WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship | |||||
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Promotion | WWE | ||||
Brand | Raw | ||||
Date established | November 25, 2024 | ||||
Current champion(s) | TBD | ||||
Date won | January 13, 2025 | ||||
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The WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship is an upcoming professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, to be defended on the Raw brand division. It will be one of two secondary women's championships on WWE's main roster, along with the WWE Women's United States Championship on SmackDown. The title was unveiled prior to the November 25, 2024, episode of Raw with the inaugural champion to be determined in a tournament final between Dakota Kai and Lyra Valkyria on the January 13, 2025, episode.
The American professional wrestling promotion WWE was founded in April 1963, but it never had a secondary women's championship until April 2024 when the NXT Women's North American Championship was introduced for the developmental brand NXT, [1] followed by the WWE Women's United States Championship for the main roster brand SmackDown in early November. [2] [3] [4] Later that same month prior to the November 25 episode of Raw , the brand's general manager Adam Pearce unveiled the WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship for the main roster women's division on the Raw brand, countering the men's WWE Intercontinental Championship. [5]
The inaugural Women's Intercontinental Champion will be determined by a tournament that began on the December 2 episode of Raw. Prior to that episode's broadcast, WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque revealed the tournament bracket, featuring 12 women from the Raw roster in four triple threat matches for the first round, with the winners of each advancing to the semifinals in singles matches, with those winners then facing off in the tournament final on Raw on January 13, 2025. Tournament participants announced were Dakota Kai, Shayna Baszler, Katana Chance, Zoey Stark, Raquel Rodriguez, Kayden Carter, Lyra Valkyria, Zelina Vega, Ivy Nile, Alba Fyre, Kairi Sane, and Natalya. [6]
The tournament to determine the inaugural Women's Intercontinental Champion began on December 2, 2024, and is being held across episodes of Raw. The final will take place on the January 13, 2025, episode. [7] [6]
First round Raw December 2 – December 23, 2024 | Semifinals Raw December 30, 2024 | Final Raw January 13, 2025 | |||||||||||
Dakota Kai | Pin | ||||||||||||
Katana Chance | 7:00 [8] | ||||||||||||
Shayna Baszler | — | ||||||||||||
Dakota Kai | Pin | ||||||||||||
Zoey Stark | 8:15 [9] | ||||||||||||
Zoey Stark | Pin | ||||||||||||
Raquel Rodriguez | — | ||||||||||||
Kayden Carter | 9:25 [10] | ||||||||||||
Dakota Kai | |||||||||||||
Lyra Valkyria | |||||||||||||
Lyra Valkyria | Pin | ||||||||||||
Zelina Vega | — | ||||||||||||
Ivy Nile | 7:50 [11] | ||||||||||||
Lyra Valkyria | Pin | ||||||||||||
Iyo Sky | 11:45 [9] | ||||||||||||
Alba Fyre | — | ||||||||||||
Iyo Sky [a] | Pin | ||||||||||||
Natalya | 8:05 [12] | ||||||||||||
The belt design is identical to the men's version, but like all women's championships in WWE, it is smaller and on a white strap. It also replaced the word "Heavyweight" with "Women's". Like all of WWE's other championship belts, the two side plates feature a removable center section which can be customized with the champion's logos; the default side plates feature a WWE logo over a blue globe. [13]
No. | Overall reign number |
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Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
Days | Number of days held |
+ | Current reign is changing daily |
No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||||
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Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||||
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1 | Dakota Kai or Lyra Valkyria | January 13, 2025 | Raw | San Jose, CA | 1 | — | The title was unveiled prior to Raw on November 25, 2024. The inaugural champion will be determined by a tournament that began on the December 2 episode. |
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