Denver Wrestling Results

Denver, Colorado: Wednesday, January 5, 1955
(Rainbow Ballroom) … Rose Londonski b. Joyce LaSalle (2/3) … Jack Allen and Mike
DiBiase wrestled to a no contest (both men were knocked out during the third fall) (1-1) …
Juan Garcia vs. Babe Ruhl … (promoter: Mike London) … (referee: Leo Bahl)
Note: The 8:30-9:30 portion of the show would be broadcast over KFEL-TV, channel 2.

Denver, Colorado: Wednesday, January 12, 1955
(Rainbow Ballroom) … Gorgeous George b. Jack Allen (2/3) … Mike DiBiase b. Babe Ruhl
(DQ) … Juan Garcia b. Bud Fisher … (promoter: Mike London)

Denver, Colorado: Tuesday, January 18, 1955
(City Auditorium Arena) … United States Heavyweight Champion Verne Gagne wrestled
Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Champion Pat O’Connor to a no contest (1-1) (O’Connor
suffered a knee injury after the second fall and was unable to continue) … Antonino
Rocca b. Eddie Lewis (2-0) (Rocca was making his first Denver appearance) … Mike
DiBiase and Juan Garcia drew … Jack Allen b. Babe Ruhl (DQ) … Bud Fischer b. Harry
Finkelstein … (promoter: Mike London)

*No shows in Denver through the first part of March 1955.

Denver, Colorado: Tuesday, March 8, 1955
(City Auditorium Arena) … Rocky Mountain Heavyweight Champion Pat O’Connor b.
Danny Plechas (2/3) … Antonino Rocca b. Hans Schmidt (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … Count
Zarnoff b. Al Kosaboski … Mike DiBiase b. Bronko Lubich … Mike Burnell and Bud Fisher
drew … (promoter: Mike London) … (4,021 fans)
Note: It was reported in the Denver Post that Hans Schmidt’s “rough tactics earned him a
60 days suspension last year from the Colorado Athletic Commission.”

Denver, Colorado: Tuesday, April 5, 1955
(City Auditorium Arena) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz and Rocky
Mountain Heavyweight Champion Pat O’Connor drew (60:00) (1-1) … Danny Plechas b.
Rudy Kay (2/3) … Mike DiBiase b. Count Zarnoff (15:54) … Jack Claybourne b. Bronko
Lubich … Maurice LaChappelle b. Ivan Cameron … (promoter: Mike London) …
(referee: Leo Bahl)
Note: The newspaper initially indicated that this show would be held on April 8.

Denver, Colorado: Thursday, May 5, 1955
(City Auditorium Arena) … United States Heavyweight Champion Verne Gagne b. Don
Leo Jonathan (2/3) … Dr Bill Herman and Danny Plechas b. Jack Claybourne and Juan
Garcia … Mitsu Arakawa b. Jack Allen … Mike Burnell and Nick Studen drew (20:00) … a
women’s match was cancelled when Rose Romano missed a plane from Omaha …
(promoter: Mike London) … (2,865 fans)

Denver, Colorado: Thursday, June 2, 1955
(City Auditorium Arena) … Hans Schmidt b. Don Leo Jonathan (2/3) … Dr. Bill Herman
and Danny Plechas b. Chief Kit Fox and Juan Garcia (2/3) … Mitsu Arakawa b. Jack
Claybourne (22:00) … “Buffalo” Bill Williams and Jim Wright drew (15:00) … (promoter:
Mike London)
Note: Next show was announced as being held on July 7.

Denver, Colorado: Thursday, July 7, 1955
(City Auditorium Arena) … Women’s World Champion June Byers b. Bonnie Watson (2-0)
… Pat O’Connor b. Hans Schmidt (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … Dr. Bill Herman and Danny
Plechas b. Mike DiBiase and Juan Garcia … Jim Wright b. Tiny Zimbleman … (promoter:
Mike London) … (3,500 fans)

Denver, Colorado: Thursday, August 4, 1955
(City Auditorium Arena) … Verne Gagne and Roy McClarity b. Reggie Lisowski and
Danny Plechas (2/3) … Cowboy Bradley and Lord Littlebrook b. Sky Low Low and Ivan
the Terrible (2/3) … Jim “Goon” Henry and Jim Wright drew … Mike DiBiase b. Danny
Ferraza … (promoter: Mike London)

Denver, Colorado: Thursday, October 6, 1955
(City Auditorium Arena) … United States Heavyweight Champion Verne Gagne b. Yukon
Eric (2/3) … Danny Plechas b. Roberto Pico (2/3) … Ricky Waldo b. Bill Williams (12:35)
(Waldo was originally slated to wrestle Ivan Rasputin Jr.) … Mike DiBiase and Juan
Humberto drew (30:00) … (promoter: Mike London) … (4,000 fans)
Note: The Gagne-Eric match was reportedly a “promotional scoop” for London, “since
most major promoters had bid for the bout.”

Denver, Colorado: Thursday, November 3, 1955
(City Auditorium Arena) … Roy McClarity b. Hans Schnabel (2-0) (first fall by DQ) …
“Wild” Red Berry b. “Doc” Bill Herman (2/3) … Danny Plechas b. Jim Wright (Wright
suffered a “bad head cut”) … Juan Humberto and Ricky Waldo drew … Roberto Pico b.
Mike DiBiase … (promoter: Mike London)

Denver, Colorado: Thursday, December 1, 1955
(City Auditorium Arena) … Hans Schmidt b. Roy McClarity (2/3) (Schmidt earned a match
with NWA World Champion Lou Thesz on January 19, 1956) … Bob Orton b. Roberto Pico
(2-0) … Jim “Goon” Henry and Jim Wright wrestled to a no contest … Danny Loos b. Dr.
Bill Herman … (promoter: Mike London) … (referee: Leo Bahl) … (2,500 fans)

Research by Tim Hornbaker
July 9, 2007

Denver Wrestling Results - 1955