Women’s wrestling is hotter than ever in the year 2025. Regardless of company, one thing is for sure – – women draw.
With this, WWE has introduced two more women’s championships for 2025. This has included the WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship and the WWE Women’s United States Championship. This leaves the women on the main roster with five total championships. NXT has two, plus the tag team titles can float to the NXT brand, but they rarely do.
With so much going on in the women’s division this year in WWE, Diva Dirt has decided we are going to do a little bit of a retrospective of each title. How we got to where we are today, and what may come to round out the year. Who was champion, who is champion, and who will be champion when 2026 rings in?
Let’s start with the two newest titles and work our way up.
WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship
- Inaugural Champion: Lyra Valkyria
- Won the title on January 13 by defeating Dakota Kai in a tournament final
- Held the title for 144 days
- Successfully defended the title five times by defeating Dakota Kai, Ivy Nile, Raquel Rodriguez, Bayley, and Becky Lynch
- Lost the title to Becky Lynch at Money in the Bank
- Current Champion: Becky Lynch
- Won the title on June 7 at Money in the Bank against Lyra Valkyria
- Has held the title for 80 days and counting
- Successfully defended the title six times against Bayley, Lyra Valkyria, Maxxine Dupri, Natalya, and Nikki Bella
The Women’s Intercontinental Championship has started pretty well for a belt lineage. Two strong champions so far in its start and throughout 2025. It would be interesting to see if Becky can keep it through the rest of the year or if someone will be pushed up into the position by Becky.
Who may be the champion by the end of the year?
Roxanne Perez
Nikki will likely get a rematch against Lynch, but even if Nikki does win the title, I don’t see her holding it for the rest of the year. Regardless of this, I think the year will end with Roxanne Perez as champion. This could be a big idea to have Liv Morgan return and fight against Perez for the title when she’s back.
WWE Women’s United States Championship
- Inaugural Champion: Chelsea Green
- Won the title on December 14 by defeating Michin in a tournament final
- Held the title for 132 days
- Successfully defended the title four times against Michin and Sol Ruca
- Lost the title to Zelina Vega on SmackDown
- Second Champion: Zelina Vega
- Won the title on April 25 on SmackDown against Chelsea Green
- Held the title for 63 days
- Successfully defended the title once against Chelsea Green
- Lost the title to Giulia on SmackDown
- Current Champion: Giulia
- Won the title on June 27 on SmackDown against Zelina Vega
- Has held the title for 65 days and counting
- Successfully defended the title once against Zelina Vega
- Heading towards a match with Michin
Who may be the champion by the end of the year?
Unlike the IC Title, the US Title hasn’t started off the greatest for this year. And let’s be clear, it is at no fault of the three women who have held the belt. For some reason, this belt has been regulated to only being on SmackDown and at most Saturday Night’s Main Event. It lacks direction and only the prior champions really fight to regain the title. The title has been tremendously hurt by not being given the proper time on screen.
Honestly, it is hard to determine who will be the champion by the end of the year, because nothing seems to be building for this. However, we could get Lyra Valkyria to move over to SmackDown if she isn’t going to go for the Women’s World Title anytime soon, and she cannot go for the IC Title as long as Becky is still champion. Or perhaps they could call up Jordynne Grace and place her on SmackDown, which was a report at one time. They need to fix the booking of it and take it seriously, regardless of who ends the year as champion.
WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships
- Champions to start 2025: Bianca Belair/Naomi
- Championships won on August 31, 2024 originally by Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill
- Cargill was taken out by an unknown assailant, who was later to be revealed as Naomi. Prior to that reveal Naomi stepped in on December 20 as a champion with Belair.
- With Naomi, Bianca and Naomi held the titles for 73 Days
- With Naomi, Bianca and Naomi successfully defended the gold one time against Meta Four
- Lost the titles to Judgment Day (Raquel Rodriguez/Liv Morgan) on February 24 on Raw
- Champions from February 24 until April 20 – Judgment Day (Raquel Rodriguez/Liv Morgan)
- Won the titles from Bianca and Naomi on the February 24 episode of Raw.
- Never successfully defend the titles.
- Held the titles for 55 days
- Lost the titles to Lyra Valkyria and Becky Lynch at WrestleMania on April 20
- Champions from April 20 – April 21 – Lyra Valkyria/Becky Lynch
- Won the titles from Judgment Day at WrestleMania
- Match was originally supposed to be Lyra and Bayley/Becky Lynch attacked Bayley backstage but we did not find out until a week later
- Never successfully defend the titles
- Held the titles for 1 day
- Lost the titles back to Judgment Day the next night, April 21 on Raw
- Champions from April 21 -August 2 – Judgment Day (Raquel Rodriguez/Liv Morgan/Roxanne Perez)
- Won the titles off of Lyra and Becky the day after WrestleMania on Raw
- Liv Morgan held the titles with Raquel until June 30th. Liv was injured, and the champion became Roxanne Perez who joined the Judgment Day
- Liv and Raquel successfully defended the title once against Gigi Dolin & Tatum Paxley
- Held the titles for 70 days until Liv got hurt
- Raquel and Roxanne have defended the titles twice. Once in a Fatal Four Way at Evolution and the second time against Bayley and Lyra Valkyria.
- Held the titles for 33 days
- Lost the titles to Charlotte Flair & Alexa Bliss at SummerSlam on August 2
- Current Champions from August 2 – present – Charlotte Flair/Alexa Bliss
- Won the titles from the Judgment Day at Summerslam on Aug. 2
- Defended the titles twice so far successfully against Judgment Day in a rematch and Chelsea Green/Alba Fyre
- Has held the titles for 29 days and counting
Who may be the champion by the end of the year?
Phew! Now the tag team titles are always a cause of controversy and commotion! What a year for them as always. Both Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss have been tag team champions in the past, but Charlotte has only held the gold fo a short time with Asuka. Bliss has an even shorter reign with Asuka but she is a two-time tag team champion with Nikki Cross that lasted a bit longer. So it will be interesting to see where this duo goes and how long they may actually keep the gold. Let’s go for it and say that they will hold the gold for the rest of the year.
The current teams we have: Judgment Day, The Dungeon Dolls, B-Fab/Michin, Kabuki Warriors, The HerService, and Giulia/Kiana James. In NXT we have a few more with Fatal Influence, ZaRuca, and The Culling. Plus with TNA we have The Elegance Brand, The IInspiration, Xia Brookside/Lei Ying Lee, and Harley Hudson/Myla Grace. With all these options, and with the big names as champions, it is likely to have a good rest of the year IF booked right.
