The WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship is a women's professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, defended on the Raw brand division. It is one of two secondary women's championships on WWE's main roster, along with the WWE Women's United States Championship on SmackDown. Established in November 2024, the inaugural champion was Lyra Valkyria. The current champion is Raquel Rodriguez, who is in her first reign. She won the title by defeating Sol Ruca on the July 27, 2026, episode of Raw.
History
The American professional wrestling promotion WWE was founded in April 1963, and recognized a women's world champion from its outset, but it never had a secondary women's championship until April 2024 when the NXT Women's North American Championship was introduced for the developmental brand NXT, followed by the WWE Women's United States Championship for the main roster brand SmackDown in early November. Later that same month prior to the November 25 episode of Raw, the brand's general manager Adam Pearce unveiled the WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship for the main roster women's division on the Raw brand, countering the men's WWE Intercontinental Championship.
The inaugural Women's Intercontinental Champion was determined by a tournament that began on the December 2 episode of Raw. Prior to that episode's broadcast, WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque revealed the tournament bracket, featuring 12 women from the Raw roster in four triple threat matches for the first round, with the winners of each advancing to the semifinals in singles matches, with those winners then facing off in the tournament final on Raw on January 13, 2025. Tournament participants announced were Dakota Kai, Shayna Baszler, Katana Chance, Zoey Stark, Raquel Rodriguez, Kayden Carter, Lyra Valkyria, Zelina Vega, Ivy Nile, Alba Fyre, Kairi Sane, and Natalya. In the tournament final on January 13, Valkyria defeated Kai to become the inaugural champion.
Tournaments Inaugural tournament
Belt design The belt design is identical to the men's version, but like all women's championships in WWE, it is smaller and on a white strap. It also replaced the word "Heavyweight" with "Women's". Like all of WWE's other championship belts, the two side plates feature a removable center section which can be customized with the champion's logos; the default side plates feature a WWE logo over a blue globe.
Custom designs
One week after winning the title, reigning champion Raquel Rodriguez introduced her own custom design of the title on the August 3, 2026 episode of Raw. It is the standard championship belt but wrapped in barbed wire. She would use this design for one week, as the original title was brought back the following Raw.
Reigns
As of , , there have been eight reigns between six champions. The inaugural champion was Lyra Valkyria. Becky Lynch has the most reigns with three, and she has the records for both the longest and shortest reigns, with her first reign being the longest at 163 days, while her third reign was the shortest at 43 days. Lynch is also the oldest title holder, winning the title for a third time at 39 years old, while Sol Ruca is the youngest at 26.
Raquel Rodriguez is the current champion in her first reign. She won the title by defeating Sol Ruca on the July 27, 2026, episode of Raw in Inglewood, California.
Combined reigns As of , .
†Indicates the current champion RankWrestler No. ofreigns Combineddays Combined days by WWE1 3 260 2582 1 145 1443 † 1 +4 1 575 1 49 48 1 49 48
Notes
See also Women's championships in WWE
References
External links Official WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship Title History