The NXT Championship is a championship created and promoted by WWE. It is the top title on the NXT brand.
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| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | |||
| 1 | Seth Rollins | July 26, 2012 | NXT | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 133 | Title was established on July 1, 2012. Rollins defeated Jinder Mahal in the tournament final to become the inaugural champion. |
| 2 | Big E Langston | December 6, 2012 | NXT | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 168 | |
| 3 | Bo Dallas | May 23, 2013 | NXT | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 280 | |
| 4 | Adrian Neville | February 27, 2014 | Arrival | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 287 | |
| 5 | Sami Zayn | December 11, 2014 | TakeOver: R Evolution | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 62 | |
| 6 | Kevin Owens | February 11, 2015 | TakeOver: Rival | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 143 | 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 | |
| 8 | Samoa Joe | April 21, 2016 | NXT Live | Lowell, MA | 1 | 121 | |
| 9 | Shinsuke Nakamura | August 20, 2016 | TakeOver: Brooklyn II | Brooklyn, NY | 1 | 91 | |
| 10 | Samoa Joe | November 19, 2016 | TakeOver: Toronto | Toronto, ON, Canada | 2 | 14 | |
| 11 | Shinsuke Nakamura | December 3, 2016 | NXT | Osaka, Japan | 2 | 56 | |
| 12 | Bobby Roode | January 28, 2017 | TakeOver: San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | 1 | 203 | |
| 13 | Drew McIntyre | August 19, 2017 | TakeOver: Brooklyn III | Brooklyn, NY | 1 | 91 | |
| 14 | Andrade "Cien" Almas | November 18, 2017 | TakeOver: WarGames | Houston, TX | 1 | 140 | |
| 15 | Aleister Black | April 7, 2018 | TakeOver: New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | 1 | 102 | |
| 16 | Tommaso Ciampa | July 18, 2018 | NXT | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 238 | |
| — | Vacated | March 13, 2019 | NXT | Winter Park, FL | — | — | The title was vacated due to Tommaso Ciampa requiring neck surgery. |
| 17 | Johnny Gargano | April 5, 2019 | TakeOver: New York | Brooklyn, NY | 1 | 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, CT | 1 | 396 | |
| 19 | Keith Lee | July 1, 2020 | The Great American BashNight 2 | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 52 | |
| 20 | Karrion Kross | August 22, 2020 | TakeOver XXX | Winter Park, FL | 1 | 4 | |
| — | Vacated | August 26, 2020 | NXT | Winter Park, FL | — | — | Karrion Kross relinquished the title due to suffering a separated shoulder during his match at TakeOver XXX. |
| 21 | Finn Bálor | September 8, 2020 | NXT Super Tuesday II | Winter Park, FL | 2 | 212 | Defeated Adam Cole to win the vacant title. |
| 22 | Karrion Kross | April 8, 2021 | TakeOver: Stand and Deliver | Orlando, FL | 2 | 136 | |
| 23 | Samoa Joe | August 22, 2021 | TakeOver: 36 | Orlando, FL | 3 | 21 | |
| — | Vacated | September 12, 2021 | — | — | — | — | Samoa Joe relinquished the title due to an undisclosed injury. |
| 24 | Tommaso Ciampa | September 14, 2021 | NXT 2.0 | Orlando, FL | 2 | 112 | This was a fatal four-way match for the vacant championship. |
| 25 | Bron Breakker | January 4, 2022 | New Year's Evil | Orlando, FL | 1 | 63 | |
| 26 | Dolph Ziggler | March 8, 2022 | Roadblock | Orlando, FL | 1 | 27 | |
| 27 | Bron Breakker | April 4, 2022 | Raw | Dallas, TX | 2 | 362 | |
| 28 | Carmelo Hayes | April 1, 2023 | Stand and Deliver | Los Angeles, CA | 1 | 182 | |
| 29 | Ilja Dragunov | September 30, 2023 | No Mercy | Bakersfield, CA | 1 | 46+ | |