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.

Check out the full list below.

List of the NXT champions

No.	Champion	Championship change			Reign statistics
No.	Champion	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+