#AndNEW: All Japan Introduces & Crowns Trios Champions

All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) recently finished up the calendar year with the AJP Prime Night event. In a show that already featured multiple announcements on future events and the AJPW departure of Yusuke Okada, we would also see the first AJPW Trios champions crowned.

Trios Championships are a staple in Puroresu across the world, most notably in places such as Dragon Gate, New Japan Pro Wrestling & DDT. In the middle of AJP Prime Night, we had a six-man tag team match featuring Black Menso-Re, Carbell Ito & Takao Omori facing off against Revlon, Ryoji Sai & Daimonji So. The winner of this match would become the first AJPW TV 6-Men Champions.

Takao Omori, Black Menso-Re & Carbell Ito Win Trios Championships

In this trios title match, Menso-Re, Takao Omori, and Carbell Ito won the Trios Championship by defeating Revlon, Ryoji Sai, and Daimonji So. This will mark the first time that Black Menso-Re has held gold since 2016, under the old name of Yohei Nakajima. This also marks the first championship that Carbell Ito has won, it is also Takao Omori’s first championship since 2018. With the new champions crowned, it’s currently unknown who the next challengers are.

One of the smaller thing to note is that this is the first championship introduced for All Japan since the introduction of the GAORA TV Championship in 2012… with this new championship introduced, All Japan Pro Wrestling is going into the new year with major title matches such as Yuma Aoyagi vs. Suwama for the Triple Crown Championship and The Violent Giants facing off against Yuma Aoyagi & Kento Miyahara for the World Tag Championship, and even a women’s division. It seems that 2021 could be the start of a potential new era in All Japan.