WWE Championships To Be Scrapped

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It looks like two WWE championships could be on the verge of being scrapped just a couple of years after they were first introduced.

Back in 2024, WWE introduced a new show called Speed, which aired exclusively on X and typically consisted of a singular three or five minute match per week.

The show featured tournaments that would lead to the crowning of #1 contenders to challenge for the WWE Speed Championship, and the later introduced Women’s Speed Championship.

Speed as a show was discontinued in July 2025, but the Speed Championships have remained active – along with the tournaments and short matches concept – on NXT TV.

However, on Sunday, August 30 at WWE NXT Heatwave, NXT Women’s North American Champion Zaria will face current Women’s Speed Champion Wren Sinclair in a title unification match.

The word unification is very important here – this means the winner will merge the two championships together, not hold both championships separately.

What this actually most likely means is the Women’s Speed Championship will be dropped and the winner will just proceed as the Women’s North American Champion.

The men’s WWE Speed Championship, currently held by Lexis King, was defended as recently as this past Tuesday against Lucien Price, and there’s been nothing to suggest it’ll be dropped – but if the Women’s Speed Title is going, one would think the men’s won’t be too far behind.

The History Of WWE Speed

As of this writing, the men’s Speed Championship has been held by seven champions, with the initial version on X being held by Ricochet, Andrade, Dragon Lee and El Grande Americano.

Then, when it transitioned to NXT, it was held by Jasper Troy, Elio LeFleur – who had to vacate it due to injury – and then current champion Lexis King who won the vacant title.

As for the women, it was introduced a few months later and has only had four champions, with the initial phase winners being Candice LeRae and Sol Ruca.

In NXT, Ruca had to vacate it due to injury, before it was won by Fallon Henley and then current champion Wren Sinclair.

Was WWE Speed A Good Idea?

Ultimately, the idea of airing one three or five minute match per week on X was a pretty promising and innovative concept.

However, it never really seemed to “go viral” to the degree that both WWE and X were hoping it would, and it was largely just seen as a consolation prize or even a demotion for those who competed on the show – even the champions.

There was a somewhat bizarre disconnect where the Speed Title belts were exclusive to X too, so the champion couldn’t even have the belt with them on the main shows like WWE Raw or SmackDown.

That part of the deal really wasn’t a good idea, as it only served to undermine Speed as a concept and make it feel too unimportant for mainline TV, and also meant it never really received the promotion that could have helped it succeed.

The Speed concept as it currently exists in NXT feels a bit shoehorned in and out of place, with the necessity for tournaments disrupting the rest of the show, and the three or five minute rule for matches being a bit redundant when most matches on NXT TV are fast-paced and short anyway because that’s just the style of the product.

So, yes, it was actually a good idea to begin with, it just wasn’t executed as well as it could have been.

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