Chelsea Green’s Triple Crown status debated after SummerSlam interim title victory

Chelsea Green became Interim WWE Women’s Champion at Night 2 of SummerSlam when she won a ladder match for the vacant title, capitalising while other competitors lay outside the ring.

The ladder match was arranged in the absence of reigning WWE Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley, who has been out of action since Clash in Italy with a knee injury. Green, described in the report as an underdog, dedicated the victory on the post-show to WWE Producer Michael Hayes; the piece notes Hayes had said on WWE Unreal that Green “wasn’t good enough to be a main event player and was a supporting act for the company’s big stars.”

The article outlines the promotion’s traditional Triple Crown definition for male wrestlers — a world championship, a secondary singles title and a tag team championship — and contrasts that with the women’s Triple Crown, which was established on May 22, 2019 and consisted of the WWE Women’s Championship, Women’s World Championship and WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship.

Applying the 2019 women’s Triple Crown criteria, the report states Green is not a Triple Crown Champion because, while she has now held a Women’s title and the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship, she has not won the Women’s World Championship. The SummerSlam victory is described as Green’s first world title reign in WWE.

The article records that WWE added women’s mid-card belts in late 2024 — the Women’s Intercontinental title for Raw and the Women’s United States title for SmackDown — and it notes Chelsea Green is the inaugural Women’s United States Champion.

On the question of official recognition, the piece says there is no clarity on whether the Triple Crown criteria have been revised since those mid-card titles were introduced, and argues that the addition of a women’s mid-card championship should prompt an update that would make Green eligible for Triple Crown status.

The article also includes the statement: "Yes, per tradition rules, Chelsea Green is a Triple Crown Champion in WWE, following her Interim WWE Women’s title win at SummerSlam 2026." It concludes by saying any formal designation of Green as an official Triple Crown Champion would depend on a confirmed change to the women’s Triple Crown criteria, which the report identifies as currently unresolved.