Galveston Wrestling Results

Galveston, Texas: Monday, April 16, 1945
(City Auditorium) … World Heavyweight Champion Bill Longson b. Hans Schnabel (2-0)
… Polo Cordova b. George Kerfoot (2-0) … Lou Plummer b. Butch Madray … Don Lee b.
Al Wolfin

Galveston, Texas: Monday, April 23, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Bobby Managoff Jr. b. Don Lee (2-0) … Polo Cordova and Lou
Plummer drew … Frank Brown b. Paul Harper (DQ)

Galveston, Texas: Monday, April 30, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Polo Cordova b. Lou Plummer (2/3) … Otto Kuss and Bobby
Managoff b. Ralph Harper and Don Lee (2-0)

Galveston, Texas: Monday, May 7, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Hans Schnabel b. Lou Plummer (2-0) … Polo Cordova b. Bad Boy
Brown (DQ) (referee: Peggy Bryant) … Otto Kuss and Bobby Managoff Jr. b. Paul
Harper and Marvin Jones (2-0)

Galveston, Texas: Monday, May 14, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Marvin Jones and Hans Schnabel b. Otto Kuss and Bobby Managoff
Jr. to capture the Texas State Tag Team Title (2/3) … Tom Mahoney b. Lou Plummer
(DQ) … Juan Humberto b. Don Lee … Billy Franklin b. Parson Banks

Galveston, Texas: Monday, May 21, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Otto Kuss and Buddy Rogers b. Marvin Jones and Hans Schnabel to
capture the Texas State Tag Team Title (2/3) … Polo Cordova b. Larry Wilson … Larry
Wilson b. Polo Cordova … Billy Franklin b. Jim Helton
Note: It is strange that Cordova and Wilson wrestled twice on this show and each lost.

Galveston, Texas: Monday, May 28, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Bobby Managoff Jr. b. Polo Cordova (2-0) … Buddy Rogers b. Juan
Humberto … (Bad Boy?) Brown b. Larry Wilson … Otto Kuss b. Frank Marconi

Galveston, Texas: Monday, June 4, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Bobby Managoff b. Ralph
Garibaldi (2/3) … Buddy Rogers b. Herb Schultz … Polo Cordova b. Marvin Jones … Ellis
Bashara and Jules Strongbow drew

Galveston, Texas: Monday, June 11, 1945
(City Auditorium) … The Blimp b. Marvin Jones (2/3) … Tillie (June) Byers vs. Rose
Evans … Bobby Managoff Jr. b. Tom Mahoney … Buddy Rogers b. George Linnehan …
Polo Cordova b. Ellis Bashara … (promoter: Jerry Schultz)

Galveston, Texas: Monday, June 18, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Buddy Rogers b. Al Lovelock (2/3) … The Blimp b. Jules Strongbow
… June Byers b. Nell Stewart … Polo Cordova b. Roy Graham … Bobby Managoff Jr. b.
Jack Kennedy

Galveston, Texas: Monday, June 25, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Dave Levin b. The Swedish Angel (2/3) (DQ) … Marvin Jones and
Buddy Rogers drew … Mae Young b. June Byers … Al Lovelock and Lou Plummer drew
… Ellis Bashara b. Polo Cordova

Galveston, Texas: Monday, July 2, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Dave Levin b. Marvin Jones (2-0) (DQ) … Bobby Managoff and Lou
Plummer drew … Buddy Rogers b. Ellis Bashara … Al Lovelock b. Dutch Schultz …
(referee: Otto Kuss)

Galveston, Texas: Monday, July 9, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Dave Levin b. The Golden Angel (2/3) … Otto Kuss and Lou
Plummer drew … Bad Boy Brown and Dutch Schultz wrestled to a no contest … Polo
Cordova b. Marvin Jones (DQ)

Galveston, Texas: Monday, July 16, 1945
(City Auditorium) … The Swedish Angel b. The Golden Angel (2/3) (DQ) … Otto Kuss
and Al Lovelock b. Bad Boy Brown and Lou Plummer … Marvin Jones b. Tom Mahoney
… Polo Cordova b. Dizzy Davis
Note: Mahoney was an MP at Ellington Field.

Galveston, Texas: Monday, July 23, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Dave Levin b. The Blimp (2/3) … Maurice LaChappelle b. Marvin
Jones … Al Lovelock b. Lou Plummer (DQ) … Otto Kuss b. Polo Cordova … Ellis
Bashara and Dutch Schultz drew

Galveston, Texas: Monday, July 30, 1945
(City Auditorium) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Bill Longson b. Otto Kuss (2/3)
(UTC) … Ellis Bashara and Lou Plummer wrestled Bad Boy Brown and Roy Graham to a
draw … Angelo Savoldi b. Dutch Schultz … Ace Abbott b. Marvin Jones (DQ)

Galveston, Texas: Monday, August 6, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Al Lovelock b. Lou Plummer (2/3) (DQ) … Bad Boy Brown and
Marvin Jones b. Paul Murdoch and Angelo Savoldi (2/3) … Red Becker and Dutch
Schultz drew … Ace Abbott b. Fred Murdoch
Note: Angelo Savoldi was billed as “Lee Savoldi.”

Galveston, Texas: Monday, August 13, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Otto Kuss b. Jim “Goon” Henry (2/3) … Bad Boy Brown and Marvin
Jones b. Frank and Paul Murdoch … Al Lovelock and Dutch Schultz drew … John Becker
b. Angelo Savoldi (DQ)

Galveston, Texas: Monday, August 20, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Sterling “Dizzy” Davis b. Maurice LaChappelle (2/3) … Jim Henry b.
Paul Harper (2/3) … John Becker b. Bad Boy Brown (DQ) … Henry Locey b. Marvin
Jones (DQ)

*The August 27, 1945 show at the Galveston City Auditorium was cancelled by promoter
Jerry Schultz due to a storm.

Galveston, Texas: Monday, September 10, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Juan Humberto b. “King Kong” Cox to capture the Texas State
Heavyweight Title (2-0) (DQ) … Jim Casey b. Al Lovelock … Otto Kuss b. Jim Henry …
Pete Macias b. Marvin Jones (DQ)
Note: Another report stated that Buddy Rogers beat Cox for the Texas Title on
September 7, 1945.

Galveston, Texas: Monday, September 17, 1945
(City Auditorium) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Bill Longson vs. Juan Humberto
(2/3)

Galveston, Texas: Monday, September 24, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Jim Casey b. Dizzy Davis (2/3) … Women’s World Champion Mildred
Burke b. Rose Evans (2-0) … Ray Duran b. Marvin Jones (decision) … Gorilla Macias b.
Jim Henry (DQ) … Sid Nabors b. Juan Humberto
Notes: Humberto was still said to be the Texas champion and his match was apparently
non-title.

Galveston, Texas: Monday, October 1, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Jim Casey and Otto Kuss drew … Dizzy Davis b. Angelo Cistoldi (2/3)
(DQ) … Juan Humberto b. Ray Duran … Gene Blankley b. Marvin Jones (DQ)

Galveston, Texas: Monday, October 8, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Jim Casey b. Angelo Cistoldi (2-0) (DQ) … Alberto Compos b. Dizzy
Davis (2-0) … Dizzy Davis and Sid Nabors drew … Otto Kuss b. Jim Henry
Note: Davis was a substitute for Gene Blankley against Nabors.

Galveston, Texas: Monday, October 15, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Brother Jonathan b. Jim Casey (2/3) … Angelo Cistoldi b. Otto Kuss
(2/3) … Alberto Compos and Joe Parelli drew … Sid Nabors b. Brother Williams
Note: Jonathan reportedly beat Ernie Dusek for the Texas Title in Houston. A “riot”
occurred during the Cistoldi-Kuss bout. Kuss uses a figure-four leglock.

Galveston, Texas: Monday, October 29, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Brother Jonathan b. Jim Casey
(2/3) … Angelo Cistoldi b. Buddy Rogers (2/3) (DQ) … Sid Nabors b. Alberto Campos …
Otto Kuss b. Gorilla Macias (DQ)

Galveston, Texas: Monday, November 5, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Buddy Rogers b. Angelo Cistoldi (2/3) … Frederich Von Schacht b.
Jim Casey (2/3) … Young Siki b. Hallie Sallasse … Gorilla and Tarzan Macias b. Sid
Nabors and Joe Parelli

Galveston, Texas: Monday, November 12, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Buddy Rogers and Baron Von Schacht drew … Brother Jonathan b.
Angelo Cistoldi (2/3) … Paul Boesch b. Gorilla Macias (DQ) … Lou Plummer b. Pancho
Zapata
Note: This was Boesch’s local return after the war.

Galveston, Texas: Monday, November 19, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Buddy Rogers b. Otto Von Schacht (2-0) … Juan Humberto and
Gorilla Macias b. Lou Plummer and Hans Schnabel (DQ) … Pancho Zapata b. Al Lockey
… Angelo Cistoldi and Otto Kuss drew

Galveston, Texas: Monday, November 26, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Buddy Rogers b. Lou Plummer (Plummer agreed to beat Rogers in
two-straight falls, but only got one by DQ) (handicap match) … Brother Jonathan b.
“Killer” Karl Davis (2-0) (both DQs) … Angelo Cistoldi b. Pancho Zapata … Otto Kuss b.
Gorilla Macias (DQ)

Galveston, Texas: Monday, December 3, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Leo “Whiskers” Savage b. Angelo Cistoldi (2-0) (DQ) … Jim Casey
and Karl Davis drew … Juan Humberto b. Brother Jonathan (DQ0 … Gorilla Macias b.
Lou Plummer (DQ0 … Young Siki b. Billy Franklin

Galveston, Texas: Monday, December 10, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Don Evans b. Jim Casey (DQ) … Dean Detton b. Angelo Cistoldi (2-
0) … Otto Kuss and Gorilla Macias b. Juan Humberto and Lou Plummer … Young Siki b.
Jim Hilton

Galveston, Texas: Monday, December 17, 1945
(City Auditorium) … Jim Casey b. Dean Detton (2-0) … Buddy Rogers b. Don Lee (2-0)
(DQ) … Juan Humberto b. Otto Von Schnabel … Don Evans b. Gorilla Macias (DQ)

Research by Steve Yohe
December 19, 2010

Galveston Wrestling Results - 1945