NXT Women's Championship
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Revision as of 05:01, 28 February 2023
| NXT Women's Championship | |
| The current NXT Women's Championship belt with default side plates (2017–present) | |
| Details | |
| Promotion | IWE |
| Brand | NXT |
| Date established | April 5, 2013 |
| Current champion(s) | Roxanne Perez |
| Date won | December 13, 2022 |
| Statistics | |
|---|---|
| First champion | Paige |
The NXT Women's Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by IWE and is competed for exclusively in NXT Wrestling, IWE's developmental territory. The championship is generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants execute worked finishes.
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History
The championship was first introduced on April 5, 2013, at WrestleMania Axxess. It was announced at the May 30, 2013 tapings (broadcast on the June 5 episode) of NXT, by Kaila Matteson that there would be a tournament, featuring four developmental Divas and four Divas from the main roster competing to be crowned as the inaugural NXT Women's Champion in a knockout system format. The first NXT Women's Champion was crowned on June 20, 2013 (aired on tape delay on July 24, 2013), with Paige defeating Emma in the tournament finals.
Paige successfully defended her title at NXT Arrival against Emma using her new Scorpion Cross-Lock, but NXT General Manager John "Bradshaw" Layfield stripped Paige of the title on the April 24, 2014 episode of NXT in order to give the Divas on NXT a chance, as Paige had been brought up to the main roster upon defeating AJ Lee for the IWE Divas Championship.
A new tournament was started the following week. The finals occurred at NXT TakeOver and Charlotte defeated Natalya to win the vacant NXT Women's Championship. On the September 16, 2015 episode of NXT, General Manager William Regal announced that Bayley would defend her title against Sasha Banks in the main event at NXT TakeOver: Respect on October 7 in the first ever 30-minute Iron Woman match in WWE history. At the event, Bayley defeated Banks to retain the championship, scoring the win with 3 falls to 2.
On April 1, 2017, at WrestleMania Axxess, NXT General Manager William Regal announced that all of the NXT title belts would be redesigned. The new title belts were unveiled at NXT TakeOver: Orlando that same night and given to the winners of their respective matches. Coming in line with the women's championships of the main roster, the new design features removable side plates with the IWE logo as default plates, which are customized with the current champion's logos as a similarity of the name plate feature.
Inaugural championship tournament (2013)
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||||
Second championship tournament (2014)
Reigns
| 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 | Paige | June 20, 2013 | NXT | Winter Park, FL. | 1 | 308 | 274 | Defeated Emma in the finals of an eight women tournament to become the inaugural champion. Will air on tape delay July 24, 2013. |
| — | Vacated | April 21, 2014 | NXT | Baltimore, MD. | — | — | — | NXT general Manager John "Bradshaw" Layfield stripped Paige of her title, because she moved on to the main roster of IWE. The segment was taped on Raw and it aired on tape delay on April 24, 2014. |
| 2 | Charlotte | May 29, 2014 | NXT Takeover | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 258 | 259 | Defeated Natalya in the finals of an eight women tournament to win the vacated championship. |
| 3 | Sasha Banks | February 11, 2015 | NXT Takeover: Rival | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 192 | 192 | This was a Fatal 4-Way match also involving Bayley and Becky Lynch. |
| 4 | Bayley | August 22, 2015 | NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn | Brooklyn, NY | 1 | 223 | 224 | |
| 5 | Asuka | April 1, 2016 | NXT TakeOver: Dallas | Dallas, TX | 1 | 510 | 523 | IWE recognizes Asuka's reign as lasting 523 days, ending on September 6, 2017, when the episode will air on tape delay. |
| — | Vacated | August 24, 2017 | NXT | Winter Park, FL | — | — | — | {[small|After suffering a collarbone injury at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn III, Asuka relinquished the title. This episode aired on tape delay on September 6, 2017. |
| 6 | Ember Moon | November 18, 2017 | NXT TakeOver: WarGames | Houston, TX | 1 | 140 | 140 | This was a fatal four-way match for the vacant title, also involving Kairi Sane, Nikki Cross and Peyton Royce. |
| 7 | Shayna Baszler | April 7, 2018 | NXT TakeOver: New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | 1 | 133 | 132 | |
| 8 | Kairi Sane | August 18, 2018 | NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn IV | Brooklyn, NY | 1 | 71 | 71 | |
| 9 | Shayna Baszler | October 28, 2018 | Evolution | Uniondale, New York | 2 | 416 | 416 | |
| 10 | Rhea Ripley | December 18, 2019 | NXT | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 98 or 99 | 109 | IWE recognizes this title reign as ending on April 5, 2020, when the following match aired on tape delay. |
| 11 | Charlotte | March 25 or 26, 2020 | WrestleMania 36 Night 2 | Orlando, Florida | 2 | 73 or 74 | 63 | WrestleMania was taped on March 25 and 26, but it is currently unknown which day this match was taped. IWE recognizes this title reign as beginning on April 5, 2020, when the match aired on tape delay. Charlotte Flair's ring name was just Charlotte during her first reign. |
| 12 | Io Shirai | June 7, 2020 | TakeOver: In Your House | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 304 | 304 | This was a triple threat match also involving Rhea Ripley. Shirai pinned Ripley to win the championship. |
| 13 | Raquel González | April 7, 2021 | TakeOver: Stand & Deliver Night 1 | Orlando, FL | 1 | 202 | 201 | |
| 14 | Mandy Rose | October 26, 2021 | Halloween Havoc | Orlando, FL | 1 | 413 | 413 | This was a Chucky's choice Trick or Street Fight match. On September 4, 2022 at Worlds Collide, Mandy Rose defeated Meiko Satomura and Blair Davenport in a triple threat match to unify the NXT UK Women's Championship into the NXT Women's Championship. The NXT UK Women's Championship was retired and the NXT Women's Championship became the Unified NXT Women's Championship. |
| 15 | Roxanne Perez | December 13, 2022 | NXT | Orlando, FL | 1 | 77+ | 77+ | |
Combined reigns
As of March 22, 2025.
| + | Indicates the current champion |
|---|---|
| ¤ | The exact length of at least one title reign is uncertain, so the shortest length is considered. |
| Rank | Champion | No. of reigns | Combined days | Combined days recognized by IWE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shayna Baszler | 2 | 549 | 548 |
| 2 | Asuka | 1 | 510 | 523 |
| 3 | Mandy Rose | 1 | 413 | |
| 4 | Charlotte | 2 | ¤331 | 321 |
| 5 | Paige | 1 | 308 | 274 |
| 6 | Io Shirai | 1 | 304 | |
| 7 | Bayley | 1 | 223 | 224 |
| 8 | Raquel González | 1 | 202 | 201 |
| 9 | Sasha Banks | 1 | 192 | |
| 10 | Ember Moon | 1 | 140 | |
| 11 | Rhea Ripley | 1 | ¤98 | 108 |
| 12 | Roxanne Perez † | 1 | 77+ | |
| 13 | Kairi Sane | 1 | 71 | |
