The Grand Slam is an accomplishment recognized by various

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promotions in the

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and

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. It is a distinction given to a professional wrestler who has either won four specific championships within a promotion throughout their career, or all available championships. Promotions that recognize this include

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(since 1997),

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (abbreviated as TNA Wrestling or TNA) is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Nashville, Tennessee. It is a subsidiary of Anthem Sports & Entertainment, a Canadian media company owned by busines ...

(since 2009),

Ring of Honor Ring of Honor (ROH) is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Jacksonville, Florida. The promotion was founded by Rob Feinstein on February 23, 2002, and was operated by Cary Silkin from 2004 until 2011; the promotion was subs ...

(since 2018),

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(since 2021), and

All Elite Wrestling All Elite Wrestling (AEW) is an American professional wrestling promotion headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. It is owned and operated by Shahid Khan, Shahid and Tony Khan, with the latter serving as President (corporate title), president an ...

(since 2025). The four titles typically include three singles championships, one of them usually being a world title, plus a

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championship.

U.S. national promotions

WWE

(formerly WWF), the term "Grand Slam" was originally used by

Shawn Michaels Shawn Michaels (born Michael Shawn Hickenbottom on July 22, 1965) is an American retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he is the Senior Vice President of Talent Development, Creative, and oversees the creative aspects of th ...

to describe himself upon winning the

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on September 20, 1997. Michaels previously held the

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, Intercontinental Championship, and the

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—the titles that composed the Triple Crown. In May 2001, the promotion's website indicated that the Hardcore Championship was an acceptable substitute for the European Championship in the Grand Slam. Kane, who had defeated

Triple H Paul Michael Levesque (; born July 27, 1969), also known by the ring name Triple H, is an American business executive and former professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he serves as its chief content officer. Levesque began his wres ...

for the Intercontinental Championship at

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on May 20, 2001, was acknowledged as a Grand Slam winner as he had "become the only superstar in World Wrestling Federation history that has held the Intercontinental title as well as the Hardcore, Tag Team and WWF titles". In April 2006,

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was noted as being a former Grand Slam winner on WWE.com, having won the WWE, WWE Tag Team, Intercontinental, and European Championship, indicating that WWE considered the

WWE Tag Team Championship The WWE Tag Team Championship is a men's professional wrestling world tag team championship created and promoted by the United States, American professional wrestling promotion, promotion WWE, defended on the SmackDown (WWE brand), SmackDown WWE ...

to be an acceptable substitute for the World Tag Team Championship. In August 2007, WWE.com published an article listing Shawn Michaels' championship reigns that completed the Grand Slam. They included the WWE, World Heavyweight, World Tag Team, Intercontinental, and European Championship. The inclusion of the World Heavyweight Championship indicated that WWE considered the title to be an acceptable substitute for the WWE Championship in completing the Grand Slam. At ECW One Night Stand in June 2006,

Rob Van Dam Robert Szatkowski (born December 18, 1970) better known by his ring name Rob Van Dam (frequently abbreviated to RVD) is an American professional wrestler. Known for his unique ring style—which includes his variety of kicks, acrobatic movemen ...

became the first superstar acquired by WWE after the purchase of

World Championship Wrestling World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion founded by Ted Turner in 1988, after Turner Broadcasting System, through a subsidiary named Universal Wrestling Corporation, purchased the assets of National W ...

and

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in 2001 to complete the Grand Slam when he defeated

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for the WWE Championship.

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became the second star acquired by the purchase to complete the Grand Slam when he defeated Rey Mysterio for the World Heavyweight Championship at The Great American Bash in July 2006. Booker has held the World Tag Team, Intercontinental, and Hardcore titles. Also in 2006, WWE revived the ECW Championship and established it as a third world championship in its promotion but was never considered as a world title that was part of their Grand Slam eligibility. Following

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in 2015, WWE (which four years earlier ended the brand extension and unified several titles before that) established an updated version of the Grand Slam consisting of the four then-active men's titles in WWE: the WWE World, Intercontinental,

, and WWE Tag Team Championships. Thirteen wrestlers have been recognized as Grand Slam winners under these new parameters (including five who were already recognized as Grand Slam winners under the original guidelines). The brand extension was re-established in 2016 and WWE indicated that two new championships that had been introduced, the Universal Championship (which would be retired in April 2024) and the SmackDown Tag Team Championship, would count as acceptable substitutes for their counterpart titles (WWE Championship and WWE Tag Team, now World Tag Team, respectively) as part of the Grand Slam.

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completed the original format the fastest, completing it in 728 days between December 1999 and December 2001, while

completed the modern format the fastest, completing it in 966 days between February 2000 and October 2002. On February 21, 2021, WWE acknowledged

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as the first wrestler to complete the Grand Slam twice under the revised 2015 format after winning his second WWE Championship.

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would become the second two-time Grand Slam Champion by winning the

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a second time in October 2022. In May 2023, WWE added a third world championship with a new version of the World Heavyweight Championship. It is unclear if this title would be added as an acceptable substitute for the Grand Slam.

List of WWE Grand Slam winners

As of , , there have been 22 individual Grand Slam Champions. 17 wrestlers have only achieved it once, seven under the original format and 10 under the modern format, while five wrestlers have achieved the Grand Slam under both formats, three of whom automatically became modern Grand Slam champions at the introduction of the modern format (with the same titles they won while becoming original Grand Slam champions), and two who became modern Grand Slam champions after the modern format was introduced (with different titles won to complete both formats).

= Original format (established 1997)

= Revised format (established 2015)

= The modern WWE Grand Slam consists of the

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, and World Tag Team (formerly WWE/Raw Tag Team) Championships. Two other championships—the Universal and WWE Tag Team (formerly SmackDown Tag Team) Championships—were added in 2016 as alternative titles to the WWE title and Tag Team Championships respectively following the reintroduction of the brand extension. In regards to the United States Champion, due to its lineage, WWE only counts United States Championship reigns that took place in WWE, whether it bore the WCW or WWE moniker. Edge and Kurt Angle held the title when it was the WCW United States Championship. Eddie Guerrero’s first reign does not count as a result of this rule, since it took place in WCW.

List of WWE Women's Grand Slam winners

File:Bayley Raw Women's Belt.jpg File:Bayley Smackdown Champion 2019 02.jpg File:Bayley NXT Women's Champion NXT Takeover Dallas 2016.jpg File:Bayley Tag Champ.png In May 2019, Bayley (above) was announced as WWE's first-ever Women's Grand Slam champion, having won (from left to right) the Raw (now

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), SmackDown (now Women's World Championship), and NXT singles championships, and the

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. In November 2024, WWE introduced two women's secondary titles for the main roster—the WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship and WWE Women's United States Championship. It has not yet been revealed how WWE will handle these in regards to the women's Grand Slam. As of , , there have been seven individual Women's Grand Slam champions.

Rhea Ripley Demi Bennett (born 11 October 1996) is an Australian professional wrestler. As of July 2017, she is signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw (WWE brand), Raw WWE brand extension, brand under the ring name Rhea Ripley. She is a List of Women ...

has completed the Grand Slam the fastest, completing it in 1,200 days between December 2019 and April 2023, while

Becky Lynch Rebecca Quin (born 30 January 1987), better known by the ring name Becky Lynch, is an Irish professional wrestler. She is signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand and is the current WWE Women’s Intercontinental Champion in her ...

took the longest time to complete the Grand Slam, doing so in 2,257 days between September 2016 and September 2023.

TNA Wrestling (2009)

The first

(TNA - known as Impact Wrestling from 2017–2023) Grand Slam winner was crowned on March 15, 2009, at TNA's Destination X

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event. At said event, then three-time TNA Triple Crown champion A.J. Styles defeated

for the TNA Legends Championship. On the March 19 episode of TNA's primary television program, ''

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'', announcer

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stated that Styles had become the first TNA Grand Slam winner by capturing the World Heavyweight ( NWA or TNA), World Tag Team ( NWA or TNA),

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, and Legends Championships (The Legends Championship was subsequently renamed the Global, Television, and King of the Mountain Championship, before being fully retired). Under TNA's definition of the Grand Slam, wrestlers are eligible to be a multiple Grand Slam winner each time they complete a new circuit. Thus far, only A.J. Styles has won the Grand Slam on more than one occasion. On August 15, 2016, the TNA King of the Mountain Championship was once again retired when Lashley unified the title into his TNA World Heavyweight Championship. In a March 26, 2018, article on the Impact Wrestling website, the eligibility of the

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, which replaced the King of the Mountain Championship, as a Grand Slam title was confirmed. Since 2018, any future Grand Slam winners are limited to those who had already held either the Legends/Global/TV/King of the Mountain title or Grand Championship, as during a press conference on June 4, 2018,

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unified the

with the Impact world title.

List of TNA Grand Slam winners

Ring of Honor (2018)

In 2018,

(ROH) established its own version of the Grand Slam, which consists of the

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, ROH World Television Championship,

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, and ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship.

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was the first wrestler to achieve this feat, doing so at the ROH 16th Anniversary Show, when he won the Six-Man titles to complete the Grand Slam. After Jay Lethal won the ROH World Tag Team Championship, he was announced as a Grand Slam Champion since he had won the ROH Pure Championship in the past, indicating that the Pure and Six-Man Tag Team Titles are interchangeable as the fourth component to the ROH Grand Slam.

List of ROH Grand Slam winners

All Elite Wrestling (2025)

(AEW),

Kenny Omega Tyson Smith (born October 16, 1983), better known by the ring name , is a Canadian-born professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is the current AEW International Champion in his first reign. He also works as an ...

became recognized as the company's first-ever Grand Slam Champion upon winning the

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on March 9, 2025, after having previously won the

AEW World Championship The AEW World Championship is a men's professional wrestling World championship (professional wrestling), world championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion, promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW). Unveiled on ...

(pictured with Omega), the AEW World Tag Team Championship, and the

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two times—the titles that compose AEW's Triple Crown of which Omega was also the first to achieve.

List of AEW Grand Slam winners

U.S. regional/independent promotions

Florida Championship Wrestling (2012)

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(FCW), WWE's former

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, a Grand Slam winner was a wrestler who had won every championship that was available in FCW. All FCW titles were retired when FCW changed its name to NXT.

List of FCW Grand Slam winners

Japan

New Japan Pro-Wrestling (2021)

In 2021,

retroactively established its own version of the Grand Slam, occasionally also referred to as the Quadruple Crown, consisting of the

IWGP Heavyweight Championship The was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship owned by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. "IWGP" is the acronym of NJPW's governing body, the . The title was introduced on June 12, 1987, in the final of an IW ...

, the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship, the

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and the NEVER Openweight Championship. The NJPW Grand Slam is unique in Grand Slams as it consists of four singles championships. Jay White was the first to achieve this feat, completing the circuit on May 3, 2021 at Wrestling Dontaku 2021. It is currently unknown if another NJPW Grand Slam will be established, as both the IWGP Heavyweight and Intercontinental titles were retired in 2021 in favor of the

IWGP World Heavyweight Championship The is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship owned by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. "IWGP" is the acronym of NJPW's governing body, the . The championship was created on March 1, 2021, by the unification of t ...

, and the United States Championship in 2023 in favor of the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship.

List of NJPW Grand Slam winners

Ice Ribbon (2012)

In the ''joshi

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'' (

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) promotion

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, the Grand Slam consists of the ICE×60/ICE×∞ Championship, the International Ribbon Tag Team Championship, the

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and the IW19 Championship.

List of Ice Ribbon Grand Slam winners

Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (2023–present)

In TJPW, the Grand Slam consists of all the available titles promoted by the company. They are the Princess of Princess Championship, the Princess Tag Team Championship, and the International Princess Championship. On March 18, 2023, during the Grand Princess event, Rika Tatsumi became the first Grand Slam champion in TJPW's history.

List of Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling Grand Slam winners

World Wonder Ring Stardom (2022)

In the ''joshi

'' (

) promotion

World Wonder Ring Stardom , is a Japanese ''joshi puroresu'' or women's professional wrestling professional wrestling promotion, promotion based in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan. Stardom was founded in September 2010 by former All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) co-producer Ross ...

, the Grand Slam consists of all the available titles promoted by the company except the Future of Stardom Championship. They are the World of Stardom Championship, the

Wonder of Stardom Championship The is a women's professional wrestling Championship (professional wrestling), championship owned by the World Wonder Ring Stardom professional wrestling promotion, promotion. The title, which in Stardom's championship hierarchy is situated as t ...

, the Goddesses of Stardom Championship, the

Artist of Stardom Championship The is a professional wrestling Professional wrestling tag team match types#Multiple man teamed matches, six-woman tag team Championship (professional wrestling), championship owned by World Wonder Ring Stardom. The title was first announced dur ...

and the

High Speed Championship The is a women's professional wrestling Championship (professional wrestling), championship owned by the World Wonder Ring Stardom professional wrestling promotion, promotion. The title was originally created on May 5, 2009, in the NEO Japan Lad ...

. The SWA World Championship was also part of this lineup but it was deactivated in 2022. The notion of "grand slam" was first officially mentioned on May 5, 2022, when

Mayu Iwatani (born February 19, 1993) is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently signed to Dream Star Fighting Marigold, where she is the current Marigold Super Fly Champion in her first reign. She is best known for her tenure with World Wonder Ring Sta ...

became the second wrestler in the company to achieve the feat, after Io Shirai.

List of World Wonder Ring Stardom Grand Slam winners

Notes

References

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