5 best triple threat Championship matches in WWE

The triple threat match is a special kind of match in the WWE, where three players compete instead of conventional matches featuring two players and one of them emerges victorious defeating the other two. While WWE has witnessed several triple threat matches, not many Championship matches have had a triple threat competition.

Over the years a couple of matches took place for any championship where three superstars fought, but only one walked out with the title. Below is a list of five such matches, where a Championship was at stake and in those matches three players fought one another to obtain the title. The list comprises both the male and female divisions in the WWE.

#5 Batista vs The Great Khali vs Rey Mysterio - World Heavyweight Championship

Batista won the World Heavyweight Championship

At the Unforgiven pay-per-view, the World Heavyweight Championship was at stake when Khali, Rey Mysterio and Batista fought each other to claim the title. It was perhaps a unique triple threat match in WWE history, where the tallest and the most dominant wrestler was in the same ring fighting the ultimate underdog in the locker room.

The 'animal' Batista fought hard with the 'Punjabi Playboy' Khali and the master of cruiser-weights Rey Mysterio. The match witnessed a number of Spine-busters, various slams, high flying action and many more signature moves from each of the players.

In the end, Batista threw Rey Mysterio out of the ring and pulled a vicious Spine-buster on the Khali. He then pinned Khali and won the World Heavyweight Championship from him.

#4 AJ Lee vs Nikki Bella vs Paige - Divas Championship

AJ Lee walked out as the Divas Champion

The Divas division in the WWE mostly witnesses a one-on-one match between the female wrestlers. Rarely do we get to see a triple threat match among the divas, and that too for the title. One such match occurred on the pay-per-view, Night of Champions in 2014. The match featured AJ Lee, Paige and Nikki Bella fighting one another to be crowned as the Divas Champion.

The three female superstars did everything possible to defeat their opponents and win the title. However, AJ Lee had the last laugh, as she made Paige submit to the lock, 'Black Widow' to cast the final impression and walked out as three-time Divas Champion in WWE.

The reason it is at number four is that it is one of the rare triple threat battles in the women's division in WWE that involved various feuds, plots and story-lines for a couple of weeks and thus bought a different level of excitement among the WWE Universe to root for this match.

#3 Jeff Hardy vs Triple H vs Edge - WWE Championship

Jeff Hardy defeated both Triple H and Edge to become the WWE Champion

Back in 2008, at the Armageddon pay-per-view, the main event comprised of a triple threat stipulation to determine the WWE Champion amongst Jeff Hardy, Edge and Triple H. This was an extraordinary match, in a sense all the three players were capable of bringing unique moves and entertainment quotient to the crowd. Hardy was the 'extreme' guy, while Edge was 'the ultimate opportunist' and Triple H was the real 'game' changer.

The match lasted for more than seventeen minutes and throughout the match, it was raining Swanton Bomb, Spear, Spine-buster, Pedigree and several other hardcore moves which were grave enough to break each other's bones inside the body. In the end, Hardy fought all the odds and was successful in pinning Edge. Thus, Jeff Hardy won the match and his first ever and only WWE Championship till date.

#2 John Cena vs Edge vs Big Show - World Heavyweight Championship

WrestleMania 25 hosted an epic triple threat match between John Cena, Edge and the Big Show for the World Heavyweight Championship. The odds were stacked against Cena as prior to the match and also during the match, Edge and Big Show paired up and formed an alliance to crush Cena. This was one helluva match, as the contest witnessed an epic combination of Spears, Choke-slam, Knockout punches, STF and several other classical moves from the trio, to knock down one another.

Each of them kept the cards rolling in their approbation until John Cena stupefied everyone by lifting both Edge and the Big Show on his back for the attitude adjustment. After that, he pinned Big Show and won the World Heavyweight Championship again at the 25th anniversary of WrestleMania.

#1 Brock Lesnar vs Braun Strowman vs Kane - Universal Championship

The trio faced each other at Royal Rumble 2018

At the Royal Rumble pay-per-view in 2018, the world witnessed an epic collision between Braun Strowman, Kane and Brock Lesnar for the Universal Championship. It was a triple threat match where 'the beast', had to defend his title against 'the Big Red Machine' and the 'monster among men'.

This was one hell of a match as the entire WWE universe had the privilege of watching three of the greatest performers alive today in sports entertainment, colliding together for the ultimate reward- the Universal Championship. Throughout the match, the three players displayed inhuman strengths, unbelievable physicality and vicious moves and went on to grasp the air out of each other.

In the end, an injured Brock Lesnar somehow managed to deliver his signature move F-5 on a vulnerable Kane, who was already not in his proper senses as he had suffered enough damage at the hands of Lesnar and Strowman. The move helped Lesnar to pin Kane and thus retain the Universal Championship.

This match is perhaps the greatest triple threat championship match in the WWE.