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As Triple H is so fond of saying in the promos for Raw on Netflix: “In case you haven’t heard, WWE is on fire right now.” It’s a cliche, but it’s true — 2024 saw WWE selling out arenas and stadiums across the globe, regularly beating their own records for highest-grossing gates. But beyond the rising viewing figures and the momentous move to Netflix, 2024 was a crucial year for WWE with the introduction of three new women’s championships.
WWE Three New Women’s Champions
In a move that echoes the overall state of WWE’s women’s divisions, it was the NXT women’s roster that got the first new belt of 2024 in the Women’s North American Championship. Inaugural champ and homegrown performance center star Kelani Jordan nabbed the title in a ladder match at NXT Battleground in June, knocking off the likes of Sol Ruca and Lash Legend in the process. Though Kelani dropped the NA title to Fallon Henley at Halloween Havoc, her bubbling feud with Stephanie Vaquer and Lola Vice promises an intriguing direction for Jordan character-wise in 2025.
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Though the Smackdown women’s division navigated somewhat rougher waters than NXT (thanks in larger part to the waffling between 2 and 3 hour shows), 2024 was still a strong year for the women on the blue brand, none more so than Smackdown’s first-ever Women’s United States Champion Chelsea Green. In a move nearly 50 years overdue (the men’s incarnation debuted in 1975) the newly-minted US Championship was the first women’s mid-card belt to be introduced on the main roster, and few superstars are more deserving than Chelsea Green, another (notably Canadian) homegrown WWE talent who began her career on “Tough Enough.”
While the tournament finals technically continued into the New Year, WWE closed out 2024 with the introduction of the Women’s Intercontinental Championship on Raw, the red brand’s equivalent of the US Championship and a much-needed addition with the recent jump to Netflix. The sky is seemingly the limit for inaugural women’s IC champ Lyra Valkyria, who’s been on the main roster for less than a year but has already delivered no shortage of iconic matches, including winning the NXT women’s championship off fellow Irishwoman Becky Lynch.
With countless main event stars waiting in the wings to return. TNA talent like Jordynne Grace and Masha Slamovich regularly popping up on WWE TV, there’s never been a more diverse crop of women’s wrestlers in WWE. The introduction of three new belts in 2024 is a long-awaited acknowledgment of the caliber of talent at the company’s fingertips.
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