AEW has one of the most diverse rosters in professional wrestling and can capitalize on that fact by properly building the new All-Atlantic Championship, starting at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door. Early reactions to the title online haven't been particularly positive, but there are ways for All Elite and Tony Khan to change the minds of fans. After all, the saying goes that the wrestler makes the title, not the other way around.
There's no denying that the All-Atlantic Championship could get lost in the shuffle on AEW as it attempts to make all its belts matter. The TNT Championship has been dragged down over the last several months, while the TBS Championship hasn't been treated like a particularly big deal either. Toss in a few random ROH titles, the FTW Championship, and an interim AEW World Champion to go along with actual World Champion CM Punk, and All Elite's title catalog is rapidly growing and evolving.
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Wrestling should always be about the stakes of matches, though, and more titles mean that a greater number of bouts can potentially have extra weight to them. The championships need to be built up to mean something, though, which is why the AEW World Championship still feels like a big deal while the TNT Championship does not. It's all about the booking, and Tony Khan has a unique opportunity with the new All-Atlantic Championship.
The end goal of this title should be to leverage the diverse nationalities represented on AEW into exciting matches that fans can get into based on where they're from. Ethan Page already spoke about wanting to win and represent Canada during an excellent promo on Friday Night Rampage. That's the kind of
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