| General |
| History |
| Title matches |
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| WWE Women's Championship | |
| Details | |
| Promotions: | WWE |
| Date established: | September 18, 1956 |
| Date retired: | Date retired September 19, 2010 (unified with the WWE Divas' Championship) |
| Other name(s) | |
| Other name(s): | NWA World Women's Championship (1956–1984) WWF Women's Championship (1984–2002) WWE Women's Championship (2002–2010) Unified WWE Divas' Championship (2010) |
| Statistics | |
| First champion(s) | The Fabulous Moolah |
| Most reigns | Trish Stratus (7 reigns) |
| Longest reign | The Fabulous Moolah (10,170 days or 28 years) |
| Shortest reign | Mickie James (<1 hour) |
| Oldest champion | The Fabulous Moolah (76 years, 106 days) |
| Youngest champion | Wendi Richter (22 years, 10 months) |
The WWE Women's Championship a professional wrestling championship in the WWE promotion. It is the oldest active championship in the company. Originally created in 1956 as the NWA World Women's Championship, it was renamed as the WWF Women's Championship in 1983 when WWE split off from NWA, then given its current name in 2002. 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.