Women's World Championship

The Women’s World Championship is one of the prestigious professional wrestling championships in the women’s division in the WWE. It is one of the two women’s world championships on WWE's main roster along with the WWE Women’s Championship. The title was previously known as the SmackDown Women's Championship. However, as of January 2025, the title is contested by the wrestlers of the RAW division.

Current Women’s World Champion

Rhea Ripley is the Women's World Champion in WWE, as of January 2025. On January 5, 2025, the WWE RAW's debut episode of Netflix, she challenged the champion Liv Morgan in a title match in an Anything Goes match. Following a match that lasted a little less than 12 minutes, Ripley defeated Morgan and regained the Women's World Championship.

List of Women’s World Champions in WWE

Belt Design

The Women's World Championship looks very identical to the current design of the World Heavyweight Championship on the male roster. Both titles resemble the famous Big Gold Belt of WWE and WCW and are of gold design with golden plates as well. Not only does it take inspiration from the Big Gold Belt, but it also incorporates a big W in the middle like all the major current belts in WWE. All in all, it looks like a title to fight for.

History of Women’s World Championship

WWE reintroduced the brand split in 2016, where the wrestlers are exclusively assigned to a particular brand (either Raw or SmackDown) on which they got picked. During the 2016 Draft, the WWE Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair was drafted to Raw and took the championship with her, leaving the SmackDown women’s division without a championship. In August 2016, the SmackDown Commissioner Shane McMahon and SmackDown’s General Manager unveiled the SmackDown Women’s Championship. Subsequently, the WWE Women’s Championship was renamed Raw Women’s Championship.

A six-pack elimination challenge was announced at Backlash to crown the inaugural SmackDown Women’s Champion. Becky Lynch won the match and became the first-ever SmackDown Women’s Champion. As of March 2023, the SmackDown women’s Championship has been through 36 reigns,13 champions, and one vacancy. Charlotte Flair has the most number of championship reigns - seven. Bayley's second championship reign of 380 days is the longest championship reign of a SmackDown Women’s Champion. Charlotte Flair’s fourth reign is the shortest at less than one day. Bayley holds the record for the longest combined reign of 520 days. Naomi is the only champion who vacated the championship. Becky Lynch is the only person to hold both Raw and SmackDown Women's Championship simultaneously. Carmella, Bayley, and Liv Morgan are the three champions, who won the championship by cashing in the Money in the Bank contract. Charlotte Flair is the only person to be crowned as the SmackDown Women's Champion by exchanging her Raw Women's Championship. Asuka is the oldest to hold the championship at age 37 and Alexa Bliss is the youngest at age 25.

In 2023, the WWE SmackDown Women's Championship was renamed to the Women's World Championship, and its RAW counterpart was named WWE Women's Championship. However, as of January 2025, the Women's World Championship is exclusive to RAW due to draft 2023.