AEW International Championship
men's professional wrestling championship
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 Kazuchika Okada, who is in his record-tying second reign. He won the title by defeating previous champion Kyle Fletcher and Konosuke Takeshita in a three-way match at All In on August 30, 2026.
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. Since its inception, it has been defended in Britain's Revolution Pro Wrestling, Ireland's Over the Top Wrestling, Japan's New Japan Pro-Wrestling, Mexico's Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, and Canada's Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling. 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. When the title is jointly held with the AEW Continental Championship, both titles together make up the AEW Unified Championship; as of December 2025, this has only happened once.
History
The professional wrestling championship was unveiled by the American promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) on its television program Dynamite on June 8, 2022.
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