Hook defeated Chris Jericho to become the FTW Champion for the third time at AEW All In. FTW Championship was introduced to pro wrestling by Hook’s father Taz when he wrestled in ECW in 1998. ECW never sanctioned the FTW Championship.
In 2020, Taz reintroduced the FTW Title and awarded it to Brian Cage. It has been defended several times on AEW television since then.
During the AEW All In post-show media scrum, a reporter told AEW President Tony Khan and Hook that the FTW Title was brought to ECW and AEW as a joke. Khan responded to the reporter as follows:
“It [FTW Title] wasn’t brought in as a joke or an insult. I brought it in as a really important part of the company. It wasn’t supposed to be a joke. [Taz] didn’t bring it in as a joke at all. He brought it in to represent somebody who was the top-pushed heel against the strongest-booked, best wrestler in the world at the time, who was and is Jon Moxley. And then Jon Moxley’s top challenger was Brian Cage… The title has been passed through a number of different wrestlers onto one of our top stars in Hook. But the title was never meant to be a joke or anything. I know Taz and myself; nobody in AEW ever intended that.”