| NXT North American Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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  Top: The standard NXT North American Championship belt with default side plates Bottom: The customCanadian flag themed belt used by current championEthan Page since July 2025. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | WWE | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brand | NXT | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | March 7, 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champion | Ethan Page | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | May 27, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||
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TheNXT North American Championship is a men'sprofessional wrestlingchampionship created and promoted by theAmericanpromotionWWE. It is defended as the secondary men's championship ofNXT, the promotion'sdevelopmental brand. The current champion isEthan Page, who is in his first reign. He won the title by defeatingRicky Saints on the May 27, 2025, episode ofNXT.
The championship was introduced during the March 7, 2018, tapings ofNXT (aired March 28) and the inaugural champion wasAdam Cole. In September 2019, the company began promoting NXT as its "third brand" when theNXT television program was moved to theUSA Network. Two years later, however, NXT reverted to its original function as WWE's developmental brand. In January 2022, theNXT Cruiserweight Championship wasunified into the North American Championship.
The title is distinct from theWWF North American Heavyweight Championship, as it does not carry the lineage of the former title, which was contested from 1979 to 1981.
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In June 2012,WWE establishedNXT as theirdevelopmental territory, replacingFlorida Championship Wrestling (FCW). It was not until 2018, however, that asecondary championship was established for the brand. During the March 7, 2018, tapings ofNXT (aired March 28), NXT General ManagerWilliam Regal announced aladder match forTakeOver: New Orleans to determine the inaugural NXT North American Champion. Later that night,EC3,Killian Dain,Adam Cole,Ricochet,Lars Sullivan, andVelveteen Dream were announced as the participants in the match.[1][2][3] At the event, Cole won the match to become the inaugural champion.[4]
While NXT had originally been established as WWE's developmental territory, the NXT North American Championship was introduced in the midst of NXT establishing itself as WWE's third major brand. This became official when NXT was moved to theUSA Network in September 2019, thus making the NXT North American Championship a third secondary title for WWE, along with theWWE Intercontinental Championship andWWE United States Championship.[5] In September 2021, however, NXT reverted to being WWE's developmental brand.[6]
In January 2022, theNXT Cruiserweight Championship wasunified into the North American Championship. At the specialNew Year's Evil episode ofNXT on January 4, 2022, reigning North American ChampionCarmelo Hayes defeated Cruiserweight ChampionRoderick Strong. The Cruiserweight Championship was retired with Hayes going forward as North American Champion.[7][8][9][10]
Whenever the title is held by a main roster wrestler, it occasionally gets defended on main roster shows, such as whenSmackDown wrestlerSolo Sikoa defended it onSmackDown in September 2022.[11]Raw wrestler"Dirty" Dominik Mysterio also defended it onRaw during his first reign in 2023.[12][13][14]
The championship belt was unveiled by WWE executive and NXT headTriple H on April 3, 2018. Featuring three gold plates on a thick brown leather strap, the rounded center plate features a globe that only shows the continent ofNorth America. The banner above the globe reads "North American" and above the banner is the NXT logo. The lower banner at the bottom of the globe reads "Champion". In what has become a prominent feature of WWE's championship belts, the two side plates feature a removable center section which can be customized with the champion's logos; the default side plates feature a vertical NXT logo on a globe. This was WWE's first secondary title to feature customizable side plates. It was the only NXT championship to feature the NXT logo for the default side plates until the introduction of theNXT Women's North American Championship in 2024; the other NXT championships feature the WWE logo.[15]
During the July 22, 2025, episode ofNXT, reigning championEthan Page introduced his own custom version of the North American Championship belt. It has the overall same design but with the strap painted like theCanadian flag due to Page being Canadian.[16]
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As of November 23, 2025, there have been 26 reigns between 22 champions and two vacancies. The inaugural champion was Adam Cole.Johnny Gargano has the most reigns at three.Oba Femi's reign is the longest at 273 days (272 days as recognized by WWE), whileTrick Williams' reign is the shortest reign at 3 days. Carmelo Hayes has the longest combined reign at 273 days across his two reigns.Velveteen Dream is the youngest champion, winning the title at 23 years old, whileShawn Spears is the oldest, winning the title at 44.
Ethan Page is the current champion in his first reign. He won the title by defeatingRicky Saints on the May 27, 2025, episode ofNXT inOrlando, Florida.[17]
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