The AEW Women's World Championship is a

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created and promoted by the American

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(AEW). Established on October 2, 2019, the inaugural champion was

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. The current champion is "Timeless" Toni Storm, who is in her record-setting fourth reign. She won the title by defeating Mariah May at Grand Slam Australia on February 15, 2025.

History

On June 18, 2019, six months after the American

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(AEW) was founded, AEW

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and

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announced plans for both a singles and tag team championship for the women's division. It was then announced by AEW

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Brandi Rhodes that the AEW Women's World Championship belt would be unveiled on August 31 at All Out, and that the first champion would be crowned on October 2 during the inaugural broadcast of AEW's weekly television show, later revealed as ''

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''. Both participants for the inaugural championship match were determined at All Out. The first competitor was determined by the women's

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during the ''Buy In'' pre-show, which was won by

Nyla Rose Brandi Hicks Degroat (born August 3, 1982), better known by the ring name Nyla Rose, is an American professional wrestler and actress. She is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where she is a one-time AEW Women's World Champion. Upon joining ...

. Later that night on the main show,

became her opponent by defeating

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. On the premiere episode of ''Dynamite'', Riho defeated Rose to become the inaugural champion. At All Out on September 4, 2022, reigning champion

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was originally scheduled to defend the championship against

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; however, due to Rosa suffering a back injury in late August, the match was called off. Instead of vacating the title, it was decided that an interim champion would be crowned until Rosa's return, after which, the interim champion would face Rosa to determine the undisputed champion. A

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was scheduled for All Out where Storm defeated Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D.,

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, and Hikaru Shida to become the interim champion. At Full Gear on November 19, Hayter defeated Storm to win the interim championship. However, on the November 23 episode of ''Dynamite'', it was announced that Rosa had relinquished the lineal championship, thus Hayter became the official champion by default and Storm's interim reign was retroactively made an official reign.

Belt design

The original AEW Women's World Championship belt had a small oval shaped center plate. There were a total of six side plates, three on each side of the center plate. The top of the center plate had a crown and ornamentation lined the edge of the center plate. At the very center of the plate was a name plate to display the reigning champion's name. Above the name plate was AEW's logo while below the name plate read "Women's World Wrestling Champion". The side plates had a globe at the center with

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around the globe. The plates were gold and nickel and were on a black leather strap. On the May 28, 2021, Friday night special airing of ''Dynamite'', reigning champion Hikaru Shida was awarded with a slightly updated championship belt. The updated belt featured the overall same design, but was slightly bigger with extra encrusted diamonds and extra gold

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, and it only had two side plates on each side of the center plate instead of three. The unveiling of this updated design was to commemorate Shida's reign of 370 days, which at the time was the longest reign for any AEW championship (this record would be broken by Jade Cargill with the

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in January 2023). Shida, however, would lose the title just two days later at

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to Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. At

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on March 6, 2022, Baker unveiled a new design of the championship belt with bigger plates, which are gold and on a black strap. At the center of the center plate is a globe that shows the continents of North and South America. Above the globe is a black banner that says "Women's World" while below the globe is another black banner that says "Wrestling Champion". At the top of the center plate is AEW's logo while filigree fills out the rest of the plate. It lacks a nameplate that was on the previous design. The inner side plates each have a portion of the globe that shows continents not on the center plate, while the outer side plates have two wrestlers grappling below the AEW logo. This belt was designed by Andre Dorsey, which took three weeks to complete, and it was inspired by the Mid-South North American Championship belt of the 1980s.

Reigns

Reigning and record-setting four-time champion "Timeless" Toni Storm. As of , , there have been 14 reigns between nine champions and one vacancy. Riho was the inaugural champion. "Timeless" Toni Storm has the most reigns at four, and she has the longest combined reign at 512+ days. Hikaru Shida also has the longest and shortest reigns, with her first reign lasting 372 days and her second reign lasting 25 days. Riho was the youngest champion at 22 years old while Nyla Rose is the oldest champion at 37. "Timeless" Toni Storm is the reigning champion in her record-setting fourth reign. She won the title by defeating previous champion Mariah May at Grand Slam Australia on February 15, 2025, in

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Combined reigns

As of , .

References

External links

Official AEW Women's World Championship Title History
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