WWE Raw Women's Championship

WWE Raw Women's Championship
The current title holder Asuka .
Data
Title holder	Asuka
since	23 August 2020
owner	WWE
broadcast	Raw
Introduced	3rd April 2016
Former names
WWE Women's Championship (2016)
Records
Most title wins Sasha Banks (5 times) Longest reign Becky Lynch (400 days) Shortest reign Sasha Banks (8 days) Oldest title holder Asuka (38 years, 332 days) Youngest title holder Sasha Banks (24 years, 181 days) Heaviest title holder Nia Jax (123 kg) Easiest title holder Alexa Bliss (46 kg)

The WWE Raw Women's Championship is the highest wrestling title that the American promotion WWE awards to female individual wrestlers of the Raw rooster. The title was introduced on April 3, 2016, as the successor to the Women's Championship and is now one of the three women's titles defended in the WWE. The current title holder in her second reign is Asuka . As is common in wrestling, the award is based on a previously determined storyline.

history

Since the term diva was perceived negatively by many female wrestlers, there was discussion within the WWE about whether to rename the Divas division . On April 3, 2016, at the WrestleMania 32 pre-show , female wrestling legend Lita announced that the Divas Championship was being discontinued and the Divas division was being renamed, while showcasing the newly introduced WWE Women's Championship . Instead of the Triple Threat Match between Becky Lynch , Charlotte and Sasha Banks for the Divas Championship , it became a match to determine the first Women's Champion. At Wrestlemania 32 , Charlotte won the match and became the first women's champion. As with other titles that have been introduced since 2016, the new title does not have the lineage of the previous title ( Women's Championship ) , which was fought in the WWE between 2008 and 2016 .

After SmackDown also introduced a title, the SmackDown Women's Championship , for their women's division after the renewed Rostersplit , the title was renamed the Raw Women's Championship .

On October 30, 2016, Sasha Banks defended the title against Charlotte in the women's first pay-per-view main fight. It was also the first Hell-In-A-Cell match in the women's division. On October 28, 2018, Ronda Rousey sworn in the title against Nikki Bella in the main fight in the first ever women's pay-per-view event, Evolution . Rousey also defended the title in a winner-takes-all-triple-threat match against SmackDown Women's Champion Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch. This match that Lynch won was the first women's main event at WrestleMania .

List of titleholders

Current title holder

#	Title holder	Title change			statistics		annotation
		date	event	place	Number	Days
1	Charlotte	3rd April 2016	Wrestlemania 32	Arlington , Texas	1	113	Beat Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks in a Triple Threat Match to win the newly introduced title.
2	Sasha Banks	July 25, 2016	Raw	Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania	1	27
3	Charlotte	August 21, 2016	SummerSlam	New York City , New York	2	43
4th	Sasha Banks	3rd October 2016	Raw	Los Angeles , California	2	27
5	Charlotte flair	October 30, 2016	Hell in a Cell	Boston , Massachusetts	3	29	This was the first Hell in a Cell match in the history of the Women's Division and the first match in which women formed the main event of a WWE PPV . Charlotte Flair previously appeared as Charlotte. The surname Flair was added later.
6th	Sasha Banks	November 28, 2016	Raw	Charlotte , North Carolina	3	20th	This was a Falls Count Anywhere match .
7th	Charlotte flair	December 18, 2016	Roadblock: End of the Line	Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania	4th	57	This was an Iron Women match , which Charlotte Flair won 3-2.
8th	Bayley	February 13, 2017	Raw	Las Vegas , Nevada	1	76
9	Alexa Bliss	April 30, 2017	Payback	San Jose , California	1	112
10	Sasha Banks	20th August 2017	SummerSlam	New York City , New York	4th	8th
11	Alexa Bliss	August 28, 2017	Raw	Memphis , Tennessee	2	223
12	Nia Jax	April 08, 2018	WrestleMania 34	New Orleans , Louisiana	1	70
13	Alexa Bliss	17th June 2018	Money in the Bank	Chicago , Illinois	3	63	Redeemed your Money in the Bank suitcase that she won the same evening.
14th	Ronda Rousey	19th August 2018	SummerSlam	Brooklyn , New York	1	231
15th	Becky Lynch	April 7, 2019	WrestleMania 35	East Rutherford , New Jersey	1	400	This was a triple threat Winner Take All Match , which also the Smackdown Women's Championship from Charlotte Flair was at stake. Lynch is the first women's champion of both roster.
16	Asuka	May 11, 2020	Raw	Orlando , Florida	1	77	Becky Lynch gave up the title due to her pregnancy and gave the title to Asuka. She had won the Money in the Bank suitcase the evening before. Lynch stated that winning the suitcase determined the new title holder.
17th	Sasha Banks	July 27, 2020	Raw	Orlando , Florida	5	27
18th	Asuka	23 August 2020	SummerSlam	Orlando , Florida	2	9+

statistics

Charlotte Flair held the title four times for a total of 242 days.

Current title holder

space	Surname	number	Days in total
01	Becky Lynch	01	400
02	Alexa Bliss	03	398
03	Charlotte flair	04th	242
04th	Ronda Rousey	01	231
05	Sasha Banks	05	109
06th	Asuka	02	086+
07th	Bayley	01	076
08th	Nia Jax	01	070

Individual evidence

1. ↑ WWE "WrestleMania 32": Live results + report ( memento of the original from April 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

Commons : WWE Raw Women's Champions  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• WWE Raw Women's Championship history on wwe.com