Talk:Triple Crown (professional wrestling)

Suggested merge

Object. The existing triple crown article is already long and cluttered. McPhail 17:14, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

However, the TNA Triple Crown is not as notable in and of itself: there has only been one winner, and it is unlikely that there will be any in the near future. There is simply not enough content to justify a separate article for TNA's Triple Crown. kelvSYC 17:25, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The article as it stands is longer than the majority of articles on wrestlers, or professional wrestling slang. Moreover, you wish to merge the article based in part on your speculatory claim that "it is unlikely that there will be any in the near future". The TNA Triple Crown is notable because it is regularly acknowledged and mentioned by TNA. The WWE Triple Crown is rarely mentioned or acknowledged by WWE, so has little claim to notability. The existing Triple Crown Champion article is a mess, and merging more content into it will not improve matters. McPhail 18:08, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What can we add to it? What we have in a separate page is simply a mere stub - I highly doubt that we can add any more actual non-cruft content in it. If there is no way a stub could be expanded, you merge it - standard Wikipedia policy. kelvSYC 21:52, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The article is not a stub in its current form. It could also be further expanded by adding detailed descriptions of Styles's respective title wins, including who he defeated and where. McPhail 19:53, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds like cruft to me - it's needless repetitive info that can be found elsewhere - such as the article on Styles. kelvSYC 20:57, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kurt Angle has won 5 of the 6 championships and yet he does not appear on this list? Whats the Deal With that?

With the WWE Triple Crown, its only championships that come under the WWE Era, so during the invasion era, Kurt Angle and Edge won the WCW United States title, but it is only recognized in the WWE Triple Crown from when Eddie Guerrero won the title in 2003.

Actually, both Edge and Kurt Angle's title wins are recognised in the title's history by WWE, and it traces back into WCW.

TNA GRAND SLAM

I have removed the ric flair, dusty rhodes and ricky steamboat refrences from the bottom of this page under the potential champions list, because it says right above the chart in the same section of this page that only NWA champions in TNA count, where Flair, Rhodes and Steamboat have never held either the NWA tag or NWA world championships in Total Non-Stop Action

ROH Triple Crown?

Should there be a section for this? No one has done it but it has been brought up in storylines on many ocassions, and there are three wrestlers (Joe, Punk, Aries) who are all one belt shy. Tromboneguy0186 08:00, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. Championship

When Kurt Angle and Edge won their titles, they were still under the WCW name.

WCW was a different company from WWE (though WWE bought them out, they were still presented as a seperate outfit), and as long as the title was still recognised as a WCW title, it can't count as a WWE championship.

On July 27, 2003, Eddie Guerrero became the first U.S. Champion under the WWE banner.

Simple logic says that a WCW Championship does not count toward a WWE Triple Crown.

WWE recognises these reigns as part of their US Title's history, therefore they are reigns with a WWE belt, and do count towards the Triple Crown.

How can title reigns that occured in (and under the auspices of) WCW count toward a WWE triple crown? WWE picked up the U.S. title as part of the WCW purchase, and was never meant to be a WWE title. But when the Intercontinental Championship returned to Raw, The U.S. title was brought out of mothballs for Smackdown to balance things out.

Only a title fought for in a WWE ring, officaly sanctioned by WWE, and under the WWE banner count in a WWE triple crown.

To put it simply, unless the belt has a WWE logo on it, it doesn't count toward a wrestler's WWE record.

Yes, yes it does, because WWE recognises these records. The US Title is not passed off as a new belt, like the World Heavyweight Title. If you've held a current WWE title in the past, and WWE acknowledges that you have, it counts towards the Triple Crown. And by the way, Angle and Edge's title wins were fought for in a WWE ring, officaly sanctioned by WWE, and under the WWE banner.