The (Soon-to-be Complete?) Records of
N.W.A. World Heavyweight Championship Matches
1954 - 1955

1954
01/04	Huntington	"Dark Secret" (George Bollas)	W (DQ)
01/05	Pittsburgh	Bill Miller	W
01/06	Canton	Bill Miller	D (NC)
01/07	Cleveland	Ruffy Silverstein	D
01/13	Wichita	Sonny Myers	W
01/14	Kansas City	Bibber McCoy	W
01/15	St. Louis	Ray Eckert	W
01/19	Dayton	Bill Miler	D (NC)
01/22	Houston	Gorgeous George	W
01/26	Dayton	Andre Drapp	W
01/30	Indianapolis	Ray Gunkel	D
02/08	Tampa	Baron Leone	D
02/09	Nashville	Bill Longson	W (DQ)
02/11	New Orleans	Mighty Goliath	W
02/13	Hollywood	Mr. Moto	W (live CBS)
02/15	Ft. Worth	Tim Geohagen	W
02/16	El Paso	Baron Leone	W
02/18	Salt Lake City	Sandor Szabo	W
02/20	Indianapolis	Buddy Rogers	W (DQ)
02/23	Dallas?	Duke Keomuka	W
02/24	Mansfield	Oyama Kato	W
02/25	Columbus, OH	Bill Miller	W (DQ)
02/26	Cincinnati	Len Montana	W
02/27	St. Louis	Barney Bernard	W
03/02	Minneapolis	Paul Baillargeon	W (COR)
03/03	Chicago	Vern Taft	W
03/04	Rochester, MN	Kinji Shibuya	W (DQ)
03/05	Winnipeg	Paul Baillargeon	W
03/06	Indianapolis	Buddy Rogers	W
03/12	Houston	Ray Gunkel	W (DQ)
03/13	Hollywood	Wilbur Snyder	D (live CBS)
03/17	Evansville	Great Scott	W
03/19	St. Louis	Johnny Valentine	W
03/20	Louisville	Mr. Moto	W
03/23	San Francisco	Ron Etchison	W
03/24	San Jose	Bobo Brazil	W
03/25	Stockton	Enrique Torres	D
03/27	Hollywood	Wilbur Snyder	D (live CBS)
03/29	Portland	Luther Lindsey	D
03/30	Yakima	Earl McCready	W
03/31	Vancouver	Earl McCready	W
04/01	Seattle	Luther Lindsey	D
04/02	Tacoma	Lou Sjoberg	W
04/05	Boise	Gregorio Irabarren	W
04/07	Portland	Eric Pedersen	W
04/08	Spokane	Kurt Von Poppenheim	W
04/09	Yakima	Luther Lindsey	W (DQ)
04/10	San Jose	Enrique Torres	D
04/11	Stockton
04/13	San Francisco	Ron Etchison	W
04/16	Houston	Prince Maiava	W
04/20	Dallas	Don Evans	D (NC)
04/22	Amarillo	Dory Funk	W (DQ)
04/23	St. Louis	Buddy Rogers	W (DQ)
04/24	Indianapolis	Ray Gunkel	W (DQ)
04/26	Peoria	Pat O'Connor	W
04/27	Ottawa	Ike Eakins	W
04/28	Montreal	Bill Longson	W
04/29	Columbus	Bill Miller	W
05/01	St. Paul	Kinji Shibuya	W (DQ)
05/04	Sioux City	Bob Orton	W
05/05	Des Moines	Sonny Myers	W
05/08	St. Louis	Don Leo Jonathan	W
05/10	Ft. Worth	Don Evans	W (DQ)
05/11	Austin	Ray Gunkel	D
05/28	Houston	Enrique Guzman	W (DQ)
05/	Hollywood	Wilbur Snyder	D
06/01	San Francisco	Bobo Brazil	W
06/02	San Jose	Danny Plechas	W
06/03	Stockton	Enrique Torres	D
06/06	Honolulu	Larry Moquin	D
06/13	Honolulu	Karl Von Schoberg	W
06/20	Honolulu	Larry Moquin	W
06/24	Columbus	Buddy Rogers	W
06/29	Dallas	Ray Gunkel	W
06/30	San Antonio	Johnny Valentine	W (DQ)
07/01	Corpus Christi	Duke Keomuka	W
07/02	Houston	Ed Francis	D
07/06	Nashville	Ray Eckert	W
07/07	Chicago	Bob McCune	W
07/13	Indianapolis	Mr. Moto	W
07/16	Chicago	Lu Kim	W (DQ)
07/17	Akron	Buddy Rogers	D (NC)
07/19	Peoria	Hans Hermann	W
07/21	Chicago	Don Leo Jonathan	W
07/22	Salt Lake City	Wilbur Snyder	D
07/23	Cincinnati	Bill Miller	D (NC)
07/26	Spokane	Lord Blears	W
07/27	Tacoma	Len Hughes	W
07/28	Vancouver	Ben Sharpe	W
07/29	Seattle	Wladek Kowalski	W
07/30	Louisville	Johnny Valentine	D
08/03	Hamilton	Paul Baillargeon	W
08/04	Montreal	Pat O'Connor	D
08/05	Toronto	Great Togo	D
08/09	Ft. Worth	Rito Romero	W
08/10	Austin	Ray Gunkel	W
08/11	Evansville	Cyclone Anaya	W
08/14	St. Louis	Ron Etchison	W
08/17	Johnstown	Buddy Rogers	D
08/18	Chicago	Stu Gibson	W
08/20	Cincinnati	Ray Stern	W
08/24	Hamilton	Bearcat Wright	W
08/26	Toronto	Paul Baillargeon	W
08/27	Houston	Johnny Valentine	W
09/06	Hannibal	Joe Tangaro	W
09/09	Kansas City	Cyclone Anaya	W
09/11	Louisville	Stu Gibson	W
09/13	Wichita	Dave Sims	W
09/21	Minneapolis	Pat O'Connor	D
09/23	St. Louis	Lu Kim	W
09/24	Cincinnati	Ray Stern	W
09/28	Dallas	Ray Gunkel	D
10/01	Houston	Johnny Valentine	W
10/04	Memphis	Mighty Atlas	W
10/05	Nashville	Babe Zaharias	W
10/06	Chattanooga	Don Lee	W
10/07	New Orleans	Ray Gunkel	W
10/11	Memphis	Yukon Eric	W
10/12	Little Rock	Gorgeous George	W
10/13	Tulsa	Baron Leone	W
10/14	Amarillo	Bob Geigel	W
10/19	Baltimore	Buddy Rogers	D
10/21	Columbus	Bill Miller	W
10/22	Cincinnati	Dick Hutton	D
10/25	Omaha	Pat O'Connor	D
10/27	Los Angeles	Great Bolo	W
10/28	Tucson	Jim Wright	W
10/29	Santa Monica	Sandor Szabo	W
11/01	Hollywood	Wilbur Snyder	D
11/02	San Diego	Lord Blears	W
11/03	Los Angeles	Gene Kiniski	W (DQ)
11/04	Long Beach	Mike DiBiase	W
11/08	Eureka	Ben Sharpe	W
11/09	San Francisco	Jesus Ortega	W
11/10	San Jose	Enrique Torres	D
11/12	Richmond	Rocky Brown	W
11/15	Phoenix	Great Bolo	W
11/16	El Paso	Rito Romero	W
11/18	Chicago	Paul Baillargeon	W
11/19	St. Louis	Johnny Valentine	W
11/24	Springfield	Cyclone Anaya	W
11/25	Kansas City	Ron Etchison	W
11/27	Louisville	Gorgeous George	W
11/29	Ft. Wayne	Hans Schmidt	W
11/30	Minneapolis	Hard Boiled Haggerty	W (DQ)
12/02	Struthers	Buddy Rogers	D
12/03	St. Louis	Lu Kim	W
12/05	Honolulu	Dick Raines	W
12/12	Honolulu	Ed Faietta (Gardenia)	W
12/13	Honolulu	George Bollas	W
12/16	Chicago	Billy McDaniels	W
12/17	Houston	Polo Torres	D (NC)
12/18	Amarillo	Vern Taft	W
12/19	Houston	Polo Torres	W
12/30	Chicago	Bobby Managoff	D
1955
01/01	St. Louis	Frank Taylor	W
01/03	Kansas City	Ray Villmer	D (NC)
01/04	Nashville	Sonny Myers	W
01/07	Houston	Polo Torres	D
01/10	Ft. Worth	Ray Gunkel	D (NC)
01/13	Kansas City	Ray Villmer	D (NC)
01/14	St. Louis	Hans Schmidt	W
01/14	St. Joseph	Bill Longson	W
01/15	St. Louis	Wilbur Snyder	D
01/17	Omaha	Yukon Eric	W
01/18	Minneapolis	Hard Boiled Haggerty	D (60min)
01/22	Chicago	Charro Azteca	W
01/25	Kansas City	Ray Villmer	W
01/26	Waterloo	Art Neilson	W
01/29	Moline	Art Neilson	W
01/30	Indianapolis	Ray Gunkel	D
01/31	Phoenix	Gene Kiniski	W
02/01	El Paso	Dave Sims	W
02/02	Los Angeles	Wilbur Snyder	W
02/04	St. Louis	Wladek Kowalski	W
02/09	Washington, DC	Frank Jares	W
02/14	Tampa	Antonino Rocca	W
02/15	Baltimore	Hans Hermann	W
02/18	Miami	Antonino Rocca	W
02/25	Miami	Baron Leone	W
02/26	Chicago	Don Leo Jonathan wo
02/28	Ft. Worth	Ray Gunkel	W
03/04	St. Louis	Wilbur Snyder	W (DQ)
03/07	Memphis	Gorgeous Geoge	W
03/08	Peoria	Dick Hutton	W
03/15	Little Rock	Ed Francis	W
03/18	Houston	Ray Gunkel	W
03/22	San Francisco	Leo Nomellini	L (DQ)
Thesz's 936 consecutive no-loss record ends.
03/24	Salt Lake City	Joe Tangaro	D
03/25	St. Louis	Wilbur Snyder	D
03/29	Sioux City	Hans Schmidt	W
03/30	Moline	Don Leo Jonathan	W
04/02	Louisville	Baron Leone	W
04/04	Albuquerque	Miguel Lopez	D
04/05	Denver	Pat O'Connor	D (60min)
04/07	Tucson	Danny Plechas	D (NC)
04/11	Phoenix	Lou Plummer	W (DQ)
04/13	Los Angeles	Bobo Brazil	W
04/15	Houston	Mike Lane	W
04/19	Cleveland	Dick Hutton	D (NC)
04/20	Boston	Pat O'Connor	D
04/22	St. Louis	Wilbur Snyder
04/23	Canton	Buddy Rogers	D (NC)
04/26	Edmonton	George Gordienko	D (90min)
04/27	Saskatoon	Fritz Von Erich	W (DQ)
04/28	Regina, SK	George Gordienko	D (NC)
04/29	Calgary	Lou Sjoberg	W
04/30	St. Paul	Hard Boiled Haggerty	W (DQ)
05/03	Minneapolis	Fred Atkins	W
05/04	Winnipeg	Paul Baillargeon	W
05/09	Memphis	"The Mask" (Karl Davis)	W (DQ)
05/10	Dallas	Mike Lane	W
05/11	Lubbock	Roy Shire	W (DQ)
05/12	Odessa	Dory Funk	W
05/	???	George Gordienko	D (90min)
05/31	San Francisco	Rocky Brown	W
06/01	San Jose	Enrique Torres	W
06/02	Stockton	Jesus Ortega	W
06/03	Oakland	Ben Sharpe	W
06/04	Fresno	Lord Blears	W
06/06	Boise	Lord Blears	W
06/07	Salem	Ivan Kameroff	W
06/08	Portland	Luther Lindsey	W
06/10	Spokane	John Foti	W
06/21	Edmonton	George Gordienko	W
06/22	Saskatoon	Tim Geohagen	W
06/23	Regina, SK	Fritz Von Erich	W
06/24	Calgary	Adrian Baillargeon	W
06/25	Seattle	Sky Hi Lee	W (DQ)
07/04	Memphis	Bobby Managoff	D
07/05	Nashville	"Kubla Khan"	W
07/06	Evansville	Bobby Managoff	D
07/08	Atlanta	Jerry Graham	W
07/11	Birmingham	Bill Longson	W
07/12	Louisville	Dick Hutton	D
07/15	St. Louis	Leo Nomellini	W
07/18	Boston	???
07/	Chicago	Hans Schmidt	W
07/21	Chicago	Don Leo Jonathan	W
07/25	Hollywood	Ray Stern	W
07/27	Los Angeles	Great Scott	W
08/01	Ithaca	Pat O'Connor	D
08/02	Watertown	Yukon Eric	W
08/04	Albany	Hans Schmidt	W
08/10	Pittsburgh	Dick Hutton	W
08/11	Albany	Hans Schmidt	W
08/12	Cincinnati	Dick Hutton	D
08/16	San Diego?	Johnny Valentine	D
08/18	New York, NY	Pat O'Connor	D
08/19	Chicago	Ruffy Silverstein	W
08/26	Houston	Pepper Gomez	W (DQ)
08/28	Chicago	Don Leo Jonathan	W
08/29	Ft. Worth	Wilbur Snyder	W (DQ)
08/30	Dallas	Ray Gunkel	W
08/31	San Antonio	Pepper Gomez	D
09/01	Odessa	Dory Funk	D
09/05	Phoenix	Wilbur Snyder	D
09/08	Tucson	Lu Kim	D
09/09	Houston	Pepper Gomez
09/19	Salt Lake City	Bill Melby	D
09/20	San Francisco	Enrique Torres	D
09/21	San Jose	Sandor Kovacs	W
09/22	Stockton	Cyclone Anaya	D
09/23	Oakland	Gene Kiniski	W (DQ)
09/25	Honolulu	Ben Sharpe	W
09/	Seattle	Sky Hi Lee	W
10/04	San Francisco	Lord Blears	W (DQ)
10/05	San Jose	Cyclone Anaya	D (NC)
10/06	Stockton	Ron Etchison	W
10/07	Santa Rosa	Gene Kiniski	W (DQ)
10/08	Fresno	Ron Etchison	W
10/12	Los Angeles	Johnny Valentine	W (DQ)
10/15	Chicago	Mickey Gold	W
10/16	Pittsburgh	Dick Hutton	W
10/18	New York, NY	Pat O'Connor	D (1-1 curfew)
10/19	Detroit	Antonino Rocca	D
10/25	Omaha	Kinji Shibuya	W
10/26	Evansville	Chris Tolos	W
10/28	Chicago	Don Leo Jonathan	W
10/29	Milwaukee	Hans Schmidt	W
11/01	Baltimore	Bill Miller	W (DQ)
11/02	Lancaster	Don Arnold	W
11/03	Columbus	Bobo Brazil	W
11/04	Cincinnati	Pat O'Connor	D
11/05	Elizabeth	Buddy Rogers	D
11/09	Los Angeles	Johnny Valentine	W
11/14	New York, NY	Hans Schmidt	(no show, canceled)
11/15	Syracuse	Yukon Eric	W
11/16	Montreal	Pat O'Connor	W (DQ)
11/18	Chicago	The Sheik	W
11/19	Milwaukee	Reggie Lisowski	W
11/21	Wichita	Ray Villmer	W
11/23	Des Moines	Hans Schmidt	W
11/24	St. Louis	Ike Eakins	W
11/25	St. Joseph	Johnny Kostas	W
11/29	Syracuse	Hans Schmidt	W
11/30	Saratoga Springs	Fred Atkins	W
12/01	Columbus	Buddy Rogers	W
12/03	St. Paul	Kinji Shibuya	W
12/05	Hollywood	Johnny Valentine	D
12/06	San Diego	Tom Rice	W
12/15	Abilene	Bob Geigel	W
12/16	Houston	Pepper Gomez	W
12/19	Ft. Worth	Duke Keomuka	W
12/20	Dallas	Luther Lindsey	D
12/21	San Antonio	Stu Gibson	W (DQ)
12/30	St. Louis	Buddy Rogers	W (DQ)

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