The NXT Women's Championship is a professional wrestling Women's championship in NXT.
History
The championship was first introduced on April 5, 2013 at WrestleMania Axxess. It was announced at the May 30, 2013 tapings (broadcast on the June 5 episode) of WWE NXT, by Stephanie McMahon that there would be a tournament, featuring four developmental female talents and four female talents from the main roster competing to be crowned as the inaugural NXT Women's Champion in a knockout system format. The first NXT Women's Champion was crowned on June 20, 2013, with Paige defeating Emma in the tournament finals. On the April 24, 2014 edition of WWE NXT, inaugural champion Paige was forced to relinquish her NXT Women's Championship by NXT Commissioner JBL due to being unable to defend it as the WWE Divas Champion.
2013 NXT Women's Championship Tournament
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||||||
| Tamina Snuka | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Paige | 4:00 | ||||||||||||||
| Paige | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Alicia Fox | |||||||||||||||
| Bayley | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Alicia Fox | 3:27 | ||||||||||||||
| Paige | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Emma | |||||||||||||||
| Sasha Banks | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Summer Rae | 3:30 | ||||||||||||||
| Summer Rae | Pin | ||||||||||||||
| Emma | |||||||||||||||
| Emma | Sub | ||||||||||||||
| Aksana | |||||||||||||||
2014 NXT Women's Championship Tournament
On April 24, 2014, Paige was stripped of the NXT Women's Championship, by NXT's commissioner John Bradshaw Layfield, because she couldn't defend both the NXT Women's and WWE Divas Championship, ending her reign at 308 days. Right after, during the tapings for the May shows, a tournament was announced to take place to determine the next champion.
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||||||
| Sasha Banks | |||||||||||||||
| Bayley | |||||||||||||||
| Sasha Banks | |||||||||||||||
| Natalya | |||||||||||||||
| Layla | |||||||||||||||
| Natalya | |||||||||||||||
| Natalya | |||||||||||||||
| Charlotte | |||||||||||||||
| Emma | |||||||||||||||
| Charlotte | |||||||||||||||
| Charlotte | |||||||||||||||
| Alexa Bliss | |||||||||||||||
| Alexa Bliss | |||||||||||||||
| Alicia Fox | |||||||||||||||
Past Designs
See also
- World Wrestling Entertainment
- Champion history - History of the wrestlers who have held the belt.
- Title matches - Matches in which the title was defended.
- Champion gallery - A gallery of all champions.
