit?
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Post by Andee9001 on Apr 16, 2024 2:43:08 GMT -5
Didn't the belts swap brands one more time than that? Like the tag champions changed shows so they swapped championships too or some shit? New Day and The Street Profits were champs of each show and traded the titles in a backstage segment. Went better than the Womens titles trade with Becky and Charlotte. |
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Post by tirtefaa on Apr 16, 2024 4:39:04 GMT -5
I don’t understand why they ended the lineage of the belt that went back 40 years and kept the ones with Benoit as the first champ Wouldn't be surprised if the idea at the time was to erase the legacy of Demolition since it was probably unfathomable to think anyone would break their records. |
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Post by Lance Uppercut on Apr 16, 2024 4:46:41 GMT -5
What really pissed me off about those titles is that during that original brand split,
The original wwf tag titles became the world tag titles to match the world championship. And the new tag title became the wwe tag champions to the match the original wwf title. They didn’t match, and it’s really annoyed me.
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Post by papagiorgio on Apr 16, 2024 5:21:37 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind if they brought back the lineage for the original tag titles somehow. It is still a shame what happened to them.
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Post by booman on Apr 16, 2024 9:15:28 GMT -5
On a lighter note, was it just or was R Truth not gonna stop till his made Hunter break last night?
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Post by cosmo on Apr 16, 2024 9:25:38 GMT -5
Long story short…
Pro wrestling is f***ing weird.
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Post by Instant Classic on Apr 16, 2024 12:55:32 GMT -5
So are the SD tag belts now known as the WWE tag titles gonna look similar to the wwe men and women title since the new raw tag belts look like the WHC?
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Post by The Legendary Ring Troll {BLM} on Apr 16, 2024 15:49:27 GMT -5
So are the SD tag belts now known as the WWE tag titles gonna look similar to the wwe men and women title since the new raw tag belts look like the WHC? Let’s hope for a top to bottom redesign on the massive belt buckle titles. WWE Undisputed, SmackDown Women’s and SmackDown Tag Team Titles with a new, similar in style but not exact, World title design. And I say that as someone who thinks the current gold Undisputed title really is beautiful. |
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Post by Ozman on Apr 16, 2024 18:56:09 GMT -5
So are the SD tag belts now known as the WWE tag titles gonna look similar to the wwe men and women title since the new raw tag belts look like the WHC? Maybe they’ll have a similar design as the WWE Women’s Tag Team titles, but with black straps instead of white straps. |
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Post by mountaindew on Apr 16, 2024 21:24:11 GMT -5
That's a pretty complicated history, even without mentioning how when tag team champions got drafted to opposite brands, they just traded the titles and renamed them.
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Post by RadcapRadsley on Apr 17, 2024 0:55:45 GMT -5
Amazingly the only belt in the WWE without confusing lineage history is the Intercontinental Title,however the footage of the 1st champiopnship match( Paterson's tournament final win over Johnny Rodz) got destroyed in a storage mixup decades back and is considered lost media.
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Post by cjh on Apr 17, 2024 7:24:11 GMT -5
Amazingly the only belt in the WWE without confusing lineage history is the Intercontinental Title,however the footage of the 1st champiopnship match( Paterson's tournament final win over Johnny Rodz) got destroyed in a storage mixup decades back and is considered lost media. JR would make jokes on air about Patterson's IC Title "win," like saying "wink, wink" after Howard Finkel claimed that Patterson won it in a tournament in Rio de Janeiro. |
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