Original WWE Women’s US Championship Plans Revealed

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The first WWE Women’s United States Champion was crowned at Saturday Night’s Main Event in December 2024, but that wasn’t the original plan.

Chelsea Green defeated Michin to be crowned the inaugural WWE Women’s United States Champion on the NBC special.

The champion has now revealed that wasn’t the original plan for the start of her title reign, however.

Speaking on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Chelsea Green revealed that her victory was supposed to take place a month earlier.

Revealing that she was pegged to win the title at WWE Survivor Series: WarGames in Vancouver, Green said:

“I was supposed to win it at Survivor Series in, not only in Canada on the West Coast. And do you know how many tickets I bought for that show?”

Van Vliet would query whether the tickets had to be bought by the WWE stars, with Green going into detail on that aspect, stating:

“Oh, well, that’s a whole other conversation. But keep in mind when I say bought (tickets), I had like 30 friends and family there. I had every bridesmaid, and I had like 12 bridesmaids. I had every bridesmaid there, all of their partners. I had their babies there. I had all of my family, my mom’s friends, and everyone was there.

“I don’t know when the plans changed, but when I found out was probably a week before.”

The win may not have taken place when she original expected it to, with Green going on to discuss the moment she found out she would be the inaugural champion, saying:

“So the funny thing about WWE is they never really want to tell you something, because ‘card subject to change’ is real. That’s what they always say, ‘card subject to change’, because anything can happen outside of the ring, inside, on social media, public perception, anything can change.

“I can’t tell you how many times I have shown up to work thinking I was going to do one thing, and we have gone completely the other way. It’s happening right now, my phone is going off, Change of plans. We’re always rewriting the show, and it goes all the way up until we’re live. Even then, things change as we’re live.

“So they kind of started telling me, people kept acting like I knew I was gonna win and talking to me like I knew I was winning, so they’re just talking to me like, okay, and then we’re gonna do this and this. And I’m like, Okay, so I think I’m winning, but I don’t want to ask anyone because that’s embarrassing. ‘Um, hey, by the way, am I winning?’ What if I’m not? What if I’m totally misinterpreting all this?

“So they did this to me for I would say a month of talking to me like I was winning without actually knowing. Michin also kind of told me, ‘Hey, by the way, it looks like you’re winning, so let’s plan this match with that in mind.’ We kind of spoke about that a week before, and I was like, okay, but I want to build the match not like that. I want to build the match so that anyone could win at the finish, and then whoever wins, we just sneak one out on the other one. So I think we did a good job of that, but as we were walking to the ring to go through things, I was being filmed. So that’s a big telltale sign, you’re being filmed for something WWE.

“So they had me walk to the ring, and then they had this very, very, very awkward moment between me and Shane Helms where he basically told me that I’m winning, we were just all downplaying it big time, and it was very awkward. I hope that footage comes out, because Triple H is sitting there watching us have the conversation, but he’s not telling me. But obviously he decided it, and I’m like this is so weird that he’s watching me react, so I’m trying to be excited, but I’ve also kind of known and hoped that this was gonna happen, and then I’m also like but if I react too big is that kind of icky? I’m so excited I’m winning, do you know what I mean? A lot of emotions were going through me and I’m not a very emotional person too, so that doesn’t help the reaction. So it was very awkward. So I hope that moment airs somewhere. I hope you guys all get to see that.”

At the time of writing, Chelsea Green isn’t listed as defending her championship at WrestleMania 41 on April 19 & 20, 2025.

It was recently reported that pitches had been made for Green’s involvement on the two night WWE PLE, although no confirmation as yet emerged.

Transcript from chrisvanvliet.com.

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