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WCW World Television Championship
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| WCW World Television Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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 The WCW World Television Championship belt |
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| Promotion | World Championship Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date created | 1974 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date retired | April 10, 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The World Championship Wrestling (WCW) World Television Championship was one of the more unusual belts in the history of wrestling. Unlike most wrestling titles, this belt had to be defended by unique set of rules, as the championship (with rare exceptions) could only be defended (and won) on television.
The Title was created in 1974 by Mid-Atlantic Wrestling as a secondary title. It was known as the Mid-Atlantic TV Championship. As Mid-Atlantic (later known as Jim Crockett Promotions) grew, the Title became known as the NWA World TV Championship. And upon what was then WCW's withdrawal from the NWA, the title became known as the WCW World TV Championship until its final deactivation on April 10, 2000.
The title was often defended in matches with a time limit of ten or fifteen minutes. More often than with other championships, title matches resulted in time limit draws and the champion retaining the belt. This was often used as a heat-building device to allow a heel champion to retain his title by the skin of his teeth.
- The only wrestler to win both the WCW and ECW World Television Championships is Chris Jericho. He won the ECW TV title on June 22, 1996.
- ^ NWA/WCW World Television Title. Wrestling-titles.com. Retrieved on 2007-07-02.
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