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Women's World Championship (WWE)
championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Women's World Championship wrestling championship in WWE competed by women of the Raw brand. It was created after the return of the brand extension. First known as the SmackDown Women's Championship, it was revealed on the August 23, 2016, episode of SmackDown as the counterpart to the WWE Women's Championship, which became exclusive to Raw as a result of the 2016 WWE Draft. The first champion was Becky Lynch. As a result of the 2023 WWE Draft, the Raw and SmackDown women's championships switched brands, with the SmackDown Women's Championship renamed as the Women's World Championship, while the Raw Women's Championship changed to its original name of WWE Women's Championship.
Women's World Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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Promotion | WWE | ||||||||||||||||||
Brand | Raw | ||||||||||||||||||
Date established | August 23, 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
Current champion(s) | Liv Morgan | ||||||||||||||||||
Date won | May 26, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The title has been in the main event of three WWE premium live events: at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs in 2018, together with the Raw Women's Championship at the time, at WWE's flagship event WrestleMania 35 in 2019, and by itself on Night 1 of WrestleMania 37 in 2021. It was also the first women's wrestling championship to be defended in Saudi Arabia, at Super ShowDown in 2020.