NXT Championship
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Revision as of 05:27, 4 December 2016
| NXT Championship | |
| Details | |
| Promotion | IWE |
| Brand | NXT |
| Date established | July 1, 2012 |
| Current champion(s) | Shinsuke Nakamura |
| Date won | December 3, 2016 |
| Statistics | |
| First champion | Seth Rollins |
The NXT Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by IWE and is competed for exclusively on IWE NXT. The championship is generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants execute worked finishes.
Contents |
History
The championship was first introduced on the August 1, 2012 edition of NXT when Interim NXT General Manager Dusty Semmler announced a "Gold Rush" tournament, which featured 8 NXT roster members competing to be crowned as the inaugural NXT Champion in a knockout system format. The first NXT Champion was crowned on July 26, 2012, with Seth Rollins defeating Jinder Mahal in the tournament finals.
Tournament
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||||
Reigns
As of July 4, 2015, there have been seven title holders with one reign each. The inaugural champion was Seth Rollins. Finn Bálor's reign is the longest at 292 days. Sami Zayn's reign is the shortest at 62 days. The current champion, Samoa Simpson, is the oldest champion at 37 years old. He defeated Finn Bálor at an NXT live event in Lowell, Massachusetts on April 21.
| Reign | The reign number for the specific champion listed |
|---|---|
| Location | The city in which the title was won |
| Event | The event promoted by the respective promotion in which the title was won |
| + | Indicates the current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Reign | Date | Days held | Location | Event | Notes |
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| 1 | Seth Rollins | 1 | July 26, 2012 | 133 | Orlando, Florida | NXT | 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 | 1 | December 6, 2012 | 168 | Orlando, Florida | NXT | This was a no-disqualification match. Aired on tape delay on January 9, 2013. |
| 3 | Bo Dallas | 1 | May 23, 2013 | 280 | Orlando, Florida | NXT | Aired on tape delay on June 12, 2013. |
| 4 | Adrian Neville | 1 | February 27, 2014 | 287 | Orlando, Florida | NXT arRIVAL | This was a ladder match. |
| 5 | Sami Zayn | 1 | December 11, 2014 | 62 | Orlando, Florida | NXT Takeover: R Evolution | This was a title vs. career match. If Sami Zayn lost, he would voluntarily quit the NXT roster. |
| 6 | Kevin Owens | 1 | February 15, 2015 | 143 | Orlando, Florida | NXT Takeover: Rival | Owens won when the referee decided that Zayn was unable to continue. |
| 7 | Finn Balor | 1 | July 4, 2015 | 292 | Tokyo, Japan | The Beast in the East | |
| 8 | Samoa Simpson | 1 | April 21, 2016 | 121 | Lowell, MA | House show | |
| 9 | Shinsuke Nakamura | 1 | August 20, 2016 | 91 | New York City, NY | NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn II | |
| 10 | Samoa Simpson | 2 | November 19, 2016 | 10+ | Toronto, ON | NXT TakeOver: Toronto | |
| 11 | Shinsuke Nakamura | 2 | December 3, 2016 | 1+ | Osaka, Japan | House show |
Combined reigns
As of January 30, 2025.
| + | Indicates the current champion |
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| Rank | Champion | No. of reigns | Combined days |
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| 1 | Finn Balor | 1 | 292 |
| 2 | Adrian Neville | 1 | 287 |
| 3 | Bo Dallas | 1 | 280 |
| 4 | Big E Langston | 1 | 168 |
| 5 | Kevin Owens | 1 | 143 |
| 6 | Samoa Simpson | 2 | 135 |
| 7 | Seth Rollins | 1 | 133 |
| 8 | Shinsuke Nakamura | 1 | 92+ |
| 9 | Sami Zayn | 1 | 62 |
