List of WWE Women's Champions (1956–2010)

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Layla was the final WWE Women's Champion

The WWE Women's Championship was a women's professional wrestling world championship in the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) promotion.<ref name="Truetitlehistory"/> The championship was generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition. Over the championship's fifty-six year history, there were 59 recognized reigns between 29 recognized champions and 4 vacancies (there are 6 reigns and 3 people that are not recognized by the promotion). As recognized by WWE, the inaugural champion was The Fabulous Moolah, who won the title on September 18, 1956, which at that time was the NWA World Women's Championship (which still exists today). While she was still champion, it became the WWF Women's Championship in 1984.

In May 2002, after the WWF was renamed to WWE, the championship became the WWE Women's Championship. At the start of the brand extension that began in March 2002, the Women's Championship was defended on any brand until it became exclusive to Raw in September that year. It was the only women's championship in the WWE until SmackDown created the WWE Divas Championship as a counterpart title in July 2008. The titles switched brands in April 2009. On September 19, 2010, at Night of Champions, the Women's Championship was unified with the WWE Divas Championship, retiring the Women's Championship.

The Fabulous Moolah's first reign is the longest reign, and is officially recognized to be 10,129 days as part of her first reign, due to WWE not recognizing title changes between 1956 and 1984 (her first reign's real number is 3,651 days). Moolah technically also is tied with Trish Stratus for the most reigns at 7, but since WWE does not recognize the title changes between 1956 and 1984, Moolah only has 4 reigns. Mickie James' third reign is the shortest at less than 1 hour. The Fabulous Moolah is the oldest champion, having won the title at 76 years old, while Wendi Richter is the youngest champion, winning the title at the age of 22. The final champion was Layla, in her first and only reign.

Only four women held the championship for a continuous reign of one year (365 days) or more: The Fabulous Moolah (who achieved the feat on six separate occasions), Sensational Sherri, Rockin' Robin, and Trish Stratus.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Reigns

Names

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NWA World Women's Championship	September 18, 1956 – May 19, 1984
WWF Women's Championship	May 19, 1984 – May 6, 2002
WWE Women's Championship	May 6, 2002 – September 19, 2010

Combined reigns

Rank	Champion	No. of reigns	Combined days	Combined days recognized by WWE
1	Template:Sortname	4	10,770	10,775
2	Template:Sortname	7	825	835
3	Template:Sortname	3	538	543
4	Template:Sortname	1	502	501
5	Template:Sortname	2	448	447
6	Template:Sortname	1	441	440
7	Template:Sortname	5	367	366
	Template:Sortname	3	367
9	Template:Sortname	3	331	320
10	Template:Sortname	2	301	299
11	Template:Sortname	3	279	280
12	Template:Sortname	2	275	280
13	Template:Sortname	2	244	243
14	Template:Sortname	1	226	231
15	Template:Sortname	1	176	175
16	Template:Sortname	2	162	160
17	Template:Sortname	4	160	158
18	Template:Sortname	1	146	143
19	Template:Sortname	1	134	126
20	Template:Sortname	1	131	127
21	Template:Sortname	2	117	107
22	Template:Sortname	1	105	104
23	Template:Sortname	1	57	56
24	Template:Sortname	1	50	49
25	Template:Sortname	1	41	40
26	Template:Sortname	1	29	34
27	Template:Sortname	1	28	27
—	Template:Sortname	—	23	—
—	Template:Sortname	—	16	—
28	Template:Sortname	1	6	5
—	Template:Sortname	—	2	—
29	Template:Sortname	1	1	2

External links

• Official Original WWE Women's Championship Title History