WWE Make Major Change To NXT Women's Championship
Rhea Ripley is no longer the NXT Women's Champion...
...but will instead be referred to as the "NXT Champion", exactly as Adam Cole currently is as part of NXT's continued effort to progress women's wrestling and force the same changes on the main roster.
The internal edict was reported by PWInsider, noting how the gender-specific nomenclature will be removed from all aspects of the programme going forward. Rhea Ripley remains the holder, but will now be known without the qualifier.
This isn't the first time the black-and-gold have been ahead of the curve (the curve in this case being WWE's often-archaic rulership) on issues relating to such matters - the introduction of the NXT Women's Championship in 2013 came as WWE was still clinging on to the "Divas" moniker that had served them through John Laurinaitis' wretched "athletic 10s" era on the main roster.
It took until 2016 at WrestleMania 32 to reintroduce a WWE Women's Championship and begin referring to the females on the roster as Superstars again, so similar changes to the titles on the main roster may take just as long to push through.