10 Strangest Ways To Win A Wrestling Championship

6. Finding It In A Dumpster (WCW World Television Championship)

Britt Baker DMD
WWE

WCW flatlined in 2000.

They flatlined the minute Hulk Hogan prodded Kevin Nash in the chest a whole year earlier, truth be told, but by 2000, World Championship Wrestling was internally infected. 2000, mind, was the infamous year in which all WCW championships were vacated amid a mind-numbingly dumb company reboot, in which the infamous Bash at the Beach incident played out in front of a bemused Dayton Beach audience, and in which David Arquette won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.

It was also the year in which the WCW World Television Championship died.

A company staple since before WCW began operations, the TV Title was retired when Eric Bischoff and Vince Russo conducted the aforementioned reboot. The champion at the time was Jim Duggan, but was he really a champion as such? He didn't defeat anyone for the belt and all defences were made on the tertiary WCW Saturday Night program, so if you weren't aware of his title 'victory', you would be forgiven.

Inverted commas are necessary when discussing Duggan's winning of the Television Championship. He didn't win it: he found it.

In a dumpster.

Three months after it had been dumped.

In a different state.

LolWCW indeed.

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