The (Soon-to-be Complete?) Records of
N.W.A. World Heavyweight Championship Matches
1962 - 1963

1962
01/05	Washington, DC	Art Thomas	W
01/12	Hempstead	Bruno Sammartino	W
01/13	Detroit	Antonino Rocca	W
01/15	Washington, DC	Art Thomas	W
01/19	Philadelphia	Antonino Rocca	W (DQ)
01/20	Troy, NY	Gene Dubuque	W
01/23	Providence	Billy Darnell	W
01/26	Chicago	Johnny Valentine	W
02/01	Kansas City	Gino Marella	W
02/02	St. Louis	John Paul Henning	D (NC)
02/03	Detroit	Larry Chene	D
02/05	Pittsburgh	Johnny Valentine	W
02/08	Toronto	Bulldog Brower	W
02/10	Queens (LIC)	Bruno Sammartino	W (aft)
02/12	Charlotte	Johnny Valentine	W
02/13	Dallas	Joe Christie	W
02/14	San Antonio	Rito Romero	W
02/15	Toronto	Bulldog Brower	W (DQ)
02/16	Houston	Dory Dixon	W
02/17	Philadelphia	Bearcat Wright	W
02/19	Washington, DC	Johnny Valentine	W
02/20	Dayton	Moose Cholak	W
02/23	Chicago	Billy Darnell	W
02/24	Detroit	Larry Chene	W
02/27	Providence	Carlo Milano	W
03/01	Toronto	Bulldog Brower	W (DQ)
03/02	Columbus, OH	Moose Cholak	W
03/03	Cincinnati	Antonino Rocca	W
03/05	Pittsburgh	Reggie Lisowski	W
03/09	Chicago	Shohei Baba	W
03/12	Washington, DC	Shohei Baba	W
03/16	St. Louis	John Paul Henning	W
03/17	Queens, NY (aft)	Mark Lewin	W
03/17	Philadelphia (eve)	Miguel Perez	W
03/19	New York City	Bob Ellis	W
03/20	Providence	Antonino Rocca	W
03/24	Columbus, OH	Moose Cholak	W
03/26	Charlotte	Johnny Valentine
03/27	Raleigh	Johnny Weaver	W
03/29	Washington, DC	Mark Lewin	W
03/30	Chicago	Art Thomas	W
04/02	Pittsburgh	Bruno Sammartino	W
04/04	Montreal	Ed Carpentier	W (DQ)
04/06	St. Louis	Johnny Valentine	W
04/07	White Plains	Johnny Valentine	W
04/09	Johnstown	Johnny Valentine	W
04/13	Chicago	Antonino Rocca	W (DQ)
04/14	Paterson	Mark Lewin	W
04/	Chicago	Giant Baba	W
04/18	Montreal	Antonino Rocca	W
04/24	Queens (LIC)	Bud Cody	W
04/27	New Haven	Mark Lewin	W
05/01	Dallas	Duke Keomuka	W
05/02	San Antonio	Rito Romero	W
05/03	Corpus Christi	Torbellino Blanco	W
05/04	Houston	Ciclon Negro
05/07	Pittsburgh	Art Thomas	W
05/08	Queens (LIC)	Tony Altamore	W
05/09	Commack	Johnny Valentine	W
05/11	Houston	Pepper Gomez	W
05/14	Trenton	Art Thomas	W
05/15	Providence	Antonino Rocca
05/17	Montreal	Ed Carpentier	W
05/18	Chicago	Antonino Rocca	W
05/19	Queens, NY (aft)	Pampero Firpo	W
05/19	Philadelphia (eve)	Ed Carpentier	W
05/23	Kingston	Pampero Firpo	W
05/25	New York City	Bob Ellis	D
05/26	Bridgeport	Vittorio Apollo
???	???	Paul Jones	W
06/01	New Haven	Mark Lewin	W
06/05	Dallas	John Paul Henning	W
06/07	Corpus Christi	Stu Gibson	W
06/08	Houston	Pepper Gomez	W
06/09	St. Louis	Bill Dromo	W
06/10	Akron	Bobo Brazil	D
06/12	Toronto	Bruno Sammartino
06/14	Washington, DC	Johnny Valentine	D
06/15	St. Louis	Johnny Valentine	W
06/16	Philadelphia	Shohei Baba	W
06/18	Seattle	Luther Lindsey	W
06/19	Portland	Billy White Wolf	W
06/21	Washington, DC	Fred Atkins	W
06/22	New York City	Bob Ellis	W
06/23	Columbus, OH	Shohei Baba	W
06/25	Quebec City	Chuck Bruce	W
06/27	Poughkeepsie	Shohei Baba	W
06/29	Montreal	Johnny Rougeau	W
06/30	Dayton	Bobo Brazil	W
07/02	Pittsburgh	Reggie Lisowski	W
07/04	Atlantic City	Johnny Valentine	W
07/06	Houston	Art Thomas	W (DQ)
07/07	Columbus	Shohei Baba	W
07/09	Freeport	Moose Cholak	W
07/10	Bridgeport	Vic Christy	W
07/11	Staten Island	Red Bastien	W
07/12	Toronto	Bruno Sammartino	W
07/14	Akron	Moose Cholak	W
07/16	Washington, DC	Bobo Brazil	D
07/17	Tampa	Don Curtis
07/18	Orlando	Mike Paidousis	W
07/19	Jacksonville	Boris Malenko	W
07/20	Miami Beach	Len Montana	W
07/21	Milwaukee	Bobo Brazil	W (DQ)
07/24	Providence	Bobo Brazil	W
07/25	Columbus	Shohei Baba	W
07/27	Chicago	Ed Carpentier	W
Summer	Charlotte	Haystack Calhoun	W (DQ)
Summer	St. Louis	Joe Tangaro	W
07/30?	Seattle	Shag Thomas	L (DQ)
07/30	Vancouver	Gene Kiniski	W (DQ)
08/01	Winnipeg	Billy Watson	W
08/02	Toronto	Bruno Sammartino	L
Sammartino refuses the belt because Rogers is injured.
08/06	Dubuque	Antonino Rocca	W
08/07	Des Moines	Bobo Brazil	W
08/09	Montreal	Ed Carpentier	D (DDQ)
08/10	Pittsburgh	Bobo Brazil	W
08/11	Atlantic City	Antonino Rocca	W
08/13	Ft. Worth	Cyclops (Bill Savage)	W
08/14	Dallas	John Paul Henning	W
08/15	Lake Charles
08/17	Houston	Art Thomas	W
08/18	Newark	Bobo Brazil	L
08/19	Steubenville	Bruno Sammartino	W
08/25	Akron	Art Thomas	W
08/28	Dubuque	Bobo Brazil	L (DQ)
08/30	Toronto	Bruno Sammartino	W
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	Ed Carpentier
09/25	Bridgeport	Pete Sanchez	W
09/27	Toronto	Tim Geohagen	W
10/02	Bridgeport	Greg Jarque	W
10/04	Toronto	Bulldog Brower	W
10/09	Bridgeport	Tony Martinelli	W
10/13	Philadelphia	Hans Schmidt
10/15	Pittsburgh	Ed Carpentier	W
10/19	Chicago	Ed Carpentier	W
10/20	Akron	The Mongol	W
10/22	Baltimore	Antonino Rocca	W
10/23	Bridgeport	Eugenio Marin	W
10/24	New York, NY (eve)	Wladek Kowalski	W (DQ)
10/25	Bridgeport	Gene Kelly (Kiniski)	W
10/26	West Hempstead	Antonino Rocca	D
10/30	Toledo	Bobo Brazil	W
10/	Dallas	Dory Dixon	D (90min)
11/02	St. Louis	Ed Carpentier	W
11/03	W. Hempstead	Bruno Sammartino	W
11/05	Pittsburgh	Bruno Sammartino	D
11/08	Montreal	Bob Bedard	W
11/09	Chicago	Bobo Brazil	W (DQ)
11/10	Akron	The Mongol	W
11/12	New York City	Dory Dixon	D (double pin)
11/14	Toledo	Vittorio Apollo	W
11/15	Montreal	Arnold Skaaland	W
11/19	Baltimore	Shohei Baba	W
11/20	Ottawa	Bruno Sammartino	D (NC)
11/21	Montreal	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.
1963
01/03	Washington, DC	Gene Kelly	W
01/10	Washington, DC	Miguel Perez	W
01/12	Philadelphia	Bobo Brazil	W
01/14	Washington, DC	Buddy Austin	D
01/16	Montreal	Wladek Kowalski	D
01/17	Cleveland	Bobo Brazil	D (NC)
01/18	Chicago	Bobo Brazil	W
01/19	Philadelphia	Bobo Brazil	W
01/21	New York City	Wladek Kowalski	D
01/23	Richmond	Ed Carpentier	W
01/24	Toronto	Lou Thesz	L
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01/25	Louisville	Bill Miller	W (DQ)
01/26	Columbus, OH	Bill Miller	W (DQ)
01/27	Cincinnati	Nicoli Volkoff	W
01/28	Ft. Worth	Bull Curry	W
01/29	Dallas	Ray Gunkel	D (NC)
01/30	San Antonio	Rito Romero	D (NC)
01/31	Corpus Christi	El Medico II (Tony Amessa)
02/01	Houston	Wladek Kowalski	W
02/02	Indianapolis	Bill Miller	W
02/04	Memphis	Nikita Mulkovich	W
02/05	St. Louis	Al Torres (nontitle?)	W
02/05	Dallas	Ray Gunkel	D
02/07	Toronto	Buddy Rogers	W
02/08	Louisville	Bill Miller	D
02/09	Columbus, OH	Bill Miller	W
02/15	St. Louis	Pat O'Connor	W
02/16	Cincinnati	Joe Blanchard	W
02/25	Memphis	Sam Steamboat	W
02/26	Nashville	Pat O'Connor	D
03/01	Knoxville	Sam Steamboat	D
03/02	Detroit	Mark Lewin	W
03/05	Little Rock	Danny Hodge	D
03/07	Wichita Falls	Danny Hodge
03/08	Oklahoma City	Danny Hodge	W
03/09	St. Louis	The Alaskan (Jay York)	W
03/09	Joplin	Danny Hodge	W
03/11	Tulsa	Amazing Zuma	W
03/12	Indianapolis	Taro Myaki	W
03/13	Montreal	Pat O'Connor	W
03/14	Toronto	Bruno Sammartino	W
03/15	St. Louis	Dick the Bruiser	W (DQ)
03/16	Cincinnati	Bill Miller	D
03/25	Tulsa	Sandor Szabo	W
03/26	Indianapolis	Bearcat Wright	D (NC)
03/28	Ft. Wayne	Dick the Bruiser	W
03/29	Atlanta	Tarzan Tyler	D
03/30	Cincinnati	Dick the Bruiser	W
04/03	San Antonio	The Mummy	W
04/04	Austin	Nick Kozak	W (COR)
04/05	Houston	Ernie Ladd	D (NC)
04/06	Beaumont	Sweet Daddy Siki	W
04/08	Ft. Worth	Louie Tillet	W
04/09	Dallas	Sweet Daddy Siki	D
04/15	Memphis	Joe Walcott	W
04/16	Indianapolis	Dick the Bruiser	W
04/18	Flint	Dick the Bruiser	D
04/19	Milwaukee	Bearcat Wright	W
04/20	St. Louis	Ray Gordon (nontitle?)	W
04/23	Nashville	Sam Steamboat	W
04/24	Atlanta	Gene Kiniski	D
04/25	Chattanooga	The Medic	W
04/26	St. Louis	Dick the Bruiser	W
04/27	Detroit	Bill Miller	W
05/04	Cincinnati	Bill Miller	W
05/05	Detroit	Dick the Bruiser	W
05/09	Toronto	Bulldog Brower	W (DQ)
05/10	Buffalo	Antonino Rocca	W
05/11	Milwaukee	Dick the Bruiser	W
05/13	Memphis	Sam Steamboat	W
05/14	Indianapolis	Dick the Bruiser	W
05/16	Windsor (TV)	Steve Stanlee (nontitle?)	W
05/16	Windsor (TV)	Rudy Kay (nontitle?)	W
05/16	Windsor (TV)	Jack Wilson (nontitle?)	W
05/18	Detroit	Dick the Bruiser	W
05/24	Houston	Art Thomas	W
05/29	Springfield	Great Bolo	W
05/30	Wichita Falls	Great Bolo	W
05/31	Oklahoma City	Danny Hodge	W
06/01	Joplin	Danny Hodge	W
06/03	Ft. Worth	Mark Lewin	W (DQ)
06/04	Dallas	Dory Dixon	W
06/07	Atlanta	Tarzan Tyler	W
06/08	St. Louis	Pedro Godoy	W
06/11	Dallas	Bill Watts	W
06/12	San Antonio	Rito Romero	W
06/13	Corpus Christi	Louie Tillet	W
06/14	Houston	Ernie Ladd	W
06/15	St. Louis	Bill Miller	W
06/19	Rochester	Hans Schmidt	W
06/20	Toronto	John Paul Henning	W
06/21	Buffalo	Hans Schmidt	W
06/22	Akron	The Shadow	W
06/24	Orlando	Boris Malenko	W
06/25	Tampa	Hiro Matsuda	W
06/27	Jacksonville	Don Curtis	W
06/28	Atlanta	Ray Gunkel	D
07/03	Odessa	Dory Funk Jr.	W
07/05	Miami Beach	Boris Malenko	W
07/06	Kingston, Jamaica	Mike Padousis	W
07/10	Lubbock	Sputnik Monroe	W
07/11	Amarillo	Dory Funk	D
07/15	Memphis	Skull Von Stroheim	W
07/16	Pensacola	The Outlaw (Mike Paidousis)	D
07/17	Mobile	Tarzan Tyler	D
07/18	Panama City	Tarzan Tyler
07/19	Dothan	Rocket Monroe	L (DQ)
07/20	Jonesboro	Jim Holly	W
07/22	Memphis	Skull Von Stroheim	W
07/23	Nashville	Mike Clancy	W
07/25	Chattanooga	Karl Von Stroheim	W
07/26	Atlanta	Dick the Bruiser	W
07/29	Orlando	Hiro Matsuda	W
07/30	Tampa	Boris Malenko	W
08/01	Jacksonville	Don Curtis	W
08/02	Miami Beach	Eddie Graham	W
08/09	Atlanta	Tarzan Tyler	W
08/10	Beaumont	Nick Kozak	W
08/12	Ft. Worth	Bob Ellis	W
08/13	Dallas	Mark Lewin	W (DQ)
08/14	San Antonio	Mark Lewin	W (DQ)
08/15	Austin	Nick Kozak	W
08/16	Houston	Bob Ellis	W
08/20	Miami Beach	Boris Malenko	W
08/23	Atlanta	Dick the Bruiser	W
08/24	San Antonio	Mark Lewin	W (DQ)
08/25	Houston	Bill Miller	D
08/26	Orlando	Ray Villmer	W
08/27	Tampa	The Assassin No. 1	W (DQ)
08/29	Jacksonville	Eddie Graham	D (NC)
08/30	Miami Beach	Hiro Matsuda	W (DQ)
09/02	Columbus, OH	Karl Gotch	W (DQ)
09/05	Chattanooga	Maurice LaPointe	W
09/06	Knoxville	Sam Steamboat	W
09/14	St. Louis	Rocky Montero (nontitle?)	W
09/16	Orlando	Karl Kox	W
09/17	Nashville	Maurice LaPointe	W
09/18	Memphis	Sam Steamboat	W
09/19	Chattanooga	Don Greene	W
09/20	Knoxville	Sam Steamboat	D (NC)
09/21	Columbus, OH	Karl Gotch	D
09/24	El Paso	Rito Romero	D
09/30	Tulsa	Bill Watts	W
10/01	Little Rock	Bill Watts	W
10/02	Springfield	Bill Watts	W
10/03	Wichita Falls	Bill Watts
10/04	Oklahoma City	Bill Watts	W
10/05	St. Louis	Bobby Graham (nontitle?)	W
10/05	Joplin	Bill Watts	W
10/10	Toronto	Johnny Valentine	W
10/11	St. Louis	Fritz Von Erich	W
10/12	Beaumont
10/14	Ft. Worth	Bill Miller	W (DQ)
10/15	Dallas	Stan Stasiak	W
10/17	Corpus Christi
10/18	Houston	Billy White Wolf	W
10/25	Houston	Bill Miller	W
10/28	Augusta	Tarzan Tyler	W
10/30	San Antonio	Rito Romero	D
10/31	Austin	Bill Miller	W
11/01	Atlanta	Mighty Hercules (Bobby Graham)	W
11/04	Vancouver	Gene Kiniski	D
11/05	Tacoma	Dan Miller	D
11/07	N. Surrey	Roy McClarty	W
11/08	Calgary	Art Neilson	win
11/11	Portland	The Destroyer	W (DQ)
11/12	Hamilton	The Beast	W
11/13	Calgary	Art Neilson	W
11/14	Toronto	Bulldog Brower	W
11/15	Buffalo	Hans Schmidt	W (DQ)
11/22	St. Louis	Fritz Von Erich	W (DQ)
11/23	Houston	Danny Hodge	D
11/30	Detroit	Masked Terror (Jay York)	W
12/03	Tampa	Bob Orton	D
12/05	Jacksonville	Eddie Graham	D
12/06	Miami Beach	Don Curtis	W
12/07	Beaumont	Bull Curry	D
12/10	Dallas	Joe Blanchard	W
12/11	San Antonio	Stan Stasiak	W (DQ)
12/12	Austin	Danny Hodge	W
12/13	Houston	Danny Hodge	W
12/26	Windsor	Dan Miller	W
12/27	St. Louis	Karl Gotch	W
12/28	Detroit	Wilbur Snyder	D

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