John Cena has lastly gained the WWE Intercontinental Championship, making him a grand slam champion —a feat achieved by 22 male wrestlers and 6 feminine stars. Cena defeated Dominik Mysterio on RAW in his last look in Boston, Massachusetts, to assert the one title that had evaded his glistening trophy cupboard for 23 years.
The 48-year-old joins a stacked pool of legendary WWE expertise who’ve gained a world title, midcard title and tag crew championship throughout their illustrious careers. So, who’re the opposite 21 male stars who’ve achieved this astonishing feat?
WWE’s Grand Slam Champions
The primary-ever grand slam champion in WWE historical past was Shawn Michaels, who had claimed all of the gold by September 1997, together with the WWE (WWF) Championship in August 1994. WWE’s chief content material officer, Triple H, adopted in his buddy’s footsteps in April 2001, earlier than Kane, too, gained each championship on provide.
Chris Jericho is a history-maker, and a part of his grand slam triumph was turning into the first-ever Undisputed WWE Champion by defeating The Rock and Stone Chilly Steve Austin, who do not function on the listing. Kurt Angle, the person Cena stepped as much as on his SmackDown debut. The Olympic Gold Medalist’s accomplishment got here in October 2002, and he was joined by the late nice Eddie Guerrero in February 2004.
Cena’s biggest rival, Edge, had claimed all of WWE’s gold by January 2006, and Rob Van Dam accomplished a grand slam when he beat the 17-time world champion at ECW One Night time Stand in June of that 12 months.
Booker T joined the grand slam winners’ circle a month later, and so too did Jeff Hardy in December 2008, John Bradshaw Layfield (JBL) in Might 2009 and The Huge Present in April 2012. The Miz claims to be must-see, and that features his achievement listing as a result of he’s the primary double grand slam champion in historical past, his first win coming in July 2012.
It might take three years for a male wrestler to hitch these above, and it was Daniel Bryan who climbed the ladder at WrestleMania 31 to win the Intercontinental Championship and full his grand slam, equally to Cena. Of the three Protect members, it was Dean Ambrose who was the primary grand slam champion, boasting this feat in August 2017, three months earlier than Roman Reigns, who later turned essentially the most dominant Undisputed WWE Champion of the trendy period.
One other of Cena’s longtime rivals, Randy Orton, reached grand slam champion standing in March 2018, and Seth Rollins adopted swimsuit at WrestleMania 32 when he claimed the IC title. Kofi Kingston had claimed every required title by April 2019, as did WWE Corridor of Famer Rey Mysterio a month later.
AJ Types arrived in WWE a lot later than Cena, however by April 2021, he may name himself a grand slam champion after ‘beating up John Cena’. Kevin Owens’ Unified WWE Tag Staff Championship victory with Sami Zayn at WrestleMania 39 gave the Prizefighter a grand slam, and Finn Balor’s inaugural one-night Common Championship reign meant he additionally joined the listing in September 2023.
Who Are The Girls’s Grand Slam Champions?
WWE’s elevated deal with ladies’s wrestling over the previous decade has led to the addition of tag-team and midcard titles, together with the Girls’s United States Championship and the Girls’s Intercontinental Championship. However they don’t seem to be included on this listing of WWE’s feminine grand slam champions, with the titles required being the WWE Girls’s (RAW) or Girls’s World (SmackDown) Championship, the NXT Girls’s Championship, and the tag titles.
Bayley turned the first-ever ladies’s grand slam champion in Might 2019 when she claimed the WWE Girls’s Tag Staff Championships with Saha Banks, which made them the inaugural champions. Asuka joined her on the desk in April 2020 earlier than Banks accomplished her grand slam in October 2020.
Charlotte Aptitude, essentially the most embellished ladies’s wrestler in historical past, had gained all of the gold by December 2020, and it took three years earlier than one other member of the ladies’s division achieved mentioned feat. Rhea Ripley did so in April 2023 when she gained the Girls’s World Championship towards Charlotte at WrestleMania 39.
Becky Lynch is the newest feminine star to turn out to be a grand slam champion, doing so again in September 2023, and he or she’s the primary to assert one of many newly launched midcard titles. She is the reigning Girls’s Intercontinental Champion, which implies she’s the inaugural grand slam winner of a brand new format together with these championships.
