| WCW World Television Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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 The WCW World Television Championship belt |
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| Promotion | World Championship Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | 1974 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date retired | April 10, 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The World Championship Wrestling (WCW) World Television Championship was a professional wrestling championship in World Championship Wrestling.
The title was created in 1974 by Mid-Atlantic Wrestling as a secondary title. It was known as the Mid-Atlantic TV Championship and then simply the NWA TV Championship a few years later. 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.
References
- ^ "NWA/WCW World Television Title". Wrestling-titles.com. http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-tv.html. Retrieved 2007-07-02.
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