List of NXT Champions

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Revision as of 00:25, 2 July 2020

The NXT Championship is a professional wrestling world championship competed for exclusively in NXT, IWE's developmental division. The championship was first introduced on the July 1, 2012, edition of IWE NXT when NXT Commissioner Dusty Semmler announced a "Gold Rush" tournament, featuring 4 developmental roster NXT Superstars and 4 main roster IWE Superstars competing to be crowned as the inaugural NXT Champion in a knockout system format. Seth Rollins became the first NXT Champion by defeating Jinder Mahal in the tournament finals on July 26, 2012.

The championship is contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants usually execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition. Some reigns were held by champions using a ring name, while others used their real name.

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Title history

As of September 6, 2018, there have been 16 championship reigns with 14 different champions. The inaugural champion was Seth Rollins. Samoa Simpson and Shinsuke Nakamura have the most reigns with two. Finn Balor's reign as champion is the longest at 292 days (IWE recognizes it at 293) while Samoa Simpson's second reign is the shortest at 14 days. Bo Dallas holds the record as the youngest champion, winning the title two days before his 23rd birthday, while Bobby Roode is the oldest champion, winning the title at 39.

Key
No. The overall championship reign
Reign The reign number for the specific champion listed
Days The number of the days that the champion held the title for
Days
recog. 		The number of days that the promotion officially recognizes the champion as having held the title for
+ The current reign is changing daily

No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes
Date Event Location Reign Days Days recog.
1 Seth Rollins July 26, 2012 NXT Orlando, Florida 1 133 133 Defeated Jinder Mahal in the finals of an eight–man tournament to become the inaugural champion. Aired on tape delay on August 29, 2012.
2 Big E Langston December 6, 2012 NXT Orlando, Florida 1 168 154 This was a no-disqualification match. Aired on tape delay on January 9, 2013.
3 Bo Dallas May 23, 2013 NXT Orlando, Florida 1 280 261 Aired on tape delay on June 12, 2013.
4 Adrian Neville February 27, 2014 NXT arRIVAL Orlando, Florida 1 287 287 This was a ladder match.
5 Sami Zayn December 11, 2014 NXT Takeover: R Evolution Orlando, Florida 1 62 63 This was a title vs. career match. If Sami Zayn lost, he would voluntarily quit the NXT roster.
6 Kevin Owens February 15, 2015 NXT Takeover: Rival Orlando, Florida 1 143 143 Owens won when the referee decided that Zayn was unable to continue.
7 Finn Balor July 4, 2015 The Beast in the East Tokyo, Japan 1 292 293
8 Samoa Simpson April 21, 2016 House show Lowell, MA 1 121 122
9 Shinsuke Nakamura August 20, 2016 NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn II New York City, NY 1 91 92
10 Samoa Simpson November 19, 2016 NXT TakeOver: Toronto Toronto, ON 2 14 14
11 Shinsuke Nakamura December 3, 2016 NXT Osaka, Japan 2 56 57 This match was taped at a house show and aired during the December 7, 2016 episode of NXT.
12 Bobby Roode January 28, 2017 NXT TakeOver: San Antonio San Antonio, TX 1 203 203
13 Drew McIntyre August 19, 2017 NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn III Brooklyn, NY 1 91 92
14 Andrade "Cien" Almas November 18, 2017 NXT TakeOver: WarGames Houston, TX 1 140 140
15 Aleister Black April 7, 2018 NXT TakeOver: New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana 1 102 109 IWE recognizes Black's reign as ending on July 25, 2018, when the following episode aired on tape delay.
16 Tommaso Ciampa July 18, 2018 NXT Orlando, Florida 1 238 231 IWE recognizes Ciampa's reign as beginning on July 25, 2018, when the episode aired on tape delay.
— Vacated March 13, 2019 NXT Winter Park, Florida — — — The title was vacated due to Ciampa's injury.
17 Johnny Gargano April 5, 2019 NXT TakeOver: New York Brooklyn, New York 1 57 57 Gargano defeated Adam Cole in a two out of three falls match to win the vacant title.
18 Adam Cole June 1, 2019 NXT TakeOver: XXV Bridgeport, Connecticut 1 396+ 396+ In September 2019, the NXT brand became one of IWE's three main brands along with Raw and SmackDown.

Combined reigns

As of February 19, 2025.

+ Indicates the current champion

Rank Champion No. of reigns Combined days Combined days
recognized by IWE
1 Adam Cole † 1 396+
2 Finn Balor 292 293
3 Adrian Neville 287 287
4 Bo Dallas 280 261
5 Tommaso Ciampa 238 232
6 Bobby Roode 203
7 Big E Langston 168 154
8 Shinsuke Nakamura 2 147 149
9 Kevin Owens 1 143
10 Andrade "Cien" Almas 140
11 Samoa Simpson 2 135 136
12 Seth Rollins 1 133
13 Aleister Black 102
14 Drew McIntyre 91 92
15 Sami Zayn 62 63
16 Johnny Gargano 57

References

External links

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