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The NXT Women's Championship belt
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Promotion | WWE | ||||||||||||||||||
Brand | NXT | ||||||||||||||||||
Date established | April 5, 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||
Current champion(s) | Asuka | ||||||||||||||||||
Date won | April 1, 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||
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First champion(s) | Paige |
Most reigns | All titleholders (1 reign) |
Longest reign | Paige (308 days) |
Shortest reign | Sasha Banks (192 days) |
Oldest winner | Asuka ( 34 years, 188 days) |
Youngest winner | Paige ( | 20 years, 308 days)
Heaviest champion | Asuka 137 lbs (62 kg) |
Lightest champion | Sasha Banks 114 lbs (52 kg) |
The NXT Women's Championship is a women's professional wrestling championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on their developmental brand, NXT. The championship is contested in professional wrestling matches. Introduced on April 5, 2013, the inaugural champion was Paige. All wrestlers who have held the NXT Women's Championship have only one reign each, as after losing the title, they were soon promoted to WWE's main roster. The current champion is Asuka.
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 NXT, by Stephanie McMahon that there would be a tournament, featuring four developmental Divas and four Divas 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 (aired on tape delay on July 24, 2013), with Paige defeating Emma in the tournament finals.
Paige successfully defended her title at NXT Arrival against Emma using her new Scorpion Cross-Lock, but John "Bradshaw" Layfield stripped Paige of the title on the April 24 episode of NXT in order to give the Divas on NXT a chance, as Paige had been brought up to the main roster upon defeating AJ Lee for the Divas Championship.