The WWE Speed Women's Championship is an upcoming women's professional wrestlinginternet championship created and promoted by the American promotionWWE, which will be available to wrestlers from all three of the company's brand divisions. Revealed on August 9, 2024, it will have a stipulation in which matches have a five-minute time limit and stream exclusively on WWE's online program Speed.
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. The program features matches with wrestlers from all three of WWE's brands—Raw, SmackDown, and the developmental brandNXT—and the matches have a three-minute time limit for regular episodes. Speed originally only featured matches with male wrestlers, with special episodes for the WWE Speed Championship having a five-minute time limit.[1]
On May 1, 2024, WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque confirmed that the program would also eventually feature women's matches.[2] This led to an official announcement on August 9, 2024, where he announced that a tournament for the inaugural WWE Speed Women's Championship would begin on September 4, 2024.[3]