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Originally Posted by Mr. Nerfect
Always baffling to me that they chose to keep the SmackDown WWE Tag Team Championship lineage alive when they unified the belts in 2009.
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Think the idea was them wanting to break off from the older eras and establish the newer belts from the brand split era as the de facto titles going forward. That also meant ignoring all the old history attached to the belts with the exception of the IC and WWE belt.
Its also why the current RAW tag belts only trace back to 2002 since that was the original Smackdown tag belts when it became the de facto WWE tag belt prior to the 2nd brand split era.