Charlotte Wrestling Results

Charlotte, North Carolina: Monday, January 7, 1935
(The Armory) … Mayes McLain b. George Widchecki (2/3) … Cowboy Luttrall b. Dobie
Osborn (18:57) … Jim “Goon” Henry b. Herman Hickman (2/3) … (promoter: Jim Crockett)
… (referee: Jim Belliveau) … (timekeeper: Bill Starr) … (record crowd in attendance)
Note: George Widchecki was reportedly going to report to the training camp of the
Philadelphia Athletics no later than February 20, 1935; he had been a star pitcher at
Boston College and had played semi-pro baseball; Luttrall earned a $10 fine when he
used the timekeeper’s hammer to smash Osborn

Charlotte, North Carolina: Monday, January 14, 1935
(The Armory) … Cowboy Luttrall b. Jim “Goon” Henry (2/3) … Mayes McLain b. George
Cochran (DQ) (Cochran initially won the match, but punched McLain after afterwards, and
the boxing commission reversed the decision) (16:38) … Kirk Stromberg b. Jack Ross
(dec., 30:00) … (promoter: Jim Crockett) … (4,000+ fans)

Charlotte, North Carolina: Monday, January 21, 1935
(The Armory) … George Cochran b. Cowboy Luttrall (2/3) … Bill Middlekauf b. Herman
Hickman (dec., 30:00) … Don Nolan b. George Widchecki (34:20) … (promoter: Jim
Crockett) … (referee: Jim Belliveau) … (large crowd in attendance)

Charlotte, North Carolina: Monday, February 11, 1935
(The Armory) … Ed “Strangler” Lewis b. Mayes McLain (2-0) … Bill Middlekauf b. George
Cochran (44:31) … Dobie Osborn b. Jim Hesslyn (18:02) … (promoter: Jim Crockett) …
(refereee: Jim Belliveau) … (5,000 fans)
Note: Newspaper reported that Ed “Strangler” Lewis had traveled to Charlotte with “Ralph
Mondt of New York, who is handling the five-time champion’s road tour.” Lewis claimed to
have wrestled 4,000 times in 25 years and stated that Gus Sonnenberg gave him his
hardest match. He also said that he saved his money, which goes against most reports on
his spending habits. Lewis reportedly weighed 245 pounds. He “gave a Tunney exhibition
between falls with a talk on the manly art of wrestling.”

Charlotte, North Carolina: Monday, February 18, 1935
(The Armory) … Cowboy Luttrall b. George Cochran (2/3) … Floyd Marshall b. Charlie
Allen (19:59) (Marshall continued to kick his opponent, earning a $5 fine) … Eli Fischer b.
Jim “Goon” Henry (2/3) … (promoter: Jim Crockett) … (referee: Jim Belliveau)

Charlotte, North Carolina: Monday, March 4, 1935
(The Armory) … Eli Fischer b. Cowboy Luttrall (2/3) … Tiny Roebuck b. Jack McArthur (12:
14) … Don Nolan b. George Cochran (dec., 30:00) … (promoter: Jim Crockett) …
(referee: Jim Belliveau) … (3,500 fans)
Notes: The boxing commission fined Luttrall $20 and Fischer $5 for their illegal actions.
Luttrall was also placed on a 90-day probation.

Charlotte, North Carolina: Monday, March 18, 1935
(The Armory) … Tiny Roebuck b. Cowboy Luttrall (2/3) … Eli Fischer b. Jack McArthur (17:
33) … Floyd Marshall b. Harry Lewis (10:47) … (promoter: Jim Crockett) … (referee:
Ralph Hood)

Charlotte, North Carolina: Monday, April 1, 1935
(The Armory) … Tor Johanson (Johnson) b. Mayes McLain (2-0) … Chief Tiny Roebuck b.
Eli Fischer (29:50) … Don Nolan b. Floyd Marshall (22:10) … (promoter: Jim Crockett)

Charlotte, North Carolina: Monday, April 15, 1935
(The Armory) … Chief Tiny Roebuck b. Tor Johnson (2/3) … Eli Fischer and Mayes
McLain drew (45:00) … Don Nolan b. Charlie Allen (28:00) … (promoter: Jim Crockett) …
(4,000 fans, reported as being a record even though Lewis reportedly drew 5,000 on
February 11)
Note: Johnson weighed 309 pounds and Roebuck was at 310.

Charlotte, North Carolina: Monday, May 13, 1935
(The Armory) … Mayes McLain b. Herb Freeman (2/3) … Tiny Roebuck b. Tex Morgan
(2/3) … Jim Wright b. Johnny Plummer (21:25) … (promoter: Jim Crockett) … (referee:
Jim Belliveau)
Notes: Herb Freeman avoided a suspension by paying a $10 fine and was placed on
probation for his actions in his bout with McLain. Plummer “once chased Jack Dempsey
from the ring when the former heavyweight boxing champion was refereeing a match in
Baton Rouge, La., and who tore up a ring in Chicago when he became incensed at the
decision of the officials.” Plummer was from Central City, Iowa. Morgan was a “former
Maine lumberjack and Texas brewery hand” and he weighed 270-280 pounds.

Charlotte, North Carolina: Monday, May 27, 1935
(The Armory) … Tiny Roebuck failed to beat both Herb Freeman and Jim Wright; Roebuck
b. Herb Freeman (30:00) … Wright b. Roebuck (15:03) … Johnny Plummer b. Axel
Anderson (Leo Numa) (17:38) … Mayes McLain b. Al Maynard (18:17) … (promoter: Jim
Crockett)

Charlotte, North Carolina: Monday, June 3, 1935
(The Armory) … Dick Shikat b. “Chief’ Tiny Roebuck (2/3) … Johnny Plummer b. Tex
Morgan (32:00) … Mayes McLain b. Herb Freeman (dec., 30:00) … (promoter: Jim
Crockett) … (1,500 fans)

Charlotte, North Carolina: Monday, June 24, 1935
(The Armory) … Joe Savoldi b. Johnny Plummer (2/3) (third by DQ) … Little Beaver b. Pat
Newman (25:53) … Al Maynard b. Axel Anderson (Leo Numa) (17:00) … (promoter: Jim
Crockett) … (referee: Jim Belliveau)
Note: Plummer was fined $5 for his “heelish” tactics.

Research by Tim Hornbaker
January 1, 2008

Charlotte Wrestling Results - 1935