3 Superstars who have won championship gold in WWE, Impact Wrestling, NJPW and ROH
Now, every once in a while, one of these little pieces of trivia comes up that you'll just never hear on television. Many promotions tend to no-sell championship achievements and sometimes full careers outside of their own company, to avoid giving credit to said promotion for building a Superstar and just to avoid giving them publicity and essentially boosting competition - but of course it's the case that most wrestlers have worked for more than one company.
Winning gold in several? Well, that's a completely different question altogether. For obvious reasons, no-one who has competed in WWE, ROH, NJPW or Impact has won a title in AEW - but there are three men who have won gold in the other four promotions. While this may not seem like a huge feat at face value, and you may think some answers are obvious - like Samoa Joe, Hulk Hogan etc, you quickly realise that you may have completely forgot about one promotion.
I implore you, try have a little guess before clicking through to the next slide - because while AJ Styles is a very obvious answer, the other two will definitely surprise you!
#3 AJ Styles
Of course we have to start with AJ Styles. He's undoubtedly the least surprising name on the list.
Now, AJ is now well versed in WWE title winning - holding both the WWE Championship and the WWE United States Championship on multiple occasions apiece, but there was one point where even Styles wrestling in a WWE ring seemed unlikely, but that doesn't mean he wasn't winning gold elsewhere.
The Phenomenal One's stats read as follows:
WWE:
- WWE Champion (2 times)
- WWE United States Champion (3 times)
Impact Wrestling:
- NWA World Heavyweight Championship (3 times)
- NWA World Tag Team Championship (4 times)
- TNA Legends/Global/Television Championship (2 times)
- TNA World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
- TNA World Tag Team Championship (2 times)
- TNA X Division Championship (6 times)
- First TNA Triple Crown Champion (5 times)
- First TNA Grand Slam Champion (2 times)
NJPW:
- IWGP Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
Ring of Honor:
- ROH Pure Championship (1 time)
- ROH World Tag Team Championship (1 time)