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![]() The AEW World Championship belt (2019–2022); the current version introduced in 2024 features the same design, but with customizable side plates. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Promotion | All Elite Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||
Date established | May 25, 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||
Current champion(s) | Swerve Strickland | ||||||||||||||||||
Date won | April 21, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The AEW World Championship is a men's professional wrestling world championship created and promoted by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). Unveiled on May 25, 2019, it is the promotion's top championship and is presented as being AEW's most prestigious title. Chris Jericho was the inaugural champion. The current champion is Swerve Strickland, who is in his first reign. He won the title by defeating Samoa Joe at Dynasty on April 21, 2024.
As of August2, 2024, there have been 11 reigns between eight champions and one vacancy, as well as one interim champion. Chris Jericho was the inaugural champion. Jon Moxley has the most reigns at three and also served as the interim champion in mid-2022 while reigning lineal champion CM Punk was out with an injury (this is not counted as one of Moxley's three reigns). MJF's singular reign is the longest at 406 days, while Punk's second reign is the shortest at 3 days. Jericho is the oldest champion when he won it at 48 years old, while MJF is the youngest, winning it at 26 years old.
Swerve Strickland is the current champion in his first reign. He won the title by defeating Samoa Joe at Dynasty on April 21, 2024, in St Louis, Missouri. [1]
No. | Overall reign number |
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Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
Days | Number of days held |
+ | Current reign is changing daily |
No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||
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Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||
1 | Chris Jericho | August 31, 2019 | All Out | Hoffman Estates, IL | 1 | 182 | Defeated "Hangman" Adam Page to become the inaugural champion. | [2] [3] |
2 | Jon Moxley | February 29, 2020 | Revolution | Chicago, IL | 1 | 277 | [4] | |
3 | Kenny Omega | December 2, 2020 | Dynamite: Winter Is Coming | Jacksonville, FL | 1 | 346 | [5] | |
4 | "Hangman" Adam Page | November 13, 2021 | Full Gear | Minneapolis, MN | 1 | 197 | This was Page's Casino Poker Chip cash-in match. | [6] |
5 | CM Punk | May 29, 2022 | Double or Nothing | Paradise, NV | 1 | 87 | [7] | |
— | Jon Moxley (Interim) | June 26, 2022 | Forbidden Door | Chicago, IL | — | 59 | Lineal champion CM Punk was originally scheduled to defend the title against Hiroshi Tanahashi at this event, but was pulled due to suffering a foot injury. Moxley defeated Tanahashi in a tournament final to become the interim champion. | [8] [9] |
6 | Jon Moxley | August 24, 2022 | Dynamite | Cleveland, OH | 2 | 11 | Defeated lineal champion CM Punk to determine the undisputed champion. AEW officially recognizes this as the start of Moxley's second reign. | [10] |
7 | CM Punk | September 4, 2022 | All Out | Hoffman Estates, IL | 2 | 3 | [11] | |
— | Vacated | September 7, 2022 | Dynamite | Buffalo, NY | — | — | CM Punk was stripped of the title after being suspended following a legitimate backstage altercation that occurred during the All Out post-event media scrum. [lower-alpha 1] | [12] [13] </ref> [14] </ref> |
8 | Jon Moxley | September 21, 2022 | Dynamite: Grand Slam | Flushing, Queens, NY | 3 | 59 | Defeated Bryan Danielson in a tournament final for the vacant title. | [15] |
9 | MJF | November 19, 2022 | Full Gear | Newark, NJ | 1 | 406 | This was MJF's Casino Poker Chip cash-in match. | [16] |
10 | Samoa Joe | December 30, 2023 | Worlds End | Uniondale, NY | 1 | 113 | [17] | |
11 | Swerve Strickland | April 21, 2024 | Dynasty | St. Louis, MO | 1 | 103+ | [1] |
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