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Last updated on 2022-10-14

The Records of
NWA World Heavyweight Championship Matches
1949

NOTE: This list may include non-title matches which are to be removed as soon as they are confirmed.


1948 <<

Orville <strong>Brown</strong>
01-03 Wichita, KS Buddy Rogers D (90min)
01-04 Cleveland, OH Buddy Rogers W (2-1 DQ)
01-06 Columbus, OH Doug Carlson W (20min COR)
01-10 Des Moines, IA Don Eagle W
01-11 Kansas City, KS Buddy Rogers D (90min)
01-13 Columbus, OH Tug Carlson W (29:45)
01-14 Winnipeg, MB, CAN Bronko Nagurski W (27min DQ)
01-20 Kansas City, KS Tarzan Kowalski W (2-1)
01-24 Wichita, KS Bobby Bruns D (90min)
01-25 Cleveland, OH Bob Wagner W (2-1)
01-27 Kansas City, KS Don Eagle W (2-0)
01-31 Des Moines, IA Don Eagle W (2-1)
02-02 Cleveland, OH Bobby Bruns D (1-1 DDQ)
02-03 Columbus, OH Ron Etchison W (26min)
02-04 St. Joseph, MO Tarzan Kowalski W (2-1)
02-07 Wichita, KS Bob Wagner W (2-1)
02-08 Cleveland, OH Bobby Bruns W (2-1)
02-11 St. Joseph, MO Bob Wagner W (2-1)
02-14 Wichita, KS Sonny Myers W (UTC)
02-15 Cleveland, OH Buddy Rogers D (DKO)
02-17 Kansas City, KS Bob Wagner W (2-1)
02-28 Detroit, MI Jim Wright W (2-1)
03-04 St. Louis, MO Bobby Bruns W (33:04)
03-07 Des Moines, IA Bobby Bruns D (60min)
03-08 Minneapolis, MN Dick Raines D (60min)
03-15 Cleveland, OH Frank Sexton D (105min)
Unification match with AWA title
03-17 Winnipeg, MB, CAN Bronko Nagurski W (33:40 COR)
03-18 St. Joseph, MO Lucky Simunovich W (2-1)
03-24 Columbus, OH Don Lee W (16:08)
03-25 Louisville, KY Ron Etchison W
03-28 Wichita, KS Don Eagle W
04-01 Louisville, KY Ron Etchison W (47:08)
04-07 Kansas City, KS Lucky Simunovich W (2-1)
04-11 Wichita, KS Sonny Myers W (2-1)
04-12 Hutchinson, KS King Kong Kashey W (2-1)
04-25 Wichita, KS Dean Detton W
04-27 Sedalia, MO Roy Graham (non-title?) W (2-1 COR)
04-28 Kansas City, KS Bobby Bruns W (2-1 DQ)
05-02 Des Moines, IA Bobby Bruns W (42:19)
05-04 Sedalia, MO Roy Graham W (2-1)
05-05 Kansas City, KS Dean Detton W (2-1)
05-09 Wichita, KS Roy Graham W (2-1)
05-13 St. Louis, MO Buddy Rogers NC (18:50)
05-16 Wichita, KS François Miquet W (2-0)
05-19 Kansas City, KS Bobby Bruns W (2-1)
05-23 Wichita, KS Tiny Roebuck W (2-1)
05-24 Kansas City, MO Don Eagle W (2-1)
05-25 Great Falls, MT Laverne Baxter W (2-1 DQ)
05-28 Calgary, AB, CAN Earl McCready W (2-1)
05-30 Edmonton, AB, CAN Laverne Baxter W (2-1)
06-01 Great Falls, MT Laverne Baxter W (2-1)
06-02 Billings, MT Pat McGill W (2-1)
06-03 Winnipeg, MB, CAN Bronko Nagurski D (60min)
06-04 Calgary, AB, CAN Black Shadow W (1-0 60min)
06-06 Wichita, KS Joe Pazandak L (0-1)
06-07 Minneapolis, MN Bronko Nagurski W (16:43 DQ)
06-09 Kansas City, KS Joe Pazandak D (1-1 curfew)
06-13 Wichita, KS Joe Pazandak W (2-1 DQ)
06-14 Minneapolis, MN Bronko Nagurski D (60min)
06-15 Columbus, OH Don Evans W (14:32)
06-19 Waterloo, IA Ras Samara W (42:20)
06-23 Kansas City, KS Joe Pazandak W (2-1)
06-24 St. Joseph, MO Tarzan Kowalski W (2-1)
06-27 Wichita, KS Joe Pazandak W (2-1)
06-30 Cleveland, OH Sandor Kovacs W (2-0)
07-03 Waterloo, IA Wladek Kowalski W (32:05)
07-15 Council Bluffs, IA Barney Bernard W (2-1)
07-24 Waterloo, IA Otto Kuss D (60min)
07-31 Waterloo, IA Otto Kuss W (48:20)
08-30 Dallas, TX Sandy O'Donnell W (2-1)
09-01 Galveston, TX Sonny Myers W (2-1)
09-02 Houston, TX Ruffy Silverstein W (2-1)
09-06 Dallas, TX Roy Graham W (1-0 UTC)
09-07 San Antonio, TX
09-08 Galveston, TX Sonny Myers W (2-1)
09-09 Houston, TX The Sombra (Vic Holbrook) W (2-1 DQ)
09-18 Waterloo, IA Peter Tamiroff (postponed from 09-11) W (47:20)
09-19 Wichita, KS Joe Pazandak D (1-1 90min)
09-26 Wichita, KS Joe Pazandak W
09-29 Kansas City, KS Bill Longson W (2-1 DQ)
10-25 Louisville, KY K.O. Koverly W (2-1)
10-26 Evansville, IN Mike Sharpe W (2-1)
10-31 Des Moines, IA Bobby Bruns W (1-0 60min)
Suffers an auto accident on 11-01 that would force Brown to retire.
11-01 Wichita, KS Bill Longson (cancelled)  
Awarded to National Wrestling Association champion Thesz on 11-27 when Brown cannot wrestle in the unification match scheduled on 11-25 in St. Louis, MO due to injury suffered in an automobile accident on 11-01.
11-28 Memphis, TN Karol Krauser W (2-1)
11-30 Des Moines, IA Enrique Torres D (60min)
12-06 Louisville, KY Mike Sharpe W (2-1)
1: Thesz (6:29)
2: Sharpe (12:50)
3: Thesz (18:59)
12-07 Evansville, IN Enrique Torres W (2-1 DQ)
12-09 Houston, TX Leroy McGuirk W (2-1)
12-12 Ft. Worth, TX Chief Chewacki W
12-13 Dallas, TX LeRoy McGuirk W (2-1)
12-14 San Antonio, TX Rito Romero W (2-1)
12-15 Galveston, TX Sonny Myers W (2-1)
12-16 St. Louis, MO Enrique Torres W (33:50)
12-21 San Antonio, TX Rito Romero W (31:30 ref dec)

>> 1950


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