The creation of the title was first announced in May 2011, when AAA started a tournament, set to end at Triplemanía XIX, to determine the first champions.
[2] The championship is generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition.
Overall, there have been eighteen reigns shared among fifteen teams and thirty-nine different wrestlers.
The tournament to determine the first ever AAA World Trios Champions took place from May 18 to June 18, 2011.
1 For the semifinal match, Los Perros del Mal replaced X-Fly with El Hijo del Perro Aguayo and Los Bizarros replaced Billy el Malo with Escoria.