WWE Women's United States Championship
| 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 established | November 8, 2024 | ||||
| Current champion(s) | TBD | ||||
| Date won | December 14, 2024 | ||||
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The WWE Women's United States Championship is an upcoming professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, to be defended on the SmackDown brand division. It will be a secondary women's championship on WWE's main roster. The title was announced during the November 8, 2024, episode of SmackDown with the inaugural champion to be crowned in a tournament final at Saturday Night's Main Event on December 14, 2024.
History
[edit]The American professional wrestling promotion WWE was founded in April 1963, but it 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] In turn, 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 to be 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]
Prior to the November 15 episode of SmackDown, Aldis announced that tournament matches to determine the inaugural champion would begin on that night's episode.[5] 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.[6] Tournament participants announced were Bayley, B-Fab, Candice LeRae, Bianca Belair, Chelsea Green, Blair Davenport, Jade Cargill, Michin, Piper Niven, Naomi, Tiffany Stratton, and Elektra Lopez. Bayley advanced to the semifinals by defeating B-Fab and LeRae and she will face the winner of the match between Belair, Green, and Davenport.[7]
Tournaments
[edit]Inaugural Tournament
[edit]The tournament to crown the first-ever WWE Women's United States Champion began on November 15 and will conclude on December 14, 2024.
| First round SmackDown November 15 – TBD, 2024 | Semifinals SmackDown | Final Saturday Night's Main Event December 14, 2024 | |||||||||||
| Bayley | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Candice LeRae | — | ||||||||||||
| B-Fab | 10:02[8] | Bayley | |||||||||||
| Bianca Belair | |||||||||||||
| Chelsea Green | |||||||||||||
| Blair Davenport | |||||||||||||
| Jade Cargill | |||||||||||||
| Michin | |||||||||||||
| Piper Niven | |||||||||||||
| Naomi | |||||||||||||
| Tiffany Stratton | |||||||||||||
| Elektra Lopez | |||||||||||||
Belt design
[edit]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 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 red globe.[9]
Reigns
[edit]| No. | Overall reign number |
|---|---|
| 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. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||
| 1 | TBD | December 14, 2024 | Saturday Night's Main Event | Uniondale, New York | 1 | TBD | The title was introduced on SmackDown on November 8, 2024, with the inaugural champion to be determined by a tournament that began on the November 15 episode. | [5] |
See also
[edit]
References
[edit]- ^ Currier, Joseph (April 6, 2024). "WWE introducing Women's NXT North American Championship". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
- ^ Lambert, Jeremy (November 8, 2024). "WWE Women's United States Championship Unveiled On WWE SmackDown". Fightful. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
- ^ Aguilar, Matthew (November 8, 2024). "WWE Reveals New Women's Championship on SmackDown". ComicBook.com. Archived from the original on November 9, 2024. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
- ^ Ucchino, Rick (November 9, 2024). "WWE Introduces Women's United States Championship On SmackDown". Sports Illustrated. Archived from the original on November 9, 2024. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
- ^ a b Currier, Joseph (November 15, 2024). "Women's United States title tournament to begin on WWE SmackDown". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
- ^ Mrosko, Geno (November 15, 2024). "Tournament announced to decide first ever WWE women's United States champion". Cageside Seats. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
- ^ Rose, Bryan (November 15, 2024). "WWE reveals bracket for Women's United States title tournament". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
- ^ "SmackDown results, Nov. 15, 2024: Roman Reigns is left looking for answers after Paul Heyman's cell phone is disconnected". WWE. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
- ^ Boone, Matt (November 8, 2024). "Photo: Women's U.S. Championship Debuts On WWE SmackDown On 11/8". PWMania. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
External links
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Media related to WWE Women's United States Championship at Wikimedia Commons
