WWE Women's Championship

This article is about WWE's women's title established in 2016 and currently used on SmackDown. For the women's title also established in 2016 and currently defended on Raw, see Women's World Championship (WWE). For the title of the same name existing from 1956 to 2010, see WWE Women's Championship (1956–2010). For other WWE women's championships, see Women's championships in WWE.
WWE Women's Championship
The current WWE Women's Championship belt with default side plates (2023–present)
Details
PromotionWWE
BrandSmackDown
Date establishedApril 3, 2016
Current champion(s)Nia Jax
Date wonAugust 3, 2024
Other name(s)
  • WWE Women's Championship
    (2016, 2023–present)
  • WWE Raw Women's Championship
    (2016–2023)
Statistics
First champion(s)Charlotte Flair[a]
Most reignsCharlotte Flair
(6 reigns)
Longest reignBianca Belair
(1st reign, 420 days)[b]
Shortest reignBianca Belair
(2nd reign, 1 minute and 35 seconds)
Oldest championAsuka
(41 years, 243 days)
Youngest championSasha Banks
(24 years, 181 days)
Heaviest championNia Jax
(272 lb (123 kg))
Lightest championAlexa Bliss
(102 pounds (46 kg))

The WWE Women's Championship is a women's professional wrestling world championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, defended on the SmackDown brand division. It is one of two women's world titles for WWE's main roster, along with the Women's World Championship on Raw. The current champion is Nia Jax, who is in her second reign.[c] She won the title by defeating Bayley at SummerSlam on August 3, 2024.

Established on April 3, 2016, at WrestleMania 32, it replaced the Divas Championship and has a unique title history, separate from WWE's original Women's Championship and the Divas Championship. Charlotte Flair, then known simply as Charlotte, was the inaugural champion. As a result of the 2016 WWE Draft, the championship became exclusive to Raw and was renamed the Raw Women's Championship while SmackDown created the SmackDown Women's Championship as its counterpart. As a result of the 2023 WWE Draft, the Raw and SmackDown women's championships switched brands, with the Raw Women's Championship reverting to its original name of WWE Women's Championship, while the SmackDown Women's Championship became the Women's World Championship.

The title was the first women's championship to headline a WWE pay-per-view and livestreaming event, which occurred at Hell in a Cell in 2016. It also headlined WWE's only all-female event, Evolution in 2018. Along with the SmackDown Women's Championship at the time, it was also defended in the main event match of the 35th edition of WWE's flagship event, WrestleMania, in 2019.
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