After Rhea Ripley, WWE crowns another new champion as 277-day title reign comes to an end

Modified Jan 08, 2025 01:47 GMT

Rhea Ripley regained the Women's World Championship on this week's WWE RAW. Now, another new champion has been crowned.

Ever since turning heel, Roxanne Perez has shown much growth and maturity in her character work. She has done some of her best work in these past few months as NXT Women's Champion - a title she held for 277 days. However, little did she know that her days as champion were numbered after Giulia made her NXT debut.

The Beautiful Madness first challenged for the title on the October 1 episode of NXT and lost, thanks to Cora Jade's interference. Since then, she has worked her way into the title picture again by winning the Iron Survivor Challenge.

Tonight on NXT's New Year's Evil, Giulia challenged Roxanne Perez for the Women's Title. After a hard-fought battle, the Beautiful Madness was able to finally put an end to Perez's 277-day title reign.

This is the third women's title to change hands in the past week after Tiffany Stratton won the WWE Women's Championship on SmackDown and Rhea Ripley won the Women's World Championship on WWE RAW.

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It will be interesting to see who will be the first woman to challenge Giulia for the title.

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