The AWA International Television Championship was a short-lived title in the American Wrestling Association

American Wrestling Association

The American Wrestling Association was an American professional wrestling promotion based in Minneapolis, Minnesota that ran from 1960 to 1991. It was owned and founded by Verne Gagne and Wally Karbo...

 from 1987 to 1989. It was filled with a several months long tournament and was defended on their television broadcast on ESPN

ESPN

Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....

.

As explained by Larry Nelson on the AWA Championship Wrestling show on ESPN, the first two wrestlers in the tournament to reach 50 points (with 5 points being awarded or deducted for a pinfall or submission victory or loss, and 2.5 points being awarded or deducted for a countout or disqualification victory or loss) faced off in the finals to determine the first champion.

Title history

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|Greg Gagne

Greg Gagne (wrestler)

Gregory Alan "Greg" Gagne is a former professional wrestler and the son of Verne Gagne. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he achieved his biggest success as one half of the tag team The High Flyers with Jim Brunzell...

|1
|December 27, 1987
|Las Vegas, NV (AWA Championship Wrestling

AWA Championship Wrestling

AWA Championship Wrestling aired on cable sports network ESPN from 1985 to 1990. It was a continuation of the earlier ESPN program Pro Wrestling USA, the co-operative venture between the American Wrestling Association and several National Wrestling Alliance affiliates...

)
|Defeats Adrian Adonis

Adrian Adonis

Keith A. Franke was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, "Adorable" Adrian Adonis.-Career:Franke trained under Fred Atkins and debuted in 1974, wrestling under his own name...

 via disqualification.
|-
|Ron Garvin

Ron Garvin

Ron Garvin is a Canadian former professional wrestler and referee most known for his time in the National Wrestling Alliance.-Early career:...

|1
|September 17, 1988
|Nashville, TN (AWA Championship Wrestling

AWA Championship Wrestling

AWA Championship Wrestling aired on cable sports network ESPN from 1985 to 1990. It was a continuation of the earlier ESPN program Pro Wrestling USA, the co-operative venture between the American Wrestling Association and several National Wrestling Alliance affiliates...

)
|Title later held up by AWA President Stanley Blackburn after deciding Garvin won under controversial circumstances.
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|Greg Gagne
|2
|December 13, 1988
|Chicago, IL (SuperClash III)
|Match for the vacant title. Wins via countout. Garvin had left for the World Wrestling Federation

World Wrestling Entertainment

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. is an American publicly traded, privately controlled entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue sources also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales...

 and would not job

Job (professional wrestling)

In professional wrestling slang, the term job describes a losing performance in a wrestling match. It is derived from the euphemism "doing one's job", which was employed to protect kayfabe. As professional wrestling is scripted, inevitably a wrestler will be required to lose to an opponent.The term...

for Gagne.
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|Title Retired
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|October 1989
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|Gagne retired from in-ring competition.
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