10 Worst Title Reigns In AEW History
8. Chris Jericho (April 21st 2024 - August 25th 2024
The FTW Championship being brought into All Elite Wrestling as a serious title to fight for was always stretching the gold beyond its original premise, but Chris Jericho getting hold of it in 2024 to allegedly help move Hook up to some mythical next level was a case of the idea completely eating itself.
'The Cold Hearted Handsome Devil' was the latest to get caught in the Jericho Vortex (not the gimmick kind, if the gimmick is even a gimmick because it's a shoot), but the fact that the entire story of Hook being robbed of the gold only to win it back at Wembley was one that had been done with Jack Perry a year prior seemed to have escaped Jericho's attention as he went through loads of the same motions. A series of themed weapons brawls on television did nothing to justify the spot both the Champion and Championship commanded over a miserable few months before he predictably lost it back in a sequence of events he pretended was star-making.
One only need to look at the retirement of the title in the immediate aftermath to see how ineffective it was - upon reclaiming the belt, Hook handed the strap to Father and originator Taz, and back on the mantlepiece it went.