AEW All-Atlantic Championship

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.

AEW All-Atlantic Championship
The AEW All-Atlantic Championship belt
Details
PromotionAll 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 reignOrange Cassidy
(128+ days)
Shortest reignPac
(108 days)
Oldest championOrange Cassidy
(38 years, 161 days)
Youngest championPac
(35 years, 308 days)
Heaviest championPac
(194 lb (88 kg))
Lightest championOrange Cassidy
(161 lb (73 kg))

History
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)
Buddy Matthews10:32[4]
PacPin
Ethan Page9:25[5]
PacSub
MiroSub
Miro15:05[8]
Malakai Black15:05[8]
Penta Oscuro9:49[6]
Clark Connors[lower-alpha 1]15:05[8]
Malakai BlackPin
Tomoaki Honma11:29[11]
Clark ConnorsPin
Clark Connors13:21[12]
Tomohiro IshiiPin
Tomohiro IshiiPin
Yoshinobu Kanemaru19:01[11]
  1. Connors replaced Ishii who was not medically cleared.[7]

Reigns
Current champion Orange Cassidy

As of February 17, 2023, there have been two reigns between two champions. Pac was the inaugural champion. He is also the shortest reigning champion at 108 days, while Orange Cassidy's ongoing reign is the longest at 128+ days. Pac is also the youngest champion when he won the title at 35, while 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
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.
Date Event Location Reign Days
1 Pac June 26, 2022 AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door Chicago, IL 1 108 Defeated 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 1 128+ [13]

References
  1. Defelice, Robert (June 8, 2022). "AEW Introduces All-Atlantic Championship, First Champion To Be Crowned At AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door". Fightful. Retrieved June 8, 2022.
  2. "New Japan Road Night 4 (June 20) Preview". New Japan Pro-Wrestling. June 13, 2022. Retrieved June 14, 2022.
  3. Casey, Connor (June 8, 2022). "New AEW Championship Unveiled During AEW Dynamite". ComicBook.com. Retrieved June 8, 2022.
  4. Barnett, Jake (June 8, 2022). "6/8 AEW Dynamite results: Barnett's live review of Jon Moxley vs. the Casino Battle Royale winner for a spot in the Interim AEW World Championship match at Forbidden Door, Pac vs. Buddy Matthews, Thunder Rosa vs. Marina Shafir for the AEW Women's Title, Hangman Page vs. David Finlay". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved June 11, 2022.
  5. Powell, Jason (June 15, 2022). "6/15 AEW Dynamite results: Powell's live review of Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus vs. The Young Bucks in a ladder match for the AEW Tag Titles, Chris Jericho vs. Ortiz in a hair vs. hair match, Toni Storm vs. Britt Baker, Will Ospreay vs. Dak Harwood, Ethan Page vs. Miro in an All Atlantic Title qualifying match". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved June 15, 2022.
  6. "6/22 AEW Dynamite results: Barnett's live review of Jon Moxley and Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Chris Jericho and Lance Archer, Bryan Danielson addresses his future, Will Ospreay, Kyle Fletcher, and Mark Davis vs. Orange Cassidy, Trent Beretta, and Rocky Romero, Penta Oscuro vs. Malakai Black in an All Atlantic Title qualifier". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. June 22, 2022. Retrieved June 23, 2022.
  7. 【新日本】石井智宏が左ヒザ負傷で『AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door』大会欠場 [[NJPW] Tomohiro Ishii will miss the "AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door" event due to a left knee injury]. proresu-today.com (in Japanese). June 24, 2022. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
  8. Powell, Jason (June 26, 2022). "AEW-NJPW Forbidden Door results: Powell's live review of Jon Moxley vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi for the Interim AEW World Title, Jay White vs. Kazuchika Okada vs. Hangman Page vs. Adam Cole for the IWGP World Heavyweight Title, Thunder Rosa vs. Toni Storm for the AEW Women's Title, Will Ospreay vs. Orange Cassidy for the IWGP U.S. Title". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved June 26, 2022.
  9. Lee, Joseph (July 13, 2022). "Tony Khan Says AEW All-Atlantic Title Will Be Defended Differently Than Other Belts". 411mania. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
  10. Lambert, Jeremy (July 4, 2022). "PAC To Defend AEW All-Atlantic Title In OTT Wrestling". Fightful. Retrieved October 13, 2022.
  11. "New Japan Road 2022.06.20". New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved June 20, 2022.
  12. "New Japan Road 2022.06.21". New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved June 21, 2022.
  13. Powell, Jason (October 12, 2022). "10/12 AEW Dynamite results: Powell's live review of Chris Jericho vs. Bryan Danielson for the ROH Championship, Pac vs. Orange Cassidy for the AEW All-Atlantic Championship, "Jungle Boy" Jack Perry vs. Luchasaurus, Toni Storm and Hikaru Shida vs. Britt Baker and Jamie Hayter, Swerve Strickland vs. Billy Gunn". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved October 13, 2022.
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