The AEW International Championship has been the "workhorse" championship for AEW. With champions like Pac, Orange Cassidy, Will Ospreay, Konosuke Takeshita, and more, plus the many big feuds that have focused on the belt, Kenny Omega makes sense to continue the lineage of this championship.

Kenny Omega and Konosuke Takeshita paid tribute to a popular manga at AEW Revolution. At AEW Revolution, Konosuke Takeshita defended the AEW International Championship against Kenny Omega. The match was Omega’s return to action at a standard AEW pay-per-view for the first time in over a year,