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. The title was once unified with the PWF Mayhem Junior Heavyweight title.

Title history

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, Defeated Mike Bennett in a 12-man tournament final to become the first champion. , - , Joe Chece , 1 , April 15, 2005 , Framingham, Massachusetts , , - , Johnny Idol , 1 , September 17, 2005 , Framingham, Massachusetts , , - , Frankie Arion , 1 , March 18, 2006 , Framingham, Massachusetts , , - , T.J. Ritcher , 1 , August 19, 2006 ,

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, unifies the title with the PWF Mayhem Junior Heavyweight Championship to become NECW Undisuputed Television champion. , - , Kristian Frost , 1 , February 26, 2007 , Quincy, Massachusetts , Defeated T.J. Richter, Scott Reed, Kellan Thomas, and Triplelicious in a 5-way match. , - , Brandon Locke , 1 , June 6, 2007 ,

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, , - , Handsome Johnny , 1 , February 16, 2008 , Quincy, Massachusetts , Defeated Locke by disqualification in a match in which the title could change hands on a disqualification. Locke was caught by the referee with a spray can Johnny brought into the ring. , - , colspan=2, Title vacated , April 22, 2008 , , Title vacated due to injury. , - , Handsome Johnny , 2 , June 1, 2008 ,

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, Defeated Chase Del Monte in a tournament final. He retained the title on January 10, 2009, due to a double disqualification against

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, - , Brandon Locke , 2 , February 21, 2009 , Quincy, Massachusetts , , - , Ryan Matthews , 1 , April 18, 2009 , Quincy, Massachusetts , , - , Kris Pyro , 1 , August 8, 2009 , Quincy, Massachusetts , Record holder for longest single television title reign in NECW history (1 year, 1 month and 3 weeks) , - , colspan=2, Title vacated , , October 2, 2010 , Quincy, Massachusetts , Pyro gave the title to NECW General Manager

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with his tag team partner Davey Cash. , - , Ryan Bisbal , 1 , October 2, 2010 , Quincy, Massachusetts , Won by pinning Scott Levesque in the 1 fall final of a 12-man battle royal that also included Bobby V, Matt Magnum, Rocco Abruzzi, Ray Keijimura, Mr Mini-roe, Mr Munroe, Brandon Webb,

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, Triplelicious and Gino Giovanni. NECW briefly shut its doors in late 2010, and when they reopened 6 months later had gotten rid of the TV Championship. On March 22, 2013, upon returning to broadcast television, NECW announced plans to reactivate the title, but did not recognize Bisbal as the champion. Instead, a tournament for the title took place on May 3, 2013. , - , Johnny Thunder , 1 , May 3, 2013 ,

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, Won by pinning Justin Corino in the finals of a four-person tournament. Earlier in the night, Thunder defeated Scott Levesque and Corino defeated Nick Fahrenheit. The Corino/Fahrenheit and Levesque/Thunder matches aired on

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in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 16, 2013, and the final aired a week later on WMFP. , - , Mike McCarthy , 1 , December 7, 2013 ,

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, , - , Mike McCarthy , 2 , June 28, 2014 , Stockton, Massachusetts , , - , Todo Loco , 2 , September 6, 2014 ,

, , - , Beau Douglas , 1 , October 4, 2014 ,

, Defeated Mike McCarthy and Todo Loco in a 3-way match. , - , Title vacated , , January 10, 2015 ,

, Beau Douglas vacated title due to a back injury. , - , Scott Levesque , 1 , April 11, 2015 ,

, Defeated Todo Loco to win the title. , - , Todo Loco , 3 , September 12, 2015 ,

, Defeated Scott Levesque in a match in which Levesque's manager, Miss Sammi Lane, was handcuffed to one of the ringposts and her rival, Toxis, was handcuffed to another ringpost. , -

External links

NECW Television Championship History

NECW Television Championship
Television wrestling championships