A random question about rookie year title reigns

[Theo Dious]

Diesel won the Triple Crown in his rookie year and went on to be the longest reigning WWF champion of the 90s. Hard to beat that.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Originally Posted by Tedious Diesel won the Triple Crown in his rookie year and went on to be the longest reigning WWF champion of the 90s. Hard to beat that.

I was actually unaware this happened during Diesel's rookie year. I've looked it up and I think that while Diesel won the Triple Crown within a year of each other, the dates he won the WWE Title and World Tag Team Titles actually fell outside of his rookie year. His IC Title reign, while impressive, didn't extend past Bret Hart's WWE Title reign at the time. Alunda Blayze was also the Women's Champion for the entire duration of Diesel's IC Title reign.

This would actually put Blayze into the discussion. She debuted in the WWE in 1993 and proceeded to hold the Women's Title for 342 days, but she had appeared in WCW in the past. It just comes down to whether you want to talk about company rookie years or "big stage" rookie years, in which case you'd probably count promotions that had legitimate World Titles as "big stage" promotions.

Diesel winning the Triple Crown all within a year was certainly something worth getting the man notice, however. CM Punk did a similar thing when he won the World Heavyweight Championship, World Tag Team Championship and Intercontinental Championship all within a year of each other around 2008.