WWE Speed Women's Championship
| WWE Speed Women's Championship | |||||
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| Details | |||||
| Promotion | WWE | ||||
| Date established | August 9, 2024 | ||||
| Current champion(s) | TBD | ||||
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The WWE Speed Women's Championship is an upcoming women's professional wrestling internet championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, which will be available to wrestlers from all three of the company's brand divisions. Revealed on August 9, 2024, it will have a stipulation in which matches have a five-minute time limit and stream exclusively on WWE's online program Speed.
History
[edit]On April 3, 2024, the American professional wrestling promotion WWE launched Speed, a weekly video series that streams exclusively on the social media platform X. The program features matches between wrestlers from all three of WWE's brands—Raw, SmackDown, and the developmental brand NXT—and the matches have a three-minute time limit for regular episodes. Speed originally only featured matches with male wrestlers, with special episodes for the WWE Speed Championship having a five-minute time limit.[1][2]
On May 1, 2024, WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque confirmed that the program would also eventually feature women's matches.[3] This led to an official announcement on August 9, 2024, where it was revealed that a tournament for the inaugural WWE Speed Women's Championship would begin on September 4, 2024.[4]
Inaugural tournament
[edit]The participants for the inaugural WWE Speed Women's Championship Tournament were revealed on August 23, 2024.[5]
| Quarterfinals Speed (airing September 4 – September 25) | Semifinals (airing date TBD) | Final (airing date TBD) | |||||||||
| Lyra Valkyria | 2:18 | ||||||||||
| Iyo Sky | Pin | ||||||||||
| Iyo Sky | |||||||||||
| Naomi | |||||||||||
| Blair Davenport | |||||||||||
| Naomi | Pin | ||||||||||
| Elektra Lopez | |||||||||||
| Kairi Sane | |||||||||||
| Candice LeRae | |||||||||||
| Piper Niven | |||||||||||
Reigns
[edit]| 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 |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Days recog. | ||||
| 1 | TBD | TBD | Speed | TBD | 1 | — | — | Inaugural champion is to be determined via tournament. | |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Weprin, Alex (February 8, 2024). "WWE Inks Deal With X to Stream 'Speed' Matches". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on February 9, 2024. Retrieved August 10, 2024.
- ^ Rose, Bryan (March 27, 2024). "WWE Speed premiere date revealed, tournament will crown champion". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ Lambert, Jeremy (May 1, 2024). "Triple H Says Women Will Eventually Compete In WWE Speed Matches". Fightful. Archived from the original on May 1, 2024. Retrieved August 10, 2024.
- ^ Rose, Bryan (August 9, 2024). "WWE Speed Women's Championship tournament to begin next month". Wrestling Observer Figure Four Online. Archived from the original on August 10, 2024. Retrieved August 10, 2024.
- ^ Thomas, Jeremy (August 23, 2024). "Competitors Revealed For WWE Speed Women's Championship Tournament". 411Mania. Retrieved August 24, 2024.