In 1986 WCCW withdrew from the NWA and became known as the World Class Wrestling Association.
As it is a professional wrestling championship, it is won not by actual competition, but by a scripted ending to a match.
[a] The first NWA Television Champion was The Spoiler, who won a battle royal on January 7, 1979, to claim the championship.
[2][3] Kevin Von Erich was awarded the championship due to a disqualification, but refused to win the championship in such manner and immediately vacated it, putting his reign at only a couple of minutes, the shortest of any champion.
[2][3] After the final champion, Tony Atlas, left the company, the Championship was abandoned in April 1987.