NXT Championship

NXT Championship
The current NXT Championship belt with default side plates (2024–present)
Details
Promotion	WWE
Brand	NXT
Date established	July 1, 2012
Current champion(s)	Oba Femi
Date won	January 7, 2025
Statistics First champion(s) Seth Rollins Most reigns Samoa Joe (3 reigns) Longest reign Adam Cole (396 days)[a] Shortest reign Karrion Kross (1st reign, 4 days)[b] Oldest champion Samoa Joe (42 years, 158 days) Youngest champion Bo Dallas (22 years, 363 days)[c] Heaviest champion Keith Lee (340 lb (145 kg)) Lightest champion Finn Bálor (190 lb (86 kg))

The NXT Championship is a men's professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE. It is defended as the top men's championship of NXT, the promotion's developmental brand. The reigning champion is Oba Femi, who is in his first reign. He won the title by defeating previous champion Trick Williams and Eddy Thorpe in a triple threat match at NXT: New Year's Evil on January 7, 2025.

Introduced on July 1, 2012, it was the first championship established for NXT, and the inaugural champion was Seth Rollins. Since establishment the NXT Championship was always referred to as a world championship on the company's developmental brand NXT but a development version. In September 2019, WWE began promoting NXT as it's "third brand" when the NXT television program was moved to the USA Network. During this time; however, this recognition was dropped when NXT reverted to its original function as WWE's developmental brand in September 2021. In September 2022, the NXT United Kingdom Championship was unified into the NXT Championship.
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