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Promotion | All Elite Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||
Date established | June 8, 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||
Current champion(s) | Konosuke Takeshita | ||||||||||||||||||
Date won | October 12, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The AEW International Championship is a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It is a secondary championship for male wrestlers, and unlike AEW's other titles, which are almost exclusively defended on AEW programming, the International Championship can also be defended in other promotions globally. The current champion is Konosuke Takeshita, who is in his first reign. He won the title by defeating the previous champion Will Ospreay and Ricochet in a three-way match at WrestleDream on October 12, 2024 when he pinned Ospreay.
Established as the AEW All-Atlantic Championship on June 8, 2022, 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. The inaugural champion was Pac. On March 15, 2023, the title was rebranded as the AEW International Championship, while during MJF's reign from July to August 2024, he unofficially rebranded the title as the AEW American Championship. Since its establishment, the title has been defended in the Revolution Pro Wrestling, Over the Top Wrestling, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, and Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling promotions, although most of its defenses have occurred in AEW, which has also included defenses against wrestlers from NJPW.