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July 26, 2012 - December 6, 2012 (133 days)
The title was established on July 1, 2012, for WWE's developmental brand NXT. Rollins defeated Jinder Mahal in the tournament final to become the inaugural champion. WWE recognizes his reign as beginning on August 29, 2012, when the match aired on tape delay.
6.5
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December 6, 2012 - May 23, 2013 (168 days)
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.
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WWE recognizes Dallas's reign as beginning on June 12, 2013, when the match aired on tape delay.
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This was a Ladder Match.
7
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This was a title vs. career match where if Zayn had lost, he would have voluntarily quit NXT.
7.2
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Owens won when the referee decided that Sami Zayn was unable to continue.
8.7
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7.5
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April 21, 2016 - August 20, 2016 (121 days)
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Samoa Joe (2-times)
November 19, 2016 - December 3, 2016 (14 days)
Shinsuke Nakamura (2-times)
December 3, 2016 - January 28, 2017 (56 days)
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January 28, 2017 - August 19, 2017 (203 days)
7.3
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August 19, 2017 - November 18, 2017 (91 days)
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4.5
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April 7, 2018 - July 18, 2018 (102 days)
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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 - April 5, 2019
The title was vacated due to Tommaso Ciampa requiring neck surgery. Aired on tape delay on March 20, 2019 due to both episodes airing on tape delay.
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April 5, 2019 - June 1, 2019 (57 days)
Defeated Adam Cole in a two out of three falls match to win the vacant title.
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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.
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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.
Vacated
August 26, 2020 - September 8, 2020
Karrion Kross relinquished the title due to suffering a separated shoulder during his match at TakeOver XXX.
Finn Balor (2-times)
September 8, 2020 - April 8, 2021 (212 days)
Defeated Adam Cole to win the vacant title.
Karrion Kross (2-times)
April 8, 2021 - August 22, 2021 (136 days)
Samoa Joe (3-times)
August 22, 2021 - September 12, 2021
Vacated
September 12, 2021 - September 14, 2021
Samoa Joe relinquished the title due to what WWE reported as an unspecified injury; Joe later clarified that the vacancy happened due to his testing positive for COVID-19 as well as the overall directional change of NXT, which saw NXT rebranded as NXT 2.0.
Tommaso Ciampa (2-times)
September 14, 2021 - January 4, 2022 (112 days)
This was a fatal four-way match for the vacant championship, also involving LA Knight, Pete Dunne, and Von Wagner.
January 4, 2022 - March 8, 2022 (63 days)
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March 8, 2022 - April 4, 2022 (27 days)
This was a triple threat match also involving Tommaso Ciampa, who Zigger pinned to win Breakker's title.
Bron Breakker (2-times)
April 4, 2022 - April 1, 2023 (362 days)
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.
April 1, 2023 - Current (+4)
As of December 12, 2020, there have been 21 reigns among 18 different champions and two vacancies. The inaugural champion was Seth Rollins. Samoa Joe, Shinsuke Nakamura and Finn Bálor are tied with the most reigns at two. Adam Cole's reign is the longest singular reign at 396 days (403 as recognized by WWE), while Karrion Kross' reign is the shortest at 4 days (3 days as recognized by WWE) as he had to relinquish the title due to a legitimate injury he suffered in winning it. Bo Dallas holds the record as the youngest champion, winning the title two days before his 23rd birthday, while Bobby Roode & Finn Balor are the oldest champions, winning the title at 39.
The current champion is Finn Bálor, who is in his record-tying second reign. He won the title by defeating Adam Cole in a sudden death match for the vacant championship (after the two had tied the previous week in a 60-minute fatal four-way iron man match that was originally for the vacant title and had also involved Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano) at NXT Super Tuesday II on September 8, 2020, in Winter Park, Florida; previous champion Karrion Kross had relinquished the title due to suffering a legitimate injury.
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