The (Soon-to-be Complete?) Records of
N.W.A. World Heavyweight Championship Matches
1982 - 1983

1982
01/01	St. Louis	Dusty Rhodes	W
01/02	Greenville	John Studd	W
01/03	Roanoke	Ole Anderson	W (DQ)
01/04	Toronto	Eanie Ladd	W
01/06	San Juan	Pierre Martel	W
01/08	Cincinnati	Ole Anderson	W
01/10	Kansas City	Rufus Jones	W
01/12	Wichita	Harley Race	W
01/13	Topeka	Bob Brown	W
01/14	Kansas City	Harley Race	D
01/15	Independence	Bob Brown	W
01/16	St. Petersburg	Mr. Wrestling II	W (COR)
01/17	Greensboro	Sgt. Slaughter	W (DQ)
01/18	Augusta	Dusty Rhodes	W (DQ)
01/20	Miami	Mr. Wrestling II	W
01/21	Dayton	Dick Slater	L (DQ)
01/22	Columbus, OH	Tommy Rich	W
01/23	Chattanooga	Tommy Rich	D (NC)
01/24	Charlotte	John Studd	W
01/25	Dallas	Kerry Von Erich	W (DQ)
01/27	Miami	Mr. Wrestling II	D
01/31	Orlando	Jack Brisco	L
02/02	Tampa	Mike Graham	L
02/04	Austin	Kerry Von Erich	W
02/05?	Columbia	Ole Anderson	W
02/05	St. Louis	Dick the Bruiser
02/06	Cincinnati	John Studd	W
02/07	Greensboro (aft)	Ricky Steamboat	L (DQ)
02/07	Roanoke (eve)	Barry Windham	W
02/08	Greenville	Harley Race	W
02/09	Orlando	Mike Graham	W
02/10	Haines City FL?	Butch Reed	W
02/11	Winston-Salem	Leroy Brown	D (NC)
02/12	Charleston	Barry Windham	W
02/	Kansas City	Harley Race	W
02/13	Hampton	Ricky Steamboat	L (DQ)
02/14	Asheville (aft)	Ricky Steamboat	D (NC)
02/14	Charlotte (eve)	Tommy Rich	D (NC)
02/16	Tampa	Dory Funk Jr.	D (NC)
02/17	Melbourne	Dory Funk Jr.	W
02/18	Tampa	Wahoo McDaniel	W
02/18	Jacksonville	Mr. Wrestling II	W
02/20	Tampa (aft)	Bruce Reed	L
02/20	St. Petersburg (eve)	Mike Graham	W (DQ)
02/21	Greensboro	Ricky Steamboat	W
02/22	Birmingham	Ron Fuller	W (DQ)
02/28	Atlanta	Harley Race	W (DQ)
03/03	Charlotte	Ricky Steamboat
03/04	Kansas City	Harley Race	W (DQ)
03/07	Dallas	The Spoiler	W
???	???	Richard Blood (Tito Santana)	W
03/08	Tulsa	Paul Jones	W (DQ)
03/09	Little Rock	Paul Jones	W
03/10	Springfield	Paul Jones	W (DQ)
03/11	Tampa	Hacksaw Butch Reed	L
03/12	Oklahoma City	Paul Jones	L (DQ)
03/12?	Tulsa	Paul Jones
03/14	Atlanta	Harley Race	W
03/17	Homestead	Mike Graham	W
03/18	Jacksonville	Bruce Reed	D (NC)
03/21	Orlando	Bruce Reed	D (NC)
03/22	Augusta	Tommy Rich	W
03/24	Columbus, GA	Tommy Rich	W
03/25	Gadsden	Bob Armstrong	W
03/26	St. Louis	Dick the Bruiser	W
03/27	St. Petersburg	Bruce Reed	W (DQ)
03/28	Bristol (eve)	Sgt. Slaughter	W
04/01	Kansas City	Harley Race	L (DQ)
04/02	Amarillo	Dusty Rhodes	W (DQ)
04/04	Charlotte	Sgt. Slaughter	W (DQ)
04/07	Miami	Bruce Reed	W
04/10	Portland	Brett Sawyer	W
04/12	Longview	Rocky Johnson	D (NC)
04/13	Portland	Buddy Rose	W
04/14	Seattle	Brett Sawyer	W
04/15	Salem	Rocky Johnson	D
04/16	Eugene	Rocky Johnson	W
04/17	Sarasota	Bruce Reed
04/18	Asheville (eve)	Ole Anderson	W
04/19	Ft. Worth	Al Madril	W
04/22	Kansas City	Dewey Robertson	W
04/23	San Antonio	Kerry Von Erich	D
04/25	Toronto	Harley Race	D (DDQ)
04/27	St. Joseph	Michael Hayes	W
04/28	Topeka	Dewey Robertson	W
04/29	Kansas City	Harley Race	D
04/30	St. Louis	Gene Kiniski	W
05/02	Greensboro (aft)	Angelo Mosca	W (DQ)
05/03	Greenville	Wahoo McDaniel	D (NC)
05/04	Raleigh	Wahoo McDaniel	D (NC)
05/06	Norfolk	Wahoo McDaniel	D (NC)
05/09	Orlando (aft)	Dusty Rhodes	W (DQ)
05/09	Ft. Myers (eve)	Dusty Rhodes	W (DQ)
05/10	W. Palm Beach	Bruce Reed	W
05/11	Tampa	Bruce Reed	D
05/12	Miami	Wahoo Mcdaniel
05/12	Miami	Dusty Rhodes	W (DQ)
05/13	Jacksonville	Dusty Rhodes	W (DQ)
05/14	Tampa (aft)	Wahoo McDaniel	D
05/14	Sarasota	Mike Graham	W
05/16	Atlanta	Leroy Brown	W (DQ)
05/17	Birmingham	Terry Gordy	W
05/17	Ted DeBiase	W
05/18	Mobile	Terry Gordy	W
05/19	Sarasota	Dusty Rhodes
05/22	Dothan (eve)	Ron Fuller	D
05/23	Greensboro (aft)	Jack Brisco	W
05/23	Bristol (eve)	Ivan Koloff	W
05/24	Greenville	Wahoo McDaniel	W
05/25	Raleigh	Wahoo McDaniel	W
05/27	Sumter	Wahoo McDaniel	W
05/28	Knoxville	Harley Race	W
05/29	St. Petersburg	Wahoo McDaniel	W
05/30	Roanoke (aft)	Wahoo McDaniel	W
05/30	Asheville	Jack Brisco	W
05	St. Louis	Dick the Bruiser
06/04	Nagoya	Ricky Steamboat	W
06/08	Tokyo	Jumbo Tsuruta	D (double pinfall)
06/11	Charleston, WV	Tommy Rich	W
06/12	St. Louis	Dick the Bruiser	W
06/13	Orlando (eve)	Dusty Rhodes	D
06/14	W. Palm Beach	Mike Graham	L (DQ)
06/15	Tampa	Dusty Rhodes	L
06/16	Sunrise	Dusty Rhodes	W (DQ)
06/17	Amarillo	Ted DiBiase	W
06/19	Sarasota	Dusty Rhodes	D (NC)
06/20	Columbus, GA	Bob Armstrong	W
06/22	Saginaw	Leroy Brown	D (NC)
06/23	Miami	Dusty Rhodes	L
06/24	Grand Rapids	Leroy Brown	W
06/25	Lansing	Michael Hayes	W
06/26	St. Petersburg	Dusty Rhodes	W (DQ)
06/27	Asheville (aft)	Jack Brisco	L (DQ)
06/27	Toronto (eve)	Jack Brisco	W
06/29	Columbia	Jack Brisco	W (DQ)
07/01	Norfolk	Jay Youngblood	W
07/02	Richmond	Jake Roberts	W
07/03	Greensboro	Wahoo McDaniel	W (DQ)
07/04	Atlanta	Bob Backlund	D (DCOR)
Double title match against WWF champion.
07/05	Gainesville, FL	Tommy Rich	W
07/06	Macon	Bob Armstrong	W
07/07	Columbus, GA	Mr. Wrestling II	W
07/08	Lakeland	Mike Graham	W
07/10	Chattanooga	Paul Orndorff	D
07/11	Orlando	Bruce Reed	W (DQ)
07/12	W. Palm Beach	Bruce Reed	W (DQ)
07/13	Tampa	Brian Blair	W
07/14	Miami	Sweet Brown Sugar	D
07/15	Jacksonville	Bruce Reed	W (DQ)
07/16	Lakeland	Barry Windham	W
07/17	Ft. Myers	Bruce Reed	D
07/18	Orlando	Bruce Reed	D
07/22	Kansas City	Buzz Tyler	W
07/23	St. Joseph	Mike George	D
07/25	Orlando	Bruce Reed (cage)	W
07/26	W. Palm Beach	Bruce Reed (cage)	W
07/27	Ottawa	Ricky Steamboat	W (DQ)
07/28	Miami	Dory Funk Jr.	W
07/29	Jacksonville	Bruce Reed	W
07/30	Sunrise	Sweet Brown Sugar	W
07/31	St. Petersburg	Dory Funk Jr.	D
08/01	Atlanta	Paul Orndorff	L (DQ)
08/02	Colmbus, GA	Tommy Rich
08/03	Dallas	Al Madril	D (10min)
08/06	St. Louis	Dory Funk Jr.	W
08/07	Greensboro	Wahoo McDaniel	L (DQ)
08/09	Wichita	Mike George	W
08/11	Topeka	Buzz Tyler	W
08/12	Kansas City, KS	Harley Race	W (DQ)
08/13	Orlando	Dusty Rhodes	D
08/14	Memphis (morn)	Jerry Lawler	L (COR)
08/14	Columbus (eve)	Dick Slater	NC
08/15	Dallas	Kerry Von Erich	D (NC)
08/16	Greenville	Jake Roberts	W
08/17	Raleigh	Jimmy Valiant	W
08/18	Wadesboro, NC	Jack Brisco	W
08/19	Winston-Salem	Roddy Piper	W (DQ)
08/20	Charleston, SC	Wahoo McDaniel	D (NC)
08/22	Cincinnati	Tommy Rich	W
08/27	Manati, PR	Pierre Martel	W
08/28	San Juan	Invader I	W
08/29	Ponce	Carlos Colon	W
08/31	Bayamon	Invader	W
09	St. Domingo	Jack Veneno	W
09/02	Waterford	Carlos Colon	W
09/04	Bayamón, PR	Invader I
09/06	Greenville	Roddy Piper	L (DQ)
09/07	Columbia, SC	Jack Brisco	L (DQ)
09/20	W. Palm Beach	Bruce Reed (cage)	W
09/21	Tampa	Ron Bass	L (COR)
09/22	Miami	Sweet Brown Sugar	W
09/23	Jacksonville	Bruce Reed	D
09/25	Tampa	Dusty Rhodes	D (NC)
09/27	Albany, OR	Terry Gibbs	W
09/28	Portland	Buddy Rose	L (DQ)
09/29	Seattle	Buddy Rose	L (DQ)
09/30	Salem	Brett Sawyer	W
10/01	Eugene	Terry Gibbs	W
10/02	Portland	Brett Sawyer	W
10/03	Columbus, OH? (aft)	Paul Orndorff	D (NC)
10/03	Atlanta (eve)	Stan Hansen	D (DCOR)
10/07	Kansas City	Manny Fernandez	W
10/08	St. Louis	Harley Race	L
10/10	San Antonio	Kerry Von Erich	D
10/11	Ft. Worth	David Von Erich	W (DQ)
10/12	Columbia	Wahoo McDaniel	W
10/13	Greenville	Wahoo McDaniel	W (DQ)
10/14	Norfolk	Jack Brisco	W
10/15	Richmond	Paul Jones	W
10/17	Toronto (aft)	Dory Funk Jr.	W
10/17	Charlotte (eve)	Roddy Piper	L (DQ)
10/18	W. Palm Beach	Ron Bass	W (DQ)
10/19	Tampa	Barry Windham	W
10/20	Miami	Dusty Rhodes	W (DQ)
10/21	Ft. Lauderdale	Dusty Rhodes
10/24	Columbus, OH	Paul Orndorff	L (DQ)
10/25	Birmingham	Ron Fuller	W
10/28	Gainesville, FL	Dusty Rhodes	W
10/31	St Petersburg	Dusty Rhodes	W
11/01	Greenville	Wahoo McDaniel	D (NC)
11/02	Columbia	Wahoo McDaniel	W
11/03	Miami	Dusty Rhodes	L (DQ)
11/04	Norfolk	Jack Brisco	W
11/05	Richmond	Wahoo McDaniel	W
11/07	Roanoke	Jack Brisco	W
11/09	Tampa	Barry Windham	W
11/10	Sunrise	Dusty Rhodes	W (DQ)
11/16	Joplin	Bob Brown	W
11/18	Kansas City	Harley Race	D
11/19	St. Louis	Ken Patera	W
11/21	Roanoke (aft)	Jack Brisco	W
11/21	Greenville (eve)	Ricky Steamboat	W
11/27	Greenville	Roddy Piper	D (NC)
11/28	Charlotte	Jimmy Valiant	D (NC)
12/05	Chattanooga	Paul Orndorff
12/09	Norfolk	Roddy Piper	D (NC)
12/11	Dothan	Austin Idol	D
12/12	Marietta	Paul Orndorff	W (COR)
12/13	Augusta	Bruce Reed	L
12/25	Dallas	Kerry Von Erich (cage)	W
12/26	Huntington (aft)	Tommy Rich	W
12/26	Columbus, OH (eve)	Paul Orndorff	L (DQ)
1983
01/01	Charlotte (aft)	Roddy Piper	W
01/01	St. Louis (eve)	Bruce Reed	W
01/02	Greensboro (aft)	Roddy Piper	D (NC)
01/03	W. Palm Beach	Barry Windham	L (DQ)
01/04	Tampa	Barry Windham	L (DQ)
01/05	Miami	Rufus Jones	W (DQ)
01/06	San Juan	Carlos Colon	L
01/09	Santo Domingo	Jack Veneno	L (DQ)
01/10	W. Palm Beach	Barry Windham	W
01/12	Miami	Ron Bass	W
01/14	Orlando	Midnight Rider	L
01/15	Tampa	Barry Windham	W
01/17	Wichita	Harley Race
01/18	Joplin	Harley Race	D (NC)
01/19	Decatur	Harley Race	W (DQ)
01/20	Kansas City	Bruiser Brody	D
01/22	Atlanta	Bruce Reed	L
01/24	Charleston	WVA Bruce Reed	W (DQ)
01/25	Canton	Paul Orndorff	W
01/25	Charleston, WV	Butch Reed	W (DQ)
01/29	Columbus, OH	Bruce Reed	W (DQ)
02/02	Lawton, OK	David Von Erich	W (DQ)
02/03	Dayton	Paul Orndorff	W
02/04	Dallas	Terry Gordy	W
02/05	Seagoville, TX	Kevin Von Erich	D (NC)
02/06	Fayetteville	Ricky Steamboat	W
02/07	Greenville	Mike Rotundo	W
02/08	Columbia	Ricky Steamboat	W
02/09	Miami	Midnight Rider	L
Rider (Dusty Rhodes) wins the title but returns the belt when asked to indentify himself by NWA president Bob Geigel.
02/10	Norfolk	Ricky Steamboat	W
02/11	St. Louis	Bruiser Brody	D
02/12	Sumter	Jimmy Valiant	W
02/13	Ft. Myers	Barry Windham
02/13	Orlando	Andre the Giant	D
02/14	W. Palm Beach	Barry Windham (cage)	W
02/15	Tampa	Scott McGhee	W
02/17	Ocala	Barry Windham	W
02/18	Hollywood, FL	Barry Windham
02/19	Sarasota	Midnight Rider
02/20	Toronto (eve)	Terry Funk	W
02/24	Auckland, NZD	Mark Lewin	W (DQ)
02/25	New Plymouth	Mark Lewin
02/26	Christchurch	Mark Lewin
02/27	Dunedin, NZD	Mark Lewin	W
02/28	Invercargill	Steve Rickard
03/03	Auckland, NZD	Mark Lewin	W
03/04	Hamilton, NZD	Steve Rickard
03/10	St. Louis	Bruiser Brody	D (NC)
03/11	Hampton	Dory Funk Jr.	W
03/12	Greensboro	Greg Valentine	D
03/13	Pensacola	Ken Lucas	W (DQ)
03/14	Birmingham	Mr. Olympia	D (NC)
03/15	Richmond	Greg Valentine	D
03/17	Toronto	Roddy Piper	W
03/20	San Antonio	Kerry Von Erich (cage)	W (DQ)
03/21	Wichita, KS	Harley Race	W
03/22	Topeka	Manny Fernandez
03/24	Kansas City	Bruiser Brody	W (DQ)
03/25	St. Louis	Kerry Von Erich	W
03/27	Toronto	Roddy Piper	W
04/01	Dallas	Kevin Von Erich	W (DQ)
04/03	Atlanta	Tony Atlas	NC
04/07	Huntington, WV	Tony Atlas	W
04/08	Dayton	Tony Atlas	L
04/09	Cincinnati	Tony Atlas	L
04/10	Toronto	Roddy Piper	W (DQ)
04/12	Tampa	"Big Daddy"	D (NC)
04/13	Miami	Barry Windham	D
04/16	St. Petersburg	Dusty Rhodes	W (DQ)
04/17	Orlando	Barry Windham	D
04/22	St. Louis	Crusher Blackwell	W
04/23	San Juan	Pedro Morales
04/24	Asheville	Greg Valentine	W
04/25	Greenville	Dick Slater	W (DQ)
04/26	Columbia	Jimmy Valiant	W (DQ)
04/28	Norfolk	Dick Slater	W
04/29	St. Louis	Jerry Blackwell	W (COR)
05/01	Atlanta	Tony Atlas	L (DQ)
05/02	Beckley, WV	Tony Atlas	L (DQ)
05/04	Akron	Tony Atlas	L
05/05	Toledo	Tony Atlas	L
05/07	Cincinnati (eve)	Tommy Rich	W (DQ)
05/08	Centralia	Billy Jack Haynes	W (DQ)
05/09	Longview	Buddy Rose	W (COR)
05/10	Portland	Roddy Piper	L
05/11	Seattle	Roddy Piper	W (DQ)
05/12	Yakima	Billy Jack Haynes	W (DQ)
05/13	Eugene	Billy Jack Haynes	W (DQ)
05/15	Toronto	Roddy Piper
05/16	Wichita	Buzz Tyler	W (DQ)
05/19	Kansas City	Harley Race	W
05/20	St. Joseph	Dewey Robertson	W
05/23	Birmingham	Austin Idol	W
05/26	Norfolk	Greg Valentine	W
05/27	Richmond	Greg Valentine	W
05/28	Charlotte	Greg Valentine	L (DQ)
05/29	Asheville (aft)	Greg Valentine	L
05/29	Toronto (eve)	Greg Valentine	W
06/06	Ohtsu, JPN	Bruiser Brody	D (NC)
06/08	Tokyo	Jumbo Tsuruta	L
Tsuruta only wins by one fall. Flair is said to have traded the title against Carlos Colon in Puerto Rico and Victor Jovica in TRINIDAD in 1982 and 83.
06/10	St. Louis	Harley Race	L
[7]
06/17	Dallas	Kevin Von Erich	W (DQ)
06/19	Orlando	Dusty Rhodes	W
06/22	Miami	Dusty Rhodes	W
06/24	Toronto	Ric Flair	W (DQ)
06/30	Cleveland, OH	Stan Hansen	D (DCOR)
07/01	Dayton	Stan Hansen	D (DCOR)
07/02	Greensboro	Ric Flair	L (DQ)
07/03	Savannah	Ric Flair	L (DQ)
07/04	Greenville	Ric Flair	D (NC)
07/05	Raleigh	Ric Flair	D (NC)
07/06	Sumter	Ric Flair	D (NC)
07/08	Richmond	Ric Flair	W (DQ)
07/09	Charlotte	Ric Flair	D (NC)
07/10	Asheville (aft)	Ric Flair	D (NC)
07/10	Toronto (eve)	Ric Flair	W (DQ)
07/14	Kansas City	Ric Flair	L
07/17	Greensboro	Ric Flair	W (DQ)
07/22	Richmond	Ric Flair	W (DQ)
07/23	Charlotte	Ric Flair	W (DQ)
07/24?	Asheville, NC	Ricky Steamboat	W
07/24	Toronto	Ric Flair	L (DQ)
07/30	San Juan	Gran Apolo
08/05	St. Louis	Ric Flair	L
08/24	Miami	Dusty Rhodes
08/25	Ft. Myers	Barry Windham
09	St. Petersburg	Dusty Rhodes	D
09	Dallas	Iceman King Parsons	W (DQ)
09/07	Miami	Ric Flair	L
09/17	Dallas	Kevin Von Erich	W
09/18	Toronto	Mike Rotundo	W
San Juan	Carlos Colon	D (time limit)
10/08	St. Louis	Hulk Hogan	L (DQ)
10	Seatle	Billy Jack	L
10/18	Toronto	Mike Rotunda	W
10/22	Portland	Billy Jack	D
10/26	Morioka, JPN	Jumbo Tsuruta	D
10/31	Aizu-Wakamatsu, JPN	Ted DeBiase	W
11/24	Greensboro	Ric Flair	L
[2]
11/25	St. Louis	David Von Erich	W
11/27	San Antonio	Kevin Von Erich	L
11/28	Ft. Worth	David Von Erich	L
12/03	Cleveland (eve)	Pez Whatley	D (60min)
12/04	Columbus, GA (aft)	Pez Whatley	D
12/04	Atlanta (eve)	Tommy Rich	W
12/05	Augusta	Tommy Rich	W
12/06	Macon	Pez Whatley	W
12/10	Nagoya	Jumbo Tsuruta	D
12/12	Tokyo	The Great Kabuki	L (DQ)
12/15	Dallas	Kerry Von Erich	L (?)
12/16	Birmingham	Bob Armstrong	W
12/18	Bayamon	Carlos Colon	L (?)
12/25	Dallas	David Von Erich	L (DQ)
12/29	Kansas City	Bruiser Brody	L (DQ)

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