Winning one championship is a good thing. Winning two champions is a great thing but winning all the possible championship out there is a legendary thing.
And that’s why such winners have a special place in professional wrestling folklore and are referred to as ‘Grand Slam Champions’.
Becoming one is not a cake walk. It requires a lot of hard work and a ton of versatility because one will have to excel in the main event scene, the mid card, and the tag team division.
Some superstars have managed to excel despite these constraints and this list is going to take a look at those performers that deserve some credit for being grand slam champions.
The list will include only the grand slam champions under the current format which means that they should’ve won the WWE championship, the Tag Team Championship, United States Championship and the Intercontinental championship.
Chris Jericho
Chris Jericho is the only exceptional case in this list because he is the only wrestler in the history of WWE to have won all the WWE Championships under the original format. His first title in the WWE was the Intercontinental Championship which he won in 1999.
A year later, Jericho won the European Championship before winning the Hardcore Championship in 2001.
2001 proved to be a great year for Jericho when he went on to win the World Tag team Championship and the WWE Championship. Seven years later, Jericho became the World Heavyweight champion and a year later, he won the WWE tag team championship to complete this great achievement.
Kurt Angle
Kurt Angle, before leaving for TNA, had won all the major titles in WWE. The first title that came his way was the Intercontinental Championship which came in 2000. Just months later, Angle would go on to win the WWE Championship as well for the first time.
2001 proved to be the year in which he won the United States Championship before winning the Tag Team Championship in 2002 and becoming a Grand Slam Champion.
One achievement that Kurt has, ahead of all the other wrestlers in this list, is that he has won all the championships in TNA as well. He is a six-time TNA World Heavyweight Champion, one time X-Division Champion and two-time Tag Team Champion.
Eddie Guerrero
Eddie Guerrero will be remembered for a lot of things, but not many know that he is a Grand Slam Champion. Eddie was a mainstay in the mid card for major part of his career and it was in 2000 that he won his first Championship, in the form of Intercontinental Title.
Eddie then won the Tag Team Championship for the first time with Chavo Guerrero in 2002 followed by United States Championship in 2003.
The most iconic win of Eddie’s career came next when he won the WWE Championship in February of 2004, and cemented his legacy as a Grand Slam Champion.
Edge
Edge’s career was shortened drastically due to injuries, but that did not stop him from going on to become a Grand Slam Champion before he hung up his boots. Edge, who was a prominent figure in the WWE from the days of the Attitude Era itself, started his journey in 1999 by winning the Intercontinental Championship.
In 2001, he won the United States Championship and in 2002, he won the Tag team championship alongside Rey Mysterio.
His career saw a huge spike in the mid-2000s where he was elevated as a main event heel. It was during this time that he got his hands on the WWE Championship and completed his grand slam journey.
Big Show
The big guy is nothing more than a laughing stock for the fan these days. Numerous turns and some forgettable booking have cost Show big time, but these are not enough to erase the past.
Big Show had a great career and the grand slam achievement is the proof for this. Unlike a majority of the superstars on this list, Big Show first achieved the WWE championship. The win came in 1999 when he was still red hot in the company.
Four years later, Big Show won the United States Championship. He then won the Tag Team Championship alongside Chris Jericho in 2009, before going on to win the Intercontinental Championship in 2012.
Daniel Bryan
Daniel Bryan’s entry into WWE was late. Although he was an established name in the Independent circuit, it took Bryan time to break the proverbial glass ceiling in WWE. He started off with the United States Championship in 2010 and later won the Tag Team championship alongside Kane in the famous Team Hell-No angle.
In 2013, Bryan went on to win the primary Championship but the win we will mostly remember is his iconic WrestleMania outing.
In 2015, Bryan completed his grand slam when he won the Intercontinental Championship. Bryan did all these in the span of just five years and if he had some more years in him, he would have added more achievements to his resume.
The Miz
We saved the most surprising one for the last and it’s none other than The Miz. Miz, who came through reality shows, showed that he was championship material when he first won the Tag Team Championship in 2007 with John Morrison.
The duo had huge success and WWE soon trusted Miz with a singles championship in 2009 when he became the United States Champion.
The biggest surprise of Miz’s career perhaps came in 2010 when he went on to win the WWE Championship too. It was hard to digest for many but it was what it was. He completed his grand slam two years later by winning the Intercontinental Championship.
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