List of all NXT Champions in WWE History

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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