Bakersfield CA: January 14, 1954 (Thursday)
(Strelich Stadium) ... Sandor Szabo beat Mr. Moto (2-0) ... Bud Curtis beat Warren
Bockwinkel (2-1) ... Gory Guerrero beat Frenchy Roy (16:12) ... Johnny Demchuk drew
Juan Hernandez (20:00) ... NOTE: "The turnout was encouraging for promoter Steve
Strelich as he turned to Thursday night in an effort to combat television." -- Bakersfield
CA Californian, Jan. 15, 1954

Bakersfield CA: January 21, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Sandor Szabo & Billy Varga beat Bud Curtis & Karl Davis (2-1) ...
Referees: Benny Ginsberg, Jack Kenyon ... Gory Guerrero beat Tom Renesto (2-0) ...
Mario De Souza beat Pat Fraley (2-1)

Bakersfield CA: January 28, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Sandor Szabo beat Karl Davis (2-0, dq) ... John Tolos drew Mario
De Souza (1-1, nc) ... Dr. Lee Grable beat Antone Leone ... Juan Hernandez beat Tiger
Joe Marsh (sub for Aldo Bogni) (14:36) ... Referee: Joe Varga

Bakersfield CA: February 4, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Mario De Souza & Dr. Lee Grable beat John Tolos & Pat Fraley (sub
for Karl Davis) (2-1) ... Buck Davidson beat Juan Hernandez (2-1) ... Ben Sherman beat
Frenchy Roy (2-1)

Bakersfield CA: February 11, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Mr. Moto beat Mario De Souza (2-1) ... Bud Curtis drew Gory
Guerrero (45:00, 1-1) ... Dr. Lee Grable beat Ben Sherman (17:49) ... Buck Davidson
beat Red Vagnone (17:34) ... NOTE: Dr. Grable was unable to go through with his
scheduled demonstration of hypnosis because of a case of laryngitis.

Bakersfield CA: February 18, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Lord James Blears & Lord Athol Layton drew Tug Carlson (as Lord
Leslie Carlton) w/Swami Gunga Singh & John Tolos (60:00, 1-1) ... Mr. Moto beat Dave
Levin (2-0) ... Gory Guerrero beat Swami Gunga Singh (sub for Ray Stevens) (16:36) ...

Bakersfield CA: February 25, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Sandor Szabo beat Mr. Moto (2-1) ... Danny McShain beat Ray
Stevens (2-1) ... Wild Red Berry beat Buck Davidson ... Antone Leone beat Juan
Hernandez ... NOTE: Stevens was described as "a sensational youngster."

Bakersfield CA: March 4, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Baron Michele Leone drew Sandor Szabo (1-1, dko) ... Referee:
Ted Grice ... Danny McShain beat Ray Stevens (2-1) ... Wild Red Berry beat Dr. Lee
Grable ... Mario De Souza beat Antone Leone (12:39) ... NOTE: "The crowd was the
year's largest ... Grable had the last laugh, as he apparently hypnotized Berry and the
referee into an unbreakable handclasp after the match. Grable had to be called back to
break the spell before Berry could leave the ring." -- Bakersfield CA Californian, Mar. 5,
1954

Bakersfield CA: March 11, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Tug Carlson (as Lord Leslie Carlton) w/Swami Gunga Singh beat
Sandor Szabo (2-1) ... Danny McShain beat Wild Red Berry (2-1) ... Gory Guerrero drew
Jackie Nichols ... Ray Stevens beat John Cretoria

Bakersfield CA: March 18, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Danny McShain (sub for Lord Leslie Carlton) beat Sandor Szabos
(2-1) ... Lord Athol Layton & Lord James Blears beat Wilbur Snyder & Mario De Souza
(2-1) ... Pedro Brazil beat Tom Renesto

Bakersfield CA: March 25, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Wilbur Snyder beat Lord Blears (2-1) ... Gory Guerrero beat Jackie
Nichols (2-1) ... Dave Levin beat Bud Curtis ... Pedro Brazil beat Antone Leone ... NOTE:
Snyder defended the "international television trophy" ... Antone Leone's match was
described as "the final match of a long and colorful career." -- Bakersfield CA Californian,
Mar. 26, 1954

Bakersfield CA: April 1, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Tug Carlson (as Lord Leslie Carlton) w/Swami Gunga Singh drew
Sandor Szabo (1-1, dcor) ... Referee: Pappy Boyington ... Billy Varga drew Gory
Guerrero ... Pedro Brazil beat John Cretoria ... Dave Levin beat Tom Renesto

Bakersfield CA: April 8, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Billy Varga & Sandor Szabo beat Danny McShain & Sockeye Jack
McDonald (2-1) ... Joe Pazandak beat Bud Curtis (2-1) ... Gory Guerrero beat Lee
Savoldi (18:32) ... Promoter: Steve Strelich

Bakersfield CA: April 15, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Danny McShain & Joe Pazandak beat Leo Garibaldi & Billy Varga
(2-1) ... Referee: Benny Ginsberg ... Vic Christy drew Danny Savich (45:00, 1-1) ... Bud
Curtis beat Peppi Pasquale (2-1)

Bakersfield CA: April 22, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Wilbur Snyder & Sandor Szabo beat Danny McShain & Joe
Pazandak (2-1, dq) ... Referee: Joe Varga ... Brother Frank Jares drew Vic Christy
(45:00, 1-1) ... Gory Guerrero beat Ray Stevens (17:49) ... NOTE: Snyder and Szabo
were defending the "international television tag team" championship.

Bakersfield CA: April 29, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Sandor Szabo beat Danny McShain (1-1, utc) ... Bobo Brazil beat
Karl Davis (2-0) ... Bud Curtis beat Thor Hagen (sub for Dave Levin) (13:42) ... Brother
Frank Jares drew Mario De Souza (20:00)

Bakersfield CA: May 6, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Al Lovelock (as Great Bolo) (sub for Gorgeous George) drew
Sandor Szabo (1-1, nc) ... Referee: Benny Ginsberg ... Bobo Brazil beat Tom Rice (2-0)
... Wilbur Snyder beat Sockeye Jack McDonald (2-0) ... Peppi Pasquale beat Gory
Guerrero ... NOTE: Lovelock was back under the hood ... "Notice of a change in the
originally announced wrestling card for next Thursday was given today by promoter Steve
Strelich." -- Bakersfield CA Californian, May 1, 1954 ... And no other word was printed
regarding the sudden change which removed Gorgeous George from the lineup.

Bakersfield CA: May 13, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Sandor Szabo beat Al Lovelock (as Great Bolo) (2-1, dq) ...
Referee: Ted Grice ... Brother Frank Jares beat Leo Garibaldi (2-1) ... Sockeye Jack
McDonald beat John Cretoria (18:52) ... Juan Sepeda drew Peppi Pasquale (20:00)

Bakersfield CA: May 20, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Wilbur Snyder & Sandor Szabo drew Lord Blears & Lord Athol
Layton  (60:00, 1-1) ... Sockeye Jack McDonald beat Brother Frank Jares (2-1) ... Leo
Garibaldi drew Peppi Pasquale (20:00)

Bakersfield CA: May 27, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Bobo Brazil beat Joe Pazandak (2-0) ... Sandor Szabo beat Sockeye
Jack McDonald (2-1) ... Peppi Pasquale beat Tom Renesto ... Mario De Souza drew Juan
Sepeda (20:00)

Bakersfield CA: June 3, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Al Lovelock (as Great Bolo) & Tom Rice beat Sandor Szabo & Billy
Varga (2-1) ... Lord Blears beat Peppi Pasquale (2-1) ... Juan Sepeda beat John Cretoria

Bakersfield CA: June 10, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Al Lovelock (as Great Bolo) & Tom Rice beat Gino Garibaldi &
Warren Bockwinkel (2-1) ... Sockeye Jack McDonald drew Vic Christy (45:00, 1-1) ... Karl
Davis beat Mario De Souza (17:56)

Bakersfield CA: June 17, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Bobo Brazil beat Al Lovelock (as Great Bolo) (2-0, dq) ... Gino
Garibaldi drew Tom Rice (45:00, 1-1) ... Joe Pazandak beat Juan Sepeda ... Vic Christy
beat Tom Renesto ... NOTE: Promoter Steve Strelich continued to bill Renesto as "Tom
Renestau"

Bakersfield CA: June 24, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Bobo Brazil beat Hans Schnabel (2-0, dq) ... Gino Garibaldi &
Warren Bockwinkel beat Abe Kashey & Brother Frank Jares (2-1) ... Vic Christy beat
Peppi Pasquale (21:36)

Bakersfield CA: July 1, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Sandor Szabo drew Lord Athol Layton (1-1, nc) ... Lord Blears drew
Gino Garibaldi (45:00, 1-1) ... Sockeye Jack McDonald beat Juan Sepeda (8:42) ... Vic
Christy drew Warren Bockwinkel (20:00)

Bakersfield CA: July 8, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Sandor Szabo & Gino Garibaldi beat Lord Blears & Lord Athol
Layton (2-1, dq) ... Referee: Benny Ginsberg ... Dr. Lee Grable beat Sockeye Jack
McDonald (2-1) ... Peppi Pasquale beat Tom Renesto (2-0, dq)

Bakersfield CA: July 15, 1954
(Strelich Stadium, att. 1,500) ... Sandor Szabo beat Lord Athol Layton (2-1, dq) ...
(Midgets) Little Beaver & Cowboy Bradley beat Fuzzy Cupid & Tom Thumb ... Vic Christy
beat Dr. Lee Grable (2-1)

Bakersfield CA: July 22, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Bobo Brazil & Wilbur Snyder beat Tom Rice & Al Lovelock (as Great
Bolo) (2-1) ... Gene Kiniski beat Vic Christy (2-0) ... Sockeye Jack McDonald drew Peppi
Pasquale (1-1) ... NOTE: Brazil and Snyder defend the "international television tag team
championship"

Bakersfield CA: July 29, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... (Handicap) Bobo Brazil beat Al Lovelock (as Great Bolo) (18:23) ...
Bobo Brazil FTT Tom Rice (11:37) ... Referee: Cecil Payne ... Gene Kiniski beat Warren
Bockwinkel (2-1) ... John Cretoria (sub for Juan Sepeda) beat Peppi Pasquale (26:47)

Bakersfield CA: August 5, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Gene Kiniski beat Sandor Szabo (2-1) ... Referee: Jack Kenyon ...
Gino Garibaldi beat Lord Blears (2-1) ... Danny Savich beat Juan Sepeda (17:06) ... Dr.
Lee Grable drew John Cretoria (20:00)

Bakersfield CA: August 12, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Al Lovelock (as Great Bolo) & Tom Rice beat Warren Bockwinkel &
Gino Garibaldi (2-0) ... Sandor Szabo beat Gene Kiniski (2-1, dq) ... Danny Savich beat
Dr. Lee Grable (2-1)

Bakersfield CA: August 19, 1954
(Strelich Stadium, att. 1,500) ... Bobo Brazil beat Gene Kiniski (2-1) ... Al Lovelock (as
Great Bolo) beat Warren Bockwinkel (2-1) ... Danny Savich beat Vic Christy ... Karl Davis
beat Juan Sepeda (16:35)

Bakersfield CA: August 26, 1954
(Strelich Stadium, att. 1,500) ...  Bobo Brazil beat Gene Kiniski (2-1) ... Gino Garibaldi
drew Al Lovelock (as Great Bolo) (45:00, 1-1) ... Brother Frank Jares beat Sockeye Jack
McDonald (16:19) ... Danny Savich drew Bob Corby (20:00)

Bakersfield CA: September 2, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Bobo Brazil beat Lord James Blears (2-0) ... Gino Garibaldi &
Dennis Clary drew Brother Frank Jares & Danny Savich (45:00, 1-1) ... George Dusette
beat Bob Corby (dq) ... Referee: Jack Kenyon

Bakersfield CA: September 9, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Bobo Brazil & Wilbur Snyder drew Al Lovelock (as Great Bolo) &
Tom Rice (60:00, 1-1) ... Dennis Clary beat Joe Pazandak (2-1) ... George Dusette beat
Ted Christy (11:51) ... NOTE: Brazil and Snyder held on to the "international television
tag team championship"

Bakersfield CA: September 16, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Al Lovelock (as Great Bolo) & Tom Rice beat Hombre Montana &
Baron Gattoni (as Ricardo Montana) (2-1) ... Referee: Mike Ruby ... Danny Plechas beat
Dennis Clary (2-1) ... Mike Lane beat Brother Frank Jares

Bakersfield CA: September 23, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Hombre Montana & Baron Gattoni (as Ricardo Montana) beat Al
Lovelock (as Great Bolo) & Tom Rice (2-1) ... Danny Plechas beat Mike Lane (2-1) ...
Nick Bockwinkel beat John Cretoria (27:21, dq)

Bakersfield CA: September 30, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Hombre Montana & Baron Gattoni (as Ricardo Montana) beat Gene
Kiniski & Danny Plechas (2-1, dq) ... Lord James Blears beat Henry Piluso (as Kubla
Khan) (2-1, dq) ... Dennis Clary drew Karl Davis (20:00)

Bakersfield CA: October 7, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Gene Kiniski beat Hombre Montana (2-1) ... Joe Pazandak beat
Henry Piluso (as Kubla Khan) (2-1, dq) .. Nick Bockwinkel beat Jerry Christy (13:03) ...
Warren Bockwinkel drew Danny Savich (20:00) ... NOTE: "The smallest Strelich Stadium
crowd of recent months last night was rewarded with a sorry exhibition as eight wrestlers
barely went through the motions of their trade." -- Bakersfield CA Californian, Oct. 8, 1954

Bakersfield CA: October 14, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Gene Kiniski beat Man Mountain Dean Jr. (2-1, dq) ... Referee: Jack
Kenyon ... Warren Bockwinkel & Nick Bockwinkel drew Danny Savich & Ted Christy
(45:00, 1-1) ... Karl Davis beat Stan Kowalski (23:26)

Bakersfield CA: October 21, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Bobo Brazil beat Man Mountain Dean Jr. (2-0) ... Wilbur Snyder beat
Karl Davis (sub for Dennis Clary) (2-0, dq) ... Warren Bockwinkel beat Ted Christy
(23:57) ... Mike DiBiase beat Danny Savich (15:53)

Bakersfield CA: October 28, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Bobo Brazil beat Danny Plechas (2-0, dq) ... Warren Bockwinkel &
Nick Bockwinkel beat Joe Pazandak & Judo Jack Terry (45:00, 1-0, only fall) ... Mike Lane
beat Stan Kowalski (20:45)

Bakersfield CA: November 4, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Gene Kiniski & John Tolos beat Wilbur Snyder & Mike Lane (2-1) ...
Lord James Blears beat Warren Bockwinkel (2-1) ... Danny Savich drew Bob Corby
(20:00) ... NOTE: Kiniski and Tolos came in defending the "international television tag
team trophy"

Bakersfield CA: November 11, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Bobo Brazil & Wilbur Snyder beat Gene Kiniski & Danny Plechas
(2-1) ... Mike DiBiase beat Joe Pazandak (2-0) ... Karl Davis beat Vic Christy (22:29)

Bakersfield CA: November 18, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Wilbur Snyder drew John Tolos (1-1, dcor) ... Referee: Joe Woods
... Sandor Szabo beat Gene Kiniski (2-1, dq) ... Joe Blanchard beat Matt Murphy (12:16)
... Karl Davis beat Mike Lane (17:29)

Bakersfield CA: November 25, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... No wrestling due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

Bakersfield CA: December 2, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Bobo Brazil beat Gene Kiniski (2-1) ... Danny Plechas beat Sandor
Szabo ... Bob Corby drew Joe Blanchard (20:00) ... Karl Davis beat Mike Lane (15:44) ...
Referee: Cecil Payne ... NOTE: Even though it was Plechas who was unable to continue
due to a nasty cut on his forehead, referee Cecil Payne gave him the nod over Szabo
because Plechas had the only fall in the match up to that point.

Bakersfield CA: December 3, 1954
Licenses to promote amateur boxing and professional wrestling here have been issued to
Lloyd Miller by the state athletic commission following forfeiture of renewal by Steve
Strelich ... Strelich is retiring as boxing and wrestling promoter this month and has leased
his Strelich Stadium to Miller and others ... Miller said wrestling will be returning to its old
stand, Wednesday nights, in 1955.

Bakersfield CA: December 9, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Danny Plechas beat Sandor Szabo (2-1) ... Karl Davis & Henry
Piluso (as Kubla Khan) beat Dennis Clary & Mike Lane (2-1) ... Vic Christy beat Bob
Corby (15:37)

Bakersfield CA: December 16, 1954
(Strelich Stadium) ... Bobo Brazil beat Danny Plechas (2-1) ... Alo Leilani beat Lord
Blears (45:00, 1-0, only fall) ... Vic Christy beat Hans Schnabel (17:20, dq) ... Warren
Bockwinkel drew Jack Terry (20:00) ... Referee: Stanley Pinto ... NOTE: Final show of the
year.



Research by J Michael Kenyon
Bakersfield Wrestling Results - 1954