List of WWE Raw Women's Champions

= List of WWE Raw Women's Champions =
The WWE Raw Women's Championship is a women's professional wrestling world championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the Raw brand. It was introduced as the WWE Women's Championship on April 3, 2016, at WrestleMania 32 to replace the WWE Divas Championship and has a unique title history separate from the original WWE Women's Championship. As a result of the 2016 WWE draft, the championship became exclusive to Raw with a subsequent rename and SmackDown created the SmackDown Women's Championship as a counterpart title.
Current champion Becky Lynch
The championship is generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition. During the 2021 WWE Draft, previous champion Charlotte Flair was drafted by SmackDown, while Becky Lynch, who held the SmackDown Women's Championship, was drafted by Raw. On the October 22, 2021 episode of SmackDown, the night that draft results took effect, Lynch and Flair exchanged titles by order of WWE official Sonya Deville to keep the championships on their respective brands. Becky Lynch is the current champion in her second reign. She exchanged the smackdown woman’s title withCharlotte Flair at SmackDown on October 22, 2021, in Wichita, KS.
As of January 3, 2022, there have been 24 reigns between 11 champions. Charlotte Flair, then known simply as Charlotte, was the inaugural champion, having won the title at WrestleMania 32, and she also has the most reigns at six. Lynch's first reign is the longest at 398 days, while Flair's fifth reign is the shortest at one day. Lynch also has the longest combined reign at 535 days (560 days as recognized by WWE). Asuka is the oldest champion at age 38, while Sasha Banks is the youngest, having won the title at 24 years, 181 days old.
== Title history ==
=== Names ===
Name 	Years
WWE Women's Championship 	April 3, 2016 – September 4, 2016
WWE Raw Women's Championship	September 4, 2016 – present
=== Reigns ===
Key
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
† 	Championship change is unrecognized by the promotion
<1 	Reign lasted less than a day
+ 	Current reign is changing daily
No. 	Champion 	Championship change	Championship change 	Championship change	Reign statistics	Reign statistics	Reign statistics	Notes 	Defenses	Ref.
No. 	Champion 	Date 	Event 	Location 	Reign 	Days 	Days recog. 	Notes 	Defenses	Ref.
WWE 	WWE 	WWE 	WWE 	WWE 	WWE 	WWE 	WWE 	WWE 	WWE 	WWE
1 	Charlotte 	April 3, 2016 	WrestleMania 32 	Arlington, TX 	1 	113 	113 	On the WrestleMania 32 Kickoff pre-show, the title was established as the WWE Women's Championship to replace the WWE Divas Championship, which was originally to be defended in this match. Charlotte, who was the reigning Divas Champion, defeated Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks in a triple threat match to become the inaugural champion, subsequently retiring the Divas Championship. The title became exclusive to the Raw brand following the 2016 WWE Draft in July.	3 	
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2 	Sasha Banks 	July 25, 2016 	Raw 	Pittsburgh, PA 	1 	27 	26 	 	3 	
3 	Charlotte 	August 21, 2016 	SummerSlam 	Brooklyn, NY 	2 	43 	43 	The title was renamed as the Raw Women's Championship on September 5, 2016, following the creation of the SmackDown Women's Championship for the SmackDown brand. 	3 	
4 	Sasha Banks 	October 3, 2016 	Raw 	Los Angeles, CA 	2 	27 	27 	 	0 	
5 	Charlotte Flair	October 30, 2016 	Hell in a Cell 	Boston, MA 	3 	29 	29 	This was the first women's Hell in a Cell match and the first time women were the main event match of a WWE pay-per-view. During her reign, Charlotte's ring name was lengthened to Charlotte Flair. 	3 	
6 	Sasha Banks 	November 28, 2016 	Raw 	Charlotte, NC 	3 	20 	19 	This was a falls count anywhere match. 	0 	
7 	Charlotte Flair	December 18, 2016 	Roadblock: End of the Line	Pittsburgh, PA 	4 	57 	57 	This was a 30-minute iron man match, which Flair won 3–2 in sudden death overtime. 	3 	
8 	Bayley 	February 13, 2017 	Raw 	Las Vegas, NV 	1 	76 	75 	 	3 	
9 	Alexa Bliss 	April 30, 2017 	Payback 	San Jose, CA 	1 	112 	111 	 	3 	
10 	Sasha Banks 	August 20, 2017 	SummerSlam 	Brooklyn, NY 	4 	8 	8 	 	0 	
11 	Alexa Bliss 	August 28, 2017 	Raw 	Memphis, TN 	2 	223 	222 	 	3 	
12 	Nia Jax 	April 8, 2018 	WrestleMania 34 	New Orleans, LA 	1 	70 	70 	 	2 	
13 	Alexa Bliss 	June 17, 2018 	Money in the Bank 	Rosemont, IL 	3 	63 	63 	This was Bliss' Money in the Bank cash-in match. 	2 	
14 	Ronda Rousey 	August 19, 2018 	SummerSlam 	Brooklyn, NY 	1 	232 	231 	 	3 	
15 	Becky Lynch 	April 8, 2019 	WrestleMania 35 	East Rutherford, NJ	1 	373 	398 	This was a winner takes all triple threat match for both the Raw Women's Championship and SmackDown Women's Championship, also involving Charlotte Flair, who defended the SmackDown Women's Championship. Lynch pinned Rousey to win both titles. WWE recognizes Lynch's reign as ending on May 10, 2020 due to tape delay. 	6 	
16 	Asuka 	April 15, 2020 	Money in the Bank 	Stamford, CT 	1 	96 	78 	Defeated Carmella, Dana Brooke, Lacey Evans, Nia Jax, and Shayna Baszler in the women's Money in the Bank ladder match. The Money in the Bank briefcase was originally supposed to contain a guaranteed championship match contract, but on the May 11, 2020 episode of Raw, Becky Lynch announced that, due to being pregnant, she had forfeited the belt prior to the ladder match, and it was placed in the briefcase with the winner getting the title.
WWE recognizes Asuka's reign as beginning on May 10, 2020 (when the Money in the Bank ladder match aired on tape delay) and ending on July 27, 2020 (also on tape delay).	2 	
17 	Sasha Banks 	July 20, 2020 	Raw 	Orlando, FL 	5 	34 	26 	Besides pinfall or submission, the title could also change hands by countout or disqualification; Banks won by countout.
WWE recognizes Banks' reign as beginning on July 27, 2020, when the match aired on tape delay. 	0 	
18 	Asuka 	August 23, 2020 	SummerSlam 	Orlando, FL 	2 	231 	231 	 	3 	
19 	Rhea Ripley 	April 11, 2021 	WrestleMania 37Night 2 	Tampa, FL 	1 	98 	97 	 	3 	
20 	Charlotte Flair	July 18, 2021 	Money in the Bank 	Fort Worth, TX 	5 	1 	1 	 	0 	
21 	Nikki A.S.H. 	July 19, 2021 	Raw 	Dallas, TX 	1 	33 	33 	This was Nikki A.S.H.'s Money in the Bank cash-in match. 	2 	
22 	Charlotte Flair	August 21, 2021 	SummerSlam 	Paradise, NV 	6 	62 	62 	This was a triple threat match also involving Rhea Ripley. 	3 	
23 	Becky Lynch 	October 22, 2021 	SmackDown 	Wichita, KS 	2 	100+ 	100+ 	As a result of the 2021 WWE Draft, then-SmackDown Women's Champion Becky Lynch was drafted to Raw while Charlotte Flair was drafted to SmackDown. To keep the titles on their respective brands, WWE official Sonya Deville had the two women exchange championships. 	3 	
== Combined reigns ==
Inaugural and record six-time champion Charlotte Flair.
Two-time and Current champion Becky Lynch is the longest reigning champion at 373 days (398 days as recognized by WWE) for her first reign and she has the longest combined reign at 473 days (498 days as recognized by WWE).
As of January 29, 2022.
†	Indicates the current champion
Rank	Wrestler 	No. of
reigns	Combined
days	Combined days
recognized by WWE	Combined Defenses
1 	Becky Lynch † 	2	473+	498+	3
2 	Alexa Bliss 	3	398 	396 	11
3 	Asuka 	2	327 	309 	5
4 	Charlotte Flair	6	305 	305 	15
5 	Ronda Rousey 	1	232 	231 	3
6 	Sasha Banks 	5	116 	106 	0
7 	Rhea Ripley 	1	98 	97 	3
8 	Bayley 	1	76 	75 	3
9 	Nia Jax 	1	70 	70 	3
10 	Nikki A.S.H. 	1	33 	33 	3
== See also ==
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