Triple Crown Championship - WWE

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In WWE (formerly known as the World Wrestling Federation and World Wrestling Entertainment) the term Triple Crown Champion has traditionally been used to describe a wrestler who has won the WWE Championship, the Intercontinental Championship, and the World Tag Team Championship. For a span of nearly eighteen years, from 1979 up through 1997, these were the three championships of the company, and a wrestler who won all three championships (not necessarily concurrently) was considered a "Triple Crown Champion." Until the 1990s the accomplishment was extremely rare, with Pedro Morales remaining the sole Triple Crown Champion for more than a decade.

CM Punk holds the record for completing the Triple Crown Championship in the shortest amount of time between the first and third title. It took him 203 days between June 2008 and January 2009. This broke Diesel's previous record of 227 days set in 1994, which is notable as Diesel had only been with the company for a year and a half at the time.

Following the brand extension in 2002, the World Heavyweight Championship and the WWE Tag Team Championship became alternate titles that can compose part of the Triple Crown. The United States Championship is not considered as part of the Triple Crown by WWE.

As of 2013, these WWE wrestlers are one title away from becoming a Triple Crown Champion:

• Cody Rhodes, Drew McIntyre, Kofi Kingston, Santino Marella and William Regal require a primary (WWE or World Heavyweight) championship.
• Daniel Bryan, John Cena and The Undertaker require the Intercontinental Championship.