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WWE Women's Speed Championship
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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).

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History

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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]

Inaugural tournament

The participants for the inaugural WWE Women's Speed Championship Tournament were revealed on August 23, 2024.[7]

Quarterfinals
Speed
(aired September 4–25)
Semifinals
Speed
(aired October 2–5)
Final
Speed
(aired October 9)
      
Lyra Valkyria 2:18
Iyo Sky Pin[8]
Iyo Sky Pin[9]
Naomi 2:38
Blair Davenport 2:36
Naomi Sub[10]
Iyo Sky 3:48
Candice LeRae Pin[6]
Elektra Lopez 2:33
Kairi Sane Pin[11]
Kairi Sane 2:28
Candice LeRae Pin[12]
Candice LeRae Pin[13]
Piper Niven 2:37
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Reigns

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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 17, 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).[14][15]

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Notes

  1. 188 days as recognized by WWE.

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