Ranking Every First Current WWE Champion From Worst To Best

5. Raw Women's Champion - Charlotte Flair

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Charlotte Flair went into WrestleMania 32 as Divas Champion and left with a new belt and new meaning behind what it meant to be atop a female league in WWE.

Ahead of its "Raw" rebrand in line with the brand split later that year, the WWE Women's Champion was a powerful statement of intent from the company about how they planned to proceed with those on the main roster and from NXT that had upped the work rate exponentially from anything ever seen under the organisation's auspices.

Flair gets accusations of being an office favourite, but here and ever since she's proven why she's almost always been worth the substantial investment.

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