WWE Women’s United States Championship

The WWE Women’s United States Championship is one of the newest titles in the company’s history, established as the women’s counterpart to the men’s United States Championship and defended on the SmackDown brand. SmackDown General Manager Nick Aldis unveiled the title on the November 8, 2024, episode of SmackDown as a secondary championship for the main roster women’s division. A companion title, the WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship, followed for the Raw brand on November 25, 2024.

To crown the first champion, WWE ran a single-elimination tournament. Chief Content Officer Paul Levesque revealed a bracket featuring 12 women from the SmackDown roster, with four triple-threat matches in the first round, singles semifinals, and a final at Saturday Night’s Main Event XXXVII on December 14, 2024.

The original entrants were Bayley, B-Fab, Candice LeRae, Bianca Belair, Chelsea Green, Blair Davenport, Michin, Piper Niven, Jade Cargill, Naomi, Tiffany Stratton, and Elektra Lopez. Cargill was pulled from the tournament after a backstage assault angle and replaced by NXT’s Lash Legend.

Chelsea Green won the inaugural tournament by defeating Michin in the final at Saturday Night’s Main Event, becoming the first WWE Women’s United States Champion. Her opening run featured an extended program with Michin, with the two trading title matches throughout spring 2025, including a street fight in March. Green held the championship until April 25, 2025, when she lost it to Zelina Vega on SmackDown.

Vega’s first reign lasted roughly two months. Giulia defeated Vega on the June 27, 2025, episode of SmackDown, finishing the match with a Northern Lights Bomb to win her first Women’s United States Championship.

Giulia had signed with WWE less than a year earlier and had already captured the NXT Women’s Championship before her call-up to SmackDown. She aligned with a returning Kiana James shortly after the win. Giulia held the title for 133 days, the longest reign in the championship’s history, before losing it to Chelsea Green in 95 seconds in November 2025.

Green’s second reign was the shortest in the title’s lineage. Giulia regained the championship on the January 2, 2026, episode of SmackDown in Buffalo, defeating Green in seven minutes with a top-rope butterfly suplex and a Northern Lights Bomb to begin her second reign.

That run lasted 112 days and included a Women’s Tag Team Championship match alongside Kiana James in February. Tiffany Stratton ended Giulia’s second reign on the April 24, 2026, episode of SmackDown, capturing the Women’s United States Championship for the first time after earning her shot with a No. 1 contender’s win over Jordynne Grace.

As of May 11, 2026, there have been six reigns shared by four champions. Chelsea Green and Giulia are tied for the most reigns at two apiece. Giulia’s first run holds the record for longest at 133 days, while Green’s second sits at the shortest at 56 days.

The belt itself follows WWE’s design language for women’s titles. It uses the same main plate as the men’s United States Championship, but on a smaller white strap, with small blue text reading “Women’s” placed above “United States.” The side plates feature a removable center section that swaps out to the champion’s personal logo, with the default plates showing a WWE logo over a silver globe.

Through its first eighteen months, the championship has changed hands exclusively on weekly SmackDown broadcasts and the Saturday Night’s Main Event special, with no title defenses scheduled on a Premium Live Event.