Boston Wrestling Results

Boston, Massachusetts: Friday, January 16, 1959
(Boston Garden) … World Heavyweight Champion Killer Kowalski b. Manuel Cortez (2/3) …
Lou Thesz b. Paul Baillargeon (11:22) … Dr. Bill Miller b. Larry Moquin (5:20) … Hard Boiled
Haggerty and Luther Lindsay drew (15:00) … Pepi Chicarro b. Ed Miller (DQ) (11:55) …
(promoter: Paul Bowser) … (referees: Yvon Durelle, George Linnehan) … (12,000 fans)

Boston, Massachusetts: Friday, January 30, 1959
(Boston Garden) … World Heavyweight Champion Killer Kowalski and Lou Thesz were both
counted out … Women’s World Tag Team Champions Penny Banner and Lorraine Johnson
b. June Byers and Betty Hawkins … Haystacks Calhoun and Don Leo Jonathan were both
disqualified … Chief War Cloud and Antonino Rocca b. The Tolos Brothers (DQ) (19:27) …
(promoter: Paul Bowser) … (referee: Jack Terry) … (11,000 fans)

Boston, Massachusetts: February 13, 1959
(Boston Garden) … World Heavyweight Champion Killer Kowalski b. Lou Thesz (2/3) …
Pepper Gomez b. The Masked Marvel (3:20) … Dr. Bill Miller b. Dr. Timothy Geohagen …
Haystack Calhoun b. Hard Boiled Haggerty … Don Leo Jonathan b. Ed Miller … The Tolos
Brothers (Chris and John Tolos) wrestled Luther Lindsey and Larry Moquin to a draw …
(promoter: Paul Bowser) … (10,500 fans)

Boston, Massachusetts: March 14, 1959
(Boston Garden) … World Heavyweight Champion Killer Kowalski b. Dr. Bill Miller (2/3) …
Frank Scarpa b. The Masked Marvel … Hard Boiled Haggerty b. Dr. Timothy Geohagen …
Pepper Gomez b. Ed Miller … Don Leo Jonathan vs. Yukon Eric … The Tolos Brothers
(Chris and John Tolos) vs. Larry Moquin and Bernard Vignal … (promoter: Paul Bowser) …
(referee: Mike Mazurki) … (13,909 fans) (capacity)

*According to the March 19, 1959 edition of the Boston Globe, Paul Bowser was planned the
biggest wrestling show ever staged at the Boston Garden on Friday, April 3. 18 wrestlers
were going to compete in a tournament for the “New England Title.”

Boston, Massachusetts: Friday, April 3, 1959
(Boston Garden) … Wrestling Tournament … Pepper Gomez b. Hard Boiled Haggerty in the
finals to win the tournament … Pepper Gomez b. Raymond Fernandez (9:57) (first round) …
Pepper Gomez b. Dan Miller (4:59) (second round) … Pepper Gomez b. Hans Schmidt (7:39)
(third round) … Hard Boiled Haggerty b. John Tolos … Hard Boiled Haggerty b. Paul
Baillargeon … Hard Boiled Haggerty b. Larry Moquin … Larry Moquin b. Ed Miller (dec., 15:
00) … Emil Dupre b. Don Leo Jonathan (DQ) (Dupre suffered a back injury and was carried
from the ring) … (promoter: Paul Bowser) … (13,909 fans) (capacity)
Notes: Although a previous article in the Boston Globe claimed that the winner would receive
the “New England Title,” a championship was never mentioned after the show in newspaper
accounts. Gomez was said to have won a purse of $9,000, plus a $2,000 trophy. He was
also going to challenge Killer Kowalski for the title on April 25. Gomez was said to have been
denied a title shot for “four months.” There were 18 wrestlers in the tournament, and the
Boston Globe did not provide complete results. Dupre was from Moncton, New Brunswick.
Haggerty was said to be Kowalski’s “corner man.”

Boston, Massachusetts: April 25, 1959
(Boston Garden) … World Heavyweight Champion Killer Kowalski and Pepper Gomez drew at
the 11:00 curfew (1-1) … The Miller Brothers (Dan and Ed Miller) b. The Tolos Brothers
(Chris and John Tolos) … Joe Brunetti b. Andre Bollet … Guy Brunetti b. Frank Valois …
Haystacks Calhoun b. Tony Lanza … Sammy Berg and Larry Moquin drew … Don Leo
Jonathan b. Luther Lindsey … (promoter: Paul Bowser) … (13,909 fans) (capacity)
Note: It was said that 5,000 fans were turned away.

Boston, Massachusetts: May 9, 1959
(Boston Garden) … World Heavyweight Champion Killer Kowalski b. Pepper Gomez (2/3) …
Edouard Carpentier b. Frank Valois (10:24) … Andre Bollet and Larry Moquin drew (15:00)
… Bill Miller b. Sandor Kovacs (13:35) … Don Leo Jonathan b. Yvon Lozier (4:55) … The
Brunettis (Guy and Joe Brunetti) b. Dan and Ed Miller … (promoter: Paul Bowser) … (12,000
fans)
Notes: There was no curfew for the Kowalski-Gomez bout. Lozier was from New Brunswick.

Boston, Massachusetts: Saturday, May 30, 1959
(Boston Garden) … World Heavyweight Champion Killer Kowalski vs. Don Leo Jonathan …
The Brunettis (Guy and Joe Brunetti) vs. The Tolos Brothers (Chris and John Tolos) …
Edouard Carpentier vs. Joe Christie … Yvon Lozier vs. Frank Scarpa … Mike Clancy vs. Dr.
Bill Miller … (promoter: Paul Bowser)

Boston, Massachusetts: June 20, 1959
(Boston Garden) … World Heavyweight Champion Killer Kowalski b. Dr. Bill Miller (2/3) … Ilio
DiPaolo b. Karl Von Seiber … Emil Dupre b. Angelo Savoldi … Hans Schmidt b. Paul
Baillargeon … The Brunettis (Guy and Joe Brunetti) wrestled the Volkoffs (Boris and Nicoli
Volkoff) to a draw (20:00) … Rene Benchemol and Gilbert Cisca drew … (promoter: Paul
Bowser) … (7,500 fans)

Boston, Massachusetts: July 17, 1959
(Boston Garden) … Antonino Rocca b. Hans Schmidt (2-0) … Larry Moquin b. Frank Valois
(8:09) … Ilio DiPaolo and Pepper Gomez b. The Miller Brothers (Bill and Dan Miller) (11:35)
… June Byers and Laura Martinez b. Lorraine Johnson and Jessica Rogers (13:56) …
Haystacks Calhoun b. The Volkoffs (Boris and Nicoli Volkoff) (4:55) …Rene Benchemout b.
Gil Cisca (12:37) … (promoter: Paul Bowser) … (8,600 fans)

Boston, Massachusetts: Saturday, August 22, 1959
(Boston Garden) … World Heavyweight Champion Killer Kowalski and Antonino Rocca drew
at the 11:00 curfew (41:00) … Dick the Bruiser b. Tony Marino (6:39) … Emil Dupre b. Harry
Lewis (13:55) … The Volkoffs (Boris and Nicoli Volkoff) wrestled Pierre LaMarin and Frank
Scarpa to a draw (20:00) … Pepper Gomez b. Henry Molin (5:27) … Ilio DiPaolo b. Baron
Gattoni (3:49) … (promoter: Paul Bowser) … (12,000 fans)
Notes: Bruiser was originally slated to wrestle Ilio DiPaolo. Edouard Carpentier and Pepper
Gomez were billed as being on this show.

Boston, Massachusetts: October 2, 1959
(Boston Garden) … United States Heavyweight Champion Dick the Bruiser b. Verne Gagne
(25:48) (Texas Death Match) (Gagne was unable to continue due to a knee injury) … Bobo
Brazil and Don Eagle b. The Miller Brothers (Dan and Ed Miller) … Emil Dupre b. Lee
Henning (12:31) … Ilio DiPaolo b. Waldo Von Erich (14:21) … Hans Schmidt b. Roy McClarity
(13:16) … (promoter: Paul Bowser) … (5,000 fans)

*At some point in 1959, probably in September or October, Bowser lost his live studio TV
show on WBZ.

*In the February 10, 1960 edition of the Boston Globe, it was stated that this had been the
first winter in “40 years” that Bowser’s wrestling troupe had been absent. In the January 30,
1960 edition, Paul Bowser was quoted saying that he was trying to make a television
arrangement, and that was the reason for his inactivity.

Research by Tim Hornbaker
November 4, 2010

Boston Wrestling Results - 1959