List Of NXT Champions
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Here is the list of the NXT champions.
The NXT Championship is a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE, defended as the top championship of their NXT brand division.
The championship was first introduced on the July 1, 2012, episode of NXT, when NXT Commissioner Dusty Rhodes announced the Gold Rush tournament, To be crowned as the inaugural NXT Champion in a single-elimination tournament involving four developmental roster wrestlers and four main roster wrestlers. Seth Rollins became the inaugural NXT Champion on July 26, 2012 (aired August 29), defeating Jinder Mahal in the finals of the tournament.
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The NXT Championship is a professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE, defended as the top championship of their NXT brand division.
The championship was first introduced on the July 1, 2012, episode of NXT, when NXT Commissioner Dusty Rhodes announced the Gold Rush tournament, To be crowned as the inaugural NXT Champion in a single-elimination tournament involving four developmental roster wrestlers and four main roster wrestlers. Seth Rollins became the inaugural NXT Champion on July 26, 2012 (aired August 29), defeating Jinder Mahal in the finals of the tournament.
Check out the full list below.
List of the NXT champions
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | Days recog. | |||
| 1 | Seth Rollins | July 26, 2012 | NXT | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 133 | 133 | |
| 2 | Big E Langston | December 6, 2012 | NXT | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 168 | 153 | |
| 3 | Bo Dallas | May 23, 2013 | NXT | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 280 | 260 | |
| 4 | Adrian Neville | February 27, 2014 | Arrival | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 287 | 286 | |
| 5 | Sami Zayn | December 11, 2014 | TakeOver: R Evolution | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 62 | 62 | |
| 6 | Kevin Owens | February 11, 2015 | TakeOver: Rival | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 143 | 142 | |
| 7 | Finn Bálor | July 4, 2015 | The Beast in the East | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 292 | 292 | |
| 8 | Samoa Joe | April 21, 2016 | NXT Live | Lowell, MA | 1 | 121 | 121 | |
| 9 | Shinsuke Nakamura | August 20, 2016 | TakeOver: Brooklyn II | Brooklyn, NY | 1 | 91 | 91 | |
| 10 | Samoa Joe | November 19, 2016 | TakeOver: Toronto | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | 2 | 14 | 13 | |
| 11 | Shinsuke Nakamura | December 3, 2016 | NXT | Osaka, Japan | 2 | 56 | 56 | |
| 12 | Bobby Roode | January 28, 2017 | TakeOver: San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | 1 | 203 | 202 | |
| 13 | Drew McIntyre | August 19, 2017 | TakeOver: Brooklyn III | Brooklyn, NY | 1 | 91 | 91 | |
| 14 | Andrade "Cien" Almas | November 18, 2017 | TakeOver: WarGames | Houston, TX | 1 | 140 | 139 | |
| 15 | Aleister Black | April 7, 2018 | TakeOver: New Orleans | New Orleans, Louisiana | 1 | 102 | 108 | |
| 16 | Tommaso Ciampa | July 18, 2018 | NXT | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 238 | 237 | |
| — | Vacated | March 13, 2019 | NXT | Winter Park, FL | — | — | — | |
| 17 | Johnny Gargano | April 5, 2019 | TakeOver: New York | Brooklyn, NY | 1 | 57 | 57 | |
| 18 | Adam Cole | June 1, 2019 | TakeOver: XXV | Bridgeport, CT | 1 | 396 | 403 | |
| 19 | Keith Lee | July 1, 2020 | The Great American Bash Night 2 |
Winter Park, FL | 1 | 52 | 44 | |
| 20 | Karrion Kross | August 22, 2020 | TakeOver XXX | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 4 | 3 | |
| — | Vacated | August 26, 2020 | NXT | Winter Park, FL | — | — | — | |
| 21 | Finn Bálor | September 8, 2020 | Super Tuesday II | Winter Park, FL | 2 | 212 | 212 | |
| 22 | Karrion Kross | April 8, 2021 | TakeOver: Stand & Deliver Night 2 |
Orlando, FL | 2 | 136 | 136 | |
| 23 | Samoa Joe | August 22, 2021 | TakeOver 36 | Orlando, FL | 3 | 21 | 20 | |
| — | Vacated | September 12, 2021 | – | – | — | — | — | |
| 24 | Tommaso Ciampa | September 14, 2021 | NXT 2.0 | Orlando, FL | 2 | 112 | 111 | |
| 25 | Bron Breakker | January 4, 2022 | New Year's Evil | Orlando, FL | 1 | 63 | 63 | |
| 26 | Dolph Ziggler | March 8, 2022 | Roadblock | Orlando, FL | 1 | 27 | 26 | |
| 27 | Bron Breakker | April 4, 2022 | Raw | Dallas, TX | 2 | 227+ | 227+ | |
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