List Of All WWE NXT Champions

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Here is the full list of all WWE NXT Champions.

The championship was first introduced on the July 1, 2012, episode of NXT when NXT Commissioner Dusty Rhodes announced a Gold Rush tournament, involving four developmental roster wrestlers and four main roster wrestlers competing to be crowned as the inaugural NXT Champion in a single-elimination tournament.

Bron Breakker is the current champion in his second reign. He defeated Dolph Ziggler on April 4, 2022, episode of Raw in Dallas, Texas; this was the first time the title has changed hands on one of WWE's main roster television programs.

List Of All WWE NXT Champions

No.	Champion	Championship change			Reign statistics			Notes
No.	Champion	Date	Event	Location	Reign	Days	Days recog.	Notes
1	Seth Rollins	July 26, 2012	NXT	Winter Park, Florida	1	133	133	Title was established on July 1, 2012, for WWE's developmental brand NXT. Rollins defeated Jinder Mahal in the eight-man NXT Championship tournament finals to become the inaugural champion. WWE recognizes his reign as beginning on August 29, 2012, when the match aired on tape delay.
2	Big E Langston	December 6, 2012	NXT	Winter Park, Florida	1	168	153	This was a no disqualification match. WWE recognizes Big E's reign as beginning on January 9, 2013, when the match aired on tape delay.
3	Bo Dallas	May 23, 2013	NXT	Winter Park, Florida	1	280	260	WWE recognizes Dallas' reign as beginning on June 12, 2013, when the match aired on tape delay.
4	Adrian Neville	February 27, 2014	Arrival	Winter Park, Florida	1	287	286	This was a ladder match.
5	Sami Zayn	December 11, 2014	TakeOver: R Evolution	Winter Park, Florida	1	62	62	This was a title vs. career match where if Zayn had lost, he would have voluntarily quit NXT.
6	Kevin Owens	February 11, 2015	TakeOver: Rival	Winter Park, Florida	1	143	142	Owens won when the referee decided that Sami Zayn was unable to continue.
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, Massachusetts	1	121	121
9	Shinsuke Nakamura	August 20, 2016	TakeOver: Brooklyn II	Brooklyn, New York	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, Texas	1	203	202
13	Drew McIntyre	August 19, 2017	TakeOver: Brooklyn III	Brooklyn, New York	1	91	91
14	Andrade "Cien" Almas	November 18, 2017	TakeOver: WarGames	Houston, Texas	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, Florida	1	238	237	WWE recognizes Ciampa's reign as beginning on July 25, 2018 and ending on March 20, 2019 due to both episodes airing on tape delay.
—	Vacated	March 13, 2019	NXT	Winter Park, Florida	—	—	—	The title was vacated due to Tommaso Ciampa requiring neck surgery. Aired on tape delay on March 20, 2019.
17	Johnny Gargano	April 5, 2019	TakeOver: New York	Brooklyn, New York	1	57	57	Defeated Adam Cole in a two out of three falls match to win the vacant title.
18	Adam Cole	June 1, 2019	TakeOver: XXV	Bridgeport, Connecticut	1	396	403	In September 2019, the NXT brand became one of WWE's three main brands along with Raw and SmackDown. WWE recognizes Cole's reign as ending on July 8, 2020, when the following match aired on tape delay.
19	Keith Lee	July 1, 2020	The Great American Bash Night 2	Winter Park, Florida	1	52	44	This was a Winner Takes All match, in which Lee also defended the NXT North American Championship. WWE recognizes Lee's reign as beginning on July 8, 2020, when the match aired on tape delay.
20	Karrion Kross	August 22, 2020	TakeOver XXX	Winter Park, Florida	1	4	3
—	Vacated	August 26, 2020	NXT	Winter Park, Florida	—	—	—	Karrion Kross relinquished the title due to suffering a separated shoulder during his match at TakeOver XXX.
21	Finn Bálor	September 8, 2020	Super Tuesday II	Winter Park, Florida	2	212	212	A 60-minute fatal four-way iron man match for the vacant championship took place on the September 1 episode of NXT Super Tuesday between Finn Bálor, Adam Cole, Tommaso Ciampa, and Johnny Gargano, but the match ended in a tie between Bálor and Cole. NXT General Manager William Regal then scheduled a match between the two for the following week, in which Bálor defeated Cole to win the vacant title.
22	Karrion Kross	April 8, 2021	TakeOver: Stand & Deliver Night 2	Orlando, Florida	2	136	136
23	Samoa Joe	August 22, 2021	TakeOver 36	Orlando, Florida	3	21	20
—	Vacated	September 12, 2021	—	—	—	—	—	Samoa Joe relinquished the title due to what WWE reported as an unspecified injury; Joe later clarified that the vacancy happened due to him testing positive for COVID-19 as well as Vince McMahon wanting to change the overall direction of NXT, which saw NXT rebranded as NXT 2.0 and revert to being WWE's developmental territory.
24	Tommaso Ciampa	September 14, 2021	NXT 2.0	Orlando, Florida	2	112	111	This was a fatal four-way match for the vacant championship, also involving L. A. Knight, Pete Dunne, and Von Wagner.
25	Bron Breakker	January 4, 2022	New Year's Evil	Orlando, Florida	1	63	63
26	Dolph Ziggler	March 8, 2022	Roadblock	Orlando, Florida	1	27	26	This was a triple threat match also involving Tommaso Ciampa, who Ziggler pinned to win Breakker's title.
27	Bron Breakker	April 4, 2022	Raw	Dallas, Texas	2	188+	188+	On September 4, 2022 at Worlds Collide, Breakker defeated Tyler Bate to unify the NXT United Kingdom Championship into the NXT Championship. The NXT United Kingdom Championship was retired and the NXT Championship became the Unified NXT Championship.