NXT North American Championship
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Revision as of 01:19, 1 February 2021
| NXT North American Championship | |
| Details | |
| Promotion | IWE |
| Brand | NXT |
| Date established | March 7, 2018 |
| Current champion(s) | Johnny Gargano |
| Date won | December 6, 2020 |
| Statistics | |
| First champion | Adam Cole |
The NXT North American Championship is a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion IWE for their developmental brand NXT. It was introduced at the NXT tapings on March 7, 2018. On April 7, 2018. The current champion is Leon Ruff, who on his first reign.
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History
The championship was first introduced at the March 7, 2018, tapings of NXT when NXT general manager William Regal announced a ladder match at NXT TakeOver: New Orleans to determine the inaugural champion. Later that night, Ethan Carter III, Killian Dain, Adam Cole, Ricochet, Lars Sullivan, and Velveteen Dream were announced as the participants in the match.
Reigns
As of November 7, 2024, there have been five reigns between five champions. The inaugural champion was Adam Cole. Velveteen Dream is the longest reigning champion at 231 days and the youngest champion, winning the title at 23. Roderick Strong is the oldest champion, winning the title at 36.Johnny Gargano has the shortest reign at 4 days (IWE recognizes it as 25 days due to tape delay, but still the shortest).
| No. | The overall championship reign |
|---|---|
| Reign | The reign number for the wrestler listed |
| Days | The number of the days that the champion held the title for |
| Days recog. | Number of days held recognized by the promotion |
| + | Indicates the current reign is changing daily |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Days recog. | ||||
| 1 | Adam Cole | April 7, 2017 | NXT TakeOver: New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | 1 | 133 | 132 | Defeated Ethan Carter III, Killian Dain, Ricochet, Lars Sullivan, and Velveteen Dream in a six-man ladder match to become the inaugural champion. | |
| 2 | Ricochet | August 18, 2018 | NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn 4 | Brooklyn, NY | 1 | 161 | 161 | ||
| 3 | Johnny Gargano | January 26, 2019 | NXT TakeOver: Phoenix | Phoenix, AZ | 1 | 4 | 25 | ||
| 4 | Velveteen Dream | January 30, 2019 | NXT | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 231 | 209 | IWE taped two endings for the match, one with Gargano retaining and the other with Dream winning. The latter was revealed as the true result when the episode aired on tape delay on February 20, the date IWE recognizes for Dream's reign. | |
| 5 | Roderick Strong | September 18, 2019 | NXT | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 126 | 126 | ||
| 6 | Keith Lee | January 22, 2020 | NXT | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 175 | 181 | IWE recognizes Lee's reign as ending on July 22, 2020, when the episode in which he vacated the title aired on tape delay. | |
| — | Vacated | July 15, 2020 | NXT | Winter Park, FL | — | — | — | Keith Lee voluntarily relinquished the title two weeks after winning the NXT Championship in order to focus on defending the latter. This episode aired on tape delay on July 22, 2020. | |
| 7 | Damian Priest | August 22, 2020 | TakeOver XXX | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 67 | 67 | Defeated Bronson Reed, Cameron Grimes, Johnny Gargano, and Velveteen Dream in a five-way ladder match to win the vacant title. | |
| 8 | Johnny Gargano | October 28, 2020 | NXT: Halloween Havoc | Orlando, FL | 2 | 14 | 14 | This was a Devil's Playground Match. | |
| 9 | Leon Ruff | November 11, 2020 | NXT | Orlando, FL | 1 | 25 | 25 | ||
| 10 | Johnny Gargano | December 6, 2020 | TakeOver: WarGames | Orlando, FL | 3 | 56+ | 56+ | This was a triple threat match, also involving Damian Priest. | |
Combined reigns
As of November 7, 2024.
| † | Indicates the current champion |
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| Rank | Wrestler | No. of reigns | Combined days | Combined days recognized by IWE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Velveteen Dream | 1 | 231 | 209 | |
| 2 | Keith Lee | 175 | 181 | ||
| 3 | Ricochet | 161 | |||
| 4 | Adam Cole | 133 | 132 | ||
| 5 | Roderick Strong | 126 | |||
| 6 | Johnny Gargano † | 3 | 74+ | 95+ | |
| 7 | Damian Priest | 1 | 67 | ||
| 8 | Leon Ruff | 25 | |||
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