5 Most Prominent Double Champions In WWE History

Somebody had to leave the Great American Bash with two belts (barring a screwjob finish) and it ended up being the looming Keith Lee. By ending Adam Cole's 13-month reign as NXT champion, Lee now totes around two championship belts, including the North American title that he's held for quite some time. And he's far from the first double champion to come under WWE's auspices.

Particularly in recent years, double champions have been a somewhat-regular occurrence in WWE. More often than not, the example in question is a singles champion that wins the Tag Team belts with a makeshift partner, but there have been plenty of singles double champs like Lee. Sometimes said wrestlers tote around both belts for however long, and other times, they lose one fairly quickly as a matter of restoring balance.

For this list, we're only looking at those who've won two singles belts (preferably with one of them being a World title). And we're looking exclusively at WWE here (sorry, Ultimo Dragon - but hey, nobody will ever be awesome enough to equal your glorious 10 simultaneous titles).

Somebody had to leave the Great American Bash with two belts (barring a screwjob finish) and it ended up being the looming Keith Lee. By ending Adam Cole's 13-month reign as NXT champion, Lee now totes around two championship belts, including the North American title that he's held for quite some time. And he's far from the first double champion to come under WWE's auspices.

Particularly in recent years, double champions have been a somewhat-regular occurrence in WWE. More often than not, the example in question is a singles champion that wins the Tag Team belts with a makeshift partner, but there have been plenty of singles double champs like Lee. Sometimes said wrestlers tote around both belts for however long, and other times, they lose one fairly quickly as a matter of restoring balance.

For this list, we're only looking at those who've won two singles belts (preferably with one of them being a World title). And we're looking exclusively at WWE here (sorry, Ultimo Dragon - but hey, nobody will ever be awesome enough to equal your glorious 10 simultaneous titles).

5. Seth Rollins

Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart did all he could to prevent US champion John Cena from tying Ric Flair's stated record of 16 World titles. In effect, he allowed WWE champ Seth Rollins to capture his first secondary singles belt with the promotion.

Rollins dropped the US title back to Cena a month later, which was probably for the best. Though the dude enjoys Crossfit and is in great shape, how was he going to swing two belts over his head? That sounds more challenging than it's actually worth.

4. Rob Van Dam

This might've meant a little bit more had one belt (the ECW title) not been simply gifted to Van Dam by Paul Heyman, but at least his winning of the WWE championship (hey, there's Cena again) in front of the ECW New York faithful, provided a memorable scene.

Van Dam had all of three weeks to enjoy the two belts, as a drug-related arrest in Ohio (which ultimately led to a fine plus the paying of court costs) resulted in RVD dropping both belts on consecutive nights to Edge and The Big Show.

3. Becky Lynch

The WrestleMania 35 main event pitting Lynch against Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair was historic, but left some people wanting. The finish was unfortunately bungled, and Flair's presence in the match stuck in the craw of viewers who just wanted Lynch vs. Rousey.

Nonetheless, the result was more than satisfactory for fans of Lynch, who revelled in "Becky Two Belts" getting the closing spotlight. And you know Becky's got pull when she can say "belt" on the air, in a time where an angry Vince is likely to bark, "TITLE!"

2. Ultimate Warrior

Not the first example of a double champion in WWE (Bruno Sammartino and Bob Backlund each won Tag belts while holding the World title), but certainly the first in the WrestleMania era. "The Ultimate Challenge" at WrestleMania 6 was a monumental happening.

In what's arguably each man's greatest match ever, IC champion Warrior outlasted WWF champion Hulk Hogan in a historic hero vs. hero match at Toronto's SkyDome. He vacated the IC gold shortly thereafter and reigned for more than nine months with the top belt.

1. Chris Jericho

He's only brought it up once or twice, so you'll be forgiven if you didn't know that Jericho once defeated The Rock and Steve Austin in the same night to unify the WCW and WWF championships. You'd think Jericho would mention an achievement like that more often.

But it's true, Jericho won a two-match parlay at the 2001 Vengeance pay-per-view, beating two industrial cornerstones to capture the top belts of the once-feuding promotions. "Le Champion de Double" was sadly, and inexplicably, treated as an afterthought in the months ahead.