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There’s a new girls’s title belt coming to the WWE.
SmackDown basic supervisor Nick Aldis on Friday unveiled the WWE Ladies’s United States Championship.
WWE @WWE
BREAKING NEWS: #SmackDown GM Nick Aldis has introduced a NEW Ladies’s Title… the WWE Ladies’s United States Championship! 🇺🇸
Who would be the FIRST EVER WWE Ladies’s United States Champion? #SmackDown pic.twitter.com/U9Vf5G2CtR
WWE on TNT Sports activities @wweontnt
The WWE Ladies’s United States Championship has been unveiled! 🇺🇸 🏆#SmackDown | Reside on TNT Sports activities & discovery+ pic.twitter.com/Bjj3mdFs7M
The announcement follows the creation of the NXT Ladies’s North American Championship, which was introduced at Stand & Ship in April.
The belt seems to be just like the WWE United States Championship belt with added white accents.
Nick Aldis @RealNickAldis
It’s my honor and privilege to introduce the brand new @WWE Ladies’s United States Championship. #Smackdown pic.twitter.com/Us3vZn7ihr
Kelani Jordan was named the primary North American Ladies’s Champion at WWE NXT Battleground in June. The inaugural title was determined in a six-woman ladder match. Fallon Henley most lately claimed the belt in a gauntlet match in October.
Jordan was one of many members of the WWE neighborhood who responded to the information on Friday night time.
Kelani Jordan @kelani_wwe
First ever 👀🙌🏽 https://t.co/7DFwZKRzXV
Triple H @TripleH
The ladies of WWE proceed to indicate that they’re the perfect within the enterprise. The Ladies’s United States Championship will showcase their continued effort.
So, who’s going to step up and take it? pic.twitter.com/Zyg5mzhWiC
Nattie @NatbyNature
A brand new title for ladies in @wwe, I am past excited for this. It has been 7 years since I’ve gained a singles title and I’ve by no means stopped working in direction of successful a championship once more. I actually consider onerous work all the time pays off. LFG!
Jessika Carr @WWELadyRefJess
CHELSEA GREEN @ImChelseaGreen
Though I believe that @WWE most likely ought to have consulted me to design the Ladies’s United States Championship, I’ll completely take it off their arms & put on it proudly… infact, I will put on it higher than any of those #Smackdown slobs. 🤷🏻♀️ Simply saying.
Aldis made the announcement throughout Friday’s SmackDown broadcast from KeyBank Heart in Buffalo, New York.
It was not specified how the inaugural Ladies’s United States Champion might be determined, though Aldis stated within the announcement that the title is not going to be awarded however might be “earned” by its first winner.
The title marks the continued growth of the ladies’s division and provides a mid-card title that has been requested by a number of WWE stars. Wrestlers have additionally expressed a want for the WWE so as to add an Intercontinental Title for ladies.
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