WWE Women's United States Championship

WWE Women's United States Championship
Details
Promotion	WWE
Brand	SmackDown
Date established	November 8, 2024
Current champion(s)	Chelsea Green
Date won	December 14, 2024
Statistics First champion(s) Chelsea Green

The WWE Women's United States Championship is a professional wrestling championship in WWE competed for by women of the SmackDown brand. It is the first secondary women's championship on WWE's main roster. The title was first presented on the November 8, 2024 episode of SmackDown.

Right now the champion is Chelsea Green. She defeated Michin in a tournament final to become the first champion at Saturday Night's Main Event XXXVII on December 14, 2024.^[1]

History

The first champion Chelsea Green.

In April 2024, WWE introduced their first secondary women's title, the NXT Women's North American Championship, for their developmental brand NXT.^[2] This led to speculation about WWE also creating similar titles for their main roster. On November 8, SmackDown General Manager Nick Aldis presented the WWE Women's United States Championship as the brand's newest title and a counterpart to the men's WWE United States Championship.^[3] The WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship was then introduced for Raw on November 25.^[4]

On the November 15 episode of SmackDown, Aldis announced a tournament matches to crown the first champion, which began on that night's episode.^[5] WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque revealed the tournament bracket, featuring 12 competitors. Triple Threat matches took place in the first round, with the winners of each competing the semifinals in singles matches. The finals took place on the return episode of Saturday Night's Main Event on December 14. The competitors were Bayley, B-Fab, Candice LeRae, Bianca Belair, Chelsea Green, Blair Davenport, Michin, Piper Niven, Lash Legend from NXT,^[a] Naomi, Tiffany Stratton, and Elektra Lopez.^[5] Bayley, Green, Michin and Stratton won the Triple Threat matches. In the tournament finals, Green defeated Michin to become the first champion.^[1]

Reigns

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.
1	Chelsea Green	December 14, 2024	Saturday Night's Main Event XXXVII	Uniondale, NY	1	1+	1+	Defeated Michin in a tournament final to become the first champion.	[1]

Footnotes

1. Legend replaced Jade Cargill, who was removed from the tournament because of a backstage assault.^[6]

References

1. 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.
2. Currier, Joseph (April 6, 2024). "WWE introducing Women's NXT North American Championship". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
3. Lambert, Jeremy (November 8, 2024). "WWE Women's United States Championship Unveiled On WWE SmackDown". Fightful. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
4. Lambert, Jeremy (November 25, 2024). "WWE Women's Intercontinental Title Introduced Before WWE Raw". Fightful. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
5. Mrosko, Geno (November 15, 2024). "Tournament announced to decide first ever WWE women's United States champion". Cageside Seats. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
6. Lambert, Jeremy (November 28, 2024). "WWE Names Replacement For Jade Cargill In WWE Women's United States Title Tournament". Fightful. Retrieved December 2, 2024.

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WWE Women's United States Title History