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| ECW Television Championship |
The final ECW Television Championship title belt design. |
| Details |
| Promotion |
Extreme Championship Wrestling |
| Date established |
August 12, 1992 |
| Date retired |
April 11, 2001 |
| Other name(s) |
- Eastern Championship Wrestling Television Championship
- Extreme Championship Wrestling World Television Championship
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The ECW World Television Championship was a professional wrestling television championship in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). It was the secondary title of ECW and currently remains inactive.
Originally, ECW was a subsidiary of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), a promotion that had numerous subsidiaries. The championship was created for ECW by the NWA, the owner of the copyrights to the title and the overseer of its operation, in 1992. ECW withdrew as a subsidiary in 1994 and gained ownership of the copyrights to its championships.[1] The championship remained active until April 2001, when ECW filed for bankruptcy. All of ECW's assets were later purchased by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in mid-2003, including the copyrights to ECW's championships.[2] In May 2006, WWE extended its promotion by adding ECW as a third additional brand, the others being Raw and SmackDown, in a brand extension.[3] The ECW World Heavyweight Championship was the only former ECW title to be recommissioned by WWE for the new brand.[4] While this championship remains decommissioned, its records are under the name ECW Television Championship on the official WWE website.[5]
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