AEW World Trios Championship
The AEW World Trios Championship is a men's professional wrestling world tag team championship created and promoted by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It is a specialized tag team championship, being contested by teams of three wrestlers, referred to as trios. Established on July 27, 2022, the inaugural champions were The Elite (Kenny Omega, Matt Jackson, and Nick Jackson). The current champions are The Acclaimed (Max Caster and Anthony Bowens) and Billy Gunn, who are in their first reign, both as a team and individually. They won the title by defeating The House of Black (Malakai Black, Brody King, and Buddy Matthews) in a House Rules No Holds Barred match at All In on August 27, 2023. History

On the July 27, 2022, special episode of Dynamite titled Fight for the Fallen, All Elite Wrestling (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 tag team title contested by teams of two wrestlers, the Trios Championship is contested by teams of three wrestlers, referred to as trios. 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. Following berating comments made by 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. 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. Inaugural tournament

Belt design

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, while the outer side plates show a wrestler performing an electric chair driver. Custom designs
During The 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. After Billy Gunn and The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens and Max Caster) won the title in August 2023, they introduced their own custom "scissoring" championship belts. They feature the same basic design as the standard belts, but with pink straps. Additionally, the ends of the belts are shaped like scissors and say "Scissor Me" on one side and "Daddy Ass" on the other side, referencing their "scissoring" gimmick. The inner side plates are 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. Reigns

As of  , , there have been five reigns between four teams composed of 12 individual champions and one vacancy. The Elite (Kenny Omega, Matt Jackson, and Nick Jackson) were the inaugural champions and they have the most reigns at two. Their inaugural reign was also the shortest at 3 days while The House of Black's (Malakai Black, Brody King, and Buddy Matthews) sole reign is the longest at 175 days. Billy Gunn is the oldest champion, winning the title at 59, while Rey Fénix is the youngest at 31. The current champions are The Acclaimed (Max Caster and Anthony Bowens) and Billy Gunn, who are in their first reign, both as a team and individually. They won the title by defeating The House of Black (Malakai Black, Brody King, and Buddy Matthews) in a "House Rules" No Holds Barred six-man tag team match at All In on August 27, 2023, in London, England. Combined reigns
As of  ,

By team

By wrestler

Notes

References

External links 
 Official AEW World Trios Championship History at All Elite Wrestling

All Elite Wrestling championships
Trios wrestling tag team championships
World professional wrestling championships
2022 introductions
2022 establishments in the United States