NXT Title History – The NXT 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. Seth Rollins became the first NXT Champion by defeating Jinder Mahal in the tournament finals on July 26, 2012.
Here is a list of NXT Champions:
| Name | Date | Days Held | Location |
| Seth Rollins | 7/26/12 | 133 | Winter Park, FL |
| Big E Langston | 12/6/12 | 168 | Winter Park, FL |
| Bo Dallas | 5/23/13 | 280 | Winter Park, FL |
| Adrian Neville | 2/27/14 | 287 | Winter Park, FL |
| Sami Zayn | 12/11/14 | 62 | Winter Park, FL |
| Kevin Owens | 2/11/15 | 143 | Winter Park, FL |
| Finn Bálor | 7/4/15 | 292 | Tokyo, Japan |
| Samoa Joe | 4/21/16 | 121 | Lowell, MA |
| Shinsuke Nakamura | 8/20/16 | 91 | Brooklyn, NY |
| Samoa Joe | 11/19/16 | 14 | Toronto, Ontario |
| Shinsuke Nakamura | 12/3/16 | 56 | Osaka, Japan |
| Bobby Roode | 1/28/17 | 203 | San Antonio, TX |
| Drew McIntyre | 8/19/17 | 91 | Brooklyn, NY |
| Andrade “Cien” Almas | 11/18/17 | 140 | Houston, TX |
| Aleister Black | 4/7/18 | 102 | New Orleans, LA |
| Tommaso Ciampa | 7/18/18 | 238 | Winter Park, FL |
| Vacated | 3/13/19 | — | Winter Park, FL |
| Johnny Gargano | 4/5/19 | 56 | Brooklyn, NY |
| Adam Cole | 6/1/19 | 403 | Bridgeport, CT |
| Keith Lee | 7/8/20 | 45 | Winter Park, FL |
| Karrion Kross | 8/22/20 | 4 | Winter Park, FL |
| Vacated | 8/26/20 | — | Winter Park, FL |
| Finn Balor | 9/8/20 | 212 | Winter Park, FL |
| Karrion Kross | 4/8/21 | C | Winter Park, FL |
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