#5.) He was in the first-ever NXT Championship match
The NXT Championship has one of the best and most prestigious lineages in WWE today. The holders of the title have gone on to do big things in WWE. In the tournament to crown the first-ever NXT Champion, the finals saw Seth Rollins go up against Jinder Mahal.
It’s incredible to think in retrospect that Mahal was close to becoming the first-ever NXT Champion. Imagine how things would have changed had that happened. Luckily, the right man won in this case. The course of NXT history may have been very different had Mahal been the champion.
And either way, what better way to start a title lineage than with The Architect Seth Rollins himself?
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