I just had a thought. What if TNA is scrapping the X-Division belt to allow the TV Title to be the secondary title instead of having 3 major singles belts? Think about it. TNA (up till about 2 years ago) ran things very much like ROH runs their promotion, and ROH scrapped the Pure title to allow for the TV title to become the secondary belt.
Don't get me wrong: I'd rather see the TV title get scrapped, but it seems that the TV title will incorporate the X-division and the other talent who're peeking at the ME scene but aren't quite ready yet. It would definitely force management to shore up the roster and get rid of the dead weight. As others have said, I gotta see it to believe it.
Well, not quite. The Pure Title was not really a secondary belt, but a speciality belt. A close cousin to the Pure Title would be the Hardcore Championship from back in the Attitude Era, because that belt could only be defended in matches that had special rules. Now, while there is similarity, there is also distinction, as the rules for "Hardcore" matches and "Pure" matches were naturally quite different, and the Pure Title carried much more prestige than the Hardcore Championship did in its day.
While the X Division Title is basically TNA's Junior Heavyweight Title, I would hesitate to call it a speciality title because it has been held both by a man outside the weight class (Samoa Joe) and men who have also captured or challenged for the heavyweight title (Joe, AJ, Daniels, Angle), meaning that these two TNA singles belts are not mutually exclusive. Also, the X Division Title has been held by men who do not actually wrestle an "X-Division Style" (Shiek Abdul Bashir, Doug Williams, etc.) meaning that the title is not contested under special circumstances like the Pure or Hardcore titles. I find these distinctions important.
Also, it's important to remember that the Pure Title wasn't actually scrapped. It was unified with the ROH World Heavyweight Title. Technically the belt still exists, but unlike in puroesu tradition, the champion does not carry both belts simply because they have been unified, instead carrying only the ROH World Heavyweight Title, the title whose holder was triumphant in the unification match. A technicality to be sure, but an important one in my opinion.
Also, nearly four years separated the unification of the Pure Title and the introduction of the TV Title. In that time, a third championship, the FIP Heavyweight Championship, was used as a surrogate secondary belt. The difference here was that FIP, Full-Impact Pro, was in itself a standalone promotion whose champion also defended the belt sometimes at Ring of Honor shows because the two promotions had a working agreement (and the same booker). In fact, the Ring of Honor World Heavyweight Championship was used in kind as FIP's surrogate secondary belt. Yet another important distinction I would like to make here is that the FIP Heavyweight Championship was not scrapped either. It stopped being defended on Ring of Honor shows when the working agreement between the two promotions stopped, but it still very much exists.
The real point I'm getting at here is that Ring of Honor's titles were and are steeped in rationality and governed by the rules of professional wrestling that were scribed sixty or so years ago. (I'm sure if Cornette were here he'd break into a testimonial about how Toots Mondt first organized the procedure to be followed during a title unification back in 1939. But I don't quite have his knowledge base.) They are always treated with respect and the men who wear them are elevated for doing so. When a title is defended in Ring of Honor, it means something.
The TNA Television Title is a worthless hunk of metal. It's had two name changes in as many years (from the Legends Title to the Global Title to the Television Title). It began when Booker T bought a belt and cut a promo declaring himself champion (without even defeating a single wrestler to earn the distinction of champion). Since then, it's had no particular focus or direction. The meaning of the title literally changes EVERY time the belt changes hands. Now that Abyss has it it's likely to become some sort of Hardcore title. Why? Because that's what in the script. If it's in the script to change what a belt does, change the belt. If it's in the script to have a sort of different belt, change the name of the belt. If the belt ain't in the script, just scrap the belt and pretend like it never happened. And that's TNA for ya. But that, I would argue, is much different than absolutely everything that ROH does.
