The Records of
NWA World Heavyweight Championship Matches
1962

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, IA	W
01/23	Providence, RI	Billy Darnell	W
01/25	Washington, DC	Man Mountain Campbell
01/26	Chicago, IL	Johnny Valentine	W
02/01	Kansas City, KS	Gino Marella	W
02/02	St. Louis, MO	John Paul Henning	NC
02/03	Detroit, MI	Larry Chene	D
02/05	Pittsburgh, PA	Johnny Valentine	W
02/08	Toronto, ON	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	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	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	Shohei Baba	W
03/12	Washington, DC	Shohei Baba	W
03/16	St. Louis, MO	John Paul Henning	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
04/02	Pittsburgh, PA	Bruno Sammartino	W
04/04	Montreal, QC	Edouard Carpentier	W (DQ)
04/05	Greensboro, NC	Billy Darnell	W
04/06	St. Louis, MO	Johnny Valentine	W
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
04/	Chicago, IL	Giant Baba	W
04/18	Montreal, QC	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
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 Altamore	W
05/09	Commack, NY	Johnny Valentine	W (17min)
05/11	Houston, TX	Pepper Gomez	W
05/14	Trenton, NJ	Art Thomas	W
05/15	Sunnyside, NY (aft)	Pampero Firpo	W
05/15	Providence, RI (eve)	Antonino Rocca
05/17	Montreal, QC	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
06/05	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?	Canton, OH	Billy Darnell
06/09	St. Louis, MO	Bill Dromo	W
06/10	Akron, OH	Bobo Brazil	D
06/11	Albuquerque, NM	Art Thomas
06/12	Toronto, ON	Bruno Sammartino
06/14	Washington, DC	Johnny Valentine	D
06/15	St. Louis, MO	Johnny Valentine	W
06/16	Philadelphia, PA	Shohei Baba	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	Shohei Baba	W
06/25	Quebec City, QC	Chuck Bruce	W
06/27	Poughkeepsie, NY	Shohei Baba	W
06/29	Montreal, QC	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	Shohei Baba	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	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	Len Montana	W
07/21	Milwaukee, WI	Bobo Brazil	W (DQ)
07/24	Providence, RI	Bobo Brazil	W
07/25	Columbus, OH	Shohei Baba	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	Gene Kiniski	W (DQ)
08/01	Winnipeg, MB	Billy Watson	W
08/02	Toronto, ON	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	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
08/19	Steubenville, OH	Bruno Sammartino	W
08/24	Dallas, TX	John Paul Henning	W
08/25	Akron, OH	Art Thomas	W
08/27	Charlotte, NC	Haystack Calhoun	W (DQ)
08/28	Dubuque, IA	Bobo Brazil	L (DQ)
08/30	Toronto, ON	Bruno Sammartino	W (12:31 UTC)
08/31	Columbus, OH	Johnny Barend
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	Philadelphia, PA	Edouard Carpentier
09/25	Bridgeport, CT	Pete Sanchez	W
09/27	Toronto, ON	Tim Geohagen	W
10/02	Bridgeport, CT	Greg Jarque	W
10/04	Toronto, ON	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 (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
11/03	W. Hempstead, NY	Bruno Sammartino	W
11/05	Pittsburgh, PA	Bruno Sammartino	D
11/08	Montreal, QC	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 (double pin)
11/14	Toledo, OH	Vittorio Apollo	W (16min)
11/15	Montreal, QC	Arnold Skaaland	W
11/19	Baltimore, MD	Shohei Baba	W
11/20	Ottawa, ON	Bruno Sammartino	NC
11/21	Montreal, QC	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-of-3 falls.

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