The AEW All-Atlantic Championship is a

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created and promoted by the American

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(AEW). Unveiled on June 8, 2022, it is a secondary championship for male wrestlers, and the inaugural champion was Pac. The title was created to represent AEW's fans from around the world, with no particular focus on the

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or countries surrounding it. A unique aspect of the championship is that unlike AEW's other titles, which are almost exclusively defended on AEW programming, the All-Atlantic Championship is also defended in other promotions around the world. The current champion is

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, who is in his first reign.

History

On the June 8, 2022, episode of '' Dynamite'', the American

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(AEW) unveiled the AEW All-Atlantic Championship to be a secondary championship for the men's division. Despite its name seemingly centering on countries around the

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, the company announced that the championship "represents the AEW Fans watching around the world in over 130 countries". The inaugural champion was crowned in a

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which was held at the AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door

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event on June 26, which was co-produced with the Japanese promotion

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(NJPW). To determine the competitors in the four-way, six qualifying matches were held. Three of these featured wrestlers from AEW with the three winners advancing to the four-way match. The other three qualifying matches were held between four wrestlers from NJPW in a

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fashion. The winners of NJPW's preliminary qualifiers faced off and the winner of that match advanced to the four-way match at Forbidden Door. On the AEW side, Pac, Miro, and Malakai Black won their qualifiers; on the NJPW side,

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qualified but suffered a left knee injury and had to be replaced with the runner-up,

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. At Forbidden Door, Pac became the inaugural champion by submitting Connors. In an interview with Robbie Fox on the ''My Mom's Basement'' podcast, AEW president

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confirmed that the championship would be defended differently than the company's other titles. Khan said that holders of the All-Atlantic Championship would defend the title around the world in other promotions, in addition to AEW. This interview came shortly after Pac defended the title at a

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event, which was later shown on AEW's

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show, ''

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'', on July 12. Pac also defended the title at an

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event on July 22.

Inaugural tournament

Reigns

As of , , there have been two reigns between two champions. Pac was the inaugural champion and is also the longest reigning champion at 108 days. He is also the youngest champion when he won the title at 35, while

is the oldest at 38. Orange Cassidy is the current champion in his first reign. He defeated Pac on the October 12, 2022, episode of ''Dynamite'' in

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References

External link

AEW All-Atlantic Title History
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