WWE Women's Speed Championship

The WWE Women's Speed Championship is a women's professional wrestling internet championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, available to wrestlers from the Raw, SmackDown, and NXT brand divisions. Revealed on August 9, 2024, it has a stipulation in which matches have a five-minute time limit and stream exclusively on WWE's online program Speed. The current champion is NXT's Sol Ruca, who defeated previous champion Candice LeRae during the Speed tapings on April 11, 2025 (aired April 16).

WWE Women's Speed Championship
The WWE Women's Speed Championship belt with default side plates
Details
Promotion	WWE
Brand	Raw SmackDown NXT
Date established	August 9, 2024
Current champion	Sol Ruca
Date won	April 11, 2025 (aired April 16, 2025)
Statistics First champion Candice LeRae Longest reign Candice LeRae (189 days)[a] Oldest champion Candice LeRae (39 years, 5 days) Youngest champion Sol Ruca (25 years, 228 days) Heaviest champion Sol Ruca (139 lb (63 kg)) Lightest champion Candice LeRae (110 lb (50 kg))

History

Inaugural champion Candice LeRae

On April 3, 2024, the American professional wrestling promotion WWE launched Speed, a weekly video series that streams exclusively on the social media platform X. The program features matches between wrestlers from all three of WWE's brands—Raw, SmackDown, and the developmental brand NXT—and the matches have a three-minute time limit for regular episodes. Speed originally only featured matches with male wrestlers, with special episodes for the WWE Speed Championship having a five-minute time limit.^[1][2]

On May 1, 2024, WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque confirmed that the program would also eventually feature women's matches.^[3] This led to an official announcement on August 9, 2024, where it was revealed that a tournament for the inaugural WWE Women's Speed Championship would begin on September 4, 2024.^[4] In the tournament final that occurred during the Speed tapings on October 4, 2024, SmackDown's Candice LeRae defeated Raw's Iyo Sky to become the inaugural champion. Her reign is recognized as having begun on October 9, 2024, when the match aired on tape delay.^[5][6].

In early August 2025 it was reported that WWE Speed had been canceled.^[7] Current Champion Sol Ruca indicated that despite confusion and future uncertainty, the title still existed as of mid-August. She went on to say that since the cancelation, she has been permitted by WWE to wear the belt on NXT, whereas before it was seen by WWE as "A separate universe".^[8]

Inaugural tournament

The participants for the inaugural WWE Women's Speed Championship Tournament were revealed on August 23, 2024.^[9]

	Quarterfinals Speed (aired September 4–25)				Semifinals Speed (aired October 2–5)				Final Speed (aired October 9)
	Lyra Valkyria	2:18
	Iyo Sky	Pin[10]
					Iyo Sky	Pin[11]
					Naomi	2:38
	Blair Davenport	2:36
	Naomi	Sub[12]
									Iyo Sky	3:48
									Candice LeRae	Pin[6]
	Elektra Lopez	2:33
	Kairi Sane	Pin[13]
					Kairi Sane	2:28
					Candice LeRae	Pin[14]
	Candice LeRae	Pin[15]
	Piper Niven	2:37

Reigns

Current champion Sol Ruca, with the Women's Speed Championship in her left hand and the NXT Women's North American Championship in her right hand.

As of August 23, 2025, there have been two champions. The inaugural champion was Candice LeRae. The current champion is NXT's Sol Ruca, who defeated LeRae during the Speed tapings on April 11, 2025 (aired April 16).^[16][17]

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, SmackDown, and NXT
1	Candice LeRae	October 4, 2024	Speed	Nashville, TN	1	189	188	Defeated Iyo Sky in a tournament final to become the inaugural champion. WWE recognizes LeRae's reign as beginning on October 9, 2024 and ending on April 16, 2025, when the episodes aired on tape delay.	[18][19]
2	Sol Ruca	April 11, 2025	Speed	Seattle, WA	1	134+	134+	WWE recognizes Ruca's reign as beginning on April 16, 2025, when the episode aired on tape delay.	[16][17]

Notes

1. 188 days as recognized by WWE.