Other than the Tag Team Championships, none are competed for any differently. Same standard stipulations. So aside from name, how are they any different?
Every Promotion has a 'World Champion'... even a $5-a-ticket Indy running it's shows in a Bar with a 7 foot ceiling...
If you have the Roster and the touring schedule to warrant an Undercard Belt, it makes sense to define that 2nd title, either by a different style (X Division in TNA, 'Pure' in ROH) or by a region, smaller than 'the World' (Intercontinental, European in WWE, US in WCW, North America in AWA)...
The back story on the IC belt is that it was Created when Patterson 'Unified' the WWWF's North American Belt with a South American Championship that didn't exist, in a Tournament that Didn't happen...
Arguably with the IC Belt absorbing the European belt in the Lead up to the Invasion the Continents it represents now includes Europe in addition to North and South America
-- although seeing as All of the Male Singles belts from WWE and WCW were Unified into the WWE Belt after the buy out... No Belt outside of Brock's WWE WHC Belt really has the history it is alleged to have... and technically that Belt has all of their alleged pre-2002 history
Now it means nothing, back in the day if some guy broke it you were allowed to have a nervous breakdown.
That's just it, they're not. They were in the past, now they aren't.
in wwe it means nothing. in some cases it hurts your career to be us or ic champion.
