List of NXT Champions
Reigns

List of NXT Champions

Section Title: Reigns
Table Section Text: None

No.	Champion	Championship change	Reign statistics	Notes	Ref.

Date	Event	Location	Reign	Days	Days recog.

1	Seth Rollins	July 26, 2012	NXT	Winter Park, Florida	1	133	133	The title was established on July 1, 2012. Seth Rollins defeated Jinder Mahal in the tournament final to become the inaugural champion.

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 and ending on June 12, 2013, both episodes of which 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 episode aired on tape delay.

4	Adrian Neville	February 27, 2014	NXT Arrival	Winter Park, Florida	1	287	286	This was a ladder match.

5	Sami Zayn	December 11, 2014	NXT TakeOver: R Evolution	Winter Park, Florida	1	62	62	This was a title vs. career match. Had Zayn lost, he would have voluntarily quit NXT.

6	Kevin Owens	February 11, 2015	NXT 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	House show	Lowell, Massachusetts	1	121	121

9	Shinsuke Nakamura	August 20, 2016	NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn II	Brooklyn, New York	1	91	91

10	Samoa Joe	November 19, 2016	NXT TakeOver: Toronto	Toronto, Ontario	2	14	13

11	Shinsuke Nakamura	December 3, 2016	NXT	Osaka, Japan	2	56	56	Aired on tape delay on December 28, 2016.

12	Bobby Roode	January 28, 2017	NXT TakeOver: San Antonio	San Antonio, Texas	1	203	202

13	Drew McIntyre	August 19, 2017	NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn III	Brooklyn, New York	1	91	91	The championship became recognized as a world championship.

14	Andrade "Cien" Almas	November 18, 2017	NXT TakeOver: WarGames	Houston, Texas	1	140	139

15	Aleister Black	April 7, 2018	NXT TakeOver: New Orleans	New Orleans, Louisiana	1	102	108	WWE recognizes Black's reign as ending on July 25, 2018, when the following episode aired on tape delay.

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, when the episodes aired 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	NXT TakeOver: New York	Brooklyn, New York	1	22+	22+	Gargano defeated Adam Cole in a two out of three falls match to win the vacant title.

Sentence(s)

Finn Bálor's reign as champion is the longest at 292 days while Samoa Joe's second reign is the shortest at 14 days (recognizes it as 13).

final_sentence: Finn Bálor's reign as champion is the longest at 292 days while Samoa Joe's second reign is the shortest at 14 days (recognizes it as 13).