10 Wrestlers Who Were World Champions In More Than One Company At The Same Time
Being the champ is hard enough, but holding two belts at once is something else...
At Rebellion 2021, Kenny Omega defeated Rich Swann to add the IMPACT World Championship to his ever-expanding belt collection.
In one of the most predictable results in modern wrestling history, The Cleaner ended the night as the top dog in three promotions at once: AEW, IMPACT, and AAA. Time will tell if this unique strategy pays off. The interest surrounding this match has put thousands of new eyes on the IMPACT product, but will Omega have time in his busy schedule to devote to his new position?
Questions like this are the reason most companies do not put their top title around the waist of an outsider. It's unconventional, it's risky, but that's not to say it hasn't been done before.
Much like Kenny, some of these performers used their status as multi-champs to enhance their character. However, in some cases, you'd be forgiven for forgetting these reigns ever happened as they were never mentioned in storylines.
For a business that doesn't traditionally involve a lot of co-operation, it's nice to see that the big promotions can get along with each other from time to time.
Let's crack on...
10. Kenny Omega
Yes, alright, this feels a bit like we've fooled you but it's important to remember that the IMPACT belt wasn't the first belt that Kenny added to his collection.
In fact, neither was the AEW belt.
Kenny Omega has been the champion of Mexican promotion, AAA, since October 2019.
Kenny won the brilliantly-titled "Mega Championship" from another member of the AEW roster - Rey Fenix - defeating the masked man at AAA's "Héroes Inmortales XIII" show.
Owing to Kenny's status as a full-time AEW wrestler (and the small matter of a global pandemic), Omega has somewhat neglected his duties as Mega Champion. He's only defended the title four times, despite having reigned for over 560 days at time of writing. His only major defences have been against Sammy Guevara on an episode of Dynamite and against Laredo Kid at AAA's biggest show of the year, TripleMania, in December 2020.
As the world opens up, hopefully AAA can begin to utilise the star power of their top champion once again.
Meanwhile, IMPACT will be watching and hoping they don't suffer the same fate.