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WWE Women's United States Championship

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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)TBD
Date wonDecember 14, 2024
Statistics
First champion(s)TBD

The WWE Women's United States Championship is an upcoming professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, to be defended on the SmackDown brand division. It will be a secondary women's championship on WWE's main roster.The title was announced during the November 8, 2024, episode of SmackDown with the inaugural champion to be crowned in a tournament final at Saturday Night's Main Event on December 14, 2024.

History

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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] In turn, 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 to be 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]

Prior to the November 15 episode of SmackDown, Aldis announced that tournament matches to determine the inaugural champion would begin on that night's episode.[5] 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.[6] Tournament participants announced were Bayley, B-Fab, Candice LeRae, Bianca Belair, Chelsea Green, Blair Davenport, Michin, Piper Niven, Naomi, Tiffany Stratton, Elektra Lopez, and Jade Cargill, but Cargill was pulled from the tournament due to a backstage assault. Bayley defeated B-Fab and LeRae in the first triple threat match, while Green defeated Belair and Davenport in the second, setting up the first semifinals match. Cargill would be replaced by NXT's Lash Legend.[7]

Tournaments

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Inaugural Tournament

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

Notes
  1. ^ Jade Cargill was originally to participate, but was attacked backstage by an unknown assailant during the November 22 episode of SmackDown and was pulled from the tournament.[9] She was replaced by NXT's Lash Legend.[10]

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 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 red globe.[11]

Reigns

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Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
+ Current reign is changing daily
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign Days
1 TBD December 14, 2024 Saturday Night's Main Event Uniondale, New York 1 TBD The title was introduced on SmackDown on November 8, 2024, with the inaugural champion to be determined by a tournament that began on the November 15 episode. [5]

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. ^ a b 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.
  6. ^ Mrosko, Geno (November 15, 2024). "Tournament announced to decide first ever WWE women's United States champion". Cageside Seats. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
  7. ^ Defelice, Robert (November 22, 2024). "WWE Women's United States Title Tournament Update; New Superstar Advances To Semi-Finals On WWE SmackDown". Fightful. Retrieved November 22, 2024.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Harris, Jeffrey (November 23, 2024). "WWE SmackDown Spoilers for November 29 Episode, Go-Home Show Before Survivor Series". 411Mania. Retrieved November 23, 2024.
  11. ^ 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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