YThe Women's World Championship is a women's professional wrestling world championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, defended on the Raw brand division. It is one of two women's world titles for WWE's main roster, along with the WWE Women's Championship on SmackDown. The current champion is Iyo Sky, who is in her first reign. She won the title by defeating Rhea Ripley on the March 3, 2025, episode of Raw.
Established as the SmackDown Women's Championship, it was unveiled 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 and renamed as Raw Women's Championship. The inaugural 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 subsequently renamed as the Women's World Championship, while the Raw Women's Championship reverted to its original name of WWE Women's Championship.
The title has been contested in the main event of four WWE pay-per-view and livestreaming events: TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs in 2018 and, along with the Raw Women's Championship at the time, WWE's flagship event WrestleMania in 2019, and by itself on Night 1 of WrestleMania in 2021 and Elimination Chamber in 2024. It was also the first women's professional wrestling championship to be defended in Saudi Arabia, which occurred at Super ShowDown in 2020.
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With the Women's Championship heading to Raw in the wake of the Brand Extension Draft, Shane McMahon and Daniel Bryan introduced the SmackDown Women's Championship for the blue brand with the first champion being crowned at WWE Backlash on Sept. 11, 2016.
On the June 12, 2023 edition of Raw, the title was renamed to the Women's World Championship.
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Hall of SmackDown Women Champions[]
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