List of all NXT Champions in WWE History
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The Championship was introduced in 2012
NXT Championship is the top championship in WWE’s developmental brand NXT. The Championship was first introduced on July 1, 2012 by NXT Commissioner Dusty Rhodes via the Gold Rush Tournament.
Seth Rollins was crowned as the inaugural champion by defeating Jinder Mahal in the tournament finals. The title has been active since then and was held by a number of world champions. Here we take a look at the list of all the NXT Champions in the history of WWE.
NXT Championship Legacy
The championship has seen a total of 30 reigns, held by 23 different champions and was vacated thrice. Samoa Joe has the most reigns with three. Finn Balor has the longest combined reign as the NXT Champion with 504 days & Adam Cole has the longest single reign with 403 days. Karrion Kross’s first reign is the shortest reign with just 4 days. Bo Dallas is the youngest (23) & Samoa Joe is the oldest (42) to hold the NXT Championship.
Current NXT Champion
Trick Williams is the current NXT Champion, who won the title at NXT Spring Breakin’ 2024 Night 1 by defeating Ilja Dragunov. He is on his first reign and is holding the title for more than 38 days.
List of all NXT Champions
Name | Date | Event | Days Reign |
Seth Rollins | July 26, 2012 | NXT | 133 |
Big E Langston | December 6, 2012 | NXT | 168 |
Bo Dallas | May 23, 2013 | NXT | 280 |
Adrian Neville | February 27, 2014 | Arrival | 287 |
Sami Zayn | December 11, 2014 | TakeOver: R Evolution | 62 |
Kevin Owens | February 11, 2015 | TakeOver: Rival | 143 |
Finn Bálor | July 4, 2015 | The Beast in the East | 292 |
Samoa Joe | April 21, 2016 | NXT Live | 121 |
Shinsuke Nakamura | August 20, 2016 | TakeOver: Brooklyn II | 91 |
Samoa Joe | November 19, 2016 | TakeOver: Toronto | 14 |
Shinsuke Nakamura | December 3, 2016 | NXT | 56 |
Bobby Roode | January 28, 2017 | TakeOver: San Antonio | 203 |
Drew McIntyre | August 19, 2017 | TakeOver: Brooklyn III | 91 |
Andrade “Cien” Almas | November 18, 2017 | TakeOver: WarGames | 140 |
Aleister Black | April 7, 2018 | TakeOver: New Orleans | 102 |
Tommaso Ciampa | July 18, 2018 | NXT | 238 |
Vacated | March 13, 2019 | NXT | — |
Johnny Gargano | April 5, 2019 | TakeOver: New York | 57 |
Adam Cole | June 1, 2019 | TakeOver: XXV | 403 |
Keith Lee | July 1, 2020 | NXT: The Great American Bash Night 2 | 52 |
Karrion Kross | August 22, 2020 | TakeOver XXX | 4 |
Vacated | August 26, 2020 | NXT | — |
Finn Bálor | September 8, 2020 | NXT: Super Tuesday II | 212 |
Karrion Kross | April 8, 2021 | TakeOver: Stand & Deliver Night 2 | 136 |
Samoa Joe | August 22, 2021 | TakeOver 36 | 21 |
Vacated | September 12, 2021 | – | — |
Tommaso Ciampa | September 14, 2021 | NXT 2.0 | 112 |
Bron Breakker | January 4, 2022 | NXT 2.0: New Year’s Evil | 63 |
Dolph Ziggler | March 8, 2022 | NXT 2.0: Roadblock | 27 |
Bron Breakker | April 4, 2022 | Raw | 362 |
Carmelo Hayes | April 1, 2023 | Stand & Deliver | 182 |
Ilja Dragunov | September 30, 2023 | No Mercy | 206 |
Trick Williams | April 23, 2024 | NXT: Spring Breakin’ Night 1 | 38+ |
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