WWE Women's Championship

WWE Women's Championship
The current WWE Women's Championship belt with default side plates (2023–present)
Details
Promotion	WWE
Brand	SmackDown
Date established	April 3, 2016
Current champion(s)	Bayley
Date won	April 7, 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 reigns Charlotte Flair (6 reigns) Longest reign Bianca Belair (1st reign, 420 days)[b] Shortest reign Bianca Belair (2nd reign, 1 minute and 35 seconds) Oldest champion Asuka (41 years, 243 days) Youngest champion Sasha Banks (24 years, 181 days) Heaviest champion Nia Jax (272 lb (123 kg)) Lightest champion Alexa 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 Bayley, who is in her second reign.^[c] She won the title by defeating Iyo Sky during night two of WrestleMania XL on April 7, 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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