NWA World Women's Championship
The NWA Women's World Championship is a women's professional wrestling world championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). The title was first held by Mildred Burke in 1950, who was recognized as champion due to her February 11, 1937 defeat of Women's World Champion Clara Mortensen. The current champion is Kenzie Paige who is in her first reign
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The center plate of the championship, introduced September 30, 2019. Pictured in the center is former champion Allysin Kay; the photo gets updated with every champion.
Inaugural champion Mildred Burke
Four-time and longest reigning champion The Fabulous Moolah
Women's professional wrestling
Professional wrestling is a dramatic enactment of wrestling as a spectator sport. As is the norm for this sport, women's professional wrestling is organized by wrestling federations called promotions. Some promotions are exclusively for women, while others have separate divisions for women. Among the nations that have women's professional wrestling are Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Japan, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
A mid-twentieth century poster advertises women wrestlers, primarily Mildred Burke.
Two women wrestlers in the 1950s
The Fabulous Moolah is recognized as having held the WWF Women's Championship for 28 years.
Taylor Wilde (left) and Ayako Hamada (right) with the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship belts in July 2010