WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship

The WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship is a women's professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, defended on the Raw brand division. It is one of two secondary women's championships on WWE's main roster, along with the WWE Women's United States Championship on SmackDown. The title was unveiled prior to the November 25, 2024, episode of Raw. The current champion is Becky Lynch, who is in her first reign. She won the title by defeating Lyra Valkyria in a Last Chance match at Money in the Bank on June 7, 2025.

WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship
The WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship belt with default side plates
Details
Promotion	WWE
Brand	Raw
Date established	November 25, 2024
Current champion	Becky Lynch
Date won	June 7, 2025
Statistics First champion Lyra Valkyria Longest reign Lyra Valkyria (145 days)[a] Oldest champion Becky Lynch (38 years, 128 days) Youngest champion Lyra Valkyria (28 years, 82 days) Heaviest champion Becky Lynch (135 lb (61 kg)) Lightest champion Lyra Valkyria (130 lb (59 kg))

History

Inaugural champion Lyra Valkyria

The American professional wrestling promotion WWE was founded in April 1963, but it never had a secondary women's championship until April 2024 when the NXT Women's North American Championship was introduced for the developmental brand NXT,^[1] followed by the WWE Women's United States Championship for the main roster brand SmackDown in early November.^[2][3][4] Later that same month prior to the November 25 episode of Raw, the brand's general manager Adam Pearce unveiled the WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship for the main roster women's division on the Raw brand, countering the men's WWE Intercontinental Championship.^[5]

The inaugural Women's Intercontinental Champion was determined by a tournament that began on the December 2 episode of Raw. Prior to that episode's broadcast, WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque revealed the tournament bracket, featuring 12 women from the Raw 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 on Raw on January 13, 2025. Tournament participants announced were Dakota Kai, Shayna Baszler, Katana Chance, Zoey Stark, Raquel Rodriguez, Kayden Carter, Lyra Valkyria, Zelina Vega, Ivy Nile, Alba Fyre, Kairi Sane, and Natalya.^[6] In the tournament final on January 13, Valkyria defeated Kai to become the inaugural champion.^[7]

Tournaments

Inaugural tournament

The tournament to determine the inaugural Women's Intercontinental Champion began on December 2, 2024, and was held across episodes of Raw. The final took place on the January 13, 2025, episode.^[8][6]

First round Raw December 2 – December 23, 2024

Semifinals Raw December 30, 2024

Final Raw January 13, 2025

Dakota Kai

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Katana Chance

7:00[9]

Shayna Baszler

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Dakota Kai

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Zoey Stark

8:15[10]

Zoey Stark

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Raquel Rodriguez

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Kayden Carter

9:25[11]

Dakota Kai

8:31[12]

Lyra Valkyria

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Lyra Valkyria

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Zelina Vega

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Ivy Nile

7:50[13]

Lyra Valkyria

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Iyo Sky

11:45[10]

Alba Fyre

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Iyo Sky[b]

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Natalya

8:05[14]

Notes

1. 144 days as recognized by WWE.
2. Kairi Sane was originally slated to participate, but was attacked backstage by Pure Fusion Collective (Shayna Baszler, Sonya Deville, and Zoey Stark) during the December 16 episode of Raw and was pulled from the tournament. She was replaced by fellow Damage CTRL stablemate Iyo Sky.

Belt design

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. It also replaced the word "Heavyweight" with "Women's". 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 blue globe.^[15]

Reigns

As of August 19, 2025, there have been two reigns. The inaugural champion was Lyra Valkyria. The current champion is Becky Lynch, who defeated Valkyria in a Last Chance match at Money in the Bank on June 7, 2025, in Inglewood, California. Had Lynch lost, she would have never been able to challenge for the title again for as long as Valkyria was champion, but since Lynch won, Valkyria had to raise Lynch's hand and acknowledge her as the better woman.^[16]

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
+	Current reign is changing daily

No.	Champion	Championship change			Reign statistics			Notes	Ref.
		Date	Event	Location	Reign	Days	Days recog.
	WWE: Raw
1	Lyra Valkyria	January 13, 2025	Raw	San Jose, CA	1	145	144	Defeated Dakota Kai in a tournament final to become the inaugural champion.	[17]
2	Becky Lynch	June 7, 2025	Money in the Bank	Inglewood, CA	1	73+	73+	This was a Last Chance match where if Lynch had lost, she would have never been able to challenge for the title again for as long as Lyra Valkyria was champion. Since Valkyria lost, she had to raise Lynch's hand and acknowledge her as the better woman.	[16]

See also

• Women's championships in WWE