List of WWE Raw Women's Champions

The WWE Raw Women's Championship[1] is a women's professional wrestling world championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the Raw brand. It was introduced as the WWE Women's Championship on April 3, 2016 at WrestleMania 32 to replace the Divas Championship and has a unique title history separate from the original WWE Women's Championship. As a result of the 2016 draft, the championship became exclusive to Raw with a subsequent rename and SmackDown created the SmackDown Women's Championship as a counterpart title.

Current champion Asuka

The championship is generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition. The inaugural champion was Charlotte Flair, then known simply as Charlotte, who won the title at WrestleMania 32. Asuka is the current champion in her first reign. At Money in the Bank on May 10, 2020, Asuka won the women's Money in the Bank ladder match, which was pre-recorded on April 15. On the May 11 episode of Raw, previous champion Becky Lynch announced her hiatus from the company due to pregnancy. She then revealed that by Asuka winning the Money in the Bank ladder match, she actually won the Raw Women's Championship instead of the traditional contract for a women's championship match. WWE in turn recognizes Asuka's reign as beginning on May 10. This also made Asuka the second Women's Grand Slam Champion and third Women's Triple Crown Champion.

Overall, there have been 16 reigns between 8 champions. Charlotte Flair and Sasha Banks are tied for the most reigns at four. Becky Lynch's sole reign is the longest at 373 days (398 days as recognized by WWE due to tape delay), while Banks' fourth reign is the shortest at 8 days. Asuka is the oldest champion, winning the title at the age of 38, while Banks is the youngest, first winning the title at 24.

Title history

Names
Name Years
WWE Women's Championship April 3, 2016 – September 4, 2016
WWE Raw Women's Championship September 5, 2016 – present

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
† Championship change is unrecognized by the promotion
<1 Reign lasted less than a day
+ Current reign is changing daily
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign DaysDays recog.
WWE (unbranded)
1 Charlotte April 3, 2016 WrestleMania 32 Arlington, TX 1 113113 On the WrestleMania 32 Kickoff pre-show, the title was established as the WWE Women's Championship to replace the WWE Divas Championship, which was originally to be defended in this match. Charlotte, who was the reigning Divas Champion, defeated Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks in a triple threat match to become the inaugural champion, subsequently retiring the Divas Championship. The title became exclusive to the Raw brand following the 2016 WWE Draft in July. [2]
WWE: Raw
2 Sasha Banks July 25, 2016 Raw Pittsburgh, PA 1 2726 [3]
3 Charlotte August 21, 2016 SummerSlam Brooklyn, NY 2 4343 The title was renamed as the Raw Women's Championship on September 5, 2016, following the creation of the SmackDown Women's Championship for the SmackDown brand. [4]
4 Sasha Banks October 3, 2016 Raw Los Angeles, CA 2 2727 [5]
5 Charlotte Flair October 30, 2016 Hell in a Cell Boston, MA 3 2929 This was the first women's Hell in a Cell match and the first time women were the main event match of a WWE pay-per-view. During her reign, Charlotte's ring name was lengthened to Charlotte Flair. [6]
6 Sasha Banks November 28, 2016 Raw Charlotte, NC 3 2019 This was a falls count anywhere match. [7]
7 Charlotte Flair December 18, 2016 Roadblock: End of the Line Pittsburgh, PA 4 5757 This was a 30-minute iron man match, which Flair won 3–2 in sudden death overtime. [8]
8 Bayley February 13, 2017 Raw Las Vegas, NV 1 7675 [9]
9 Alexa Bliss April 30, 2017 Payback San Jose, CA 1 112111 [10]
10 Sasha Banks August 20, 2017 SummerSlam Brooklyn, NY 4 88 [11]
11 Alexa Bliss August 28, 2017 Raw Memphis, TN 2 223222 [12]
12 Nia Jax April 8, 2018 WrestleMania 34 New Orleans, LA 1 7070 [13]
13 Alexa Bliss June 17, 2018 Money in the Bank Rosemont, IL 3 6363 Cashed in her Money in the Bank contract. [14]
14 Ronda Rousey August 19, 2018 SummerSlam Brooklyn, NY 1 232231 [15]
15 Becky Lynch April 8, 2019 WrestleMania 35 East Rutherford, NJ 1 373398 This was a winner takes all triple threat match for both the Raw and SmackDown Women's Championships, also involving Charlotte Flair, who defended the SmackDown Women's Championship. Lynch pinned Rousey to win both titles. WWE recognizes Lynch's reign as ending on May 10, 2020 due to tape delay. [16]
16 Asuka April 15, 2020 Money in the Bank Stamford, CT 1 73+48+ Defeated Carmella, Dana Brooke, Lacey Evans, Nia Jax, and Shayna Baszler in the women's Money in the Bank ladder match. While the briefcase won by Asuka was originally announced to contain a contract that guarantees a match for a championship as per the usual Money in the Bank stipulation, on the May 11, 2020 episode of Raw, Becky Lynch announced that she was going on hiatus due to her real life pregnancy and that the match had actually been for the championship.
WWE recognizes Asuka's reign as beginning on May 10, 2020 at the Money in the Bank event, where the event's eponymous match aired on tape delay.		 [17][18]

Combined reigns
One-time and record longest reigning champion Becky Lynch
Charlotte Flair (left) and Sasha Banks (right) are tied for the most reigns at four.

As of June 27, 2020.

† Indicates the current champion
Rank Wrestler No. of
reigns		 Combined days Combined days
recognized by WWE
1 Alexa Bliss3398396
2 Becky Lynch1373398
3 Charlotte Flair4242
4 Ronda Rousey1232231
5 Sasha Banks48280
6 Bayley17675
7 Asuka †173+48+
8 Nia Jax170

See also

References
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