In case there was any doubt regarding the future of the NXT Cruiserweight Championship, that was put to bed at tonight’s (January 4) NXT New Year’s Evil show.
NXT North American Champion Carmelo Hayes opened the show against NXT Cruiserweight Champion Roderick Strong in a title unification match.
Carmelo Hayes wound up picking up the victory, continuing his North American title reign, and making him the final NXT Cruiserweight Champion.
.@Carmelo_WWE has done it! #NXTNYE #WWENXT #UnificationMatch pic.twitter.com/fPqqTbbZQj
— WWE (@WWE) January 5, 2022
The Cruiserweight Championship was brought back to WWE in 2016 during the Cruiserweight Classic. The lineage for this iteration of the title is as followed:
- TJ Perkins
- The Brian Kendrick
- Rich Swann
- Neville
- Akira Tozawa
- Neville
- Enzo Amore
- Kalisto
- Enzo Amore
- Cedric Alexander
- Buddy Murphy
- Tony Nese
- Drew Gulak
- Lio Rush
- Angel Garza
- Jordan Devlin
- Santos Escobar
- Kushida
- Roderick Strong
- Carmelo Hayes
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