AEW All-Atlantic Championship

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AEW All-Atlantic Championship
AEW All-Atlantic Championship belt 2022.jpeg
The AEW All-Atlantic Championship belt
Details
Promotion All Elite Wrestling
Date establishedJune 8, 2022
Current champion(s) Orange Cassidy
Date wonOctober 12, 2022
Statistics
First champion(s) Pac
Most reignsAll titleholders (1)
Longest reign Orange Cassidy
(111+ days)
Oldest champion Orange Cassidy (38 years, 161 days)
Youngest champion Pac (35 years, 308 days)
Heaviest champion Pac
(194 lb (88 kg))
Lightest champion Orange Cassidy
(161 lb (73 kg))

The AEW All-Atlantic Championship is a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (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 Atlantic Ocean 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 Orange Cassidy, who is in his first reign.

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History

Inaugural champion Pac Pac, June 2022.jpg
Inaugural champion Pac

On the June 8, 2022, episode of Dynamite , the American professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (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 Atlantic, 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 four-way match which was held at the AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door pay-per-view event on June 26, which was co-produced with the Japanese promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (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. [1] The other three qualifying matches were held between four wrestlers from NJPW in a single-elimination tournament 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. [2] [3] On the AEW side, Pac, [4] Miro, [5] and Malakai Black [6] won their qualifiers; on the NJPW side, Tomohiro Ishii qualified but suffered a left knee injury and had to be replaced with the runner-up, Clark Connors. [7] At Forbidden Door, Pac became the inaugural champion by submitting Connors. [8]

In an interview with Robbie Fox on the My Mom's Basement podcast, AEW president Tony Khan 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 Revolution Pro Wrestling event, which was later shown on AEW's YouTube show, Dark , on July 12. [9] Pac also defended the title at an Over the Top Wrestling event on July 22. [10]

Inaugural tournament

Preliminary Qualifiers
New Japan Road
(June 20, 2022)		Qualifiers
Dynamite
(June 8, 15, and 22, 2022)
New Japan Road
(June 21, 2022)		Final
Forbidden Door
(June 26, 2022)
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Buddy Matthews 10:32 [4]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Pac Pin
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Ethan Page 9:25 [5]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Pac Sub
Flag of Bulgaria.svg Miro Sub
Flag of Bulgaria.svg Miro 15:05 [8]
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Malakai Black 15:05 [8]
Flag of Mexico.svg Penta Oscuro 9:49 [6]
Flag of the United States.svg Clark Connors [lower-alpha 1] 15:05 [8]
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Malakai Black Pin
Flag of Japan.svg Tomoaki Honma 11:29 [11]
Flag of the United States.svg Clark Connors Pin
Flag of the United States.svg Clark Connors 13:21 [12]
Flag of Japan.svg Tomohiro Ishii Pin
Flag of Japan.svg Tomohiro Ishii Pin
Flag of Japan.svg Yoshinobu Kanemaru 19:01 [11]
  1. ↑ Connors replaced Ishii who was not medically cleared. [7]

Reigns

Current champion Orange Cassidy Orange Cassidy, June 2022.jpg
Current champion Orange Cassidy

As of January31, 2023, there have been two reigns between two champions. Pac was the inaugural champion, and also the youngest champion when he won the title at 35, while Orange Cassidy is the oldest at 38.

Orange Cassidy is the current and longest reigning champion in his first reign. He defeated Pac on the October 12, 2022, episode of Dynamite in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. On January 18, 2023, Cassidy made his 10th title defense with a victory over Jay Lethal, becoming the male singles champion with the most title defenses. The previous record was held by Darby Allin, who defended the TNT Championship nine times during his first reign.

Key
No.Overall reign number
ReignReign number for the specific champion
DaysNumber of days held
+Current reign is changing daily
No.ChampionChampionship changeReign statisticsNotesRef.
DateEventLocationReignDays
1 Pac June 26, 2022 AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door Chicago, IL 1108Defeated Malakai Black, Miro, and Clark Connors in a four-way tournament final to become the inaugural champion. [8]
2 Orange Cassidy October 12, 2022 Dynamite Toronto, ON, Canada 1111+ [13]

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