| WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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| The WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship belt with default side plates | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | WWE | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brand | Raw | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | November 25, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion | Becky Lynch | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | January 5, 2026 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship is a women's professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, defended on the Raw brand division. It is one of two secondary women's championships on WWE's main roster, along with the WWE Women's United States Championship on SmackDown. The current champion is Becky Lynch, who is in her record-setting second reign. She won the title by defeating Maxxine Dupri at Raw's Netflix Anniversary Show on January 5, 2026.
The American professional wrestling promotion WWE was founded in April 1963, and recognized a women's world champion from its outset, 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 was 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] In the tournament final on January 13, Valkyria defeated Kai to become the inaugural champion. [7]
| First round Raw December 2 – 23, 2024 | Semifinals Raw December 30, 2024 | Final Raw January 13, 2025 | |||||||||
| Katana Chance Shayna Baszler | 7:00 [8] — | ||||||||||
| Dakota Kai | Pinfall | ||||||||||
| Dakota Kai | Pinfall | ||||||||||
| Zoey Stark | 8:15 [9] | ||||||||||
| Raquel Rodriguez Kayden Carter | — 9:25 [10] | ||||||||||
| Zoey Stark | Pinfall | ||||||||||
| Dakota Kai | 8:31 [11] | ||||||||||
| Lyra Valkyria | Pinfall | ||||||||||
| Zelina Vega Ivy Nile | — 7:50 [12] | ||||||||||
| Lyra Valkyria | Pinfall | ||||||||||
| Lyra Valkyria | Pinfall | ||||||||||
| Iyo Sky | 11:45 [9] | ||||||||||
| Alba Fyre Natalya | — 8:05 [13] | ||||||||||
| Iyo Sky [b] | Pinfall | ||||||||||
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. [14]
As of January8, 2026, there have been four reigns between three champions. The inaugural champion was Lyra Valkyria. Becky Lynch has the most reigns with two and her first reign is the longest at 163 days, while Maxxine Dupri’s reign is the shortest at 49 days (48 as recognized by WWE). Lynch is also the oldest title holder at 38 years old, while Valkyria is the youngest at 28 years, 82 days old.
Becky Lynch is the current champion in her record-setting second reign. She defeated Maxxine Dupri at Raw's Netflix Anniversary Show on January 5, 2026, in Brooklyn, New York. [15]
| No. | Overall reign number |
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| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| Days recog. | Number of days held recognized by the promotion |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||||
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| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Days recog. | |||||
| WWE: Raw | ||||||||||
| 1 | Lyra Valkyria | January 13, 2025 | Raw | San Jose, CA | 1 | 145 | 144 | Defeated Dakota Kai in a tournament final to become the inaugural champion. | [16] | |
| 2 | Becky Lynch | June 7, 2025 | Money in the Bank | Inglewood, CA | 1 | 163 | 163 | This was a Last Chance match where if Lynch had lost, she would have never been able to challenge for the title again for as long as Lyra Valkyria was champion. Since Valkyria lost, she had to raise Lynch's hand and acknowledge her as the better woman. | [17] | |
| 3 | Maxxine Dupri | November 17, 2025 | Raw | New York, NY | 1 | 49 | 48 | [18] | ||
| 4 | Becky Lynch | January 5, 2026 | Raw on Netflix Anniversary Show | Brooklyn, NY | 2 | 3+ | 3+ | [15] | ||
| † | Indicates the current champion |
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| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined days | Combined days recognized by WWE |
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| 1 | Becky Lynch † | 2 | 166+ | |
| 2 | Lyra Valkyria | 1 | 145 | 144 |
| 3 | Maxxine Dupri | 1 | 49 | |