The WWE Women's Championship is a women's professional wrestling world championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE, defended on the SmackDown brand. It was introduced on April 3, 2016, at WrestleMania 32 to replace the WWE Divas Championship and has a unique title history separate from the original WWE Women's Championship. Following the reintroduction of the brand split in July 2016, the title became exclusive to Raw and was renamed as the Raw Women's Championship after SummerSlam in August 2016 when SmackDown created the SmackDown Women's Championship as a counterpart title. As a result of the 2023 WWE Draft, the championships switched brands. In June 2023, the Raw Women's Championship reverted to its original name of WWE Women's Championship while the SmackDown Women's Championship became the Women's World Championship.
The championship is generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition. Chelsea Green is the current champion in her first reign. She won the title by defeating Charlotte Flair, Jade Cargill, Lash Legend, and Tiffany Stratton in a five-way ladder match at SummerSlam Night 2 on August 2, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At the time, Green was recognized as interim champion due to an injury incurred by lineal champion Rhea Ripley, but on September 11, 2026, the title history was amended, with Ripley's reign ending on August 2 and Green recognized as the lineal champion.
As of , , there have been 33 reigns between 15 champions. The first champion was Charlotte Flair, then known simply as Charlotte, who won the title at WrestleMania 32. She also has the most reigns with six. Bianca Belair's first reign is the longest at 420 days (419 as recognized by WWE), while her second is the shortest at 1 minute, 35 seconds. Becky Lynch has the longest combined reign across her two reigns at 535 days (559 as recognized by WWE). Asuka is the oldest champion, having won the title at 41 years, 243 days old, while Sasha Banks is the youngest when she won it at 24. Two women in history have held the championship for a continuous reign of one year (365 days) or more: Becky Lynch and Bianca Belair.
Title history Names NameYearsWWE Women's ChampionshipApril 3, 2016 – September 5, 2016WWE Raw Women's ChampionshipSeptember 5, 2016 – June 9, 2023WWE Women's ChampionshipJune 9, 2023 – present
Reigns
Combined reigns
As of , .
†Indicates the current champion RankWrestlerNo. ofreignsCombineddaysCombined days by WWE1 2 535 5592 2 420 4193 3 398 3994 3 397 3775 6 305 6 1 302 3017 1 246 2458 1 232 2319 2 22310 2 244 20111 2 194 19212 1 16913 5 116 10614 † 1 +15 1 33 32
References
External links Official WWE Women's Title History WWE Women's Championship Title History at Wrestling-Titles.com