WWE Women's United States Championship

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WWE Women's United States Championship
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The WWE Women's United States Championship belt with default side plates
Details
Promotion WWE
Brand SmackDown
Date establishedNovember 8, 2024
Current champion(s) Chelsea Green
Date wonDecember 14, 2024
Statistics
First champion(s) Chelsea Green

The WWE Women's United States Championship is a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, defended on the SmackDown brand division. It is one of two secondary women's championships on WWE's main roster, along with the WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship on Raw. The title was unveiled during SmackDown on November 8, 2024. The current champion is Chelsea Green. She defeated Michin to become the inaugural champion at Saturday Night's Main Event on December 14, 2024.

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History

Inaugural champion Chelsea Green. Chelsea Green 2020.jpg
Inaugural champion Chelsea Green.

Although the American professional wrestling promotion WWE was founded in April 1963, the company never had a secondary women's championship until the NXT Women's North American Championship was introduced for the developmental brand NXT in April 2024. [1] Later that year during the November 8, 2024, episode of SmackDown , the brand's general manager Nick Aldis unveiled the WWE Women's United States Championship as a secondary championship for the main roster women's division on the SmackDown brand, countering the men's WWE United States Championship. [2] [3] [4] The WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship was subsequently introduced for Raw on November 25. [5]

Prior to the November 15 episode of SmackDown, Aldis announced that tournament matches to determine the inaugural Women's United States Champion would begin on that night's episode. [6] WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque subsequently revealed the tournament bracket, featuring 12 women from the SmackDown 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 at the Saturday Night's Main Event special on December 14, 2024. Tournament participants announced were Bayley, B-Fab, Candice LeRae, Bianca Belair, Chelsea Green, Blair Davenport, Michin, Piper Niven, Jade Cargill, Naomi, Tiffany Stratton, and Elektra Lopez. [7] Cargill, however, was pulled from the tournament due to a backstage assault and was replaced by NXT's Lash Legend. [8] In the tournament final at Saturday Night's Main Event on December 14, Green defeated Michin to become the inaugural champion. [9]

Tournaments

Inaugural tournament

The tournament to crown the inaugural Women's United States Champion began on November 15, 2024, and is being held across episodes of SmackDown, concluding at Saturday Night's Main Event on December 14, 2024.

First round
SmackDown
November 15 – December 6, 2024
Semifinals
SmackDown
December 13, 2024
Final
Saturday Night's Main Event
December 14, 2024
Bayley Pin
Candice LeRae
B-Fab 10:02 [10]
Bayley 12:12 [11]
Chelsea Green Pin
Bianca Belair
Chelsea Green Pin
Blair Davenport 10:04 [12]
Chelsea Green Pin
Michin 8:05 [13]
Lash Legend [a]
Michin Pin
Piper Niven 10:34 [15]
Michin Pin
Tiffany Stratton 8:23 [11]
Naomi
Tiffany Stratton Pin
Elektra Lopez 7:32 [16]
Notes
  1. Jade Cargill was originally slated to participate, but was attacked backstage by an unknown assailant during the November 22 episode of SmackDown and was pulled from the tournament. [12] She was replaced by NXT's Lash Legend. [14]

Belt design

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 and it has small blue text that reads "Women's" placed above the words "United States". 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 silver globe. [17]

Reigns

As of December18, 2024.

Key
No.Overall reign number
ReignReign number for the specific champion
DaysNumber of days held
Days recog.Number of days held recognized by the promotion
+Current reign is changing daily
No.ChampionChampionship changeReign statisticsNotesRef.
DateEventLocationReignDaysDays recog.
WWE: SmackDown
1 Chelsea Green December 14, 2024 Saturday Night's Main Event Uniondale, NY 14+4+Defeated Michin in a tournament final to become the inaugural champion. [13]

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