WWE Women's United States Championship

WWE Women's United States Championship
The WWE Women's United States Championship belt with default side plates
Details
PromotionWWE
BrandSmackDown
Date establishedNovember 8, 2024
Current champion(s)Chelsea Green
Date wonDecember 14, 2024
Statistics
First champion(s)Chelsea Green

The WWE Women's United States Championship is a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, defended on the SmackDown brand division. It is one of two secondary women's championships on WWE's main roster, along with the WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship on Raw. The title was unveiled during SmackDown on November 8, 2024. The current champion is Chelsea Green. She defeated Michin in a tournament final to become the inaugural champion at Saturday Night's Main Event on December 14, 2024.

History

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Inaugural champion Chelsea Green.

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] 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 as 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] The WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship was subsequently introduced for Raw on November 25.[5]

Prior to the November 15 episode of SmackDown, Aldis announced that tournament matches to determine the inaugural Women's United States Champion would begin on that night's episode.[6] 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. Tournament participants announced were Bayley, B-Fab, Candice LeRae, Bianca Belair, Chelsea Green, Blair Davenport, Michin, Piper Niven, Jade Cargill, Naomi, Tiffany Stratton, and Elektra Lopez.[7] Cargill, however, was pulled from the tournament due to a backstage assault and was replaced by NXT's Lash Legend.[8] In the tournament final at Saturday Night's Main Event on December 14, Green defeated Michin to become the inaugural champion.[9]

Tournaments

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Inaugural tournament

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The tournament to crown the inaugural Women's United States Champion began on November 15, 2024, and was held across episodes of SmackDown, concluding at the Saturday Night's Main Event special on December 14, 2024.

Notes
  1. ^ Jade Cargill was originally slated to participate, but was attacked backstage by an unknown assailant during the November 22 episode of SmackDown and was pulled from the tournament.[11] She was replaced by NXT's Lash Legend.[12]

Belt design

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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 blue 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 silver globe.[17]

Reigns

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As of December 26, 2024.

Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
Days recog. Number of days held recognized by the promotion
+ Current reign is changing daily
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign Days Days recog.
WWE: SmackDown
1 Chelsea Green December 14, 2024 Saturday Night's Main Event Uniondale, NY 1 12+ 12+ Defeated Michin in a tournament final to become the inaugural champion. [16]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Currier, Joseph (April 6, 2024). "WWE introducing Women's NXT North American Championship". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  2. ^ Lambert, Jeremy (November 8, 2024). "WWE Women's United States Championship Unveiled On WWE SmackDown". Fightful. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Lambert, Jeremy (November 25, 2024). "WWE Women's Intercontinental Title Introduced Before WWE Raw". Fightful. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Mrosko, Geno (November 15, 2024). "Tournament announced to decide first ever WWE women's United States champion". Cageside Seats. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
  8. ^ Lambert, Jeremy (November 28, 2024). "WWE Names Replacement For Jade Cargill In WWE Women's United States Title Tournament". Fightful. Retrieved December 2, 2024.
  9. ^ Barnard, Adam (December 14, 2024). "Chelsea Green Becomes The Inaugural United States Women's Champion At Saturday Night's Main Event". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
  10. ^ Barnett, Jake (November 15, 2024). "WWE Smackdown results (11/15): Barnett's review of Motor City Machine Guns vs. The Street Profits for the WWE Tag Team Titles, Nia Jax vs. Naomi for the WWE Women's Championship". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved November 22, 2024.
  11. ^ a b Barnett, Jake (November 22, 2024). "WWE Smackdown results (11/22): Barnett's review of Cody Rhodes and Kevin Owens meeting face-to-face, LA Knight vs. Santos Escobar for the U.S. Title". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved November 22, 2024.
  12. ^ Harris, Jeffrey (November 23, 2024). "WWE SmackDown Spoilers for November 29 Episode, Go-Home Show Before Survivor Series". 411Mania. Retrieved November 23, 2024.
  13. ^ Barnett, Jake (November 29, 2024). "WWE Smackdown results (11/29): Barnett's review of Roman Reigns and CM Punk, Jey Uso vs. Jacob Fatu in a WarGames advantage match, the final push for WWE Survivor Series WarGames". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved November 29, 2024.
  14. ^ Barnett, Jake (December 6, 2024). "WWE Smackdown results (12/6): Barnett's review of MCMG vs. The Street Profits for the WWE Tag Team Titles, Naomi vs. Tiffany Stratton vs. Elektra Lopez in a Women's U.S. Title tournament match". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
  15. ^ a b Barnett, Jake (December 13, 2024). "WWE Smackdown results (12/13): Barnett's review of Cody Rhodes and Kevin Owens final words before SNME, Bayley vs. Chelsea Green and Tiffany Stratton vs. Michin in Women's U.S. Title tournament matches". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
  16. ^ a b Powell, Jason (December 14, 2024). "WWE Saturday Night's Main Event results (12/14): Powell's live review of Cody Rhodes vs. Kevin Owens for the WWE Championship, Gunther vs. Damian Priest vs. Finn Balor for the World Heavyweight Championship". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
  17. ^ Boone, Matt (November 8, 2024). "Photo: Women's U.S. Championship Debuts On WWE SmackDown On 11/8". PWMania. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
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