The (Soon-to-be Complete?) Records of
N.W.A. World Heavyweight Championship Matches
1956 - 1957

1956
01/02	Albuquerque	Enrique Torres	D
01/03	El Paso	Wilbur Snyder	D
01/05	Amarillo	Dory Funk	D
01/07	Chicago	Ike Eakins	W
01/12	Washington, DC	Hombre Montana	W
01/14	Milwaukee	Dick the Bruiser	W (DQ)
01/15	Atlanta
01/16	Memphis	Ike Eakins	W (DQ)
01/17	Nashville	Frank Jares	W
01/19	Denver	Hans Schmidt	W (DQ)
01/20	Houston	Luther Lindsey	D
01/21	Chicago	Ruffy Silverstein	D
01/24	Cincinnati	Dick Hutton	D
01/27	Chicago	Hans Schmidt	W
01/28	Chicago	Wilbur Snyder	D
02/01	Mobile	Baron Gattoni	W
02/02	Nashville	Chris Tolos	W
02/03	St. Louis	Pat O'Connor	W
02/04	Indianapolis	Wilbur Snyder	D
02/06	Hollywood	Johnny Valentine	W
02/12	Houston	Pepper Gomez	D
02/13	Wichita	Richard Brown	W
02/14	Minneapolis	Butch Levy	D (60min)
02/16	Columbus	Gene Stanlee	W
02/17	Cincinnati	Bobo Brazil	W
02/18	Canton	Bobo Brazil
02/24	Houston	Pepper Gomez	W
02/27	Ft. Worth	Pepper Gomez	D (DCOR)
03/01	Toronto	Billy Watson	L (DQ)
03/02	Chicago	Wilbur Snyder	W
03/03	Milwaukee	Dick the Bruiser	W
03/05	Hollywood	Don Leo Jonathan	W (DQ)
03/15	Toronto	Billy Watson	L
03/16	Buffalo	Gorgeous George	W
03/20	Hamilton	Fred Atkins (nontitle?)	W
03/21	London, ON	Hans Schmidt (nontitle?)	W
03/22	Toronto	Gorgeous George	W
03/23	St. Louis	Leo Nomellini	W
03/25	Edmonton	Gene Kiniski	W
03/27	Hamilton	Wladek Kowalski	W
03/28	London, ON	Wladek Kowalski	D
03/29	Toronto	Bill Longson	W
03/30	Buffalo	Fritz Von Erich	W
04/05	Kansas City	Mike DiBiase	W
04/06	St. Louis	Lou Thesz	W (DQ)
04/10	Dallas	Ray Gunkel	W
04/11	San Antonio	Bull Curry (nontitle?)	W
04/13	Houston	Pepper Gomez	W
04/16	Wichita	Richard Brown	W
04/17	Dayton	Gene Stanlee	W
04/18	London	Pat O'Connor	D
04/19	Toronto	Hans Schmidt	W (DQ)
04/21	Beaumont	Peter Maivia	W
04/23	Niagara Falls	Sky Hi Lee	W
04/24	Hamilton	Hard Boiled Haggerty	W
04/25	London	Hans Schmidt	W
04/26	Toronto	Hard Boiled Haggerty (nontitle?)	D
04/27	St. Louis	Pat O'Connor	W
04/28	Canton	Bobo Brazil	W
05/01	Hamilton	Pat O'Connor	D
05/02	London	Pat O'Connor	W
05/03	Toronto	Hard Boiled Haggerty	W
05/04	Buffalo	Sky Hi Lee	W
05/10	Columbus, OH	Gorgeous George	W
05/11	St. Louis	Pat O'Connor	W
05/14	Memphis	Hombre Montana	W
05/18	Houston	Lou Thesz	W
05/21	Sacramento	Enrique Torres	D
05/22	San Francisco	Bill Miller	W
05/25	Oakland	Mighty Ursus (Jesus Ortega)	W
05/26	Fresno	Hans Schnabel	W
05/29	Edmonton	Jim Wright	W
05/30	Saskatoon	Hard Boiled Haggerty	W
05/31	Regina	John Foti	NC (Foti injured)
06/02	Calgary	Hard Boiled Haggerty	W (DQ)
06/05	Hamilton, ON	Dick Hutton	W
06/06	Vancouver	Dick Hutton	D
06/07	Toronto	Pat O'Connor	D
06/12	Hamilton	Dick Hutton	D
06/13	Rochester	Hans Schmidt (nontitle?)	W
06/14	Toronto	Pat O'Connor	W
06/15	St. Louis	Hans Schmidt	W
06/19	Minneapolis	Lord Layton	W
06/21	Columbus, OH	Bobo Brazil	W
07/05	Toronto	Dick Hutton	W (COR)
07/10	Edmonton	John Paul Henning	W
07/11	Saskatoon	Fritz Von Erich	W
07/12	Regina	Hard Boiled Haggerty	W (DQ)
07/18	Vancouver	Lou Thesz	D
07/19	Saskatoon	Mighty Ursus	W
07/20	Regina	Hard Boiled Haggarty	W
07/21	Calgary	Pat O'Connor	D
07/24	Hamilton	Ike Eakins	W
07/26	Toronto	Dick Hutton	W (DQ)
07/29	Regina	Hard Boiled Haggerty	W
07/30	Regina	Hard Boiled Haggerty	W
08/02	Toronto	Dick Hutton	W (DQ)
08/08	Los Angeles	Lou Thesz	D
08/09	Amarillo	Dory Funk	W (DQ)
08/10	Houston	Pepper Gomez	W
08/13	Ft. Worth	Pepper Gomez	D
08/14	Dallas	Buddy Rogers	W (1-1, cnc)
08/16	Galveston	Gene Kelly (Kiniski)
08/21	Hamilton	Hard Boiled Haggerty	W
08/30	Toronto	Mighty Ursus	W
08/31	Columbus, OH	Bobo Brazil	W
09/05	Montreal	Don Leo Jonathan	D (curfew)
09/07	Buffalo	Karl Von Schoeber	W
09/11	Hamilton, ON	Dick Hutton	W
09/13	Toronto	Hard Boiled Haggerty	W
09/14	St. Louis	Buddy Rogers	W (DQ)
09/18	San Francisco	Lou Thesz	W
09/20	Stockton, CA	John Barned	W
09/21	Oakland, CA	Enrique Torres	D
09/25	Edmonton	John Paul Henning	D
09/26	Saskatoon	Doc Gallagher	W (DQ)
09/27	Regina	John Foti	W
09/28	Calgary	Mike Gallagher	W (DQ)
10/04	Toronto	Mighty Ursus	W
10/05	St. Louis	Buddy Rogers	nc
10/11	Toronto	Mr. Hito	W
10/13	Columbus, OH	Buddy Rogers	W (DQ)
10/16	Hamilton, ON	Ilio DiPaolo	D
10/19	St. Louis	Wladek Kowalski	W
10/20	Canton	Buddy Rogers	W (DQ)
10/22	Ft. William, NY	Fritz Von Erich	W
10/25	Dayton	Luther Lindsey	D
10/26	Buffalo	Mr. Hito (nontitle?)	W (DQ)
10/27	Columbus	Buddy Rogers	W (DQ)
10/29	Kitchener, ON	Mighty Ursus	W
10/30	Hamilton, ON	Ilio DiPaolo (nontitle?)	W
11/01	Toronto	Mr. Hito (nontitle?)	W (DQ)
11/02	Buffalo	Mr. Hito	W
11/07	London, ON	Dick Hutton (nontitle?)	W
11/08	Toronto	Mr. Moto (nontitle?)	W
11/09	St. Louis	Lou Thesz	L
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11/17	Buffalo	Baron Gattoni	W
11/19	Niagara Falls	Bobby Managoff	W
11/20	Hamilton	Buddy Rogers	D
11/21	Buffalo	Baron Gattoni	W
11/22	Toronto	Billy Watson	D
11/27	Canton	Chief Don Eagle
11/29	Dayton	Jim Bernard	W
12/01	Columbus	Mighty Ursus	W
12/11	Nashville	Art Neilson	W
12/13	Kansas City	Haystack Calhoun	W
12/14	Houston	El Medico	W
12/17	Ft. Worth	Pepper Gomez	W
12/30	Honolulu	Tarzan (Great) Zorra	W
1957
01/06	Honolulu	Tom Rice	W
01/14	Wichita	Haystack Calhoun	W
01/15	Minneapolis	Hard Boiled Haggerty	W (DQ)
01/18	St. Louis	Billy Watson	W
01/19	Des Moines	Bob Geigel	D
01/20	Waterloo	Yukon Eric	W
01/22	Sioux City	Yukon Eric	W
01/23	St. Petersburg	Dick the Bruiser	W
01/25	Winnipeg	Hard Boiled Haggerty	D
01/26	St. Paul	Ivan Kalmikoff	W
02/04	Tampa	Buddy Rogers	W
02/05	Lake Worth	Wilbur Snyder	W
02/06	St. Petersburg	Ray Villmer	W
02/14	Ft. Lauderdale	Don Leo Jonathan	W
02/21	Amarillo	Ray Gunkel	W
02/22	St. Louis	Ed Carpentier	W (COR)
02/25	Ft. Worth	Don Evans	W
02/26	Dallas	Bobby Managoff	W
02/28	San Antonio	El Medico	W
03/01	Houston	Pepper Gomez	D
03/12	Edmonton	Johnny Valentine	W
03/13	Saskatoon	Johnny Valentine	W
03/14	Regina	Chet Wallick	W
03/15	Calgary	Vince Lopez	W
03/22	St. Louis	Fritz Von Erich	W (DQ)
03/27	Los Angeles	Nick Bockwinkel	W
04/02	San Francisco	Hombre Montana	W
04/04	Amarillo	Don Curtis	D
04/05	St. Louis	Fritz Von Erich	W
04/08	Memphis	Zebra Kid	W
04/12	Buffalo	Gene Kiniski	W (DQ)
04/22	Ft. Worth	Rito Romero	W
04/23	Dallas	Pepper Gomez	W (DQ)
04/25	San Antonio	Ray Gunkel	W
04/26	Atlanta	Red McIntyre	W
04/30	Dallas	Pepper Gomez
05/02	San Antonio	Le Masque (Ray Gunkel)	W
05/03	Houston	Don Leo Jonathan	W (DQ)
04/04	Amarillo	Don Curtis	D (90min)
05/14	Minneapolis	Butch Levy	W
05/15	London	Billy Watson	D
05/16	Toronto	Gene Kiniski	D (32:58, curfew)
05/17	Buffalo	Billy Watson	D
05/18	Chicago	Lou Plummer	W
05/20	Sacramento	Hombre Montana	W
05/21	San Francisco	Leo Nomellini	D
05/22	Los Angeles	Sky Hi Lee	W (DQ)
05/23	Chico	Enrique Torres	W
05/26	Honolulu	Bobo Brazil	W
06/02	Honolulu	Toyonobori	W
06/09	Honolulu	Al Lolotai	D
06/14	Chicago	Edouard Carpentier	L (DQ)
#
06/19	Montreal	Tosh Togo (nontitle?)	W (DQ)
07/24	Montreal	Lou Thesz	L (DQ)
07/29	Augusta, GA	Bob Langevin	W
08/07	Montreal	Wladek Kowalski	D (NC)
08/16	Chicago	Lou Thesz	D (time limit)
08/30	Atlanta	Freddie Blassie	W
09/02	Augusta, GA	Kurt Von Brawner
09/06	Atlanta	Freddie Blassie	W
09/11	Montreal	Gene Kiniski	W (CO)
09/13	Chicago	Hans Schimidt	W
09/18	Montreal	Dick the Bruiser	D (NC)
10/02	Montreal	Gene Kiniski	W
10/04	Chicago	Argentina Rocca	L (UTC)
Rocca refuses title since Carpentia has a brokwn ankle. Carpentier withdraws his claim to the title when his manager and Montreal promoter Eddie Quinn resigns from the NWA. Title was given back to Thesz. Exact date is unknown.
#
06/25	Odessa, TX	Danny Plechas	W
06/26	Wichita Falls	Bob Geigel	W
06/27	Amarillo	Dory Funk	D
07/01	Seattle	Herb Freeman	W
07/02	Spokane	Doug Donovan	W
07/03	Vancouver	Dick Hutton	W (DQ)
07/04	Honolulu	Toyonobori	W
07/06	Fairbanks, AK	Sandor Szabo	D
07/09	Calgary	Billy Watson	D
07/10	Edmonton	Gene Kiniski	W
07/11	Regina	Gene Kiniski	W
07/12	Saskatoon	Billy Watson	D
07/16	Tacoma	Doug Donovan	W
07/20	Houston	Don Leo Jonathan	W
07/24	Montreal	Edouard Carpentier	W (DQ)
08/01	Amarillo	Dory Funk	W
08/05	Ft. Worth	Ray Gunkel	W
08/06	Dallas	Don Leo Jonathan	W (DQ)
08/07	Corpus Christi	Pepper Gomez	W
08/09	Houston	El Medico	W (DQ)
08/15	Indianapolis	Wilbur Snyder	D (NC)
08/16	Chicago	Ed Carpentier	D
08/20	Dallas	Don Leo Jonathan	W
08/21	Corpus Christi	El Medico	W
08/23	St. Louis	Pat O'Connor	D
08/29	Sydney	Ricky Waldo	W
08/31	Melbourne	Lord Blears	D (NC)
09/02	Brisbane	Ricky Waldo	W
09/05	Sydney	Lord Blears	W
09/07	Melbourne	Sky Hi Lee	W
09/09	Brisbane	Lord Blears	W
09/14	Melbourne	Lord Blears	W
09/16	Brisbane	Sky Hi Lee	W (DQ)
09/18	Sydney	Sky Hi Lee	W
09/21	Melbourne	Jesse James	W
09/28	Singapore	King Kong Czaja	W
10/07	Tokyo	Rikidozan	D
10/13	Osaka	Rikidozan	D (1-1, DCOR)
10/27	Honolulu	Sky Hi Lee	W
11/03	Honolulu	Sky Hi Lee	D
11/01	Ottawa	Hard Boild Haggerty	W (DQ)
11/12	Minneapolis	Buddy Rogers	D
11/14	Toronto	Dick Hutton	L
11/22	St. Louis	Lou Thesz	D
12/02	Sacramento	Ben Sharpe	W
12/03	San Francisco	Oyama Kato	W
12/04	Buffalo	Gene Kiniski	W
12/05	Toronto	Yukon Eric	W
12/06	Winnipeg	Kinji Shibuya	W
12/07	St. Paul	Kinji Shibuya	W
12/10	Minneapolis	Hard Boiled Haggerty	D (60min)
12/13	Houston	Bill Melby	W
12/16	Ft. Worth	Pepper Gomez	W
12/17	Dallas	Luther Lindsey	W
12/20	Houston	Don Leo Jonathan	W
12/23	Tulsa	Karol Krauser	W
12/27	St. Louis	Pat O'Connor	W

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