WWE has recently announced two new titles for Superstars on its roster to battle it out for.
The most recent new belt is the Crown Jewel Championship, which will see the male and female equivalents of the WWE Champion and World Champion battle it out to truly see who is the best wrestler in the company.
While this will lead to exciting matchups between Cody Rhodes and Gunther and Nia Jax and Liv Morgan, it still doesn’t give other wrestlers something to fight for.
That changed a bit with the introduction of the WWE Women’s Speed Championship. Now, after a month-long tournament, a winner has finally been crowned.
WWE Superstar Candice LeRae came out on top, defeating former WWE Women’s Champion IYO SKY in three minutes and 48 seconds to become the inaugural WWE Women’s Speed Champion.
WWE Speed is the newest wrestling program from WWE which features matches exclusively on X and has a five-minute time limit. These result in exciting matches that give wrestlers not in the main event picture a chance to show off their skills.
LeRae and SKY showed what they were capable of, with plenty of hard-hitting moves and two of the best moonsaults in the business.
TODAY on #WWESpeed!
It’s @Iyo_SkyWWE vs. @CandiceLeRae in the #WWESpeed Finals! Who will be the first-ever WWE Speed Women’s Champion? pic.twitter.com/aP0gcXeq5a
— WWE (@WWE)October 9, 2024
While SKY maintained control for the majority of the match, LeRae was able to eke out a win by reversing SKY’s Over the Moonsault into her own springboard moonsault.
LeRae’s road to winning the championship was a tough one, having to face Piper Niven and SKY’s stablemate Kairi Sane before making it to the finals.
While LeRae needed help from her tag team partner Indi Hartwell to defeat Niven, she was able to find victory against Sane on her own.
Meanwhile, SKY had an arguably more difficult journey to the finals, facing off against former NXT Women’s Champion Lyra Valkyria in the first round and two-time SmackDown Women’s Champion Naomi in the second.
This marks LeRae’s first singles title in WWE. She had previously won the NXT Women’s Tag Team Championship with Hartwell.
While this is certainly exciting for LeRae, who deserves a singles championship, WWE really needs to install a women’s mid-card title on the main roster.
This will wrestlers who are not involved in the Liv Morgan-Rhea Ripley and Nia Jax-Tiffany Stratton storylines something to do instead of waiting for a shot at the tag titles that will just go back to Jade Cargill and Bianca Belair.
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