AEW World Trios Championship

The professional wrestling championship was introduced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW) for its men's division on July 27, 2022. During that night's Dynamite: Fight for the Fallen special, AEW announced a tournament for the inaugural AEW World Trios Championship, which would culminate at the All Out pay-per-view on September 4, 2022. Unlike the AEW World Tag Team Championship, which is a standard world tag team championship contested by teams of two wrestlers, the Trios Championship is contested by teams of three wrestlers, referred to as trios.^[1][2] At All Out, The Elite (Kenny Omega, Matt Jackson, and Nick Jackson) defeated "Hangman" Adam Page and The Dark Order (Alex Reynolds and John Silver) in the tournament final to become the inaugural champions.^[3]

Following berating comments made by reigning AEW World Champion CM Punk at the All Out post-event media scrum on September 5, a legitimate physical altercation occurred between Punk and The Elite. As a result, AEW president Tony Khan suspended all involved.^[4] On the September 7 episode of Dynamite, Khan announced that both the World Championship and Trios Championship were vacated. Khan then announced that the episode's scheduled six-man tag team match between Death Triangle (Pac, Penta El Zero M, and Rey Fénix) and Best Friends (Chuck Taylor, Trent Beretta, and Orange Cassidy) would be for the vacant Trios Championship, which was won by Death Triangle.^[5]

During Dynasty: Zero Hour on April 21, 2024, Ring of Honor (ROH) World Six-Man Tag Team Champions Bullet Club Gold (Jay White, Austin Gunn, and Colten Gunn) defeated The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens, Max Caster, and Billy Gunn) to win the AEW World Trios Championship in a winners take all championship unification match to unify the titles and become recognized as the Unified World Trios Champions.^[6][7] When Bullet Club Gold (who since became known as the Bang Bang Gang) were stripped of the Unified Trios Titles on July 10, 2024 (aired July 13), the AEW and ROH titles were separated, thus ending the unification.^[8]

The standard AEW World Trios Championship belts were made by Ron Edwardsen of Red Leather Belts. They have five gold plates on black leather straps. The circular center plate has a blue globe at the center with "TRIOS" written across the globe in black with a gold border. Above the globe is a black banner that says "WORLD" in gold while a black banner below the globe says "CHAMPION" in gold. At the top of the plate is AEW's logo while filigree fills out the rest of the plate. Sitting on either side of the center plate are two side plates each. The inner side plates show two wrestlers performing simultaneous superkicks on another wrestler.^[16] The outer side plates originally showed a wrestler performing an electric chair driver, but when the standard belts returned in 2024 after the custom "scissoring" belts had been used, the outer side plates were changed to saying "WORLD TRIOS CHAMPION" (which had first appeared on the scissoring belts).

Custom designs

During House of Black's (Malakai Black, Brody King, and Buddy Matthews) reign that began in March 2023, they introduced their own custom "black out" versions of the championship belts. The belts featured mostly the same basic design as the standard belts, but with silver plates instead of gold (the globe was also black instead of blue). The side plates were also changed to The House of Black's logos with a vertical "HOB" tooled into the leather between the outer side plates and the button snaps.^[17]

After The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens, Max Caster, and Billy Gunn) won the title in August 2023, they introduced their own custom "scissoring" championship belts. They featured the same basic design as the standard belts, but with pink straps. Additionally, the ends of the belts were shaped like scissors and said "Scissor Me" on one side and "Daddy Ass" on the other side, referencing their "scissoring" gimmick. The inner side plates were the same as the standard belts, but the outer side plates were changed to saying "WORLD TRIOS CHAMPION". AEW's logo was also added to the top of each side plate.^[18]

During Dynasty: Zero Hour in April 2024, ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Champions Bullet Club Gold (Jay White, Austin Gunn, and Colten Gunn) defeated The Acclaimed to win the AEW World Trios Championship, holding and defending both titles under the Unified World Trios Championship banner, using the standard AEW Trios belts, the ROH World Six-Man belts, and The Acclaimed's custom "scissoring" belts to represent the collective accolade. This would continue until July 2024 when Bullet Club Gold (who had since become known as the Bang Bang Gang) were stripped of the Unified World Trios Championship. This subsequently ended the unification of the AEW and ROH titles with the custom "scissoring" belts also being dropped in favor of the standard AEW World Trios Championship belts.^[19]

Current champions Swerve Strickland and The New Level (Kofi and Austin Creed)

As of September 30, 2026, there have been 17 reigns between 16 teams composed of 43 individual champions, and two vacancies. The Elite (Kenny Omega, Matt Jackson, and Nick Jackson) were the inaugural champions and they have the most reigns as a team at two, while individually, all three plus Pac, Kevin Knight, and Mike Bailey, "Hangman" Adam Page, and Brody King are tied at two. At 274 days (276 days as recognized by AEW due to tape delay), The Opps's (Katsuyori Shibata, Powerhouse Hobbs, and Samoa Joe) sole reign is the longest in the title's history, both as a singular reign and for most cumulative days as champion for a team, while for an individual, Pac has the most cumulative days as champion, holding the title for 360 days across his two reigns. The Elite's inaugural reign is the shortest at three days, although AEW officially recognizes that The Dogs (Clark Connors, David Finlay, and Gabe Kidd) have the shortest reign at one day due to tape delay (their actual reign length was four days). Billy Gunn is the oldest champion, winning the title at 59, while Nick Wayne is the youngest at 19.^[20][21]

The current champions are Swerve Strickland and The New Level (Kofi and Austin Creed), who are in their first reign, both as a team and individually. They won the title by lastly eliminating Gabe Kidd and the Death Riders (Claudio Castagnoli and Pac) simultaneously in a seven-team Trios Roulette elimination match at All In on August 30, 2026, in London, England; previous champions "Hangman" Adam Page and Brodido (Brody King and Bandido) were eliminated earlier in the match. The match started on the Buy In pre-show and concluded after the start of the pay-per-view.^[22]