NWA National Television Championship

The NWA National Television Championship was a secondary singles championship in the National Wrestling Alliance

National Wrestling Alliance

The National Wrestling Alliance is a wrestling promotion company and sanctions various NWA championships in the United States. The NWA has been in operation since 1948...

's Georgia Championship Wrestling

Georgia Championship Wrestling

Georgia Championship Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion whose self-titled TV program aired in the 1970s and 1980s on Atlanta, U.S., superstation WTBS. Though based in Atlanta, the company also ran live wrestling shows throughout its geographic "territory" of Georgia Georgia...

territory. It started as the NWA Georgia Television Championship. It was later renamed the National TV Championship. From 1983 to 1985, it was renamed the NWA World Television Championship, but when Jim Crockett Promotions

Jim Crockett Promotions

Jim Crockett Promotions was a professional wrestling promotion owned by Jim Crockett, Jr. until the late 1980s. It was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance and was the forerunner to World Championship Wrestling .-Early history:...

purchased the promotion from 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...

, the Georgia version of the NWA World Television Championship was reduced back to the NWA National Television Championship. In early April 1985, the championship was abandoned. On March 16, 1985, Dusty Rhodes

Dusty Rhodes (wrestler)

Virgil Riley Runnels, Jr. , better known as "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, is a semi-retired American professional wrestler currently working for WWE...

defeated NWA Television Champion Tully Blanchard

Tully Blanchard

Tully Arthur Blanchard is a semi-retired second generation American professional wrestler. He is best known as an original member of the Four Horsemen....

to become the first NWA World Television Champion.

Title history

Wrestler:	Times:	Date:	Location:	Notes:
NWA Georgia Television Championship
Terry Taylor Terry Taylor Terry Taylor , is an American retired professional wrestler best known for his time in the National Wrestling Alliance, World Championship Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Federation...	1	August 22, 1980	Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
Terry Funk Terry Funk Terrence "Terry" Funk is an American professional wrestler and actor known chiefly for the hardcore wrestling style he adopted in the latter part of his career that inspired many younger wrestlers, including Mick Foley...	1	October 1980
Steve Keirn Steve Keirn Stephen "Steve" Paul Keirn is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for being part of the tag team The Fabulous Ones, with Stan Lane, and later for a run in the World Wrestling Federation as Skinner, a gimmick that portrayed him as a tobacco spitting alligator hunter from...	1	November 1980
Kevin Sullivan Kevin Sullivan (wrestler) Kevin Francis Sullivan is an American professional wrestler and booker, perhaps best known for his role in WCW as "The Taskmaster" and his leading of the "Dungeon of Doom".-Early career:...	1	November 29, 1980	Atlanta, Georgia
Steve Olsonoski Steve Olsonoski Steve Olsonoski is a retired American professional wrestler from Minnesota.Steve Olsonoski, purportedly from Edina, Minnesota, began his wrestling career in the late 1970s in the American Wrestling Association. He won the AWA Rookie of the Year Award in his first year and was often described as...	1	January 16, 1981	Atlanta, Georgia
Bobby Eaton Bobby Eaton Robert Lee "Bobby" Eaton is an American semi-retired professional wrestler, who made his debut in 1976. Eaton is most famous for his work in tag teams, especially his days as one-half of the team the Midnight Express. Under the management of Jim Cornette, Eaton originally teamed with Dennis...	1	January 22, 1981	Atlanta, Georgia
Steve Olsonoski	2	January 23, 1981
Kevin Sullivan	2	February 21, 1981	Atlanta, Georgia
Steve Keirn	2	March 1, 1981
Title vacated				Title became inactive.
NWA National Television Championship
Iron Sheik	1	May 28, 1983	Atlanta, Georgia	Defeated Ron Garvin by disqualification in a tournament final to win the reactivated and renamed title.
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	July 17, 1983	Atlanta, Georgia
Jake Roberts Jake Roberts Aurelian Jake Smith, Jr. is a second-generation American professional wrestler, the son of former wrestler Aurelian "Grizzly" Smith...	1	November 6, 1983	Atlanta, Georgia	Title recognized as the NWA World Television Championship after March 1984.
NWA World Television Championship
Ron Garvin	2	April 7, 1984	Baltimore, Maryland
Jake Roberts	2	June 17, 1984	Atlanta, Georgia
Title vacated		June 17, 1984	Atlanta, Georgia	Title held up immediately because Roberts used a foreign object.
Ron Garvin	3	July 1, 1984	Atlanta, Georgia
Bob Roop Bob Roop Bob Roop is a retired amateur and professional wrestler whose career has spanned high school, college, Army, amateur and professional wrestling. He was an American Heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler at the 1968 Summer Olympics.-Amateur career:...	1	September 1984
Ron Garvin	4	December 28, 1984	Saginaw, Michigan Saginaw, Michigan Saginaw is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Saginaw County. The city of Saginaw was once a thriving lumber town and manufacturing center. Saginaw and Saginaw County lie in the Flint/Tri-Cities region of Michigan...
Bob Roop	2	January 1985		In March 1985, World recognition is dropped by the NWA and the title reverts to the National title when Jim Crockett Promotions Jim Crockett Promotions Jim Crockett Promotions was a professional wrestling promotion owned by Jim Crockett, Jr. until the late 1980s. It was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance and was the forerunner to World Championship Wrestling .-Early history:... purchases Georgia Championship Wrestling Georgia Championship Wrestling Georgia Championship Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion whose self-titled TV program aired in the 1970s and 1980s on Atlanta, U.S., superstation WTBS. Though based in Atlanta, the company also ran live wrestling shows throughout its geographic "territory" of Georgia Georgia... and recognizes its Television title the World title.
NWA National Television Championship
Ron Garvin	5	April 14, 1985	Atlanta, Georgia
Title abandoned		April 1985

Title history

See also