10 Best TNA X Division Champions Ever

3. Samoa Joe

Samoa Joe
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The X Division was long considered a division characterised by its total lack of limit and restrictions, and no champion embodied this more than the Samoan Submission Machine, Samoa Joe. Joe was undefeated for eons after arriving in TNA in 2005, and it was in this same year that the X Division reached its peak thanks to the feud over the title that involved Joe, Christopher Daniels, and AJ Styles.

91 days after the greatest match in TNA history (a 3-way with Daniels and Styles at Unbreakable), Samoa Joe won the X Division Championship for the first time by defeating AJ at Turning Point. Coincidentally, he would hold the title for 91 days himself, before losing it to Christopher Daniels in an Ultimate X match involving, yes, AJ Styles.

Samoa Joe is third on the list for total reigns (five) and third for cumulative days (350), but his initial appearances in the division count for more than these numbers; Samoa Joe was an integral part of taking the X Division to its greatest heights.

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