Complete list and history of WWE Triple Crown Champions
Khel Now published a list of all WWE Triple Crown Champions on its website on August 5, 2026, outlining the achievement across WWE’s men's, women's, tag-team and NXT categories. The piece defines Triple Crown criteria used by multiple promotions and records notable firsts and fastest completions within WWE.
The article defines a Triple Crown as a wrestler who has won three titles from a single organisation and lists promotions that officially recognise the accolade, naming WWE, All Elite Wrestling (AEW), Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and Ring of Honor (ROH), along with defunct outfits World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and Lucha Underground. It states that, in WWE, the term has traditionally referred to a performer who has held a world championship, the Intercontinental Championship and the World Tag Team Championship. The piece notes that from 1979 to 1997 those three were the company’s only titles and that Pedro Morales remained the sole Triple Crown winner for more than a decade until the 1990s.
The article explains that during WWE’s initial brand split from 2002 to 2011 the World Heavyweight Championship and the WWE Tag Team Championship served as alternative qualifying titles. After the unification of the two world championships and the two tag team championships, WWE’s Triple Crown championships reverted to the WWE Championship, the Intercontinental Championship and the WWE Tag Team Championship, which was later known as the Raw Tag Team Championship and is now the World Tag Team Championship. It adds that all five qualifying championships have been won by nine men: Edge, Chris Jericho, Cody Rhodes, Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Kane, Big Show, Jeff Hardy, and Randy Orton.
On tag-team achievements, the article says that since 2019 WWE has recognised winners of the three current tag team titles — Raw, SmackDown and, since 2013, NXT — as Tag Team Triple Crown victors. It records that The Revival were the first team to complete the Tag Team Triple Crown by capturing the SmackDown Tag Team Championships in September 2019. The piece also states that The Street Profits completed the Men’s Tag Team Triple Crown in the fastest time, with 499 days between their first qualifying match and the final qualifying win.
The women’s Triple Crown, the article reports, was established on May 22, 2019, comprising the WWE Women’s Championship (formerly the Raw Women’s Championship), the Women’s World Championship (previously the SmackDown Women’s Championship) and the Women’s Tag Team Championship. It identifies Bayley as the inaugural WWE Women’s Triple Crown Champion, noting she had won the SmackDown Women’s Championship for the first time three days earlier and had previously held the Raw and Women’s Tag Team titles. The article adds that Bayley has been touted as a Grand Slam Champion following that victory, having previously held the NXT Women’s Championship, and that Asuka achieved the Women’s Triple Crown in the quickest span — 486 days from her first qualifying championship win to the Triple Crown.
Regarding NXT, the piece lists the NXT Championship, the NXT North American Championship and the NXT Tag Team Championship as the components of the NXT Triple Crown. It records that NXT was founded in 2012 as a developing territory, was promoted to a third global brand in 2019, and after being rebuilt as NXT 2.0 in 2021 was restored to its former position. The article names Johnny Gargano as the first NXT Triple Crown Champion, having claimed his first NXT Championship after earlier holding the NXT North American and NXT Tag Team titles.
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