NXT Cruiserweight Championship
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The current title holder Jordan Devlin .
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Title holder | Jordan Devlin | ||||||||||||||||
since | January 25, 2020 | ||||||||||||||||
owner | WWE | ||||||||||||||||
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Introduced | September 14, 2016 | ||||||||||||||||
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The NXT Cruiserweight Championship is the cruiserweight wrestling title of the US promotion WWE , which is awarded exclusively to male individual wrestlers with a maximum weight of 93 kg (205 lbs ). The title was introduced on September 14, 2016 at the Cruiserweight Classic . The current title holder in his first reign is Jordan Devlin. As is common in wrestling, the award is based on a previously determined storyline .
history
The Cruiserweight Classic was a 32-man WWE tournament that aired on the WWE Network between June 23 and September 14, 2016 . The final of the Cruiserweight Classic took place on September 14, 2016 between the American T. J. Perkins and the Mexican Gran Metalik. Before the finals began, WWE Chief Operating Officer Triple H stated that the tournament winner would also be the champion of the Cruiserweight Division reintroduced with the return of the Brand Extension . As with other titles that have been introduced since 2016, the new championship does not have the lineage of the predecessor title ( Cruiserweight Championship ) , which was fought between 1996 and 2001 in the WCW and between 2001 and 2007 in the WWE . The final, and thus the first Cruiserweight Classic as well as the WWE Cruiserweight Championship, was won by Perkins after just 18 minutes by giving up Metalik.
Originally the championship was defended exclusively on Raw . On November 29, 2016, the premiere of the cruiserweight show 205 Live took place on the WWE Network. The championship was defended on Raw and 205 Live after the show launched . On January 23, 2018, then-title holder Enzo Amore was fired from the WWE and the championship was declared vacant. Triple H then took creative control of 205 Live and began restructuring the show. In the 205 Live episode on January 30th, a 16-man singles elimination tournament was announced to crown a new titleholder. The final of the tournament took place at WrestleMania 34 between Cedric Alexander and Mustafa Ali, where Alexander defeated Ali to win the vacant championship. According to WrestleMania 34 , the master's eight was exclusively defended at 205 Live .
Just before NXT moved to the USA Network in September 2019 , Triple H announced that 205 Live was becoming part of NXT to create more opportunities for cruiserweight wrestlers. The following month the title was renamed the NXT Cruiserweight Championship . On January 25, 2020 at Worlds Collide , Triple H and NXT General Manager William Regal presented the then title holder Angel Garza with a new title belt. The redesigned design is largely the same. The WWE logo on the center panel has been replaced with a vertical NXT logo and the purple belt is now dark purple.
List of title holders
# | Title holder | Title change | statistics | annotation | |||
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date | event | place | Number | Days | |||
1 | TJ Perkins | September 14, 2016 | Cruiserweight Classic | Winter Park , Florida | 1 | 46 | Defeated Gran Metalik in the final of the Cruiserweight Classic for the newly created title. |
2 | The Brian Kendrick | October 30, 2016 | Hell in a Cell | Boston , Massachusetts | 1 | 30th | |
3 | Rich Swann | 29th November 2016 | 205 Live | Columbia , South Carolina | 1 | 61 | |
4th | Neville | 29th January 2017 | Royal Rumble | San Antonio , Texas | 1 | 197 | |
5 | Akira Tozawa | August 14, 2017 | Raw | Boston, Massachusetts | 1 | 6th | |
6th | Neville | 20th August 2017 | SummerSlam | New York City , New York | 2 | 35 | |
7th | Enzo Amore | September 24, 2017 | No Mercy | Los Angeles , California | 1 | 15th | |
8th | Kalisto | October 9, 2017 | Raw | Indianapolis , Indiana | 1 | 13 | This was a lumberjack match . |
9 | Enzo Amore | October 22, 2017 | TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs | Minneapolis , Minnesota | 2 | 93 | |
- | Title vacant | 23rd January 2018 | - | - | - | 75 | The title was declared vacant after Enzo Amore was fired. |
10 | Cedric Alexander | April 8, 2018 | WrestleMania 34 | New Orleans , Louisiana | 1 | 181 | Defeated Mustafa Ali in the final of a tournament for the vacant title. |
11 | Buddy Murphy | October 6, 2018 | Great show-down | Melbourne , Australia | 1 | 183 | |
12 | Tony Nese | April 7, 2019 | WrestleMania 35 | East Rutherford , New Jersey | 1 | 77 | |
13 | Drew Gulak | June 23, 2019 | Stomping grounds | Tacoma , Washington | 1 | 108 | This was a triple threat match in which Akira Tozawa was also involved. |
14th | Lio Rush | October 9, 2019 | NXT | Winter Park , Florida | 1 | 63 | |
15th | Angel Garza | December 11, 2019 | NXT | Winter Park , Florida | 1 | 45 | |
16 | Jordan Devlin | January 25, 2020 | Worlds Collide | Houston , Texas | 1 | 220+ | This was a Fatal Four Way match that included Isaiah "Swerve" Scott and Travis Banks. |
- | Sántos Escobár | 3rd June 2020 | NXT | Winter Park , Florida | 1 | 90+ | Due to an entry ban due to the COVID-19 pandemic, an interim champion was to be crowned in the USA until Devlin could return. Escobár defeated Drake Maverick in a tournament final and became interim champion in the USA. |
statistics
space | Surname | number | Days in total | |
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1 | Neville | 2 | 232 | |
2 | Jordan Devlin | 1 | 220+ | |
3 | Buddy Murphy | 1 | 183 | |
4th | Cedric Alexander | 1 | 181 | |
5 | Enzo Amore | 2 | 108 | |
Drew Gulak | 1 | 108 | ||
7th | Sántos Escobár | 1 | 90+ | |
8th | Tony Nese | 1 | 77 | |
9 | Lio Rush | 1 | 63 | |
10 | Rich Swann | 1 | 61 | |
11 | TJ Perkins | 1 | 46 | |
12 | Angel Garza | 1 | 45 | |
13 | The Brian Kendrick | 1 | 30th | |
14th | Kalisto | 1 | 13 | |
15th | Akira Tozawa | 1 | 6th |
Individual evidence
- ↑ NXT Cruiserweight Championship wwe.com. Retrieved October 8, 2016
- ↑ WWE Monday Night Raw # 1208 results + report from Providence, Rhode Island from July 18, 2016 (incl. Videos) Wrestling-infos.de. Retrieved September 16, 2016
- ↑ WWE Cruiserweight Classic Final Results & Report from Winter Park, Florida from September 14, 2016 (incl. Videos) Wrestling-infos.de. Retrieved September 16, 2016
Web links
- NXT Cruiserweight Championship history on wwe.com