ROH World Television Championship

Inaugural-champion Eddie Edward

The tournament was scheduled to span over a two-day weekend, starting on February 5 and ending on February 6 at events recorded for later broadcast on Ring of Honor Wrestling.[6] However, due to severe weather conditions in the Philadelphia area, the second day of taping was canceled.[10] It was not until almost a month later, on March 5, that ROH held the second recorded event, which closed out the tournament.[11] The first four seeds of eight in the tournament were announced on January 22, 2010: Rhett Titus (8), El Generico (7), Eddie Edwards (6), and Delirious (5).[12] The other four seeds were announced on January 26, 2010: Kevin Steen (1), Kenny King (2), Colt Cabana (3), and Davey Richards (4).[13] The first round was determined at the first event on February 5, with Steen, King, Richards, and Edwards all advancing to round two.[14] On March 5, Edwards and Richards both advanced to the finals, where Edwards defeat Richards to be crowned the first ROH World Television Champion.[2][11] The matches were scheduled to span over six episodes of Ring of Honor Wrestling.[1] The first match from round one that aired pitted Steen against Titus, which Steen won, on the March 8 episode.[15] On the same episode, King versus El Generico was featured, with King advancing.[15] Cabana versus Edwards was the third match from round one to air, when it was broadcast on the March 15 episode.[16] Richards defeated Delirious in the final match from round one, which aired later in the same episode.[16] The first match from round two, Steen versus Edwards, was featured on the April 12 episode, in which Edwards advanced to the finals.[17] On the April 19 episode, Richards defeated King to advance to the finals.[18] On the April 26 episode, Edwards defeated Richards in the finals of the tournament to become the first ROH World Television Champion.[3]

Tournament Bracket

The championship belt was introduced on March 5, 2010, when it was given to the newly crowned inaugural champion Eddie Edwards.[2] The physical championship belt was designed All Star Championship Belts d/b/a ASCB, LLC. The title's base is a black leather strap that is covered with four small silver plates. The center of the title has one large silver plate. All plates have an inner blue covering. The two small outer plates have a caricature of the earth and a satellite in orbit. The middle plates have figures resembling a cameraman filming a television production. Underneath each figure, lies the ROH logo and the words "Ring of Honor Wrestling". The central plate has the engravings of the ROH logo as well as the statement "World Television Wrestling Champion" hovering above the backdrop of a city, with a television lying on top of a globe with an overhead shot of a wrestling ring between them in front of the skyline.[N 2] The design was changed again in November 2012 to its current design during the reign of Adam Cole, the new design seemed to be based on the WCW World Six-Man Tag Team Championship.[19] During Jay Lethal's record-setting reign, the belt design was modified to emphasize the "ROH Champion" portion of the title, with Lethal claiming the championship was more prestigious than the ROH World Championship because he was the champion.

On January 1, 2018, ROH announced on their YouTube page that their World Tag, Six Man World Tag Team, and World Television Championships will receive new designs which will debut at the next set of television tapings.