page_title: Professional wrestling championship
section_title: Gender championships
hierarchical_section_title: Professional wrestling championship / Classifications / Gender championships
caption_attribution_description: NOLA 2018 - WWE Smackdown Live - Arrival of The Iconic Duo The Iconic Duo makes her debut to Smackdown by beating up Charlotte Flair ( Deux semaines a Nola pour la ville et pour WWE Wrestlemania XXXIV Two weeks Nola for the city and for WWE Wrestlemania XXXIV )
context_page_description: A championship or title in professional wrestling is a recognition promoted by professional wrestling organizations.
  Championship reigns are determined by professional wrestling matches, in which competitors are involved in scripted rivalries. These narratives create feuds between the various competitors, which cast them as villains and heroes. The bookers in a company will place the title on the most accomplished performer, or whom they believe will generate fan interest in terms of event attendance and television viewership.
context_section_description: Gender occasionally plays a role in the classifications of championship belts. Due to professional wrestling generally being a sport dominated by men, only women's titles are given official gender classifications.  Generally, only men are allowed to win the championships without a gender specification, though Chyna defeating Jeff Jarrett to win the WWF Intercontinental Championship in 1999 and Tessa Blanchard defeating Sami Callihan to win the Impact World Championship in 2020 are notable exceptions. In promotions featuring only a single gender (such as Women of Wrestling or Shimmer Women Athletes), gender classifications are often unnecessary as well. Titles specifically designated for women may fall into any of the other categories listed here (e.g. women's world's titles or women's tag-team titles).
  Andy Kaufman once used gender classifications to his advantage, turning inter-gender competitions into a unique wrestling side-show.  Kaufman declared himself the "Inter-Gender Champion of the World", and offered $1,000 to any woman who could pin him. None were successful during the run of the gimmick; though in other promotions such as WCW and WWE, women have successfully pinned men, most notably in a few isolated championship matches.
  On rare occasions, a male wrestler will compete in championship matches for championships generally contested exclusively in the women's division.  Such examples include Harvey Wippleman becoming the only male to capture the WWF Women's Championship in 2000, and Eric Young winning one half of the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship in 2012.
caption: Charlotte Flair, the only woman to have held WWE's SmackDown (pictured), Raw, Divas and NXT Women's Championships
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