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The AEW TNT Championship is a professional wrestling championship in All Elite Wrestling (AEW). It is the men's television championship and the secondary men's championship in AEW.
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Promotion | All Elite Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||
Date established | March 30, 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||
Current champion(s) | Jack Perry | ||||||||||||||||||
Date won | June 30, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||
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On the March 30, 2020 episode of AEW's YouTube show Road to Dynamite, the championship was officially announced.[3]
The first champion was Cody. He defeated Lance Archer in the finals of a tournament at Double or Nothing. Cody was awarded the championship by boxer Mike Tyson after his win.[4] During Cody's second reign, he was able to regain the trademark for the Rhodes name so his ring name was changed to Cody Rhodes.[5]
The original version of the TNT Championship had a red strap. The red strap version was retired on December 30, 2020 after Mr. Brodie Lee died. During the tribute show, AEW owner Tony Khan gave the red version was given to Lee's son, Brodie Lee Jr. and named him the "TNT Champion for life".[6]
Dynamite moved to TBS on January 5, 2022.[7] Even though the show moved to TBS from TNT, Cody Rhodes announced that the TNT Championship wouldn't be renamed. AEW instead announced that a new championship called the AEW TBS Championship would be created for the women.[8]
The new version was introduced on the January 6, 2021 New Year's Smash episode of Dynamite. The current version has a black strap on the championship.[9]
During Rhodes' third reign as champion, he had to be pulled from his rematch with Sammy Guevara because his family had COVID-19 and he had to quarantine. AEW president Tony Khan said that Rhodes would keep the championship but a new interim champion would be crowned at Battle of the Belts. The interim champion would then face Rhodes after he returned from quarantine to see who would become the undisputed champion.[10] Guevara defeated Cody's brother Dustin Rhodes at Battle of the Belts.[11] Rhodes would return and lose to Guevara in a ladder match at Beach Break.[12]
Right now the champion is Jack Perry, who is in his first reign. He won the vacant title by defeating Konosuke Takeshita, Mark Briscoe, Dante Martin, Lio Rush, and El Phantasmo in a ladder match at Forbidden Door on June 30, 2024; previous champion Adam Copeland was stripped of the title because of an injury.
No. | Overall reign number |
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Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
Days | Number of days held |
Days recog. |
Number of days held recognized by the promotion |
+ | Current reign is changing daily |
No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
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Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Days recog. | ||||
1 | Cody | May 23, 2020 | Double or Nothing | Jacksonville, FL | 1 | 82 | 91 | Defeated Lance Archer in the finals of an eight-man single-elimination tournament to become the first champion. AEW lists the end of Cody's reign on August 22, 2020, when the following episode aired on tape delay. | [13][14] |
2 | Mr. Brodie Lee | August 13, 2020 | Dynamite | Jacksonville, FL | 1 | 55 | 46 | AEW lists the start of Lee's reign on August 22, 2020, when the episode aired on tape delay. | [15] |
3 | Cody (Rhodes) | October 7, 2020 | Dynamite: Chris Jericho's 30th Anniversary Celebration |
Jacksonville, FL | 2 | 31 | 31 | This was a Dog Collar match. During this reign, Cody's ring name was made longer to Cody Rhodes after WWE's trademark for "Cody Rhodes" ended.[5] | [16] |
4 | Darby Allin | November 7, 2020 | Full Gear | Jacksonville, FL | 1 | 186 | 186 | [17] | |
5 | Miro | May 12, 2021 | Dynamite | Jacksonville, FL | 1 | 140 | 140 | [18] | |
6 | Sammy Guevara | September 29, 2021 | Dynamite | Rochester, NY | 1 | 84 | 87 | AEW lists the end of Guevara's reign on December 25, 2021, when the following episode aired on tape delay. | [19] |
7 | Cody Rhodes | December 22, 2021 | Rampage: Holiday Bash |
Greensboro, NC | 3 | 35 | 32 | AEW lists the start of Rhodes' reign on December 25, 2021, when the episode aired on tape delay, and ending on January 26, 2022. | [20] |
— | Sammy Guevara (Interim champion) | January 8, 2022 | Battle of the Belts I | Charlotte, NC | — | 18 | — | Lineal champion Cody Rhodes was originally scheduled to defend the title against Guevara at this event, but was removed due to COVID-19-related issues. Guevara was instead scheduled to face Dustin Rhodes to determine the interim TNT Champion. | [21][22] |
8 | Sammy Guevara | January 26, 2022 | Dynamite: Beach Break |
Cleveland, OH | 2 | 42 | 42 | Defeated lineal champion Cody Rhodes in a ladder match to determine the undisputed champion. AEW officially lists this as the start of Guevara's second reign. | [23][24] |
9 | Scorpio Sky | March 9, 2022 | Dynamite | Estero, FL | 1 | 37 | 38 | AEW lists the end of Sky's reign on April 16, 2022, when the following event aired on tape delay. | [25] |
10 | Sammy Guevara | April 15, 2022 | Battle of the Belts II | Garland, TX | 3 | 12 | 11 | AEW lists the start of Guevara's reign on April 16, 2022, when the event aired on tape delay. | [26][27] |
11 | Scorpio Sky | April 27, 2022 | Dynamite | Philadelphia, PA | 2 | 70 | 70 | This was a ladder match. | [28] |
12 | Wardlow | July 6, 2022 | Dynamite | Rochester, NY | 1 | 136 | 136 | This was a Street Fight. | [29] |
13 | Samoa Joe | November 19, 2022 | Full Gear | Newark, NJ | 1 | 46 | 46 | This was a three-way match, also involving Powerhouse Hobbs, who Joe submitted. | [30] |
14 | Darby Allin | January 4, 2023 | Dynamite | Seattle, WA | 2 | 28 | 28 | [31] | |
15 | Samoa Joe | February 1, 2023 | Dynamite | Dayton, OH | 2 | 32 | 32 | This was a No Holds Barred match. | [32] |
16 | Wardlow | March 5, 2023 | Revolution | San Francisco, CA | 2 | 3 | 3 | [33] | |
17 | Powerhouse Hobbs | March 8, 2023 | Dynamite | Sacramento, CA | 1 | 42 | 42 | This was a Falls Count Anywhere match that Hobbs won by technical knockout. | [34] |
18 | Wardlow | April 19, 2023 | Dynamite | Pittsburgh, PA | 3 | 59 | 59 | [35] | |
19 | Luchasaurus | June 17, 2023 | Collision | Chicago, IL | 1 | 98 | 98 | [36] | |
20 | Christian Cage | September 23, 2023 | Collision | Grand Rapids, MI | 1 | 98 | 98 | This was a three-way match, also involving Darby Allin. | [37] |
21 | Adam Copeland | December 30, 2023 | Worlds End | Uniondale, NY | 1 | <1 | <1 | This was a no disqualification match. | [38] |
22 | Christian Cage | December 30, 2023 | Worlds End | Uniondale, NY | 2 | 81 | 81 | Cage immediately used the title shot earned by his Patriarch member Killswitch earlier that night after his loss to Copeland to get a rematch. | [38] |
23 | Adam Copeland | March 20, 2024 | Dynamite/Rampage | Toronto, ON, Canada | 2 | 70 | 70 | This was an "I Quit" match, that started as the main event of Dynamite and ended at the start of Rampage, which aired back-to-back. | [39] |
— | Vacated | May 29, 2024 | Dynamite | Los Angeles, CA | — | — | — | AEW executive vice presidents The Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson and Nicholas Jackson) stripped Adam Copeland of the title because Copeland injured his leg at Double or Nothing three days before. | [40] |
24 | Jack Perry | June 30, 2024 | Forbidden Door | Elmont, NY | 1 | 65+ | 65+ | Defeated Mark Briscoe, Konosuke Takeshita, Dante Martin, Lio Rush, and El Phantasmo in a 6-man ladder match to win the vacant title. | [41] |
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