WWE Women's Championship (1956–2010)
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The final belt design of the original WWE Women's Championship.
(June 2002–September 2010) |
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| Promotion | WWE | ||||||||||||||||
| Date established | September 18, 1956 | ||||||||||||||||
| Date retired | September 19, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||
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| First champion(s) | The Fabulous Moolah |
| Final champion(s) | Layla |
| Most reigns | Trish Stratus (7) |
| Longest reign | The Fabulous Moolah (10,170 days) |
| Shortest reign |
Mickie James (<1 hour) |
| Oldest winner | The Fabulous Moolah (76 years, 106 days) |
| Youngest winner | Wendi Richter (22 years, 10 Months) |
The WWE Women's Championship was a women's professional wrestling championship in the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/E) promotion. The lineage of the Women's Championship dates back to September 18, 1956, when The Fabulous Moolah became the NWA World Women's Champion. The WWE did not exist at that time, and although they did not create their own women's championship until 1984 with The Fabulous Moolah as the first WWF Women's Champion, they claim 1956 for the championship's establishment and do not recognize any title changes from when Moolah became champion in 1956 until she lost it in 1984. This made the Women's Championship the oldest active professional wrestling championship in World Wrestling Entertainment history until its retirement in 2010 after unification with the WWE Divas Championship. The final champion was Layla.
A new WWE Women's Championship (now Raw Women's Championship) was created in 2016, and although both championships had shared the name and the original is considered to be the predecessor, the new championship does not carry the lineage of the original.
On September 18, 1956, The Fabulous Moolah became the third NWA World Women's Champion (a championship that still exists today). At that time, the WWE did not exist and did not become a company until 1963 when it was established as the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF). Moolah, who bought the rights to the championship in the 1970s, defended the championship as the NWA World Women's Champion up until 1984; by this time, the WWWF had been renamed to World Wrestling Federation (WWF). In 1983, the WWF disaffiliated with the NWA and Moolah sold the championship's rights to the WWF in 1984, and she was recognized as the WWF Women's Champion. Instead of beginning her reign in 1984, the WWF claimed the lineage of her reign from when she first became champion in 1956. The preceding champions and the title changes between 1956 and when Moolah lost it in 1984 are not recognized by WWE (although they are recognized by the NWA). As a result, The Fabulous Moolah's first reign is considered to have lasted 28 years by the promotion.
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