| WWE Women's United States Championship | |
| Currentholder: | TBD |
| Won: | December 14, 2024 |
| Created: | November 8, 2024 |
| Promotion: | WWE |
| Brand: | SmackDown |
| Firstchamp: | TBD |
The WWE Women's United States Championship is an upcoming professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, to be defended on the SmackDown brand division. It will be one of two secondary women's championships on WWE's main roster, along with the WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship on Raw. The title was announced during the November 8, 2024, episode of SmackDown with the inaugural champion to be crowned in a tournament final at Saturday Night's Main Event on December 14, 2024.
The American professional wrestling promotion WWE was founded in April 1963, but it never had a secondary women's championship until the NXT Women's North American Championship was introduced for the developmental brand NXT in April 2024.[1] In turn, later that year during the November 8, 2024, episode of SmackDown, the brand's general manager Nick Aldis unveiled the WWE Women's United States Championship to be a secondary championship for the main roster women's division on the SmackDown brand, countering the men's WWE United States Championship.[2] [3] [4] The WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship was subsequently introduced for Raw on November 25.[5]
Prior to the November 15 episode of SmackDown, Aldis announced that tournament matches to determine the inaugural Women's United States Champion would begin on that night's episode.[6] WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque subsequently revealed the tournament bracket, featuring 12 women from the SmackDown roster in four triple threat matches for the first round, with the winners of each advancing to the semifinals in singles matches with those winners then facing off in the tournament final at the Saturday Night's Main Event special on December 14, 2024. Tournament participants announced were Bayley, B-Fab, Candice LeRae, Bianca Belair, Chelsea Green, Blair Davenport, Michin, Piper Niven, Jade Cargill, Naomi, Tiffany Stratton, and Elektra Lopez.[7] Cargill, however, was pulled from the tournament due to a backstage assault and was replaced by NXT's Lash Legend.[8]
The tournament to crown the inaugural WWE Women's United States Champion began on November 15, 2024, and is being held across episodes of SmackDown, concluding at Saturday Night's Main Event on December 14, 2024.
The belt design is identical to the men's version, but like all women's championships in WWE, it is smaller and on a white strap and it has small blue text that reads "Women's" placed above the words "United States". Like all of WWE's other championship belts, the two side plates feature a removable center section which can be customized with the champion's logos; the default side plates feature a WWE logo over a silver globe.[9]