AEW Unified Championship

On the March 20, 2024, episode of the professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling's (AEW) flagship television program, Dynamite, Kazuchika Okada won the AEW Continental Championship. The following year on March 9, 2025, at the Revolution pay-per-view (PPV) event, Kenny Omega won the AEW International Championship. Over this time, AEW began teasing a match between the two to reignite a long rivalry between them from their time in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). This came to a head at Dynamite: Fyter Fest on June 4, where Okada confronted Omega to set up a Winner Takes All match at AEW All In: Texas. During the contract signing at Dynamite: Summer Blockbuster, Tony Schiavone announced that the match would unify the Continental and International titles as the AEW Unified Championship. Okada would go on to defeat Omega to become the inaugural Unified Champion. Since Okada won as the Continental Champion, AEW president Tony Khan confirmed that the Unified Championship would be contested under Continental Rules, the same rules for matches for the Continental Championship, in which no one is allowed at ringside, outside interference is strictly prohibited, and matches have a 20-minute time limit. AEW stated that the title would be booked as another top championship on par with the AEW World Championship and not as a "mid or upper-midcard level title". During the All In: Texas media call on July 8, Khan clarified that neither the Continental or International Championships would be retired, and that their lineages would still be intact along with a new lineage for the Unified Championship, and the champion can choose to carry all three championship belts. Khan stated that the Unified Championship was established because, "I wanted to create something special around this match and event". Okada defended the three belts as one between All In and the 2025 Continental Classic. The tournament itself was only for the Continental Championship, meaning if Okada lost, he would also have to vacate the Unified Championship. In the final of the Continental Classic at Worlds End on December 27, 2025, Okada lost to Jon Moxley, forcing him to relinquish the Unified Championship, rendering it inactive. ==Belt design==

The AEW Unified Championship belt takes inspiration from both the Continental and International Championship belts. It has five gold plates on a black leather strap. The oval shaped center plate features AEW's logo at the top. At the center of the center plate is a circle that has the crown from the Continental Championship, with the rest of the circle filled in with jewels. Above and below this are two black banners, in similar style to the International Championship, which say "Unified" on the top banner and "Champion" on the lower banner. The banners are held up on each side by an upright lion facing inward, also from the International Championship. By the end of each banner are parts of a globe, similar to the circles on the four corners of the International Championship's center plate. The inner side plates also have an oval shape and are modeled after the Continental Championship's side plates, featuring part of the globe with the AEW logo above it, but these are customizable as the globe can be removed and replaced with the reigning champion's logos. The outer side plates are unique in that the left one features Kenny Omega delivering his finisher, the One-Winged Angel, while the right one shows Kazuchika Okada performing his finisher, The Rainmaker. According to the Wrestling Observer, AEW president Tony Khan plans to keep the Omega and Okada side plates to commemorate the International and Continental titles and the legacies that Omega and Okada brought to the unification match. Like most of AEW's prior championships, the belt was produced by Red Leather Belts. == Reigns ==