NXT North American Championship

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NXT North American Championship

Details
Promotion	IWE
Brand	NXT
Date established	March 7, 2018
Current champion(s)	Velveteen Dream
Date won	January 30, 2019
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 Velveteen Dream, who on his first reign.

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.

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
+	Indicates the current reign is changing daily

No.	Champion	Championship change			Reign statistics			Notes	Ref.
No.	Champion	Date	Event	Location	Reign	Days	Days recog.	Notes	Ref.
1	Adam Cole	April 7, 2017	NXT TakeOver: New Orleans	New Orleans, Louisiana	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, New York	1	161	161
3	Johnny Gargano	January 26, 2019	NXT TakeOver: Phoenix	Phoenix, Arizona	1	4	25
4	Velveteen Dream	January 30, 2019	NXT	Winter Park, Florida	1	109+	88+	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.