In addition to titles specifically designated for women, there were also two championships that were explicitly open to all challengers, regardless of gender.
The final Women's Champion was Layla, although Michelle McCool had defended the title in her place in the unification match.
[35][36] At Week 2 of Spring Breakin', Ava announced that the inaugural champion will be crowned at Battleground in a six-woman ladder match.
[38] On February 9, 2024, the American professional wrestling promotion WWE announced a partnership with X to introduce WWE Speed, a weekly video series to stream exclusively on the social media platform where wrestlers would perform in matches with a five-minute time limit, which originally featured matches with only male wrestlers from its premiere episode.
[40][41] In the tournament final that occurred during the Speed tapings on October 4, 2024, SmackDown's Candice LeRae defeated Raw's Iyo Sky to become the inaugural champion.
[43] On December 14, 2024, Saturday Night's Main Event where Chelsea Green was crowned the inaugural WWE Women’s United States Champion when she defeated Michin in the WWE Women’s United States Championship Tournament finals.
[45] On the January 13, 2025 episode of Raw Lyra Valkyria defeated Dakota Kai to become the inaugural WWE Women's Intercontinental Champion in the tournament finals.
[46] WWE Evolve Development series announced that there will be some Championships debuting on their show which premiere on Tubi in March of 2025.
In 1983, reigning NWA Women's World Tag Team Champions Velvet McIntyre and Princess Victoria joined the WWF.
The Boss 'n' Hug Connection (Bayley and Sasha Banks) became the inaugural champions at Elimination Chamber in February.
The title was established on the March 10, 2021, episode of NXT, where NXT General Manager William Regal unveiled the championship, naming Dakota Kai and Raquel González as the first champions, due to the controversial ending of their match for the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship the week prior and their having won the first Women's Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic.
[52] It would be a short-lived championship, as two years later on the June 23, 2023, episode of SmackDown, reigning WWE Women's Tag Team Champions Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler defeated reigning NXT Women's Tag Team Champions Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn in a unification match where the NXT title was unified into the WWE title, subsequently retiring the NXT title with Fyre and Dawn recognized as the final champions.
The following list shows retired women's championships and the final female title holders before the belts were deactivated in WWE.
The following list shows the top 10 recognized longest women's championship reigns in WWE history.
The following list shows the top 10 longest women's tag team championship reigns in WWE history.
The following list shows the longest reigning champion for each singles and tag team women's championship.
The following list shows the wrestlers with the most reigns for each women's championship created and/or promoted by WWE.
The following list shows the wrestlers who have the most reigns in total for women's singles championships, combining all titles they have held as recognized by WWE.
The following list shows the wrestlers who have the most reigns in total for women's tag team championships, combining all titles they have held as recognized by WWE.
The following list shows the top 10 female wrestlers based on their most combined days as singles champions in WWE history.