6 Terrible Final Holders Of Wrestling Championships
4. WCW World Television Championship - Jim Duggan
In February 2000, a veteran star reëstablished a WCW division after trawling a trash can.
Sadly, this wasn't Kyoko Inoue or Manami Toyota restoring the short-lived Women's Heavyweight Championship, having found Madusa's discarded WWE belt in the garbage, but an over-the-mountain Jim Duggan, now supposedly working as a janitor, crowning himself Television Champion after fishing the belt out the bin during his rounds.
Just over three months earlier, Scott Hall hoyed a once reputable title - one which had been held with some esteem by the likes of Arn Anderson, Booker T and Tully Blanchard - into a rubbish pail during an impromptu game of basketball with big mate Kevin Nash (who had refused to take the belt off Hall's hands). This was the Russo-led WCW era, where nothing told fans to stick around quite like literally throwing the promotion's history in the trash. Nothing matters! Don't change channel!
That said, they'd have to if they were to ever see the TV title again. Appropriately, given it was originally founded to encourage weekly viewership of the programme, it was on WCW's since entirely surplanted c-show Saturday Night that Duggan restored the belt, vowing to be a fighting champion much as was intended. He put the strap on the line against a handful of opponents - including a 9000 year old Robert Gibson - before it was culled as part of Eric Bischoff's WCW reboot.
WCW cared so little about the Television Championship that they didn't even ask for the belt back; Duggan later sold it on eBay, after once again finding it thrown away, this time at the back of his closet.