List_of_WWE_Divas_Champions

List of WWE Divas Champions

List of WWE Divas Champions

Listing of professional wrestling champions for the Divas Championship

This article is about a list of wrestlers who have held the original now-retired WWE Divas Championship. For the other women's championships, see Women's championships in WWE.

The WWE Divas Championship was a women's professional wrestling championship in the WWE promotion. The championship was generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants executed scripted finishes rather than contending in direct competition. The word "Divas" in the championship's name refers to the pseudonym WWE Diva, which WWE used to refer its female wrestlers.

Record-tying three-time and the longest combined reigning Divas Champion AJ Lee
Longest individual reigning Divas Champion Nikki Bella

The creation of the championship was announced on June 6, 2008, by then SmackDown General Manager Vickie Guerrero as a counterpart to the Raw brand's WWE Women's Championship.[1] The inaugural champion was Michelle McCool, who defeated Natalya on July 20, 2008, at The Great American Bash.[2][3] On April 13, 2009, the title was moved from SmackDown to Raw as a result of then Divas Champion Maryse being drafted to Raw in the 2009 WWE draft.[4][5] On September 19, 2010, at the Night of Champions pay-per-view event, Michelle McCool (defending the Women's Championship on behalf of tag team partner and official champion, Layla) defeated Divas Champion Melina, retiring the Women's Championship and unifying it with the Divas Championship.[6]

The title was retired on April 3, 2016, at WrestleMania 32, after Lita revealed the new WWE Women's Championship would replace the Divas Championship.[7] Reigning champion Charlotte defeated Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks in a triple threat match at the event to become the new Women's Champion and therefore the final Divas Champion.[8]

Overall, there were 17 different champions. Eve Torres and AJ Lee held the record for most reigns as Divas Champion with three. AJ Lee also had the longest combined reign as Divas Champion at 406 days. Nikki Bella had the longest individual title reign at 301 days, while Jillian Hall had the shortest reign at 5 minutes.

Title history

Names

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Combined reigns

Paige was the youngest Divas Champion. She won the title on her main roster debut at the age of 21. She was also the NXT Women's Champion when she won the Divas Championship, but was forced to vacate the NXT title after winning the Divas.
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See also

References

General
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