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The PWF Triple Crown is an achievement of epic proportions, an achievement that will require a variety of skills in a variety of settings, such as sustained, consistent excellence, managing a truly chaotic setting with opponents and rivals coming from all sides, remarkable endurance and conditioning, and rallying a team of friends or foes in the pursuit of a common goal ... just to name a few. Three of the following four phases must be won or survived in order to become an official PWF Triple Crown Champion:

(1) The PWF Championship. Quite simply, it is the most prestigious championship or title in professional wrestling history.
(2) The Battle Field. The goal? To outlast 29 of the greatest wrestlers in the world during the most exciting hour of wrestling each year.
(3) The King of the Ring Tournament. The eight who qualify for it are among the greatest in the world; the one who survives three matches in a single night, among the greatest of all-time.
(4) The Recoil match. It is the ultimate in gang warfare. Truly, only the fittest survive in this setting with their health, bodies, and careers intact.

To-date, only five men are able to call themselves Professional Wrestling Federation Triple Crown Champions: PWF Hall of Famer Mr. Perfect, John Cena, Shane Douglas, Bret Hart, and Steve Austin. Mr. Perfect was the first and, for nearly a year-and-a-half, only Triple Crown Champion. Cena then followed suit with his survival of a Recoil match; Perfect and Cena would be joined a little over a year after that by The Franchise, when Douglas was one of two winners of the 2008 Battle Field. Hart would join the exclusive group by winning the 2009 King of the Ring Tournament, and Austin by helping Team PWF turn back the Triple Threat and the New Breed at Recoil 2009.

TRIPLE CROWN CHAMPIONS »

TRIPLE CROWN CHAMPION	PWF CHAMPION	BATTLE FIELD WINNER	KING OF THE RING	RECOIL SURVIVOR	DATE ACHIEVED
Mr. Perfect					02-15-06
John Cena					08-01-07
Shane Douglas					09-03-08
Bret Hart					01-12-09
Steve Austin					06-08-09

Four men are missing just one of these accomplishments in order for themselves to be able to join this elite fraternity of champions. Those men are Raven, PWF Hall of Famer and current PWF commissioner Barry Wright, Lance Storm, and Rob Van Dam.

All four have won the PWF Championship, so they will have to score their third crown at one of the PWF's three annual Triple Crown Events -- King of the Ring, Recoil, and Fall Battle Fields.

Needless to say, with one of the crowns being attaining the greatest championship in wrestling history and the other three being attainable just once each per calendar year, opportunities to score any of the three crowns necessary to become a Triple Crown Champion are few and far between.