10 Awful Championships WWE Doesn't Want You To Remember
5. Women's Tag Team Championship
When WWE introduced the Women's Tag Team Championships in 2019, it was really the reintroduction of an old set of belts.
Sure, this new pair of titles have a brand new lineage, but when Princess Victoria and Velvet McIntyre decided to jump ship from the National Wrestling Alliance to WWE in 1983, Vince McMahon saw the chance to bring the NWA World Women's Tag Team Championships over to his brand.
Like most of women's wrestling in the 1980's, The Fabulous Moolah owned the rights to the belts. Along with her own Women's World Championship, she signed them over to WWE and a new division was born... except it didn't go as planned.
Despite the promise of a new set of belts to challenge for, there just wasn't enough women on the roster to warrant the existence of tag team gold. Princess Victoria and Velvet McIntyre held the straps for 574 days until Victoria suffered a devastating injury and had to retire. With no real challengers in sight, she was replaced by Desiree Petersen, with McIntyre adding an extra 237 onto her previous reign. The belts did get a showing on pay-per-view; The Jumping Bomb Angels won them from the The Glamour Girls at Royal Rumble 1988.
After The Glamour Girls won them back six months later, the belts were quietly retired. 35 years later WWE still doesn't know how to book tag team titles for women...
The only asterix attached to these belts as that they once changed hands in Cairo, Egypt; a true collector's item of a title win.