After then-WWWF World Heavyweight Champion Bruno Sammartino and his tag team partner Spiros Arion won the titles in 1967, the WWWF United States Tag Team Championship was abandoned and deactivated due to Sammartino being the world champion.

Following the title's introduction, Luke Graham and Tarzan Tyler became the inaugural champions on June 3.

The title was temporarily unified for the first time at SummerSlam when WCW Tag Team Champions Kane and The Undertaker defeated WWF Tag Team Champions Chris Kanyon and Diamond Dallas Page in a title-for-title steel cage match.

brand as the reigning champions at the time of the initial expansion, Billy and Chuck, were both drafted to SmackDown!

In July of that year, shortly after defeating Hollywood Hulk Hogan and Edge for the titles, the reigning champion team of Lance Storm and Christian (The Un-Americans) left SmackDown!

[8] On August 16, 2010, the World Tag Team Championship was decommissioned in favor of continuing the lineage of the WWE Tag Team Championship (which dropped the "unified" moniker) with Bret Hart presenting new championship belts to the final World Tag Team Champions, The Hart Dynasty (David Hart Smith and Tyson Kidd).

[12][13] The original WWWF World Tag Team Championship design is similar to the WWWF United States Tag Team Championship but with one side plate on each side and a more squared center piece plus different wording minus the words United States and having the words WWWF World replace and slightly taller and thicker leather and different in the middle gold and medal designings.

[14] The second WWWF World Tag Team Championship design is similar to the WWF Women's Tag Team Championships, but to represent difference the leather of the title is dark blue other than red and it has the word world at the top instead of the word lady.

The center plate is square shaped with a light blue world in the middle of it with gold outlining's in it with the word world that's red in the middle of it that also has gold outlining with the words tag team wrestling champions at the bottom of it in very fancy designing with the letter w representing WWE at the top with a red slanted lining at the bottom of it.

The side plates of the title are upward tall rectangular shaped with two men wrestling outlined in gold in the center also with the letter w representing WWE at the top with a red slanted lining at the bottom of it and the leather was black.

[14] The 2002 to 2010 design of the World Tag Team Championships were very similar to the 2002 design, but instead of the world background in the middle of the title being blue is red and the words tag team at the top and the word champions at the bottom to represent a more hardcore heavyweight historical difference.

[14] The inaugural champions were Crazy Luke Graham and Tarzan Tyler, who defeated Dick the Bruiser and The Sheik on June 3, 1971.