Akron, Ohio: January 6, 1962
Ivan and Karol Kalmikoff beat Bobo Brazil and Tony Marino ... The Sheik beat Kurt Stein
(COR) ... Tony Manos beat Ramon Lopez ... Frank Fozo beat Jim Greb

Akron, Ohio: January 13, 1962
Ilio DiPaolo beat The Sheik ... Ivan and Karol Kalmikoff beat Sandy Scott and Kurt Stein
... The Great Bolo and The Mighty Bolo beat Tony Marino and Eric Pomeroy ... Baron
Gattoni beat Ramon Lopez

Akron, Ohio: January 20, 1962
Ivan and Karol Kalmikoff beat Bobo Brazil and Kurt Stein ... The Great Bobo and The
Mighty Bolo beat Tony Marino and Sandy Scott ... (Girls) Karen Kellogg beat Jane Jordan
... Frank Fozo beat Wally Conrad

Akron, Ohio: January 27, 1962
The Great Bolo and The Mighty Bolo beat Ivan and Karol Kalmikoff (DQ) ... Tony Marino
beat The Sergeant (aka Ali Hassan) ... (Girls) Lulu Mae Provo beat Babs Wingo ... Kurt
Stein drew with Sandy Scott

Akron, Ohio: February 3, 1962
Ivan and Karol Kalmikoff beat The Sheik and The Sergeant ... (Midgets) Little Beaver and
Brown Panther vs Sky Low Low and Fuzzy Cupid ... Tony Marino beat Great Bolo (DQ) ...
Sandy Scott drew with Mighty Bolo

Akron, Ohio: February 10, 1962
Ilio DiPaolo and The Sheik beat The Great Bolo and The Mighty Bolo (Great Bolo was
unmasked as Al Lovelock) ... The Hillbillies beat Frank Thompson and The Sergeant ...
Bobby Graham beat Kurt Stein ... Woody Strode beat Ramon Lopez

Akron, Ohio: February 17, 1962
Ivan and Karol Kalmikoff beat The Hillbillies ... Ilio DiPaolo drew with Mighty Bolo ...
Haystack Muldoon beat Dominic Bravo ... Bobby Graham beat Eric Pomeroy

Akron, Ohio: February 24, 1962
(Special referee: Ilio DiPaolo) The Hillbillies and Haystack Muldoon beat Ivan Kalmikoff,
Karol Kalmikoff and Mighty Bolo (DQ) ... Don Leo Jonathan beat Tony Marino ... Woody
Strode beat Dominic Bravo ... Bobby Graham beat Eric Pomeroy

Note: Don Leo Jonathan is billed as U.S. champion.

Akron, Ohio: March 3, 1962
Ivan Kalmikoff, Karol Kalmikoff and Great Bolo beat Haystack Muldoon and The Hillbillies
... Don Leo Jonathan beat Woody Strode ... Billy (Bobby) Graham beat Tony Marino

Akron, Ohio: March 10, 1962
Ilio DiPaolo and Bobby Graham beat Ivan and Karol Kalmikoff ... (Girls) Ramona Isbell
and Lulu Mae Provo beat Babs Wingo and Virginia Franklin ... Woody Strode and Jim
Brady beat Bob and Steve Stanlee

Akron, Ohio: March 17, 1962
(WTM) Don Leo Jonathan* beat Karol Kalmikoff (DQ) ... Ilio DiPaolo drew with Ivan
Kalmikoff ... Tony Marino beat Eric Pomeroy ... Bobby Graham beat Frank Valois ... The
Hillbillies vs Bob and Steve Stanlee

Akron, Ohio: March 25, 1962
(Sunday night) ... Bobo Brazil and Ilio DiPaolo vs Ivan and Karol Kalmikoff ... Bobby
Graham and Tony Marino vs Bob and Steve Stanlee ... (Girls) Karen Kellogg vs Sherry
Lee ... Eric Pomeroy vs Rip Collins

Akron, Ohio: March 31, 1962
(AWA Title Match) Don Leo Jonathan drew with Ilio DiPaolo (see notes) ... Ivan and Karol
Kalmikoff vs Bob and Steve Stanlee (NC) ... Mike Gallagher drew with Tony Marino ... Eric
Pomeroy beat Baron Gattoni

Akron, Ohio: April 7, 1962
Bob and Steve Stanlee beat Ivan and Karol Kalmikoff ... Ilio DiPaolo beat Waldo von Erich
... Tony Marino drew with Bobby Graham ... Mike Gallagher beat Eric Pomeroy

Akron, Ohio: April 14, 1962
Don Leo Jonathan and Ilio DiPaolo beat Bob and Steve Stanlee (DQ) ... Bobby Graham
drew with Mike Gallagher ... Apache Kid beat Eric Pomeroy ... Tony Marino beat Eric
Pomeroy

Note: Another report has Tony Marino beat Doc Gallagher (dq)

Akron, Ohio: April 21, 1962
Ivan and Karol Kalmikoff drew with Mike Gallagher and Ilio DiPaolo ... Tony Marino and
Apache Kid beat Bob and Steve Stanlee ... Bobby Graham beat Guy Mitchell ... Eric
Pomeroy beat Jim (Walt) Chapman

Note: Another report says Kalmikoffs won by disqualification; Bob and Steve Stanlee drew
with Tony Marino and Apache Kid.

Akron, Ohio: April 29, 1962
(Sunday night) ... (World Title Match - American Wrestling Association/Al Haft version)
Don Leo Jonathan* drew with Ivan Kalmikoff ... (Midget) Pee Wee James and Irish Jackie
beat Sonny Boy Cassidy and Emanuel (Pancho) Lopez ... Bob and Steve Stanlee beat
Apache Kid and Eric Pomeroy ... The Beast beat Bobby Graham

Akron, Ohio: May 5, 1962
Ilio DiPaolo beat Don Leo Jonathan* ... Bob and Steve Stanlee beat Duke Noble and
Tony Marino ... Bobby Graham beat Nick Kilonis ... Guy Mitchell vs Eric Pomeroy ... Mike
Gallagher drew with Ivan Kalmikoff

Akron, Ohio: May 12, 1962
Mike Gallagher and Ilio DiPaolo beat Ivan and Karol Kalmikoff ... Bob and Steve Stanlee
drew with Bobby Graham and Tony Marino ... Duke Noble beat Nick Kilonis ... Eric
Pomeroy beat Duke Noble (sub)

Akron, Ohio: May 19, 1962
Mike Gallagher, Ilio DiPaolo, Bobby Graham and Tony Marino beat Bob Stanlee, Steve
Stanlee, Ivan Kalmikoff and Karol Kalmikoff ... (Girls) Juanita Coffman and Mary Reynolds
beat Elaine Ellis and Sherry Lee ... Duke Noble drew with Eric Pomeroy

Akron, Ohio: May 26, 1962
The Beast (aka Gino Angelo) beat Karol Kalmikoff ... Yukon Eric beat Ivan Kalmikoff ...
Bobby Graham and Mike Gallagher beat Bob and Steve Stanlee ... Al Green beat Duke
Noble

Akron, Ohio: June 2, 1962
No wrestling

Akron, Ohio: June 7, 1962
Promoter Walter Moore switched booking agents in order to obtain new faces for local
mat fanatics.

Barberton, Ohio: June 9, 1962
(Promoter: Mike Gallagher) ... The Beast vs Yukon Eric (NC) ... Tony Marino and Ilio
DiPaolo beat Bob and Steve Stanlee ... Bobby Graham beat Duke Noble ... Eric Pomeroy
beat Baron Gattoni

Akron, Ohio: June 10, 1962
(Sunday) ... (WTM - NWA) Buddy Rogers* vs Bobo Brazil (DCOR) ... Argentina Rocca
beat Wild Man (Frank) Morgan ... Lou Albano and Johnny Barend beat Billy Darnell and
Cowboy Bob Ellis ... Carlos Milano drew with Pete Sanchez

Note: Another report had Darnell and Ellis beat Albano and Barend.

Akron, Ohio: June 16, 1962
Bobo Brazil and Billy Darnell beat Lou Albano and Johnny Barend ... (USTTTM*) Carlos
Milano and Pete Sanchez beat Great Scott and Bob Orton ... Danny McShane (sub for
Tim Hampton) beat Arnold Skaaland

Note: Carlos Milano and Pete Sanchez beat Great Scott and Bob Orton in Akron, Ohio on
June 16, 1962 to win the U.S. Tag Team Title.

Akron, Ohio: June 23, 1962
(USTTTM) Carlos Milano and Pete Sanchez* beat Danny McShane and Bud Cody ... Billy
Darnell beat Johnny Barend ... Tim Hampton beat Frank Marconi

Akron, Ohio: June 30, 1962
(WTM) Buddy Rogers* beat Bobo Brazil ... Carlos Milano and Pete Sanchez beat Lou
Albano and Johnny Barend ... Tim Hampton beat Bud Cody ... Danny McShane beat Wild
Bill Gallion

Note: July 1, 1962 - The Akron Beacon and Journal ran a story about Pedro Martinez
trying to muscle back into Akron ... Mike Gallagher was turned down for a promoters
license by the Akron Boxing and Wrestling commission ... When promoter Walter Moore
switched to Martinez's booking office in November of 1958, Al Haft tried to get a second
promotion going in that city.  However, he was also turned down.

Akron, Ohio: July 7, 1962
Argentina Rocca beat Angelo Poffo ... Pete (Zivko Kovacic) Kouicleck beat Angelo
Savoldi ... (Midgets) Farmer Pete and Fuzzy Cupid beat Billy the Kid and Pee Wee Lopez
... (Dowling's sheet had Irish Jackie and Sky Low Low drew with Tiny Tim and Fuzzy
Cupid)

Akron, Ohio: July 14, 1962
(WTM) Buddy Rogers* beat Golden Terror ... (USTTTM) Carlos Milano and Pete
Sanchez* beat Bill Scholl and Bill Gallion ... Vic Christy beat Johnny Barend

Note: Dowling's sheet had Barend beat Christy, Arnold Skoaland beat Tim Hampton.

Akron, Ohio: July 21, 1962
Argentina Rocca beat Johnny Barend (DQ) ... Fabulous Kangaroos (Al Costello and Roy
Heffernan) vs Carlos Milano and Pete Sanchez (NC) ... Vic Christy drew with Angelo
Savoldi

Akron, Ohio: July 28, 1962
(USTTTM*) The Kangaroos beat Carlos Milano and Pete Sanchez ... Wild Bill Gallion
beat George Strickland ... Chet Wallick drew with Sandor Kouvacic

Note: Dowling's sheet had Zivko Kovacic beat Wallick

Note: The Fabulous Kangaroos beat Carlos Milano and Pete Sanchez in Akron, Ohio on
July 28, 1962 to win the U.S. Tag Team Title.

Akron, Ohio: August 4, 1962
The Kangaroos beat Carlos Milano and Pete Sanchez ... Ralph Rinehart (Paul Rinehart?)
beat Karl von Hess ... Enrique Torres beat Wild Bill Gallion

Akron, Ohio: August 11, 1962
Red Bastien and Enrique Torres beat The Kangaroos (DQ) ... Bobo Brazil beat Bud Cody
... Jack Wilson beat Gregory Jarque ... (Dowling sheet had Brazil beat Frank Morgan,
Swede Hanson beat Jarque)

Akron, Ohio: August 18, 1962
Argentina Rocca beat Jack Wilson ... Lou Albano beat Bad Boy Joe ... Enrique Torres
beat Red Bastien ... Jack Allen beat Angelo Savoldi (DQ)

Akron, Ohio: August 25, 1962
(WTM) Buddy Rogers* beat Argentina Rocca ... Johnny Barend beat Angelo Savoldi ...
Johnny Gilbert and Billy Goelz beat Gyspy Joe and Porter Langier (Porferio Longario)

Akron, Ohio: September 1, 1962
Bobo Brazil beat Giant Baba (DQ) ... (USTTTM) The Kangaroos beat Fred Atkins and
Silent Mortinero ... Magnificent Maurice beat Silent Mortinero

Note: Dowling's sheet had Kangaroos beat Chris Belkas and Great Togo.

Akron, Ohio: September 8, 1962
Bobo Brazil and Pete Sanchez beat Chris and John Tolos (DQ) ... Magnificent Maurice
beat Joe Quinonis ... Johnny Barend beat Paul Pimmor

Note: The lineup had Kenny Ackles as Barend's foe; Dowling's sheet had Barend beat
Ackles.

Akron, Ohio: September 15, 1962
Argentina Rocca beat Johnny Barend ... Chris and John Tolos beat Johnny Gilbert and
Billy Goelz ... Magnificent Maurice beat Angelo Savoldi

Akron, Ohio: September 22, 1962
Chris and John Tolos beat Farmer Don and Slim Marlin ... (Girls) Jean Lane beat Betty
Hart ... Bob Adcock beat Bob Bruce

Akron, Ohio: September 29, 1962
Chris and John Tolos beat The Kangaroos ... Don Marlin beat Tom Adcock ... Slim Marlin
(aka Joe Millich) beat Frank Zela

Akron, Ohio: October 6, 1962
Chris and John Tolos beat Bobo Brazil and Slim Marlin ... Paul Christy beat Frank Zella ...
Jose Betancourt beat Joe Mills

Note: Al Mills dropped out of sight in 1959.  Joe Millich (Slim) often had his name
misspelled as Joe Miller

Akron, Ohio: October 13, 1962
Chris and John Tolos beat Bob Konovsky and Fred Atkins ... Giant Baba beat Bob Bruce
... Tony Manousos drew with Jose Betancourt

Akron, Ohio: October 20, 1962
(WTM) Buddy Rogers* beat The Mongol ... Chris and John Tolos beat George Kramer
and Tony Manousos ... Frank Zella beat Felipe Ramos

Akron, Ohio: October 28, 1962
(Sunday) ... Sandor Kovacs and Frank Zela beat Slim Marlin and Lou Torres ... Jimmy
(Black Panther) Mitchell beat The Mongol (DQ) ... Victor the bear beat Tuffy Trusdale ...
Ace Freeman drew with TNT Napolitan

Akron, Ohio: November 3, 1962
Victor (bear) beat Gypsy Joe ... Tuffy Truesdale beat an Alligator ... Paul Christy beat Al
Hart ... Chet Wallick beat Don Shephard

Akron, Ohio: November 10, 1962
(WTM) Buddy Rogers* beat The Mongol ... Killer Buddy Austin beat Frank Zela ... Chris
and John Tolos beat Billy Fox and George Strickland ... Ace Freeman beat Gypsy Joe

Akron, Ohio: November 17, 1962
Bobo Brazil and Argentina Rocca vs Chris and John Tolos (NC) ... Killer Buddy Austin
beat Chuck Martoni ... Tony Manousos beat Angelo Savoldi

Akron, Ohio: November 24, 1962
(Girls) Ethel Johnson and Mary Reynolds beat Babs Wingo and Lola Laray ... Buddy
Austin beat Tony Manousos ... Ace Freeman beat Gypsy Joe

Akron, Ohio: December 1, 1962
Argentina Rocca and Ace Freeman beat Chris and John Tolos ... Tony Manousos beat
Bill Klassen ... Billy Fox beat Angelo Savoldi

Akron, Ohio: December 8, 1962
No wrestling

Akron, Ohio: December 15, 1962
Chris and John Tolos beat Bobby Graham and Gene Kelly ... Tony Neapolitan beat Billy
Fox ... Ace Freeman beat Frank Valois

Akron, Ohio: December 22, 1962
Argentina Rocca beat Killer Buddy Austin ... TNT Neapolitan beat Gene Kelly ... Ace
Freeman beat Angelo Savoldi ... Johnny DeFazio beat Gypsy Joe

Akron, Ohio: December 29, 1962
No wrestling

Notes:
My research was from the Akron Beacon and Journal, the only newspaper in that city.   I
usually trust my research, however, the newspaper was always messing up the wrestlers
names.  Paul Dowling of Maryland put out a results sheet during this period.  I think
someone sent him the Akron area contests.  This person must have seen the shows in
the area, unless they were guessing at the results ... a dangerous practice, as substitute
matches often take place.  I found an old letter from Dowling dated Oct 5th, 1962.  He
sent details of the March 31st match between Jonathan and DiPaolo.  Ilio won the first fall
in 5:23 with an airplane spin.  Time ran out before any more falls took place, giving the
match to DiPaolo.  Don Leo Jonathan retained his AWA title because it didn't go the
required two out of three falls.  On May 5th, DiPaolo defeated Jonathan, but Jonathan
retained his belt.   Dowling didn't get any details of the match.  Both Paul Dowling and
myself put out results sheets in 1962, trading with each other.  We went over matches,
and when we got two different endings to the same match, I think he tried to put out
correct outcomes.


Research by Don Luce
Akron Wrestling Results - 1962