List of WWE Women's Champions
The WWE Raw Women's Championship[1] is a women's professional wrestling world championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the Raw brand. It was introduced as the WWE Women's Championship on April 3, 2016 at WrestleMania 32 to replace the Divas Championship and has a unique title history separate from the original WWE Women's Championship. As a result of the 2016 draft, the championship became exclusive to Raw with a subsequent rename and SmackDown created the SmackDown Women's Championship as a counterpart title.
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 Charlotte Flair, then known simply as Charlotte, who won the title at WrestleMania 32. Becky Lynch is the current champion in her first reign. She won the title by defeating Ronda Rousey and SmackDown Women's Champion Charlotte Flair in a winner takes all triple threat match to win both titles at WrestleMania 35 on April 8, 2019 (though lost the SmackDown title the following month).
Overall, there have been 15 reigns between 7 champions. Charlotte Flair is tied with Sasha Banks for the most reigns at four. Becky Lynch's current reign is the longest at 1,924+ days whiles Banks' fourth reign is the shortest at 8 days (9 days as recognized by WWE). Alexa Bliss has the longest combined reign at 398 days (396 days as recognized by WWE). Nia Jax is the oldest champion, winning the title at the age of 33, while Banks is the youngest, first winning the title at 24.
Title history
Names
| Name | Years |
|---|---|
| WWE Women's Championship | April 3, 2016 – September 4, 2016 |
| WWE Raw Women's Championship | September 5, 2016 – present |
Reigns
| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| Days recog. | Number of days held recognized by the promotion |
| † | Championship change is unrecognized by the promotion |
| <1 | Reign lasted less than a day |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Days recog. | |||||
| WWE (unbranded) | ||||||||||
| 1 | Charlotte | April 3, 2016 | WrestleMania 32 | Arlington, TX | 1 | 113 | 113 | On the WrestleMania 32 Kickoff pre-show, the title was established as the WWE Women's Championship to replace the WWE Divas Championship, which was originally to be defended in this match. Charlotte, who was the reigning Divas Champion, defeated Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks in a triple threat match to become the inaugural champion, subsequently retiring the Divas Championship. The title became exclusive to the Raw brand following the 2016 WWE Draft in July. | [2] | |
| WWE: Raw | ||||||||||
| 2 | Sasha Banks | July 25, 2016 | Raw | Pittsburgh, PA | 1 | 27 | 26 | [3] | ||
| 3 | Charlotte | August 21, 2016 | SummerSlam | Brooklyn, NY | 2 | 43 | 43 | The title was renamed as the Raw Women's Championship on September 5, 2016, following the creation of the SmackDown Women's Championship for the SmackDown brand. | [4] | |
| 4 | Sasha Banks | October 3, 2016 | Raw | Los Angeles, CA | 2 | 27 | 27 | [5] | ||
| 5 | Charlotte Flair | October 30, 2016 | Hell in a Cell | Boston, MA | 3 | 29 | 29 | This was the first women's Hell in a Cell match and the first time women were the main event match of a WWE pay-per-view. During her reign, Charlotte's ring name was lengthened to Charlotte Flair. | [6] | |
| 6 | Sasha Banks | November 28, 2016 | Raw | Charlotte, NC | 3 | 20 | 19 | This was a falls count anywhere match. | [7] | |
| 7 | Charlotte Flair | December 18, 2016 | Roadblock: End of the Line | Pittsburgh, PA | 4 | 57 | 57 | This was a 30-minute iron man match, in which Flair won 3–2 in sudden death overtime. | [8] | |
| 8 | Bayley | February 13, 2017 | Raw | Las Vegas, NV | 1 | 76 | 75 | [9] | ||
| 9 | Alexa Bliss | April 30, 2017 | Payback | San Jose, CA | 1 | 112 | 111 | [10] | ||
| 10 | Sasha Banks | August 20, 2017 | SummerSlam | Brooklyn, NY | 4 | 8 | 8 | [11] | ||
| 11 | Alexa Bliss | August 28, 2017 | Raw | Memphis, TN | 2 | 223 | 222 | [12] | ||
| 12 | Nia Jax | April 8, 2018 | WrestleMania 34 | New Orleans, LA | 1 | 70 | 70 | [13] | ||
| 13 | Alexa Bliss | June 17, 2018 | Money in the Bank | Rosemont, IL | 3 | 63 | 63 | Cashed in her Money in the Bank contract. | [14] | |
| 14 | Ronda Rousey | August 19, 2018 | SummerSlam | Brooklyn, NY | 1 | 232 | 231 | [15] | ||
| 15 | Becky Lynch | April 8, 2019 | WrestleMania 35 | East Rutherford, NJ | 1 | 1,924+ | 1,924+ | This was a winner takes all triple threat match for both the Raw and SmackDown Women's Championships, also involving Charlotte Flair, who defended the SmackDown Women's Championship. Lynch pinned Rousey to win both titles. | [16] | |
Combined reigns
Four-time champions Charlotte Flair (left) and Sasha Banks (right) are the only two women to have held the Raw Women's Championship on more than three occasions
As of July 14, 2024.
| † | Indicates the current champion |
|---|
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns |
Combined days | Combined days recognized by WWE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexa Bliss | 3 | 398 | 396 |
| 2 | Becky Lynch † | 1 | 1924+ | |
| 3 | Charlotte Flair | 4 | 242 | |
| 4 | Ronda Rousey | 1 | 232 | 231 |
| 5 | Sasha Banks | 4 | 82 | 80 |
| 6 | Bayley | 1 | 76 | 75 |
| 7 | Nia Jax | 1 | 70 | |
See also
References
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