As mentioned at the top of this article, when I started watching WCW Steven Regal seemed to be the man who the Television Title scene was centred around. Regal would have four reigns with the title, coming in at fourth on the all-time longest reigning champions list with a combined 557 days. This also makes him the longest reigning champion of the WCW Television Championship era. His longest run with the Television Title was also his first, and was bookended by two legends of World Championship Wrestling, Ricky Steamboat and Larry Zbyszko. He won the title from Steamboat at WCW Fall Brawl in 1993, starting off a run of three consecutive Fall Brawls where the TV title changed hands. This 181 day run with the title was his third reign, starting with victory over Lex Luger and ending at the hands of that WCW legend, Prince Iaukea. In fact, I remember watching the episode of Nitro when Iaukea won the strap and being legitimately shocked at the title change. The Television Championship was synonymous with Regal for me, and interestingly enough represented the only championship gold the man from Blackpool via Codsall would win during his tenure with the company. As mentioned previously it did leave him as the longest reigning champion in the division (of the modern era), which isn't so bad. If only I could forget about Prince Iaukea...
Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.