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 current champion is Becky Lynch, who is in her record-setting second reign. She won the title by defeating Maxxine Dupri at [WWE WWE Raw|Raw on Netflix Anniversary Show|Raw's Netflix Anniversary Show] on January 5, 2026.
History
The American professional wrestling promotion WWE was founded in April 1963, and recognized a women's world champion from its outset, but it never had a secondary women's championship until April 2024 when the American Championship was introduced for the developmental brand NXT, followed by the WWE Women's United States Championship for the main roster brand SmackDown in early November. 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.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. In the tournament final on January 13, Valkyria defeated Kai to become the inaugural champion.
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.Reigns
As of,, there have been four reigns between three champions. The inaugural champion was Lyra Valkyria. Becky Lynch has the most reigns with two and her first reign is the longest at 163 days, while Maxxine Dupri’s reign is the shortest at 49 days. Lynch is also the oldest title holder at 38 years old, while Valkyria is the youngest at 28 years, 82 days old.Becky Lynch is the current champion in her record-setting second reign. She defeated Maxxine Dupri at Raw's Netflix Anniversary Show on January 5, 2026, in Brooklyn, New York.