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This is a list of various things that took place in 1948.
Significant events[]
- Future pro Maurice "Mad Dog" Vachon, representing Canada, competes in wrestling at the Olympic Games in London
July
- The current version of the National Wrestling Alliance is formed by Pinkie George and five other promoters in Waterloo, Iowa
Births[]
January
- 26 - Irma Acevedo
February
- 1 - Dinamic
- 7 - [[Yamato (Toguchi)]
May
- 19 - Coloso Colosetti
July
- 19 - Carlos Colón
August
September
- 8 - Great Kabuki (Nobeoka, Japan)
- 21 - Rikidozan II
- 26 - Kendo Nagasaki
October
- 19- Soberano
- 21 - Enrique Vera
- 21 - Leono (original)
- 26 - Águila India
- 29 - Jaque Mate
November
- 24 - Goro Tanaka
Deaths[]
September
- 25 – Joe Lynam 31 (Plane crash)
December
- 16 – Larry Labelle 40 (Car accident)
Debuts[]
March
- 31 - Blue Demon
June
- 3 - Polo Torres
Events[]
Title changes[]
January
- 23 - Sonny Myers wins the Texas Heavyweight Championship from Miguel Guzman in Houston, Texas
- 30 - Yukon Eric wins the Texas title from Sonny Myers in Houston
February
- 6 - Miguel Guzman wins the Texas title from Yukon Eric in Houston
April
- 28 - Gordon Hessell wins the Pacific Coast Junior Heavyweight Championship from Frank Stojack in Vancouver, British Columbia (in Vancouver, the title was billed as the Pacific Coast Heavyweight Championship)
May
- 2 - Lee Grable wins the Hawaii Heavyweight Championship from Ted Travis in Honolulu, Hawaii (during Grable's reign, the title is renamed as the NWA Hawaii Heavyweight Championship)
- 7 - Danny McShain wins the Texas title from Miguel Guzman in Houston
- 12 - Frank Stojack regains the Pacific Coast title from Gordon Hessell in Vancouver
June
- 11 - Miguel Guzman regains the Texas title from Danny McShain in Houston (during Guzman's reign, the title is renamed as the NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship)
July
- 14 - Orville Brown is given recognition by the National Wrestling Alliance as its first World Heavyweight Champion, shortly after the Alliance's formation; Brown had been the reigning Midwest Wrestling Association World Heavyweight Champion
- 20 - Lou Thesz defeats Bill Longson to win the National Wrestling Association World Heavyweight Championship in Indianapolis, Indiana
- 30 - Dizzy Davis wins the NWA Texas title from Miguel Guzman in Houston
August
- 6 - Antonino Rocca wins the NWA Texas title from Dizzy Davis in Houston
- 8 - Hisao Tanaka wins the NWA Hawaii title from Lee Grable in Honolulu
October
- 31 - Jack Claybourne wins the NWA Hawaii title from Hisao Tanaka in Honolulu
November
- 12 - Danny McShain wins the NWA Texas title from Antonino Rocca in Houston
- 30 - Antonino Rocca regains the NWA Texas title from Danny McShain in Dallas, Texas