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a while ago Gary Will posted this list of NWA Title defenses in Toronto 1950-84, would assume St Louis has the most, maybe Charlotte, Tampa? not including AWA & WWWF title bouts which Toronto had many of also 50/01/19 Lou Thesz WCOR Whipper Billy Watson 50/03/30 Lou Thesz W Seelie Samara 50/08/17 Lou Thesz D Yukon Eric 50/09/21 Lou Thesz WCOR Timothy Geohagen 50/10/26 Lou Thesz W Timothy Geohagen 51/12/06 Lou Thesz DCOR Whipper Billy Watson 52/01/17 Lou Thesz WDQ Hans Hermann 52/10/23 Lou Thesz WDQ Whipper Billy Watson 52/10/30 Lou Thesz D Whipper Billy Watson 53/06/04 Lou Thesz W Gorgeous George 53/06/11 Lou Thesz W Red Mask 53/11/05 Lou Thesz WDQ Lord Athol Layton 54/08/05 Lou Thesz WDQ Great Togo 54/08/26 Lou Thesz W Paul Baillargeon 56/03/01 Lou Thesz LDQ Whipper Billy Watson 56/03/15 Whipper Billy Watson WCOR Lou Thesz, to win the title 56/03/22 Whipper Billy Watson W Gorgeous George 56/03/29 Whipper Billy Watson W Wild Bill Longson 56/04/19 Whipper Billy Watson WDQ Hans Schmidt 56/05/03 Whipper Billy Watson WCOR Hardboiled Haggerty 56/06/07 Whipper Billy Watson D Pat O'Connor 56/06/14 Whipper Billy Watson W Pat O'Connor 56/06/28 Whipper Billy Watson DCOR Yukon Eric 56/07/05 Whipper Billy Watson WCOR Dick Hutton 56/07/26 Whipper Billy Watson WCOR Dick Hutton 56/08/02 Whipper Billy Watson W Dick Hutton 56/08/30 Whipper Billy Watson W Mighty Ursus 56/09/13 Whipper Billy Watson W Hardboiled Haggerty 56/10/04 Whipper Billy Watson W Mighty Ursus 56/10/11 Whipper Billy Watson WDQ Mr. Hito 56/11/01 Whipper Billy Watson WDQ Mr. Moto 56/11/08 Whipper Billy Watson W Mr. Moto 56/11/22 Lou Thesz D Whipper Billy Watson 57/05/16 Lou Thesz D Gene Kiniski 57/11/14 Dick Hutton W Lou Thesz, to win the title 57/12/05 Dick Hutton W Yukon Eric 58/01/16 Dick Hutton WDQ Whipper Billy Watson 58/01/30 Dick Hutton D Whipper Billy Watson 58/06/26 Dick Hutton W Wild Bill Longson 58/08/14 Dick Hutton WDQ Lou Thesz 58/08/21 Dick Hutton D Lou Thesz 58/09/11 Dick Hutton D Whipper Billy Watson 58/10/30 Dick Hutton WDQ Whipper Billy Watson 58/11/27 Dick Hutton WCOR Hombre Montana 59/01/15 Pat O'Connor WCOR Lou Thesz 59/01/22 Pat O'Connor D Lou Thesz 59/01/29 Pat O'Connor W Hans Schmidt 59/03/05 Pat O'Connor WCOR Dick Hutton 59/03/19 Pat O'Connor D Ilio DiPaolo 59/07/30 Pat O'Connor D Don Leo Jonathan 60/06/30 Pat O'Connor WCOR Anastas Minasian 60/07/28 Pat O'Connor WDQ Whipper Billy Watson 60/09/15 Pat O'Connor WCOR Whipper Billy Watson 60/11/17 Pat O'Connor WDQ Tiny Mills 60/11/24 Pat O'Connor D Whipper Billy Watson 61/09/07 Buddy Rogers W Frank Townsend 61/11/16 Buddy Rogers WDQ Whipper Billy Watson 62/02/08 Buddy Rogers WCOR Bulldog Brower 62/02/15 Buddy Rogers WDQ Bulldog Brower 62/03/01 Buddy Rogers WDQ Bulldog Brower 62/07/12 Buddy Rogers WCNC Bruno Sammartino 62/08/02 Buddy Rogers LCNC Bruno Sammartino 62/08/30 Buddy Rogers W Bruno Sammartino 63/01/24 Lou Thesz W Buddy Rogers, to win the title 63/02/07 Lou Thesz W Buddy Rogers 63/03/14 Lou Thesz W Bruno Sammartino 63/05/09 Lou Thesz WDQ Bulldog Brower 63/06/20 Lou Thesz WCOR John Paul Henning 63/10/10 Lou Thesz W Johnny Valentine 63/11/14 Lou Thesz W Bulldog Brower 64/01/16 Lou Thesz D Gene Kiniski 64/11/05 Lou Thesz W Professor Hiro 65/07/08 Lou Thesz W Professor Hiro 65/07/29 Lou Thesz D Whipper Billy Watson 65/09/16 Lou Thesz W Johnny Valentine 66/02/27 Gene Kiniski WCNC Johnny Valentine 66/04/17 Gene Kiniski W Johnny Valentine 66/05/29 Gene Kiniski WCOR Ernie Ladd 66/10/23 Gene Kiniski W Edouard Carpentier 66/10/30 Gene Kiniski WCOR Whipper Billy Watson 66/12/04 Gene Kiniski W Edouard Carpentier 66/12/18 Gene Kiniski D Edouard Carpentier 67/01/01 Gene Kiniski WDQ Johnny Valentine 67/03/05 Gene Kiniski WDQ Mighty Igor 67/05/07 Gene Kiniski WCOR Mighty Igor 67/07/16 Gene Kiniski WCOR Bulldog Brower 67/07/23 Gene Kiniski WDQ Tiger Jeet Singh 67/09/10 Gene Kiniski W Johnny Valentine 68/04/28 Gene Kiniski WCOR Edouard Carpentier 68/06/16 Gene Kiniski WCOR Assassin 68/06/23 Gene Kiniski W Ernie Ladd 68/11/17 Gene Kiniski W Bulldog Brower 69/05/18 Dory Funk Jr W Ivan Koloff 70/01/18 Dory Funk Jr W Gene Kiniski 70/04/05 Dory Funk Jr W Gene Kiniski 71/06/06 Dory Funk Jr DCOR The Sheik 73/02/11 Dory Funk Jr W Johnny Valentine 73/06/24 Harley Race W Pat O'Connor 73/09/23 Jack Brisco W Eric the Animal 73/12/16 Jack Brisco WDQ Johnny Valentine 74/04/21 Jack Brisco W Johnny Valentine 74/07/21 Jack Brisco W Tony Parisi 74/08/18 Jack Brisco W Dominic Denucci 74/09/08 Jack Brisco DDQ The Sheik 74/09/22 Jack Brisco W Billy Red Lyons 75/03/23 Jack Brisco WCOR Stan Stasiak 75/11/30 Jack Brisco LDQ Spiros Arion 76/01/04 Terry Funk W Edouard Carpentier 76/01/11 Terry Funk W Stan Stasiak 76/11/19 Terry Funk W Dominic Denucci 76/12/05 Terry Funk W Carlos Rocha 77/02/06 Harley Race W Terry Funk, to win the title 77/04/03 Harley Race D Ken Patera 77/07/10 Harley Race WDQ The Sheik 79/04/08 Harley Race D Ricky Steamboat 80/04/13 Harley Race D Dewey Robertson 80/11/16 Harley Race DCOR Ric Flair 81/04/12 Harley Race DCOR Angelo Mosca 81/08/30 Dusty Rhodes W John Studd 81/11/15 Ric Flair W Harley Race 82/04/25 Ric Flair DDQ Harley Race 82/06/27 Ric Flair W Jack Brisco 82/10/17 Ric Flair W Dory Funk Jr. 83/02/20 Ric Flair W Terry Funk 83/03/27 Ric Flair W Roddy Piper 83/04/10 Ric Flair WDQ Roddy Piper 83/05/29 Ric Flair W Greg Valentine 83/07/10 Harley Race WDQ Ric Flair 83/07/24 Harley Race WDQ Ric Flair 83/09/18 Harley Race W Mike Rotundo 84/02/12 Ric Flair W Harley Race 84/05/27 Ric Flair W Dick Slater THESZ 29 WATSON 17 KINISKI 17 RACE 11 O'CONNOR 11 HUTTON 10 FLAIR 8 ROGERS 8 DORY JR 5 T.FUNK 4 RHODES 1 Total 121 |
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I'll take a look at St. Louis when I have time. I have the St. Louis record books and I think I've put everything from 1950 onward in my computer files. I don't think Charlotte or Tampa would come close despite running weekly because they didn't become NWA members until much later than Toronto or St. Louis. And the NWA Champion would only come to Charlotte and Tampa at certain times of the year where as Toronto and St. Louis were more regular stops for the champ. That speaks volumes for the power Muchnick and Tunney had within the Alliance. AC, Invite Gary here if you want. I know he's been very busy with his real life job the past few years and doesn't post much on message boards anymore. |
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was thinking during Flairs early reigns would add on a lot for Charlotte or Richmond, Race & Rhodes in Florida also, as far as the relationships there is some great info on Tunney & Whipper in Tim Hornbaker's NWA history book haven't spoken to Gary in a while, he adds a lot of stuff to Wikipedia but haven't seen him on the boards |
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New York is a possible also. Monthly WWWF title defenses by Sammartino/Graham/Backlund for over a decade. |
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As for New York, I dont think MSG will hold the key for most title defenses. It will just tie with all the other big cites like Bostin, Philadelphia, Springfield, Baltimore and etc.. The Key will lie in the other cities. Such as Albany, NY. Or perhaps Portland, Bangor, Worcester, Poughkeepsie and such. Most do not realize that Albany, NY ran every other week. The rest of the cards above were running every 3 weeks. Sad thing is the results for those cities are not on the internet for all to see. I have been researching the above cities out hard for my Graham record book site, and have been going back in time to the early 70's, as best as I can with the time I have alloted to me on my trips. A good example would be this. Bob Backlund won the title on February 20, 1978. His appearances for the next two months in Albany is: March 3, 1978 Albany, NY March 17, 1978 Albany, NY April 14, 1978 Albany, NY April 28, 1978 Albany, NY March 31, 1978 Albany, NY - I forgot to research this date. It happens to all of us at times with long hours of researching and driving for hours to get somewhere. My next trip out I will get the information for that card. And the two December 1977 matches I missed that might have more Graham matches on, I also forgot. So if Bob was on the March 31 card, it would make 5 matches in 2 months. Where as he would only have 2 at MSG. Right now he has twice as many defenses built up in Albany. See my point on why MSG will not be the big key for the WWWF? Of course I am sure all the Charlotte and Norfolk cites are also not known. Last edited on Sun Oct 28th, 2007 07:36 pm by Ron |
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This is a work in progress. I'll keep adding to the St. Louis list when I have the time. 1/6/50 St Louis NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Wladek Kowalski 1/20/50 St. Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Wladek Kowalski dq 3/24/50 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Whipper Billy Watson dq 4/14/50 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Whipper Billy Watson 8/11/50 St Louis NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat George Koverly in 9:12 10/6/50 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Dave Levin in 20:27 11/3/50 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Buddy Rogers 1/5/51 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Ray Eckert 2/2/51 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Yukon Eric dq 3/16/51 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Buddy Rogers 3/26/51 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat George Koverly in 10:40 4/6/51 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Wladek Kowalski 4/13/51 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Buddy Rogers 4/27/51 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Ivan Rasputin in 15:01 So far 14. I need to check 1949 too. |
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10/12/51 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Yukon Eric in 12:24 11/16/51 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Wild Bill Longson in 23:30 12/28/51 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Gene "Mr America" Stanlee in 15:21 1/11/52 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Mighty Atlas in 21:50 2/22/52 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Bobby Managoff in 36:35 3/21/52 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Bobby Managoff in 33:58 3/28/52 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Verne Gagne in 39:50 10/3/52 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Mighty Atlas 11/21/52 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Hans Hermann in 14:40 12/26/52 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Pat O'Connor 1/30/53 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Wild Bill Longson dq in 24:02 2/6/53 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Hans Schmidt 3/6/53 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Bill Longson 15:00 3/27/53 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Verne Gagne in 49:40 5/30/53 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Hans Hermann in 12:48 10/3/53 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz drew Ray Eckert 30:00 10/23/53 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Ray Eckert 12/26/53 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Leo Numa 1/15/54 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Ray Eckert in 27:50 2/27/54 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Chest Bernard in 18:08 3/19/54 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Johnny Valentine in 26:40 4/23/54 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Buddy Rogers in 19:44 5/8/54 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Don Leo Jonathan 8/14/54 St. Louis NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Ronnie Etchison in 21:13 9/23/54 St. Louis NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Lu Kim in 18:17 11/19/54 St. Louis NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Johnny Valentine in 28:00 12/3/54 St. Louis NWA Champion Lou Thesz beat Lu Kim That's 27 more bringing the total to 41. |
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1/1/55 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Frank Taylor 1/15/55 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Wilbur Snyder 2/4/55 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Wladek Kowalski 3/4/55 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Wilbur Snyder dq 3/25/55 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz drew Wilbur Snyder 4/22/55 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Wilbur Snyder 7/15/55 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Leo Nomellini 11/25/55 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Ike Eakins 12/30/55 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Buddy Rogers dq 2/3/56 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Pat O'Connor 3/23/56 St Louis NWA champion Whipper Billy Watson beat Leo Nomellini 4/6/56 St Louis NWA champion Whipper Billy Watson beat Lou Thesz dq 4/27/56 St Louis NWA champion Whipper Billy Watson beat Pat O'Connor 5/11/56 St Louis NWA champion Whipper Billy Watson beat Pat O'Connor 6/15/56 St Louis NWA champion Whipper Billy Watson beat Hans Schmidt 9/14/56 St Louis NWA champion Whipper Billy Watson beat Buddy Rogers dq 10/5/56 St Louis NWA champion Whipper Billy Watson no contest Buddy Rogers 10/19/56 St Louis NWA champion Whipper Billy Watson beat Wladek Kowalski 11/9/56 St Louis Lou Thesz beat Whipper Billy Watson to win the NWA World championship That's 19 more bringing it to a total of 60. |
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1/18/57 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Whipper Billy Watson 2/22/57 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Edouard Carpentier 3/22/57 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Fritz Von Erich 8/23/57 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz no contest Pat O'Connor 11/22/57 St Louis NWA champion Dick Hutton drew Lou Thesz 12/27/57 St Louis NWA champion Dick Hutton beat Pat O'Connor 1/17/58 St Louis NWA champion Dick Hutton beat Gene Kiniski 4/11/58 St Louis NWA champion Dick Hutton beat Gene Kiniski 4/25/58 St Louis NWA champion Dick Hutton drew Whipper Billy Watson 10/10/58 St Louis NWA champion Dick Hutton beat Lou Thesz dq 11/7/58 St Louis NWA champion Dick Hutton drew Lou Thesz 12/26/58 St Louis NWA champion Dick Hutton beat Edouard Carpentier That's 12 more giving us a total of 72. |
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1/9/59 St Louis Pat O'Connor beat Dick Hutton to win the NWA heavyweight title 1/23/59 St Louis NWA champion Pat O'Connor beat Dick Hutton 2/6/59 St Louis NWA champion Pat O'Connor beat Gene Kiniski 3/20/59 St Louis NWA champion Pat O'Connor beat Gene Kiniski 4/3/59 St Louis NWA champion Pat O'Connor beat Gene Kiniski 2/5/60 St Louis NWA champion Pat O'Connor beat Bob Ellis 4/1/60 St Louis NWA champion Pat O'Connor beat Gene Kiniski 5/13/60 St Louis NWA champion Pat O'Connor beat Gene Kiniski dq 6/3/60 St. Louis NWA champion Pat O'Connor beat Kinji Shibuya 11/18/60 St Louis NWA champion Pat O'Connor beat Bob Ellis 2/3/61 St Louis NWA champion Pat O'Connor beat Johnny Valentine 3/17/61 St Louis NWA champion Pat O'Connor beat Wladek Kowalski 5/19/61 St Louis NWA champion Pat O'Connor beat Johnny Valentine 8/11/61 St Louis NWA champion Buddy Rogers beat Ronnie Etchison 10/6/61 St Louis NWA champion Buddy Rogers beat Bob Ellis UTC 11/24/61 St Louis NWA champion Buddy Rogers beat Johnny Valentine dq 2/2/62 St Louis NWA champion Buddy Rogers no contest John Paul Henning 3/16/62 St Louis NWA champion Buddy Rogers beat John Paul Henning 4/6/62 St Louis NWA champion Buddy Rogers beat Johnny Valentine 6/15/62 St Louis NWA champion Buddy Rogers beat Johnny Valentine 11/2/62 St Louis NWA champion Buddy Rogers beat Edouard Carpentier That's 21 more which brings us to a total of 93. Should be noted the St. Louis record book is not complete. There are some missing cards. |
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2/15/63 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Pat O'Connor 3/15/63 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Dick the Bruiser dq 4/26/63 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Dick the Bruiser 6/15/63 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Bill Miller 10/11/63 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Fritz Von Erich 11/22/63 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Fritz Von Erich dq 12/27/63 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Karl Gotch 2/7/64 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Dick the Bruiser 4/3/64 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Johnny Valentine 5/16/64 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Fritz Von Erich 10/2/64 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Fritz Von Erich 11/20/64 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat John Paul Henning 2/5/65 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Pat O'Connor 4/9/65 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Dick the Bruiser 6/18/65 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Gene Kiniski dq 10/22/65 St Louis NWA champion Lou Thesz beat Wilbur Snyder 1/7/66 St Louis Gene Kiniski beat Lou Thesz 2/3 to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship 2/4/66 St Louis NWA champion Gene Kiniski beat Bob Ellis 4/1/66 St Louis NWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat Fritz Von Erich 6/3/66 St Louis NWA champion Gene Kiniski drew Lou Thesz 9/16/66 St Louis NWA champion Gene Kiniski beat Dory Funk Jr 11/25/66 St Louis NWA champion Gene Kiniski beat Dick the Bruiser That's 21 more bringing us to a total of 114. |
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1/6/67 St Louis NWA champion Gene Kiniski beat Lou Thesz 3/3/67 St Louis NWA Champion Gene Kiniski beat Wilbur Snyder 2/3 4/7/67 St Louis NWA champion Gene Kiniski beat Pat O'Connor 2/3 6/16/67 St Louis NWA champion Gene Kiniski beat Edouard Carpentier 10/20/67 St Louis NWA champion Gene Kiniski beat Fritz Von Erich 12/1/67 St Louis NWA champion Gene Kiniski beat Wilbur Snyder 1/5/68 St Louis NWA champion Gene Kiniski beat Edouard Carpentier 2/2/68 St Louis NWA champion Gene Kiniski drew Edouard Carpentier 60:00 3/16/68 St Louis NWA Champion Gene Kiniski no contest Dick the Bruiser 5/3/68 St Louis NWA champion Gene Kiniski beat Bill Watts 2/3 Watts unmasked as Dr. Scarlet before the match 10/4/68 St Louis NWA champion Gene Kiniski beat Bill Watts 1/10/69 St Louis NWA champion Gene Kiniski beat Blackjack Lanza 2/7/69 St Louis NWA champion Gene Kiniski drew Blackjack Lanza 60:00 2/22/69 St Louis Texas Death Match NWA Champion Dory Funk Jr beat Waldo Von Erich 4/11/69 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr beat Blackjack Lanza 6/14/69 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr beat Blackjack Lanza 10/17/69 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr beat Gene Kiniski 1/9/70 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr beat Dick the Bruiser dq 2/20/70 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr beat Baron Von Raschke 4/3/70 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr beat Pat O'Connor 6/12/70 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr beat Gene Kiniski 10/2/70 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr beat Dick the Bruiser 11/20/70 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr beat Crimson Knight (unmasked as Bill Miller) That's 23 more bringing us to a total of 137. |
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if I could pick one wrestling city to live in - it would be St Louis 1950-1970 Would think St Louis will be the most, was only looking at NWA cities Last edited on Wed Oct 31st, 2007 10:18 pm by carlton st |
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AC, Where St. Louis gets the edge on other NWA cities is in the 1950s. St. Louis was in the National Wrestling Alliance from the very beginning plus champs like Thesz during his first title reign and O'Connor during his reign were based in St. Louis. And Muchnick was the boss/Prez for so many years. It's a built in advantage none of the other NWA cities had. |
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1/1/71 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr drew Jack Brisco 2/19/71 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr beat Baron Von Raschke 4/2/71 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr beat Blackjack Lanza 6/18/71 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr beat Johnny Valentine 10/1/71 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr beat Harley Race 11/19/71 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr beat Jack Brisco 1/1/72 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr beat Rufus R Jones 2/18/72 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr beat Pat O'Connor 4/7/72 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr beat Jerry Brisco utc 6/2/72 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr beat Johnny Valentine 10/13/72 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr beat Gene Kiniski 12/1/72 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr drew Rufus R Jones 1/5/73 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr beat Harley Race 2/2/73 St Louis NWA champion Dory Funk Jr beat Johnny Valentine 6/15/73 St Louis NWA champion Harley Race drew Bruno Sammartino when the 60:00 time limit expired in the 3rd fall 11/16/73 St Louis NWA champion Jack Brisco beat Terry Funk 1/4/74 St Louis NWA champion Jack Brisco beat Harley Race on a 3rd fall dq 2/1/74 St Louis NWA champion Jack Brisco beat Harley Race 3/15/74 St Louis NWA champion Jack Brisco drew Bobo Brazil when the 60 minute time limit expired in the 3rd fall 4/19/74 St Louis NWA champion Jack Brisco beat Dory Funk Jr 1-0 1. Brisco pinned Dory Jr at 47:20 2. The 60 minute time limit expired before either man could score another fall 6/14/74 St Louis NWA Champion Jack Brisco drew Dory Funk Jr when the 60 minute time limit expired in the 3rd fall 10/4/74 St Louis NWA champion Jack Brisco beat Johnny Valentine 11/15/74 St Louis Dory Funk Jr beat NWA champion Jack Brisco dq That's 23 more bringing it to a total of 160. |
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1/3/75 St Louis referee Bobby Whitlock NWA champion Jack Brisco beat Dick the Bruiser on a 3rd fall dq for excessive roughness 2/7/75 St Louis NWA champion Jack Brisco beat Dory Funk Jr 2/3 1. Brisco pinned Funk after a double arm suplex in 16:31 2. Funk beat Brisco with a spinning toe hold in 11:29 3. Brisco pinned Funk in 8:06 4/4/75 St Louis NWA champion Jack Brisco beat Edouard Carpentier on a 3rd fall COR 1. Carpentier won the 1st fall at 12:48 2. Brisco won the 2nd at 5:37 3. Carpentier was counted out of the ring at 4:52 6/20/75 St Louis NWA champion Jack Brisco dcor Dick the Bruiser in 3rd fall 1. Bruiser won the 1st fall at 7:07 2. Brisco won the 2nd at 4:50 3. Both wrestlers were counted outside the ring by Special Referee Lou Thesz 8/8/75 St Louis NWA champion Jack Brisco beat Shohei Giant Baba 2/3 1. Brisco beat Baba in 8:34 2. Baba beat Brisco in 5:00 3. Brisco beat Baba in 4:32 10/3/75 St Louis NWA champion Jack Brisco beat Rocky Johnson 11/21/75 St Louis NWA champion Jack Brisco drew Rocky Johnson when the time limit expired in the 3rd fall 1. Brisco beat Johnson in 20:48 2. Johnson beat Brisco in 3:18 3. The time limit expired before either man could score the winning fall 1/2/76 St Louis NWA champion Terry Funk beat Pat O'Connor 2/3 when O'Connor was unable to continue in the 3rd fall 3/26/76 St Louis NWA champion Terry Funk beat Jack Brisco 4/23/76 St Louis NWA champion Terry Funk beat Dick the Bruiser on a 3rd fall dq 1. Bruiser beat Funk in 6:12 2. Funk beat Bruiser in 4:21 3. Referee Joe Tangaro dq’ed Bruiser at 3:39 for hitting Funk with a press table. 6/4/76 St Louis NWA champion Terry Funk no contest Gene Kiniski 8/13/76 St Louis Fence Match NWA champion Terry Funk beat Gene Kiniski 10/8/76 St Louis NWA Title Match, Missouri State Title not on the line NWA champion Terry Funk beat Missouri State Champion Bob Backlund 1-0 1. Funk pinned Backlund in 46:32 2. The 60 minute time limit expired before either man could score another fall. 11/26/76 St Louis NWA champion Terry Funk beat Harley Race 1/1/77 St Louis NWA champion Terry Funk beat Dick the Bruiser on a 3rd fall COR 1. Funk pinned Bruiser in 3:41 with a reverse cradle 2. Bruiser pinned Funk in 4:42 after an atomic drop 3. Bruiser was counted out of the ring by referee Charles Venator in 7:20 2/11/77 St Louis NWA champion Harley Race beat Superstar Billy Graham on a 3rd fall dq 1. Race pinned Graham after a suplex in 6:30 2. Graham beat Race by submission with a bear hug in 3:02 3. Referee Charles Venator dq'ed Graham for jumping off the top rope on to Race in 3:21 3/4/77 St Louis NWA champion Harley Race dcor Superstar Billy Graham in 3rd fall 1. Graham beat Race by submission with a bear hug in 4:18 2. Race pinned Graham after a series of head butts in 2:31 3. Referee Charles Venator counted both men out of the ring at 3:02 4/22/77 St Louis NWA champion Harley Race beat Ernie Ladd 6/17/77 St Louis NWA champion Harley Race beat Jack Brisco COR 8/12/77 St Louis NWA champion Harley Race drew Dory Funk Jr 10/7/77 St Louis NWA champion Harley Race beat Dory Funk Jr 11/18/77 St Louis NWA champion Harley Race beat Ivan Koloff 2/3 1. Koloff beat Race at 20:32 2. Race beat Koloff at 9:02 3. Race won the third fall when Koloff could not continue That's 22 more bringing us to a total of 182. I'm having a bit of trouble with my mouse today so updates will be infrequent to all the threads on this forum until I can get my mouse to move correctly. |
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On my website, I've got a page that has all the world title match cards listed for Memphis,(1962-1984). I've included the AWA, NWA & WWWF. Feel free to check them out. http://www.marksfiles.com/worldtitle.html mj99 |
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wow I hadn't seen that page yet  |
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I've been a little lazy and haven't gotten around to adding the ones for 1985-89 yet, but i hope to in the future. It's listed under my main menu, look under "Matches", then "World Title Cards". I got "All", "1960's", "1970's" & "1980's". The ones by decades are for our bandwidth challenged friends (still on dial-up). I hope it helps, mj99 Great forum by the way! Last edited on Fri Nov 2nd, 2007 09:00 pm by mj99 |
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Welcome mj99. When it comes to Memphis, he is the man. If you have never visited his site, you've been missing out. He even published an excellent Memphis record book too. |
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Clawmaster is far to kind. There's probably a lot of people who know more about Memphis Wrestling history than i do, but i do continue to try to learn everything I can about it. thx, mj99 Last edited on Fri Nov 2nd, 2007 10:14 pm by mj99 |
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Great site mj, I didn't realize Bruiser, Snyder & O'Connor appeared that much in Memphis. |
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Thanks Chitown, I was amazed at all the wrestlers that came through Memphis in the 60's as well. I didn't start watching until the mid-70's and the research I did for my site opened up a whole new world for me. If you haven't seen them, I've got a couple of pages dedicated to both Lou Thesz and Gene Kiniski (local newspaper clippings, photos, etc) http://www.marksfiles.com/thesz.html http://www.marksfiles.com/kiniski.html I've also got some special pages dedicate to non-NWA champs as well. Goto my main menu, select "Misc", then click on "Special". Everyone is listed there. I've got a ton of stuff scanned from the original articles in the 1940's, 50's 60's, etc. There's also original pictures (no microfilm scans here.) Anyways, I hope you enjoy it. |
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1/6/78 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race beat Dick the Bruiser 2/3 1. Bruiser was dq'ed at 10:37 2. Bruiser beat Race in 1:41 3. Race beat Bruiser in 5:21 2/17/78 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race drew Rocky Johnson 4/7/78 St Louis NWA champion Harley Race beat Terry Funk 2/3 1. Funk pinned Race in 16:02 after a suplex 2. Race pinned Funk in 13:02 after a series of piledrivers 3. Funk could not answer the bell for the 3rd fall 6/16/78 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race beat Dick Murdoch 2/3 8/11/78 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race no contest Dick the Bruiser 10/6/78 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race beat Ric Flair COR 11/24/78 St Louis NWA champion Harley Race beat Ted DiBiase 1/5/79 St Louis NWA champion Harley Race beat Dick the Bruiser 3/23/79 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race beat King Kong Brody 4/27/79 St Louis NWA champion Harley Race beat Ted DiBiase 2/3 1. DiBiase pinned Race 2. Race pinned DiBiase 3. Race pinned DiBiase 6/15/79 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race beat David Von Erich 8/10/79 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race beat Dick Murdoch 10/5/79 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race beat King Kong Brody 11/23/79 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race beat Gene Kiniski 1/4/80 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race drew David Von Erich 2/22/80 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race beat Kevin Von Erich 3/28/80 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race no contest Ric Flair 4/25/80 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race beat Ric Flair 6/13/80 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race beat Rocky Johnson 8/8/80 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race beat Ken Patera 10/3/80 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race beat David Von Erich 11/7/80 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race beat WWF Champion Bob Backlund dq 1/2/81 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race beat Ken Patera 2/6/81 St Louis Ted DiBiase beat NWA Champion Harley Race dq 3/20/81 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race beat Dick the Bruiser 4/24/81 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race drew Ric Flair when the time limit expired in the 3rd fall 1. Flair beat Race by submission with the figure four leg lock in 35:01 2. Race pinned Flair with an inside cradle in 7:02 3. The time limit expired before either man could score the deciding fall 6/12/81 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race beat Ted DiBiase 2/3 1. DiBiase beat Race in 16:01 2. Race beat DiBiase in 9:04 3. Race beat DiBiase in 1:54 8/7/81 St Louis NWA Champion Dusty Rhodes beat Ric Flair 10/2/81 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair drew Harley Race 11/20/81 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair beat David Von Erich 12/4/81 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair beat Jack Brisco There were also two Non Title matches involving NWA Champion Harley Race. Race lost a Cage Match to Dick The Bruiser which gave Bruiser a title shot on the next card and Race lost a handicap match to Bruiser & Ken Patera which gave Patera a title shot on the next card. 31 more Title matches bringing us to a total of 212. |
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1/1/82 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair beat Dusty Rhodes 2/3 3/26/82 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair beat Dick the Bruiser 4/30/82 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair beat Gene Kiniski 6/12/82 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair beat Dick the Bruiser 8/6/82 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair beat Dory Funk Jr 10/8/82 St Louis Harley Race beat NWA Champion Ric Flair (one fall only, no title change) 11/19/82 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair beat Ken Patera 1/1/83 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair beat Bruce Reed (one fall only) 2/11/83 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair drew King Kong Brody when the 60 minute time limit expired in the 3rd fall 1. Brody pinned Flair in 4:21 2. Brody was counted out of the ring around the 46 minute mark 3. The time limit expired before either man could score the winning fall 3/25/83 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair beat Kerry Von Erich 4/29/83 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair beat Crusher Blackwell COR 6/10/83 St Louis Harley Race beat Ric Flair to win the NWA Title 8/5/83 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race beat Ric Flair 10/8/83 St Louis NWA Champion Harley Race beat Hulk Hogan dq when Hogan tossed Race over the top rope 11/25/83 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair beat David Von Erich 1/6/84 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair beat King Kong Brody dq 2/17/84 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair beat Barry Windham 3/10/84 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair ddq King Kong Brody 4/13/84 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair beat Harley Race 6/1/84 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair drew Kerry Von Erich 6/22/84 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair beat Wahoo McDaniel 8/3/84 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair drew Kerry Von Erich 9/14/84 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair beat Harley Race 11/16/84 St Louis NWA Champion Ric Flair no contest King Kong Brody 24 more NWA Title Matches bringing the total to 236. |
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what a list, thanks for taking the time to post all of that |
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No problem. St. Louis and Toronto are two of the most interesting wrestling cities to me because they had so many guys from different promotions appear on their cards. Houston was like that for a time too but I haven't seen nearly the amount of research on Houston that I've seen on Toronto and St. Louis. On a personal note, Robert VanKavelaar is publishing another edition of Florida Mats Wars. It will cover the year 1980. I'm totally geeked out about getting a copy when RVK gets everything finished. I'll try to get RVK aka bunkhouse and Missin Gordon Solie here to post. |
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Here are the NWA title defenses for Minneapolis and St. Paul. As you can see the Twin Cities were NWA towns up till late 1959. Jan. 3, 1950 Minneapolis Att.3, 500 Lou Thesz (c) and Enrique Torres (subbing for Butch Levy) drew 60:00 Feb. 21, 1950 Minneapolis Att.-7,200 Lou Thesz (c) pinned Enrique Torres 33:51 May 30, 1950 Minneapolis Att.-5,281 Lou Thesz over Bronko Nagurski by countout 23:41 June 6, 1950 Minneapolis Att.-8,197 Bronko Nagurski and Lou Thesz drew 60:00 ref Wally Karbo Oct. 31, 1950 Minneapolis Att.-6,190 Lou Thesz(c) over Hans Schnabel by dq March 2, 1951 St. Paul Armory Att.-2,307 Lou Thesz (c) over Hans Hermann by countout April 3, 1951 Minneapolis Att.-7,854 Vern Gagne and Lou Thesz (c) drew 60:00 June 26, 1951 Minneapolis Att.-9,146 Lou Thesz (c) defeated Bronko Nagurski 21:41 ref Jack Morgan Oct. 30, 1951 Minneapolis Att.-4,436 Lou Thesz (c) over Pat O'Connor 29:07 April 15, 1952 Minneapolis Att.-7,344 Lou Thesz (c) pinned Bronko Nagurski 19:31 June 24, 1952 Minneapolis Att.-8,236 Lou Thesz (c) pinned Bronko Nagurski 23:18 Dec. 23, 1952 Minneapolis Att.-6,581 Lou Thesz (c) pinned Paul Baillargeon 25:16 Feb. 20, 1953 St. Paul Armory Att.-3,318 Lou Thesez (c) (managed by Ed "Strangler" Lewis) and Paul Baillargeon drew 60:00 April 18, 1953 St. Paul Auditorium Att.-7,172 Lou Thesz (c) pinned Paul Baillargeon 21:04 ref Bob Foster April 21, 1953 Minneapolis Att.-6,488 Lou Thesz (c) pinned Bronko Nagurski 22:00 June. 30, 1953 Minneapolis Att.-8,641 Verne Gagne and Lou Thesz (c) drew 60:00 ref Bob Foster Sept. 15, 1953 Minneapolis Att.-3,837 Lou Thesz (c) over Kinji Shibuya by dq 15:30 Shibuya throw salt in Thesz's eyes. Ref Bill Kuusisto called a halt to the proceedings. Dec. 29, 1953 Minneapolis Att.-8,166 Lou Thesz (c) and Pat O'Connor drew 60:00 March 2, 1954 Minneapolis Att.-6,950 Lou Thesz (c) over Paul Baillargeon by countout May 1, 1954 St. Paul Auditorium Att.-8,880 gate-$16,377.50 Lou Thesz (c) over Kinji Shibuya by dq 21:34 ref Joe Louis Hard Boiled Haggerty seconded Shibuya Sept. 21, 1954 Minneapolis Att.-5,238 Lou Thesz (c) and Pat O'Connor drew 60:00 Nov. 30, 1954 Minneapolis Att.-5,399 Lou Thesz (c) over Hard Boiled Haggerty by dq 29:40 Jan. 18, 1955 Minneapolis Att.-6,347 Lou Thesz (c) and Hard Boiled Haggerty drew 60:00 April 30, 1955 St. Paul Armory Att.-3,379 Lou Thesz (c) over Hard Boiled Haggerty by dq 27:49 May 3, 1955 Minneapolis Att.-2,810 Lou Thesz (c) pinned Fred Atkins 22:25 Dec. 3, 1955 St. Paul Auditorium Att.-3,495 snowed Lou Thesz (c) pinned Kinji Shibuya 20:23 Thesz used a Graeco -Roman back drop, the hold which ended the career of Cliff Gustafson Feb. 14, 1956 Minneapolis Att.-4,280 Lou Thesz (c) and Butch Levy drew 60:00 June 19, 1956 Minneapolis Att.-2,945 Whipper Bill Watson (c) over Lord Athol Layton 23:38 Oct. 23, 1956 Minneapolis Att.-2,984 Whipper Bill Watson (c) over Fritz von Erich and Karl von Schober by dq 11:17 ref Jack Morgan (Watson was to face Yukon Eric, but Eric showed up with 2 broken fingers) Jan. 15, 1957 Minneapolis Att.-4,219 Lou Thesz (c) over Hard Boiled Haggerty by dq for refusing to break an illegal hold 22:15 (ref Bearcat Wright) Jan. 26, 1957 St. Paul Armory Att.-2,431 gate-$5,759.70 Lou Thesz (c) and Ivan Kalmikoffs was a double countout (ref Bronko Nagurski) Sam Muchnick was at ringside May 14, 1957 Minneapolis Att.-2,974 Lou Thesz (c) over Butch Levy Nov. 12, 1957 Minneapolis Att.-3,289 Lou Thesz (c) and Buddy (Nature Boy) Rogers was a 60:00 draw Dec. 7, 1957 St. Paul Armory Att.-3,103 Dick Hutton (c) over Kinji Shibuya 21:35 (ref Jack Pesek) Dec. 10, 1957 Minneapolis Att.-2,546 Dick Hutton (c) and Hard Boiled Haggerty drew 60:00 Feb. 18, 1958 Minneapolis Att.-2,495 Dick Hutton (c) pinned Paul Baillargeon 33:20 April 19, 1958 St. Paul Armory Att.-1,988 Dick Hutton (c) over Hard Boiled Haggerty by dq 24:25 July 29, 1958 Minneapolis Att.-2,920 Dick Hutton (c) and Ilio DiPaolo drew 60:00 Sept. 16, 1958 Minneapolis Att.-2,510 Dick Hutton (c) pinned Joe Pazandak 35:00 Sept. 19, 1958 St. Paul Armory Att.-1,890 Dick Hutton (c) pinned Ilio DiPaolo 26:37 Oct. 21, 1958 Minneapolis Att.-3,166 Dick Hutton (c) vs Lou Thesz drew when neither could make the 20 count Jan. 6, 1959 Minneapolis Dick Hutton (c) over Mitsu Arakawa by dq for throwing salt in Hutton's eyes Jan. 31, 1959 St. Paul Armory Att.-2,427 Pat O'Connor (c) stopped Mitsu Arakawa with a reverse cradle rock 18:10 Feb. 5, 1959 Minneapolis Att.-2,089 Pat O'Connor (c) defeated Mighty Ursus March 10, 1959 Minneapolis Att.-2,500 Pat O'Connor (c) defeated Hans Schmidt April 25, 1959 St. Paul Armory Att.-2,141 Pat O'Connor (c) over Karol Kalmikoff (subbing for Dick Hutton) (ref Butch Levy) June 30, 1959 Minneapolis Att.-2,919 Pat O'Connor (c) over Kinji Shibuya (ref Wally Karbo) Aug. 25, 1959 Minneapolis Att.-2,516 Pat O'Connor (c) over Kinji Shibuya 22:15 Oct. 15, 1959 Minneapolis Att.-3,322 Pat O'Connor (c) and Frank Townsend drew 60:00 Oct. 17, 1959 St. Paul Armroy Att.-2,597 Pat O'Connor (c) over Joe Pazandak by dq for knocking out the referee Larry Hennig |
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