2020 NXT Year End Awards

The 2020 NXT Year End Awards event took place as part of the January 6, 2021 episode of NXT. Votes were cast through Twitter and WWE's website.

Awards Presentation[]

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Male Competitor of the Year Adam Cole Finn Bálor Johnny Gargano Keith Lee Walter Tommaso Ciampa	Female Competitor of the Year Io Shirai Rhea Ripley Candice LeRae Dakota Kai Kay Lee Ray Tegan Nox
Overall Competitor of the Year Io Shirai Adam Cole	Tag Team of the Year The Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Bobby Fish, Kyle O'Reilly, and Roderick Strong) Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch Breezango (Tyler Breeze and Fandango) Imperium (Walter, Alexander Wolfe, Fabian Aichner, and Marcel Barthel) Gallus (Joe Coffey, Mark Coffey, and Wolfgang) Legado Del Fantasma (Santos Escobar, Raul Mendoza, and Joaquin Wilde)
Rivalry of the Year Adam Cole vs. Pat McAfee Candice LeRae vs. Io Shirai Damian Priest vs. Johnny Gargano Dexter Lumis vs. Cameron Grimes Shotzi Blackheart vs. Robert Stone Rhea Ripley vs. Raquel González Walter vs. Ilja Dragunov Kay Lee Ray vs. Piper Niven	Breakout Star of the Year Shotzi Blackheart Pat McAfee Damian Priest Cameron Grimes Dexter Lumis Timothy Thatcher Raquel Gonzalez Santos Escobar Ilja Dragunov
Event of the Year NXT TakeOver WarGames NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool II NXT TakeOver: Portland NXT TakeOver: In Your House NXT: The Great American Bash NXT TakeOver: XXX NXT TakeOver: 31 NXT: Halloween Havoc	Future Star of NXT Austin Theory Jake Atlas Leon Ruff Kacy Catanzaro Kayden Carter Indi Hartwell Xia Li A-Kid Aoife Valkyrie Pretty Deadly (Lewis Howley and Sam Stoker)
Match of the Year Finn Bálor (c) vs. Kyle O'Reilly for the NXT Championship at NXT TakeOver: 31 Finn Bálor vs. Tommaso Ciampa vs. Adam Cole vs. Johnny Gargano in a Fatal 4-Way Iron Man match for the vacant NXT Championship at NXT Super Tuesday Adam Cole vs. Finn Bálor for the vacant NXT Championship on NXT (September 8) Johnny Gargano vs. Tommaso Ciampa: One Final Beat on NXT (April 8) Keith Lee (c-NA) vs. Adam Cole (c-NXT) in a Winner Takes All match for both the NXT Championship and NXT North American Championship at Great American Bash Damian Priest vs. Bronson Reed vs. Cameron Grimes vs. Johnny Gargano vs. Velveteen Dream in a Ladder match for the vacant NXT North American Championship at NXT TakeOver: XXX Io Shirai (c) vs. Candice LeRae in a Tables, Ladders and Scares match for the NXT Women's Championship at Halloween Havoc Walter (c) vs. Ilja Dragunov for the NXT UK Championship on NXT UK (October 29) The Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Kyle O'Reilly, Roderick Strong, and Bobby Fish) vs. Team McAfee (Pat McAfee, Pete Dunne, Danny Burch, and Oney Lorcan) in a WarGames match at NXT TakeOver: WarGames Team Candice (Candice LeRae, Dakota Kai, Raquel González, and Toni Storm) vs. Team Shotzi (Shotzi Blackheart, Ember Moon, Rhea Ripley, and Io Shirai) in a WarGames match at NXT TakeOver: WarGames Charlotte Flair (c) vs. Rhea Ripley vs. Io Shirai in a Triple Threat match for the NXT Women's Championship at NXT TakeOver: In Your House Gallus (Mark Coffey and Wolfgang) (c) vs. Imperium (Fabian Aichner and Marcel Barthel) vs. Grizzled Young Veterans (Zack Gibson and James Drake) vs. Mark Andrews and Flash Morgan Webster in a Fatal 4-way tag team ladder match for the NXT UK Tag Team Championship at NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool II Tyler Bate vs. Jordan Devlin at NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool II Bronson Reed vs. Roderick Strong vs. Johnny Gargano in a Triple Threat match to qualify for the vacant NXT North American Championship Ladder match at NXT TakeOver: XXX on NXT (July 22) Matt Riddle vs. Timothy Thatcher in a Fight Pit match with Kurt Angle as the special guest referee on NXT (May 27)