NXT Championship
| NXT Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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The current NXT Championship belt with default side plates (2024–present) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | WWE | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brand | NXT | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | July 1, 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion | Joe Hendry | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | February 3, 2026 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The NXT Championship is a men's professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American promotion WWE, defended as the top men's championship of NXT, the promotion's developmental brand. The current champion is Joe Hendry, who in his first reign. He won the vacant title by defeating Ricky Saints, Dion Lennox, Sean Legacy, Jackson Drake, Shiloh Hill, and Keanu Carver in a seven-man ladder match on the February 3, 2026, episode of NXT; previous champion Oba Femi voluntarily relinquished the title to go to the main roster.
Introduced on July 1, 2012, it was the first championship established for NXT, and the inaugural champion was Seth Rollins. In September 2019, WWE began promoting NXT as its "third brand" when the NXT television program was moved to the USA Network. The NXT Championship was referred to as a world championship 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.