The AEW World Trios Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship created and promoted by the

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promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It is a specialized tag team championship, being contested by teams of three wrestlers. Established on July 27, 2022, the inaugural champions were The Elite ( Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson)). The current champions are

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and The Lucha Brothers ( Penta El Zero M and Rey Fénix)), who are in their first reign, both as a team and individually.

History

On the July 27, 2022, special episode of ''

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'' titled Fight for the Fallen, All Elite Wrestling (AEW) announced a tournament for the inaugural AEW World Trios Championship, which would culminate at the All Out

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on September 4, 2022. Unlike the AEW World Tag Team Championship, which is a standard tag team title contested by teams of two wrestlers, the Trios Championship is contested by teams of three wrestlers. At All Out, The Elite ( Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson)) defeated

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and The Dark Order (Alex Reynolds and John Silver) in the tournament final to become the inaugural champions. Following berating comments made by AEW World Champion

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at the All Out post-event media scrum on September 5, a legitimate physical altercation occurred between Punk and The Elite. As a result, AEW president Tony Khan suspended all involved. On the September 7 episode of ''Dynamite'', Khan announced that both the World Championship and Trios Championship were vacated. Khan then announced that the episode's scheduled six-man tag team match between

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and The Lucha Brothers ( Penta El Zero M and Rey Fénix)) and

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( Chuck Taylor, Trent Beretta, and Orange Cassidy) would be for the vacant Trios Championship, which was won by Death Triangle.

Inaugural tournament

Reigns

As of , , there have been two reigns between six individual champions and one vacancy. The Elite (Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) were the inaugural champions. They also have the shortest reign at 3 days while Death Triangle's (Pac and The Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero M and Rey Fénix) ongoing reign is the longest at + days. Omega is the oldest champion at 38 while Fénix is the youngest at 31. The current champions are Death Triangle (Pac and The Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero M and Rey Fénix), who are in their first reign, both as a team and individually. They defeated Best Friends (Chuck Taylor, Trent Beretta, and Orange Cassidy) to win the vacant championship on the September 7, 2022, episode of ''Dynamite'' in Buffalo, New York.

Combined reigns

By team

By wrestler

Notes

References

External links

AEW World Trios Championship History
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