List of WWE Divas Champions

The longest reigning champion, Maryse, with the WWE Divas Championship belt

The WWE Divas Championship is a professional wrestling women's championship owned by the WWE promotion. The creation of the championship was announced on June 6, 2008 by SmackDown General Manager Vickie Guerrero as a counterpart to the Raw brand's WWE Women's Championship. The word "Diva" in the championship's name refers to the pseudonym WWE Diva, which WWE uses to refer to its female wrestlers. On April 13, 2009, the title was moved from the SmackDown brand to the Raw brand as a result of then-Divas Champion Maryse being drafted in the 2009 WWE Draft. On September 19, 2010 at the Night of Champions pay-per-view event, self-professed co-Women's Champion Michelle McCool defeated WWE Divas Champion Melina, retiring the Women's Championship and unifying it with the Divas Championship. The title is now accessible to both WWE brands and the champion can appear on both shows.

The championship is generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition. The inaugural champion was Michelle McCool, who defeated Natalya on July 20, 2008 at WWE's The Great American Bash. Maryse, Melina, Michelle McCool and Eve hold the record for most reigns, with two. At 216 days, Maryse's first reign is the longest in the championship's history. Jillian holds the record for shortest reign in the title's history at less than a day. The current champion is Beth Phoenix who is in her first reign with the Divas Championship. Overall, there have been 15 reigns shared between 11 divas.

Title history

#	Order in reign history
Reign	The reign number for the specific set of wrestlers listed
Location	The city in which the title was won
Event	The event in which the title was won
—	Used for vacated reigns so as not to count it as an official reign
+	Indicates the current reign is changing daily

#	Wrestler	Reigns	Date	Days Held	Location	Event	Notes	Ref.
1	Michelle McCool	1	02008-07-20 July 20, 2008	&10000000000000155000000155	Uniondale, NY	The Great American Bash (2008)	Michelle McCool defeated Natalya to become the inaugural champion.
2	Maryse	1	02008-12-22 December 22, 2008	&10000000000000216000000216	Toronto, ON	SmackDown!	Aired on tape delay on December 26, 2008. Maria was the Special guest referee. The championship became exclusive to the Raw brand on April 13, 2009 when Maryse was drafted from SmackDown.
3	Mickie James	1	02009-07-26 July 26, 2009	&1000000000000007800000078	Philadelphia, PA	Night of Champions (2009)
4	Jillian	1	02009-10-12 October 12, 2009	&100000000000000000000000	Indianapolis, IN	Raw
5	Melina	1	02009-10-12 October 12, 2009	&1000000000000008400000084	Indianapolis, IN	Raw	Melina defeated Jillian immediately after she won the title, to become the new champion.
—	Vacated	—	02010-01-04 January 4, 2010	—	Dayton, OH	Raw	WWE vacated the title after Melina sustained a torn anterior cruciate ligament, which sidelined her from in-ring competition.
6	Maryse	2	02010-02-22 February 22, 2010	&1000000000000004900000049	Indianapolis, IN	Raw	Maryse defeated Gail Kim in the finals of an eight diva tournament to win the vacant title.
7	Eve Torres	1	02010-04-12 April 12, 2010	&1000000000000006900000069	London, England	Raw
8	Alicia Fox	1	02010-06-20 June 20, 2010	&1000000000000005600000056	Uniondale, NY	Fatal 4-Way (2010)	This was contested in a fatal four–way match that also involved Gail Kim and Maryse. Fox pinned Maryse to win the title.
9	Melina	2	02010-08-15 August 15, 2010	&1000000000000003500000035	Los Angeles, CA	SummerSlam (2010)
10	Michelle McCool	2	02010-09-19 September 19, 2010	&1000000000000006300000063	Rosemont, IL	Night of Champions (2010)	This was a unification match where the Divas Championship was unified with the Women's Championship. The title was referred to as the WWE Unified Divas Championship for weeks afterward and became accessible on both Raw and SmackDown brands. It kept the lineage of the Divas Championship, while the Women's Championship was retired. Layla was unofficially the co-champion during this reign; she defended the championship in McCool's place on some occasions, but was not officially recognized as the title holder.
11	Natalya	1	02010-11-21 November 21, 2010	&1000000000000007000000070	Miami, FL	Survivor Series (2010)	This was contested in a handicap match also involving Layla as Michelle McCool's tag team partner.
12	Eve Torres	2	02011-01-30 January 30, 2011	&1000000000000007100000071	Boston, MA	Royal Rumble (2011)	This was contested in a fatal four–way match also involving Layla and Michelle McCool. Eve pinned Layla to win the championship.
13	Brie Bella	1	02011-04-11 April 11, 2011	&1000000000000007000000070	Bridgeport, CT	Raw
14	Kelly Kelly	1	02011-06-20 June 20, 2011	&10000000000000104000000104	Baltimore, MD	Raw	This was a specical edition of raw"Power to the People" Kelly Kelly got the highest vote the other choices is Beth Phoenix and Eve Torres.
15	Beth Phoenix	1	02011-10-02 October 2, 2011	&10000000000000118000000118+	New Orleans, LA	Hell in a Cell (2011)

List of combined reigns

Inaugural champion Michelle McCool after winning the championship at The Great American Bash (2008)

†	Indicates the current champion

As of January 28, 2012.

Rank	Wrestler	# of reigns	Combined days
1	Maryse	2	265
2	Michelle McCool	2	218
3	Eve Torres	2	140
4	Melina	2	119
5	Beth Phoenix†	1	&10000000000000118000000118+
6	Kelly Kelly	1	104
7	Mickie James	1	78
8	Natalya	1	70
	Brie Bella	1	70
10	Alicia Fox	1	56
11	Jillian	1	0

See also

• List of WWE Women's Champions
• WWE Women's Championship
• WWE Diva

References

General

• Oliver, Earl. "WWE Divas Championship Title History". Solie.org. http://solie.org/titlehistories/dtwwf.html. Retrieved 2009-09-27. 
• "History of the Divas Championship". WWE. http://www.wwe.com/inside/titlehistory/divas/. Retrieved 2009-09-27. 

Specific

External links

• WWE.com