# List of NWA World Women's Champions

The NWA World Women's Championship is a women's professional wrestling world championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). The title was first held by Mildred Burke in 1950, who was recognized as champion due to her February 11, 1937 defeat of Women's World Champion Clara Mortensen.
As of December 16, 2024, there have been 42 reigns, between 32 wrestlers and eight vacancies. The Fabulous Moolah holds the record for most recognized reigns at four. Moolah is the oldest champion at 55 years old, while La Reina de Corazones is the youngest at 21 years old. Moolah's third reign is the longest at 3,841 days, while Evelyn Stevens and Malia Hosaka's reigns are the shortest at one day each.
Kenzie Paige is the current champion, in her first reign. She won the title by defeating Kamille at NWA's 75th Anniversary Show on August 27, 2023, in St. Louis, Missouri.

## Reigns
### Names

| Name | Year |
| NWA Women's Championship | 1950 – September 16, 2016 |
| NWA World Women's Championship | September 16, 2016 – present |
Key :
| No. | Overall reign number |
| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| † | Championship change is unrecognized by the promotion |
| + | Current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Championship change | Championship change | Reign statistics | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. |
| No. | Champion | Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Notes | Ref. |
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| 1 | Mildred Burke | 1950 | Live event | N/A | 1 | | Burke defeated Clara Mortensen on February 11, 1937 to win the original version of the Women's World Championship. Due to her victory, Burke was recognized as the inaugural NWA champion in 1950. | |
| 2 | June Byers | August 20, 1954 | Live event | Atlanta, GA | 2 | | Byers wrestled Mildred Burke for the NWA World Women's Championship in a two out of three falls match. The commission stopped the match between Burke and Byers at the end of the second fall, stripped Burke of the title, and awarded it to Byers. Burke set up the WWWA World Championship and continued to recognize herself as the World Women's Champion. | |
| — | Vacated | 1956/1964 | — | — | — | — | In 1956, the NWA promoters of New York, New Jersey and Baltimore (led by Vince McMahon Sr.) stopped recognizing June Byers as champion and she was stripped of the championship by the Baltimore Athletic Commission. Byers, with the support of promoter Billy Wolfe, continued to be recognized by the majority of the National Wrestling Alliance until her retirement in 1964. | |
| 3 | The Fabulous Moolah | September 18, 1956 | Live event | Baltimore, MD | 1 | 3,651 | Moolah defeated Judy Grable at the end of a 13-woman battle royal. Moolah was not fully recognized by the National Wrestling Alliance as the new NWA World Women's Champion until 1964 because Billy Wolfe, with whom Moolah had a falling-out earlier in her career, still controlled most of the NWA. Penny Banner, the AWA World Women's champion, was also briefly recognized in some NWA territories after Byers' retirement in 1964. | |
| 4 | Bette Boucher | September 17, 1966 | Live event | Seattle, WA | 1 | 16 | | |
| 5 | The Fabulous Moolah | October 3, 1966 | Live event | Vancouver BC, Canada | 2 | 524 | | |
| 6 | Yukiko Tomoe | March 10, 1968 | Live event | Osaka, Japan | 1 | 23 | | |
| 7 | The Fabulous Moolah | April 2, 1968 | Live event | Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan | 3 | 3,841 | | |
| 8 | Evelyn Stevens | October 8, 1978 | Live event | Dallas, TX | 1 | 1 | | |
| 9 | The Fabulous Moolah | October 9, 1978 | Live event | Fort Worth, TX | 4$^{(5)}$ | 1,909 | | |
| — | Vacated | December 31, 1983 | — | — | — | — | The World Wrestling Federation (WWF) withdrew from the NWA in 1983, and The Fabulous Moolah sold the championship to the WWF. The WWF recognized Moolah as champion but did not acknowledge previous title changes: see WWE Women's Championship. | |
| 10 | Debbie Combs | February 12, 1986 | Live event | Honolulu, HI | 1 | | Combs won the vacant championship in a 9-woman battle royal against Candi Devine, Despina Montagos, Eva Savage, Lady Satan, Princess Jasmine, Roxie Rush, Reggie Schwartz, and Sherri Martel. | |
| — | Vacated | 1987 | — | — | — | — | The championship was declared vacant in 1987 when the Kansas City promotion withdrew from the NWA. | |
| 11 | Debbie Combs | April 10, 1987 | Live event | Kansas City, MO | 2 | | Combs defeated Penny Mitchell to win the vacant championship. | |
| 12 | Bambi | 1994 | N/A | N/A | 1 | | | |
| 13 | Peggy Lee Leather | 1994 | N/A | N/A | 1 | | | |
| 14 | Bambi | July 26, 1994 | NWA TV tapings | East Ridge, TN | 2 | | | |
| 15 | Malia Hosaka | May 9, 1996 | Live event | Johnson City, TN | 1 | 1 | Hosaka defeated Debbie Combs, who continued to defend the championship despite Bambi being recognized as the champion by Jim Crockett Promotions. | |
| 16 | Debbie Combs | May 10, 1996 | Live event | Fall Branch, TN | 3 | | | |
| — | Vacated | October 1996 | — | — | — | — | Debbie Combs was stripped of the championship. | |
| 17 | Strawberry Fields | October 14, 2000 | NWA 52nd Anniversary Show | Nashville, TN | 1 | | Fields defeated Leilani Kai to win the vacant championship. | |
| — | Vacated | November 2000 | — | — | — | — | Strawberry Fields vacated the championship due to an injury. | |
| 18 | Madison | August 23, 2002 | Live event | Surrey, British Columbia, Canada | 1 | 64 | Madison defeated Bam Bam Bambi to win the vacant championship. | |
| 19 | Char Starr | October 26, 2002 | NWA 54th Anniversary Show | Corpus Christi, TX | 1 | 41 | | |
| 20 | Madison | December 6, 2002 | Live event | Port Coquitlam, BC | 2 | 96 | | |
| 21 | Leilani Kai | March 12, 2003 | NWA:TNA Weekly PPV #36 | Nashville, TN | 1 | 465 | | |
| — | Vacated | June 19, 2004 | — | — | — | — | Leilani Kai was stripped after several no-shows | |
| 22 | Kiley McLean | June 19, 2004 | Live event | Richmond, VA | 1 | 308 | McLean defeated Kameo to win the vacant championship. | |
| 23 | Lexie Fyfe | April 23, 2005 | Live event | Richmond, VA | 1 | 168 | | |
| 24 | Christie Ricci | October 8, 2005 | NWA 57th Anniversary Show | Nashville, TN | 1 | 476 | This was a three-way match, also involving Tasha Simone. | |
| 25 | MsChif | January 27, 2007 | Live event | Lebanon, TN | 1 | 98 | | |
| 26 | Amazing Kong | May 5, 2007 | Live event | Streamwood, IL | 1 | 358 | | |
| 27 | MsChif | April 27, 2008 | Live event | Cape Girardeau, MO | 2 | 818 | | |
| 28 | Tasha Simone | July 24, 2010 | House show | Lebanon, TN | 1 | 70 | | |
| 29 | La Reina de Corazones | October 2, 2010 | Live event | Altus, OK | 1 | 35 | | |
| — | Vacated | November 6, 2010 | Live event | Lebanon, TN | — | — | La Reina de Corazones was stripped of the championship after refusing to defend it. | |
| 30 | Tasha Simone | November 6, 2010 | Live event | Lebanon, TN | 2 | 365 | Simone defeated Rachel to win the vacant championship. | |
| 31 | Tiffany Roxx | November 6, 2011 | Live event | Lebanon, TN | 1 | 49 | This was a no disqualification match. | |
| 32 | Tasha Simone | December 25, 2011 | Live event | Lebanon, TN | 3 | 300 | This was a steel cage match. | |
| 33 | Kacee Carlisle | October 20, 2012 | Live event | Lebanon, TN | 1 | 462 | | |
| 34 | Barbi Hayden | January 25, 2014 | Live event | Cypress, TX | 1 | 378 | | |
| 35 | Santana Garrett | February 7, 2015 | Live event | Plant City, FL | 1 | 314 | | |
| 36 | Amber Gallows | December 18, 2015 | Live event | Sherman, TX | 1 | 273 | This was a four-way elimination match, also involving Bree Ann and Nikki Knight. Gallows won the championship by lastly eliminating Santana Garrett. | |
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| 37 | Jazz | September 16, 2016 | Live event | Sherman, TX | 1 | 948 | This was a three-way match, also involving Christi Jaynes. | |
| — | Vacated | April 22, 2019 | — | — | — | — | Jazz vacated the championship due to medical and personal reasons. | |
| 38 | Allysin Kay | April 27, 2019 | Crockett Cup | Concord, NC | 1 | 272 | Kay defeated Santana Garrett to win the vacant championship. | |
| 39 | Thunder Rosa | January 24, 2020 | Hard Times | Atlanta, GA | 1 | 277 | | |
| 40 | Serena Deeb | October 27, 2020 | UWN Primetime Live | Long Beach, CA | 1 | 222 | Deeb defended the title on October 22 on an All Elite Wrestling (AEW) Dynamite taping, five days prior to winning the title. The match aired on October 28, 2020, the day after she won the title. | |
| 41 | Kamille | June 6, 2021 | When Our Shadows Fall | Atlanta, GA | 1 | 812 | | |
| 42 | Kenzie Paige | August 27, 2023 | NWA 75th Anniversary Show | St. Louis, MO | 1 | 477+ | | |

## Combined reigns

| † | Indicates the current champion. |
| ¤ | The exact length of a title reign is uncertain; the combined length may not be correct. |
| N/A | The exact length of a title reign is too uncertain to calculate. |
| Rank | Wrestler | No. of Reigns | Combined Days |
| 1 | The Fabulous Moolah | 4$^{(5)}$ | 9,925¤ |
| 2 | Debbie Combs | 2 | 3,461¤ |
| 3 | Jazz | 1 | 948 |
| 4 | MsChif | 2 | 916 |
| 5 | Kamille | 1 | 812 |
| 6 | June Byers | 1 | 760¤ |
| 7 | Tasha Simone | 3 | 735 |
| 8 | Kenzie Paige † | 1 | 477+ |
| 9 | Christie Ricci | 1 | 476 |
| 10 | Leilani Kai | 1 | 465 |
| 11 | Kacee Carlisle | 1 | 462 |
| 12 | Barbi Hayden | 1 | 378 |
| 13 | Amazing Kong | 1 | 358 |
| 14 | Kiley McLean | 1 | 318 |
| 15 | Santana Garrett | 1 | 314 |
| 16 | Thunder Rosa | 1 | 277 |
| 17 | Amber Gallows | 1 | 273 |
| 18 | Allysin Kay | 1 | 272 |
| 19 | Serena Deeb | 1 | 222 |
| 20 | Lexie Fyfe | 1 | 168 |
| 21 | Madison | 2 | 160 |
| 22 | Tiffany Roxx | 1 | 50 |
| 23 | Char Starr | 1 | 41 |
| 24 | La Reina de Corazones | 1 | 35 |
| 25 | Yukiko Tomoe | 1 | 23 |
| 26 | Strawberry Fields | 1 | 18–47¤ |
| 27 | Bette Boucher | 1 | 16 |
| 28 | Evelyn Stevens | 1 | 1 |
| 29 | Malia Hosaka | 1 | 1 |
| 30 | Bambi | 2 | N/A |
| 31 | Mildred Burke | 1 | N/A |
| 32 | Peggy Lee Leather | 1 | N/A |