Women's World Championship (WIW)
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- Not to be confused with WIW Rage Women's Championship, WIW Divas Championship, or WIW Women's Championship (1999–2010).
| Women's World Championship | |
| Details | |
| Promotion | WIW |
| Brand | Rage |
| Date established | August 26, 2016 |
| Current champion(s) | Sarah Grobel |
| Date won | May 25, 2024 |
| Other name(s) | |
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| Statistics | |
| First champion | Allison/Ali Richards |
The Women's World Championship is a women's professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion World Incorporated Wrestling on the Rage brand. It is a counterpart title to the ShowDown brand's WIW Women's Championship.
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[edit] History
Following the reintroduction of the WIW brand extension and subsequent draft on July 19, 2016, WIW Women's Champion Kaila Matteson was drafted to Rage, the title was renamed the WIW World Women's Championship, leaving ShowDown without a women's championship. Immediately following SummerBash on the August 26, 2016 episode of ShowDown, Turf Finnegan and ShowDown commissioner Dixie Finnegan unveiled the new WIW Women's Championship and announced that the inaugural champion will be determined at Aftershock in a Six-pack challenge, the partcipates will be decided in fatal four way matches in the next two weeks, on the August 26, 2016 episode of ShowDown, the first four way match saw Katie Mansfield defeated Jamie Carroll, Megan Zanto and Hannah Weiner, the second saw Beatrice LaGreca defeated Kristen Erickson, Riley Austin and Kelsey Wagner, the third saw Carolyn Kuser defeated Nicole Bergman, Leigh Hicks and Stephanie Claassen and the final fatal four way match saw Brittany Hiatt defeated Megan Zanto, Melissa Warren and Katelyn Whitehead. On the September 2, 2016 episode of ShowDown, Kayty Kapphan defeated Hannah Weinert, Anna Williams and Brooke Slevin, as on the same night Allison Richards defeated Somer Cummings, Kesley Dayton and Maggie King in the final two fatal four way matches. At Aftershock, Allison Richards won the Six Pack Challenge to become the inaugural champion.
[edit] Inaugural championship match
[edit] Brand designation history
The championship was established to be exclusive to its namesake brand, SmackDown. An incident occurred in the 2021 WWE Draft where both the Raw and SmackDown women's champions were drafted to the opposite brands. To keep the titles on their respective brands, the champions swapped titles. However, this same incident occurred in the 2023 WWE Draft, but the champions instead kept their titles, thus the titles changed brands despite their namesakes. This issue would be resolved as the titles were subsequently renamed.
| Date | Brand | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| August 23, 2016 | ShowDown | The championship was established for SmackDown after WIW Women's Champion Kaila Matteson was drafted to Rage in the 2016 WIW Draft, with Matteson's title renamed to Rage World Women's Championship. Ali Richards subsequently became the inaugural ShowDown Heavyweight Women's Champion at Aftershock on September 11. |
| May 8, 2023 | Rage | ShowDown Heavyweight Women's Champion Jennipher Harper was drafted to Rage in the 2023 WIW Draft. The title was renamed as the Women's World Championship on June 14, 2023. |
[edit] Belt Design
[edit] Reigns
- Main article: List of Women's World Champions (WIW)
