Denver Wrestling Results

Denver, Colorado: Monday, January 5, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Champion Joe Millich b. Danny
Dusek (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … Ken Fenelon b. Jim Burnett (45 seconds of the sixth
round) (“Australian” match) … Chris Zaharias b. Floyd Hansen (9:24) … Danny Loos b.
Ivan Jones (14:01) … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, January 12, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Champion Joe Millich b. Ken Fenelon
(2/3) … The Garibaldi Brothers (Chick and Ralph Garibaldi) b. Danny Dusek and Chris
Zaharias … Jack Conley b. Floyd Hansen (12:44) … Danny Loos b. Bobby Chick (8:34) …
(promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, January 19, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Tuffy Truesdale b. A live alligator (10:00) … Danny Dusek b. Joe
Millich to capture the Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Title (2/3) … The Zahariases (Babe
and Chris Zaharias) b. The Garibaldi Brothers (Chick and Ralph Garibaldi) … (promoter:
George Zaharias) … (3,500 fans)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, January 26, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … The Zahariases (Chris and Gus “Babe” Zaharias) b. The Garibaldi
Brothers (Chick and Ralph Garibaldi) (2/3) … Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Champion
Danny Dusek b. Jack Conley … Joe Millich b. Ivan Jones … (promoter: George Zaharias)
Notes: In advertising, the nephew of the promoter George Zaharias and wrestlers Chris
and Tom Zaharias, “Babe” Zaharias was called “Gus” Zaharias. This was likely done by
George to prevent any confusion between the wrestler and his wife, the famous golfer
known as “Babe Zaharias.” In other towns, he was known as “Babe” Zaharias.

Denver, Colorado: Monday, February 2, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … World Heavyweight Champion Bill Longson b. Joe Millich (2-0) …
Danny Dusek and Ralph Garibaldi drew (45:00) … Chief Little Wolf b. Babe Zaharias …
Chick Garibaldi b. Chris Zaharias (DQ) … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, February 9, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … The Garibaldi Brothers (Chick and Ralph Garibaldi) b. Danny and
Wally Dusek (2/3) (boards broke under the ring) … Chief Little Wolf b. Bus “Babe”
Zaharias … Jack Conley and Joe Millich drew … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, February 16, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … The Garibaldi Brothers (Chick and Ralph Garibaldi) wrestled The
Zahariases (Babe and Chris Zaharias) to a draw (1-1) (45:00) … Danny Dusek b. Chief
Little Wolf (2/3) … Jack Conley b. Ivan Jones … Joe Millich b. Wally Dusek … (promoter:
George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, February 23, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … The Garibaldi Brothers (Chick and Ralph Garibaldi) b. The
Zahariases (Babe and Chris Zaharias) (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … Rocky Mountain
Heavyweight Champion Danny Dusek b. Joe Millich … Chief Little Wolf b. Wally Dusek …
Jack Conley and Danny Loos drew … (promoter: George Zaharias) … (referee: Everette
Marshall)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, March 1, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Chief Little Wolf and Joe Millich b. The Zahariases (Chris and Babe
“Gus” Zaharias) … Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Champion Danny Dusek b. Ralph
Garibaldi … Jack Conley b. Ivan Jones … Danny Loos b. Chick Garibaldi … (promoter:
George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, March 8, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Chief Little Wolf and Joe Millich b. Danny Dusek and Marvin Jones
… The Red Raider b. Jack Conley (2-0) … Gene Grenard and Ivan Jones drew … Danny
Loos b. Frank Hewitt … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, March 22, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Tony Galento b. Jack Conley (12:45) (Galento used his fists to
score the win) … Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Champion Chief Little Wolf b. Frank Hewitt
(2/3) (DQ in the third fall) … The Red Raider b. Gene Bowman … Chief War Cloud and
George Temple drew … (promoter: George Zaharias) … (4,000+ fans)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, April 5, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … The Red Raider b. Chief Little Wolf to capture the Rocky Mountain
Heavyweight Title (2/3) (third fall by DQ) (Wolf threw Raider over the top rope) … Mae
Young b. Helen Hild … June Byers b. Dot Dotson … Steve Gob b. Jack Conley … Frank
Hewitt b. Chief War Cloud … (promoter: George Zaharias) … (capacity crowd)
Note: The Colorado Boxing Commission had recently enacted a rule that disqualified any
wrestler for throwing his opponent over the top rope.

Denver, Colorado: Monday, April 12, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … June Byers and Helen Hild b. Dot Dotson and Mae Young … Rocky
Mountain Heavyweight Champion The Red Raider b. Frank Hewitt (2/3) … Chief Little Wolf
b. Gus “Babe” Zaharias … Chief War Cloud and Steve Gob drew … (promoter: George
Zaharias) … (referee: Johnny Atkins) … (capacity crowd)
Notes: During the girl tag team match, referee Atkins had his shirt torn off.

Denver, Colorado: Monday, April 19, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Champion The Red Raider b. Chief
Little Wolf (2/3) … Vic Holbrook b. Frank Hewitt (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … Don McIntyre b.
Jack Conley … Steve Gob and Danny Loos drew … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, April 26, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Vic Holbrook and The Red Raider vs. Jack Conley and Frank
Hewitt (2/3) … Chief Little Wolf vs. Don McIntyre (2/3) … Danny Loos vs. Jose Vasques …
Steve Gob vs. Joe Millich … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, May 3, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Vic Holbrook and The Red Raider vs. Frank Hewitt and The Volga
Boatman (2/3) … Chief Little Wolf vs. Felix Miquet … Steve Gob vs. Jose Vasques … Joe
Millich vs. Chris Zaharias … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, May 10, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … The French Angel vs. The Volga Boatman (2/3) … Frank Hewitt vs.
Joe Millich … Antone Leone vs. Fred Wright … Chief Little Wolf vs. Chris Zaharias …
(promoter: George Zaharias)
Note: Wright was billed as being from Chicago.

Denver, Colorado: Monday, May 17, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Tony Galento b. Frank Hewitt (2-0) (Galento won the first fall with
an airplane spin and the second with a punch) … Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Champion
The Red Raider b. The Volga Boatman (2-0) … Chief Little Wolf and Joe Millich drew …
Gene Bowman b. Antone Leone … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, May 24, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Champion The Red Raider b. Tony
Galento (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … Chief Little Wolf and Chris Zaharias drew (1-1) … Joe
Millich b. The Volga Boatman … Gene Bowman and Vern Pugh drew … (promoter:
George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, May 31, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Joe Millich b. The Red Raider (Bud Curtis) to capture the Rocky
Mountain Heavyweight Title (2/3) … Ivan Rasputin and Chris Zaharias b. Gene Bowman
and Vern Pugh (2-0) … Danny Loos b. Ray Hegler … Benny Fernandez and Ivan Jones
drew … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, June 7, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Bud Curtis b. Joe Millich to regain the Rocky Mountain Heavyweight
Title (2/3) … Ivan Rasputin and Chris Zaharias b. Gene Bowman and Abe Coleman (2/3)
… Benny Fernandez and Ray Hegler drew … Danny Loos b. Vern Pugh (DQ) …
(promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, June 14, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Ivan Rasputin and Chris Zaharias b. Abe Coleman and Bud Curtis
(2/3) … Jack Kennedy and Joe Millich drew (1-1) … Gene Bowman b. Vern Pugh … Ivan
Jones b. Ray Hegler … (promoter: George Zaharias)
Note: A 51 year old audience member named Paul A. Walker died of a heart attack while
watching the wrestling show.

Denver, Colorado: Monday, June 21, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Champion Bud Curtis b. Ivan
Rasputin (2-0) (second fall by DQ) … Joe Millich b. Jack Kennedy (2/3) … Abe Coleman
b. Vern Pugh (11:05) … Gene Bowman and Chris Zaharias drew … (promoter: George
Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, June 28, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Bud Curtis and Joe Millich b. Wally Dusek and Chris Zaharias (2/3)
… Abe Coleman b. Jack Kennedy (2/3) … Danny Loos b. Ray Hegler (7:12) … Gene
Bowman b. Vern Pugh (11:35) … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, July 5, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Champion Bud Curtis b. Abe
Coleman (2/3) … Patty Summers b. Billie Davis (6:36) … Wally Dusek b. Chris Zaharias
(2/3) … Joe Millich b. Vern Pugh (7:35) … Gene Bowman and Danny Loos drew (20:00)
… (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, July 12, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Bud Curtis and Tarzan White drew (60:00) (1-1) … Wally Dusek
and Joe Millich b. Otto Schnabel and Chris Zaharias … Gene Bowman b. Benny
Fernandez … Danny Loos b. Vern Pugh … (promoter: George Zaharias) … (referee:
Nick Studen)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, July 19, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Champion Tarzan White b. Bud
Curtis (2/3) … Danny Loos and Joe Millich b. Otto Schnabel and Chris Zaharias … Ray
Duran b. George Williamson … Gene Bowman and Wally Dusek drew (20:00) …
(promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, July 26, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Champion Tarzan White b. Wally
Dusek (2-0) (first fall by DQ) … Nell Stewart b. Dot Dotson (2/3) … Lillian Ellison b. Ada
Ash (7:53) … Bud Curtis and Chris Zaharias drew … Ray Duran and Joe Millich drew …
(promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, August 2, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Lillian Ellison and Nell Stewart b. Ada Ash and Dot Dotson …
Tarzan White b. Chris Zaharias (2/3) … Bud Curtis b. Joe Millich … Ray Duran b. Wally
Dusek (DQ) … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, August 9, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Kostas Davelis b. Wally Dusek (2-0) … Danny Loos and Tarzan
White b. Bud Curtis and Frank Hewitt … Ray Duran and Chris Zaharias drew … Joe Millich
b. Gene Bowman … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, August 16, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Tarzan White b. Chris Zaharias … Kostas Davelis b. Frank Hewitt
(DQ) … Wally Dusek and Danny Loos drew (20:00) … Ray Duran b. Vern Pugh …
(promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, August 23, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Tarzan White b. Kostas Davelis (2/3) … Ray Duran and Danny
Loos b. Wally Dusek and Frank Hewitt … Chris Zaharias b. Vern Pugh (14:11) … Ivan
Jones b. Albert Solis (1:51) … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, August 30, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Tarzan White and Frank Hewitt wrestled to a no contest (referee
stopped the match due to a “deep scalp wound” suffered by Hewitt) … Danny Loos b.
Chris Zaharias (2/3) … Tex Bodine b. Vern Pugh (DQ) … Kostas Davelis and Ray Duran
drew … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, September 6, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Champion Tarzan White b. Tommy O’
Toole (2/3) … Ray Duran and Danny Loos b. Frank Hewitt and Chris Zaharias … Ivan
Kameroff b. Vern Pugh … Bob Corby b. Tex Bodine … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, September 13, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Bob Corby and Frank Hewitt b. Danny Loos and Tarzan White
(2/3) … Ray Duran and Ivan Kameroff drew (1-1) … Vern Pugh b. Tex Bodine … Benny
Fernandez b. Ray Hegler … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, September 20, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … June Byers b. Elvira Snodgrass (2/3) … Tarzan White b. Bob
Corby (2-0) … Theresa Theis b. Juanita Coffman (5:41) … Frank Hewitt and Ivan
Kameroff drew … Ray Duran and Danny Loos drew … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, September 27, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … June Byers and Theresa Theis b. Elvira Snodgrass and Mae
Young … Tarzan White b. Frank Hewitt (2/3) … Ray Duran b. Ivan Kameroff … Danny
Loos b. Bob Corby (DQ) … (promoter: George Zaharias) … (4,000 fans)

*The Tuesday, September 28, 1948 edition of the Denver Post reported that $2,500 was
stolen from “George Zaharias, 39, of Edgewater, Denver sports promoter.” Thieves broke
into his hotel room in Grand Junction late Saturday or early Sunday. He was in town on a
golf trip.

Denver, Colorado: Monday, October 4, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Bob Corby b. Tarzan White to capture the Rocky Mountain
Heavyweight Title (2/3) (angry fans showered the ring with items, showing their
displeasure with the decision) … Women’s World Champion Mildred Burke b. June Byers
(2-0) … Danny Loos b. Ivan Kameroff … Jack Connolly and Ray Duran drew …
(promoter: George Zaharias) … (referee: Jack Bloom) … (4,500 fans)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, October 11, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Champion Bob Corby and Tarzan
White drew (60:00) (1-1) … The Cardiff Giant b. Jack Conley (2-0) … Danny Loos b.
Jimmy Ray … Ray Duran and Hans Schultz drew … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, October 18, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Danny Loos and Tarzan White b. Jack Conley and Bob Corby (2/3)
… The Cardiff Giant b. Jimmy Ray … Ray Duran and Dick Hatcher drew … Hans Schultz
b. Bennie Fernandez … (promoter: George Zaharias) … (referee: Marvin Franz)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, October 25, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Danny Loos and Tarzan White b. Jack Conley and Bob Corby (2/3)
… The Gardiff Giant b. Hans Schultz (2-0) … Dick Hatcher b. Jimmy Ray … Ray Duran b.
Tex Bodine … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, November 1, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Danny Loos and Tarzan White b. The Cardiff Giant and Bob Corby
(2/3) … Ray Duran and Dick Hatcher drew (1-1) … Tex Bodine b. Hans Schultz … Jimmy
Ray b. Bennie Fernandez … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, November 8, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Bob Corby b. Ray Duran (2/3) … Danny Loos and Tarzan White b.
The Cardiff Giant and Jimmy Ray (2-0) … Dick Hatcher b. Hans Schultz (Schultz suffered
a head injury and was unable to continue) … Ted Bodine and Ivan Jones drew …
(promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, November 15, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Bob Corby and Danny Loos drew (1-1) … Dick Hatcher and Jimmy
Ray wrestled to a no contest (durin the bout, Hatcher lost his balance and “his left leg
snapped above the ankle,” according to the Denver Post) … Jim “Goon” Henry b. The
Cardiff Giant (2/3) … Tarzan White b. Hans Schultz … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, November 22, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Champion Bob Corby vs. Tarzan
White (2/3) … Jim “Goon” Henry vs. Sing Sing Talun … Ray Duran vs. Danny Loos …
Tom Novak vs. Hans Schultz … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, November 29, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … The Zahariases (Babe and Chris Zaharias) b. Danny Loos and
Tarzan White (2/3) … Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Champion Bob Corby b. Jim “Goon”
Henry (2/3) … Jimmy Ray and Hans Schultz drew (20:00) … Benny Fernandez b. Tex
Bodine … (promoter: George Zaharias) … (3,000 fans)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, December 6, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … The Zahariases (Babe and Chris Zaharias) vs. Danny Loos and
Tarzan White (2/3) … Bob Corby vs. George Craig (2/3) … Jim “Goon” Henry vs. Jimmy
Ray … Benny Fernandez vs. Hans Schultz … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, December 13, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … George Craig and Jim “Goon” Henry b. The Zahariases (Babe and
Chris Zaharias) (2/3) … Tarzan White b. Bob Corby to capture the Rocky Mountain
Heavyweight Title (2-0) … Danny Loos b. Hans Schultz … George Bruckman b. Jimmy
Ray (DQ) … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, December 20, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Champion Tarzan White vs. Jim
“Goon” Henry (2/3) … George Craig and Danny Loos vs. Verne Pugh and Jimmy Ray …
George Bruckman vs. Benny Fernandez … Ted Bodine vs. Ivan Jones … (promoter:
George Zaharias)

Denver, Colorado: Monday, December 27, 1948
(Mammoth Garden) … George Bruckman and Jim “Goon” Henry b. Danny Loos and
Tarzan White (2-0) … George Craig b. Vern Pugh (2/3) … Jimmy Ray b. Tex Bodine …
Benny Fernandez and Ivan Jones drew … (promoter: George Zaharias)

Research by Tim Hornbaker
August 12, 2007

Denver Wrestling Results - 1948