{"id":118212,"date":"2023-03-08T21:33:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T02:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=118212"},"modified":"2023-03-08T21:35:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T02:35:07","slug":"aew-all-atlantic-championship-rebrand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2023\/03\/08\/aew-all-atlantic-championship-rebrand\/","title":{"rendered":"AEW All-Atlantic Championship to be Re-Branded to International Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>All Elite Wrestling (AEW) <\/b>Dynamite kicked off tonight with <strong>Orange Cassidy<\/strong> successfully defending the AEW All-Atlantic Championship against <strong>Jay Lethal.<\/strong> Following the match, Cassidy was attacked by <strong>Jeff Jarrett.<\/strong> A video package from <strong>Tony Khan<\/strong> later in the broadcast announced that Orange Cassidy will defend the title next week, and it will be re-branded to the International Championship.<\/p>\n<h2>AEW All-Atlantic Championship to be Re-Branded<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking news from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TonyKhan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TonyKhan<\/a> as the All-Atlantic Title levels up next week in Winnipeg in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShazamMovie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ShazamMovie<\/a>!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/orangecassidy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@OrangeCassidy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealJeffJarrett?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RealJeffJarrett<\/a> battle for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEW?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@AEW<\/a> International Championship on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEWDynamite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AEWDynamite<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GsLxLICPiS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/GsLxLICPiS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AEW on TV (@AEWonTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEWonTV\/status\/1633654969323728897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Khan explained in the video that Cassidy requested the match against Jarrett. Khan granted the match and explained that the title would be re-branded in connection with the new Warner Bros. Pictures film Shazam! Fury of the Gods.<\/p>\n<p>The AEW All-Atlantic Championship was introduced at the AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) event <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2022\/06\/29\/aew-all-atlantic-championship\/\" target=\"_self\">Forbidden Door<\/a>. <strong>PAC<\/strong> became the inaugural champion after defeating <strong>Clark Connors,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Miro,<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Malakai Black<\/strong> in a four-way match. The four competitors made it to Forbidden Door after advancing in a tournament that took place at both NJPW and AEW events.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Khan explained that the defense of the belt next week in Canada will be the 5th international defense of the belt. It is also the only belt to be defended on international soil. PAC and Orange Cassidy are the only two to have held the belt with Cassidy being the longest holder of the two at 148 days and counting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><em>Header photo \u2013 AEW. Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world. As well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.\u00a0 You can catch AEW Dynamite Wednesday nights at 8 PM ET on TBS and AEW Dark: Elevation (Monday nights) and AEW: Dark (Tuesday nights) at 7 PM ET on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCFN4JkGP_bVhAdBsoV9xftA\" target=\"_blank\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>. AEW Rampage airs on TNT at 10 PM EST every Friday night.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"snack_dex19\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1659449159162-0\" data-google-query-id=\"CKGG9Knkzf0CFWLvGAId9pUBZw\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Elite Wrestling (AEW) Dynamite kicked off tonight with Orange Cassidy successfully defending the AEW All-Atlantic Championship against Jay Lethal. Following the match, Cassidy was attacked by Jeff Jarrett. A video package from Tony Khan later in the broadcast announced that Orange Cassidy will defend the title next week, and it will be re-branded to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3722,"featured_media":113959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4677,12,6],"tags":[8400,591,2423],"class_list":["post-118212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-news","category-north-america","tag-aew-all-atlantic-championship","tag-jeff-jarrett","tag-orange-cassidy"],"modified_by":"Dominic Padula","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}