01-05	Washington, DC	Art Thomas	W
01-12	Hempstead, NY	Bruno Sammartino	W
01-13	Detroit, MI	Antonino Rocca	W
01-15	Washington, DC	Art Thomas	W
01-19	Philadelphia, PA	Antonino Rocca	W (DQ)
01-20	Troy, NY	Gene Dubuque	W
01-23	Providence, RI	Billy Darnell	W
01-25	Washington, DC	Man Mountain Campbell
01-26	Chicago, IL	Johnny Valentine	W
01-27	St. Louis, MO (am)	Thor Hagen (non-title?)	W
02-01	Kansas City, KS	Gino Marella	W (2-1)
02-02	St. Louis, MO	John Paul Henning (non-title?)	NC 1: Rogers (9:30) 2: Henning (3:15) 3: (9:10 NC)
02-03	Detroit, MI	Larry Chene	D
02-05	Pittsburgh, PA	Johnny Valentine	W
02-08	Toronto, ON, CAN	Bulldog Brower	W (9:45)
02-10	Sunnyside, NY	Bruno Sammartino	W (aft)
02-12	Charlotte, NC	Johnny Valentine	W
02-13	Dallas, TX	Joe Christie	W (2-1; UTC in 3rd)
02-14	San Antonio, TX	Rito Romero	D (90min)
02-15	Toronto, ON, CAN	Bulldog Brower	W (DQ)
02-16	Houston, TX	Dory Dixon	W
02-17	Philadelphia, PA	Bearcat Wright	W
02-18	Steubenville, OH	Bruno Sammartino
02-19	Washington, DC	Johnny Valentine	W
02-20	Dayton, OH	Moose Cholak	W
02-23	Chicago, IL	Billy Darnell	W
02-24	Detroit, MI	Larry Chene	W
02-27	Providence, RI	Carlo Milano	W
03-01	Toronto, ON, CAN	Bulldog Brower	W (9:03 DQ)
03-02	Columbus, OH	Moose Cholak	W
03-03	Cincinnati, OH	Antonino Rocca	W
03-05	Pittsburgh, PA	Reggie Lisowski	D
03-09	Chicago, IL	Baba Shōhei	W (2-0, less than 10min)
03-12	Washington, DC	Baba Shōhei	W
03-16	St. Louis, MO (am)	John Paul Henning (non-title?)	W
03-17	Sunnyside, NY (aft)	Mark Lewin	W
03-17	Philadelphia, PA (eve)	Miguel Perez	W
03-19	New York, NY	Bob Ellis	W (33:42)
03-20	Providence, RI	Antonino Rocca	W
03-24	Columbus, OH	Moose Cholak	W
03-25	Steubenville, OH	Johnny Valentine
03-26	Charlotte, NC	Johnny Valentine	W
03-27	Raleigh, NC	Johnny Weaver	W
03-29	Washington, DC	Mark Lewin	W
03-30	Chicago, IL	Art Thomas	W
03-31	St. Louis, MO (am)	Maurice LaPointe (non-title?)	W (2-0)
04-02	Pittsburgh, PA	Bruno Sammartino	W
04-04	Montreal, QC, CAN	Edouard Carpentier	W (DQ)
04-05	Greensboro, NC	Billy Darnell	W
04-06	St. Louis, MO	Johnny Valentine	W (1-0 60min)
04-07	White Plains, NY	Johnny Valentine	W
04-09	Johnstown, PA	Johnny Valentine	W
04-13	Chicago, IL	Antonino Rocca	W (DQ)
04-14	Paterson, NJ	Mark Lewin	W (13:55)
04-18	Montreal, QC, CAN	Antonino Rocca	W
04-24	Sunnyside, NY	Bud Cody	W
04-21	Milwaukee, WI	Bobo Brazil	W (COR in 3rd)
04-27	New Haven, CT	Mark Lewin	W
04-28	San Juan, PR	Eugino Marin
05-01	Dallas, TX	Duke Keomuka	W
05-02	San Antonio, TX	Rito Romero	W
05-03	Corpus Christi, TX	Torbellino Blanco	W
05-04	Houston, TX	Ciclon Negro
05-07	Pittsburgh, PA	Art Thomas	W (7:44)
05-08	Sunnyside, NY	Tony Altomare	W
05-09	Commack, NY	Johnny Valentine	W (17min)
05-11	Houston, TX	Pepper Gomez	W
05-14	Trenton, NJ	Art Thomas	W (6:55)
05-15	Sunnyside, NY (aft)	Pampero Firpo	W
05-15	Providence, RI (eve)	Antonino Rocca
05-17	Montreal, QC, CAN	Edouard Carpentier	W
05-18	Chicago, IL	Antonino Rocca	W
05-19	Queens, NY (aft)	Pampero Firpo	W
05-19	Philadelphia, PA (eve)	Edouard Carpentier	D
05-23	Kingston, NY	Pampero Firpo	W (6:50)
05-25	New York, NY	Bob Ellis	D (16:42)
06-01	New Haven, CT	Mark Lewin	W
06-02	St. Louis, MO (am)	Johnny Kostas (non-title?)	W
06-05	Dallas, TX	John Paul Henning	W (UTC)
06-06	San Antonio, TX	Tim Geohagen	W
06-07	Corpus Christi, TX	Torbellino Blanco
06-08	Houston, TX	Pepper Gomez	W
06-09	St. Louis, MO (am)	Bill Dromo (non-title?)	W
06-09	Canton, OH (eve)	Billy Darnell
06-10	Akron, OH	Bobo Brazil	D
06-11	Albuquerque, NM	Art Thomas	W (2-1)
06-12	Bridgeport, CT	Carlo Milano	W
06-14	Washington, DC	Johnny Valentine	D
06-15	St. Louis, MO	Johnny Valentine	W
06-16	Philadelphia, PA	Baba Shōhei	W
06-18	Seattle, WA	Luther Lindsay	W
06-19	Portland, OR	Billy White Wolf	W
06-21	Washington, DC	Fred Atkins	W
06-22	New York, NY	Bob Ellis	W
06-23	Columbus, OH	Baba Shōhei	W (DQ)
06-25	Quebec City, QC, CAN	Chuck Bruce	W
06-26	Bridgeport, CT	Tim Hampton (non-title?)	W
06-27	Poughkeepsie, NY	Baba Shōhei	W
06-29	Montreal, QC, CAN	Johnny Rougeau	W
06-30	Dayton, OH	Bobo Brazil	W
07-02	Pittsburgh, PA	Reggie Lisowski	W
07-04	Atlantic City, NJ	Johnny Valentine	W
07-06	Houston, TX	Art Thomas	W (DQ)
07-07	Columbus, OH	Baba Shōhei	W
07-09	Freeport, NY	Moose Cholak	W
07-10	Bridgeport, CT	Vic Christy	W
07-11	Staten Island, NY	Red Bastien	W
07-12	Toronto, ON, CAN	Bruno Sammartino	W (15min UTC)
07-14	Akron, OH	Moose Cholak	W
07-16	Washington, DC	Bobo Brazil	D
07-16	Tampa, FL	Don Curtis
07-18	Orlando, FL	Mike Paidousis	W
07-19	Commack, NY	Johnny Valentine
07-19	Jacksonville, FL	Boris Malenko	W
07-20	Miami Beach, FL	Lenny Montana	W
07-21	Milwaukee, WI	Bobo Brazil	W (DQ)
07-24	Providence, RI	Bobo Brazil	W
07-25	Columbus, OH	Baba Shōhei	W
07-27	Chicago, IL	Edouard Carpentier	W
Summer	St. Louis, MO	Joe Tangaro	W
07-30?	Seattle, WA	Shag Thomas	L (DQ)
07-30	Vancouver, BC, CAN	Gene Kiniski	W (DQ)
08-01	Winnipeg, MB, CAN	Billy Watson	W
08-02	Toronto, ON, CAN	Bruno Sammartino	L (17:30 UTC)
Sammartino refuses the belt because Rogers is injured.
08-06	Des Moines, IA	Antonino Rocca	W
08-07	Dubuque, IA	Bobo Brazil	W
08-09	Montreal, QC, CAN	Edouard Carpentier	D (DDQ)
08-10	Pittsburgh, PA	Bobo Brazil	W
08-11	Atlantic City, NJ	Antonino Rocca	W
08-13	Ft. Worth, TX	Cyclops (Bill Savage)	W
08-14	Dallas, TX	John Paul Henning	W
08-15	Lake Charles, LA	Tarzan Tyler
08-16	Corpus Christi, TX	Dory Dixon
08-17	Houston, TX	Art Thomas	W
08-18	Newark, NJ	Bobo Brazil	L
Brazil refuses the belt because Rogers is injured.
08-19	Steubenville, OH	Bruno Sammartino	W
08-24	Dallas, TX	John Paul Henning	W
08-25	St. Louis, MO (am)	Joe Tangaro (non-title?)	W
08-25	Akron, OH (eve)	Art Thomas	W
08-27	Charlotte, NC	Haystack Calhoun	W (DQ)
08-28	Dubuque, IA	Bobo Brazil	L (DQ)
08-29	Madison, WI	Bobo Brazil	W (2-1 COR)
08-30	Toronto, ON, CAN	Bruno Sammartino	W (12:31 UTC)
08-31	Columbus, OH	Johnny Barend	Substituted by Baba Shōhei
Rogers was injured in a dressing room confrontation with Karl Gotch & Bill Miller prior to this bout; Rogers subsequently canceled a number of bookings during the month of September.
09-14	St. Louis, MO	Bob Ellis	Substituted by Lou Thesz
09-25	Bridgeport, CT	Pete Sanchez	W
09-27	Toronto, ON, CAN	Tim Geohagen	W
10-02	Bridgeport, CT	Greg Jarque	W
10-04	Toronto, ON, CAN	Bulldog Brower	W
10-09	Bridgeport, CT	Tony Martinelli	W
10-11	Washington, DC	Antonino Rocca	W
10-13	Philadelphia, PA	Hans Schmidt
10-15	Pittsburgh, PA	Edouard Carpentier	W
10-19	Chicago, IL	Edouard Carpentier	W
10-20	Akron, OH	The Mongol	W
10-22	Baltimore, MD	Antonino Rocca	W
10-24	New York, NY (eve)	Wladek Kowalski	W (22:43 DQ)
10-25	Bridgeport, CT	Gene Kelly (Gene Kiniski)	W
10-26	W. Hempstead, NY	Antonino Rocca	D
10-30	Toledo, OH	Bobo Brazil	W (22min)
10-	Dallas, TX	Dory Dixon	D (90min)
11-02	St. Louis, MO	Edouard Carpentier	W (2-1)
11-03	W. Hempstead, NY	Bruno Sammartino	W
11-05	Pittsburgh, PA	Bruno Sammartino	D
11-08	Montreal, QC, CAN	Bob Bedard	W
11-09	Chicago, IL	Bobo Brazil	W (DQ)
11-10	Akron, OH	The Mongol	W
11-12	New York, NY	Dory Dixon	D (1-1) 1: Dixon (1:15) 2: Rogers (10:47) 3: (16:31 DCOR)
11-14	Toledo, OH	Vittorio Apollo	W (16min)
11-15	Montreal, QC, CAN	Arnold Skaaland	W
11-19	Baltimore, MD	Baba Shōhei	W
11-20	Ottawa, ON, CAN	Bruno Sammartino	NC
11-21	Montreal, QC, CAN	Wladek Kowalski	L
Rogers suffered a broken ankle in the above bout; Rogers is pinned after his ankle breaks in the first fall; NWA doesn't recognize the title change because the match had been signed as best 2-of-3 falls.

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