WCW World Television Championship
The WCW World Television Championship belt
Details
Promotion	World Championship Wrestling
Date introduced	1974
Date retired	March 26, 2001
Other name(s)	NWA Mid-Atlantic Television Championship NWA Television Championship NWA World Television Championship[1]
Statistics Most reigns Booker T (6 reigns) First champion(s) Danny Miller Longest reign Steve Austin (329 days) Shortest reign Lex Luger, Chris Benoit and Booker T(1 day) Oldest champion Jim Duggan (46 years) Youngest champion Alex Wright (22 years) Heaviest champion Stevie Ray (289 lb (131 kg/20.6 st)) Lightest champion Ultimo Dragon (180 lb (82 kg/13 st))

The World Championship Wrestling (WCW) World Television Championship was one of the more unusual belts in the history of wrestling. As the championship (with rare exceptions) could only be defended (and won) on television^{citation needed}.

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

1. ^ "NWA/WCW World Television Title". Wrestling-titles.com. Retrieved on 2007-07-02.

See also

• List of WCW World Television Champions