Hollywood Wrestling Results

Hollywood, California: Monday, January 5, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … World Light Heavyweight Champion Red Berry b. Yukon
Jake (2/3) … Ken Ackles and George Dusette drew (45:00) (1-1) … Mike London b. Sheik
MarAllah (11:32) … Bobby Coleman and Ben Sherman drew … Monte LaDue b. Don
Sebastian (10:59) … Rosey Rosenbaum b. Ted Tourtas (11:56) … (promoter: Hugh
Nichols)
Note: The Los Angeles Times called Ackles, “Eckles.”

Hollywood, California: Monday, January 12, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Danny McShain b. Billy Vargo (2/3) … Ken Ackles b. Paul
Bozzell (2-0) (first fall by DQ) … Paavo Katonan b. Sammy Kohen … Dude Chick and Joe
Smolinski drew … Mike London b. Monte LaDue (11:36) … Rosey Rosenbaum and Jack
Terry drew … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Note: The winner of the McShain-Vargo match was going to wrestle Red Berry.

Hollywood, California: Monday, January 19, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Danny McShain b. Kenny Ackles (2/3) … George Dusette
b. Gust Johnson (1-0) … Ben Sherman b. Paavo Katonan … Mike London b. Yukon Jake
… Charley Lay b. Bobby Coleman … Buck Rover b. Gil Knutsen … (promoter: Hugh
Nichols)

Hollywood, California: Monday, January 26, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Kenny Ackles b. Danny McShain (DQ) … Carlos “Gorilla”
Ramos b. Mike London (2/3) … Billy Vargo b. George Dusette … Gust Johnson and
Jimmy Lott drew (30:00) … Charley Lay b. Don Sebastian … Milt Olsen b. Sheik MarAllah
… (promoter: Hugh Nichols)

Hollywood, California: Monday, February 2, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Mike London b. Yukon Jake Jackson (2/3) … Gorilla
Ramos b. Ben Sherman (2/3) … Jimmy Lott b. Billy Weidner … Gust Johnson b. George
Saleem … Sammy Kohen b. Milt Olsen … Wes Crowther and Jimmy Goodrich drew …
(promoter: Hugh Nichols)

Hollywood, California: Monday, February 9, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Danny McShain b. Gorilla Ramos in the finals of a
“Defense Bond” wrestling tournament (dec., 15:00) … Danny McShain b. Jimmy Lott …
Gorilla Ramos b. Billy Vargo … Danny McShain b. Billy Weidner … Danny McShain b.
Private Joe Smolinski … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Notes: 100 percent National Defense Stamp Night. The entire proceeds from this show
was going to be turned into stamps and bonds. There were 13-wrestlers in this
tournament. The Los Angeles Times stated: “The 13 men entered include two who were
eye-witnesses to the stab-in-the-back by the Japs in Pearl Harbor. They are Gust
Johnson and Billy Weidner.” Ramos was from Durango, Mexico, a Yaqui Indian. He held
the World Middleweight Title and “now is the junior light heavyweight champion of the
National Wrestling Association.”

Hollywood, California: Monday, February 16, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Gorilla Ramos b. Billy Vargo (2/3) … Danny McShain b.
Mike London (2/3) … George Dusette and Jimmy Lott drew (1-1) … Bob Gregory b. Milt
Olsen … Billy Weidner b. Don Sebastian … Wes Crowther b. George Saleem …
(promoter: Hugh Nichols)

Hollywood, California: Monday, February 23, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Carlos “Gorilla” Ramos b. Danny McShain (2/3) (McShain
was unable to continue in the third fall) (McShain was a substitute for Red Berry) … Bob
Keneston b. Billy Weidner (23:26) … Bob Gregory b. Sammy Kohen (DQ) (6:29) … Gust
Johnson b. Charley Lay (16:53) … Wes Crowther and Prince Omar drew … Kenny Ackles
and Jimmy Lott drew (45:00) … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Notes: Gorilla Ramos and Red Berry were called “former prize fighters.” Bob Gregory was
said to be the first aid supervisor for San Fernando Valley and had 11 lecture courses in
process. He was going to bring the “cavalry unit of the Women’s Ambulance and Defense
Corps” from San Fernando Valley to give demonstrations in the ring.

Hollywood, California: Monday, March 2, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Billy Vargo b. Mike London (2-0) … Bob Keneston b.
Jimmy Lott (2/3) … George Dusette b. Paul Bozzell (2/3) … Ben Sherman b. Wes
Crowther … George Wagner b. George Saleem … Milt Olsen b. Prince Omar (DQ) …
(promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Note: London was called a “Chicago plumber.”

Hollywood, California: Monday, March 9, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Gorilla Ramos b. World Light Heavyweight Champion Red
Berry (2/3) (non-title match) … Bob Keneston and Danny McShain drew (1-1) … Ben
Sherman and George Wagner drew … Sammy Kohen b. Charley Lay (16:13) … George
Saleem b. Private Frank Miniaci (12:36) … Wes Crowther b. Prince Omar (8:04) …
(promoter: Hugh Nichols)

Hollywood, California: Monday, March 16, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Gorilla Ramos b. World Light Heavyweight Champion Red
Berry (2/3) (non-title match) … Billy Vargo b. George Dusette (2/3) (third fall with an
abdominal stretch) … George Wagner b. Sammy Kohen (third fall by DQ) … Jimmy Lott b.
Paul Bozzell (DQ) (12:01) … Monte LaDue b. Wes Crowther … Don Hill b. Milt Olsen (14:
03) … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)

Hollywood, California: Monday, March 23, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Danny McShain b. Sammy Kohen (2/3) … Gorilla Ramos
b. Billy Vargo (2/3) … Bob Keneston b. Paul Bozzell (14:44) … George Wagner b. Monte
LaDue (9:42) … Don Sebastian b. George Saleem (14:22) … Sheik MarAllah b. Don Hill
(11:38) … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)

Hollywood, California: Monday, March 30, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Wrestling Tournament … (first round) … Danny McShain
b. Charley Lay (5:29) … Ben Sherman b. Silent Rattan … George Wagner b. Mike
London … Sammy Kohen b. Prince Omar … Gorilla Ramos b. Sheik MarAllah (5:33) …
Monte LaDue b. Ted Tourtas (7:26) … (second round) … Gorilla Ramos b. Ben Sherman
… George Wagner b. Billy Vargo … Danny McShain b. Sammy Kohen … (semifinals) …
Gorilla Ramos b. Monte LaDue … George Wagner b. Danny McShain … (finals) … Gorilla
Ramos b. George Wagner to win the tournament (7:51) … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Note: The tournament was to determine the number one contender to Red Berry’s light
heavyweight title.

Hollywood, California: Monday, April 6, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … World Light Heavyweight Champion Red Berry b. Gorilla
Ramos (2/3) … Billy Vargo and George Wagner drew (1-1) … Mike London b. Charley
Lay … Bob Keneston b. George Dusette … Duke Pettigrove b. Don Sebastian … Ted
Tourtas b. Prince Omar … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)

Hollywood, California: Monday, April 13, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … World Light Heavyweight Champion Red Berry b. Gorilla
Ramos (2/3) … Monte LaDue and Danny McShain b. Jimmy Lott and George Wagner (tag
team) … Sammy Kohen b. Mike London (DQ) … Tony Morelli b. Duke Pettigrove … Ted
Tourtas b. Jerry Malone … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Note: This marked the introduction of tag team wrestling to Hollywood.

Hollywood, California: Monday, April 20, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Mike Nazarian b. World Light Heavyweight Champion Red
Berry (2/3) (non-title match) … Billy Vargo and George Wagner b. Monte LaDue and
Danny McShain (2/3) (tag team match) … Bobby Coleman and Sammy Kohen drew …
Antone Leone b. Ted Tourtas … Paul Matty b. Jimmy Goodrich … (promoter: Hugh
Nichols)
Notes: The paper stated that Berry was “World’s light heavyweight wrestling champion in
every state except California.” Nazarian’s win was called an “upset.”

Hollywood, California: Monday, April 27, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Junior Heavyweight Tournament … Mike Nazarian b.
Danny McShain (2/3) … Bob Keneston and George Wagner drew (60:00) … Bobby
Coleman b. Billy Vargo … Antone Leone b. Jimmy Lott … Dude Chick b. George Dusette
… Tony Morelli b. Frank Miniaci … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Note: A junior heavyweight tournament was beginning here to select an opponent for
Leroy McGuirk, the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion.

Hollywood, California: Monday, May 4, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Junior Heavyweight Tournament … World Light
Heavyweight Champion Red Berry b. Mike Nazarian (2/3) … Antone Leone b. George
Wagner (2/3) … Sergeant Bob Keneston b. Paul Bozzell (2/3) … Bobby Coleman and
Monte LaDue drew … Mike London b. Paul Matty … Duke Pettigrove b. Ted Tourtas …
(promoter: Hugh Nichols)

Santa Monica, California: Friday, May 8, 1942
(Ocean Park Arena) … George Wagner b. Red Berry to “win recognition as California
light heavyweight champ” (2/3) (Wagner won the first and third falls) … Antone Leone b.
Bob Keneston (2-0) … Mike Nazarian b. George Dusette … Bobby Coleman b. Sammy
Kohen … Paul Matty b. Silent Rattan
Note: This may have been a club championship.

Hollywood, California: Monday, May 11, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Junior Heavyweight Tournament … Antone Leone b.
George Wagner (2/3) … Bob Keneston b. Danny McShain (2/3) … Paul Bozzell b. George
Dusette … Sammy Kohen b. Silent Rattan … Jimmy Lott b. Duke Pettigrove … Paul Matty
and Ted Tourtas drew (20:00) … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Notes: Wagner was said to be from Portland. He was called a “cement man.” Leone was
the new favorite to win the tournament.

Hollywood, California: Monday, May 18, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Junior Heavyweight Tournament … Antone Leone b. Billy
Vargo (2/3) (Vargo was a substitute for Gorilla Ramos) … Bob Keneston b. Mike Nazarian
(2/3) … Monte LaDue and Mike London b. Bobby Coleman and George Wagner (team
bout) … Dude Chick and Jimmy Lott drew (20:00) … Sammy Kohen b. Paul Matty … Silent
Rattan and Ted Tourtas drew (15:00) … (promoter: Hugh Nichols) … (referee: “Baron
Von” Ginsberg)

Hollywood, California: Monday, May 25, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Junior Heavyweight Tournament … Gorilla Ramos b.
Antone Leone (2/3) (Ramos was a substitute for Bob Keneston) … Bobby Coleman and
George Dusette b. Monte LaDue and Mike London (tag team match) … Danny McShain
b. Sammy Kohen … Paul Bozzell b. Duke Pettigrove … Joe Smolinski b. Ted Tourtas …
Silent Rattan b. Joe Malone … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Notes: The rules for the junior heavyweight tournament eliminations were not clearly
outlined in the Los Angeles Times. It wasn’t one loss and the wrestler was eliminated. It
was likely broken down by record over the course of weeks. Leone was still favored to
win. The paper stated that tag team wrestling was returning. Prior to the loss tonight,
Leone was formerly undefeated in the tournament.

Hollywood, California: Monday, June 1, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Junior Heavyweight Tournament … Gorilla Ramos b.
Danny McShain (2/3) … Antone Leone b. Mike Nazarian (2/3) … Bobby Coleman b. Mike
London … Paul Bozzell b. Ted Tourtas … Sammy Kohen and Tuffy Truesdale drew …
Paul Matty b. Sheik MarAllah … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)

Hollywood, California: Monday, June 8, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Junior Heavyweight Tournament … Bob Keneston b.
Antone Leone (2/3) … Bobby Coleman and Gorilla Ramos b. Monte LaDue and Sammy
Kohen (tag team match) … Mike Nazarian b. Jimmy Lott … Don Sebastian b. Paul Bozzell
(DQ) … Paul Matty and Tuffy Truesdale drew … Silent Rattan b. Billy Grubbs …
(promoter: Hugh Nichols)

Hollywood, California: Monday, June 15, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Junior Heavyweight Tournament … Gorilla Ramos b. Bob
Keneston (2/3) … Danny McShain b. Bobby Coleman (2/3) … Sam Julien and Sammy
Kohen drew (Kohen was a substitute for Dick Webb) … Paul Bozzell b. Ted Tourtas …
Jimmy Lott b. Red Lyons … Dude Chick b. Frank Schroll … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Notes: The winner of the Keneston-Ramos match was going into the finals of the
tournament, reportedly. Keneston had won five matches in the tourney, lost none.
Ramos had won two matches and lost none. Leone had won five bouts and lost two. Dick
Webb was from Camp Haan and Julien was from March Field.

Hollywood, California: Monday, June 22, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Junior Heavyweight Tournament … Paavo Katonan b.
Gorilla Ramos … Johnny Swenski b. Antone Leone (DQ) … Danny McShain b. Paul
Bozzell … Bobby Coleman and Jimmy Lott drew … Red Lyons b. Frankie Schroll … Don
Sebastian b. Paul Matty … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Notes: Johnny Swenski and Paavo Katonan were new entries in the junior heavyweight
tournament. Swenski won a 190-pound tournament in the “east.” The tournament was still
to pick an opponent for Leroy McGuirk. McShain was a shipyard foreman.

Hollywood, California: Monday, June 29, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Junior Heavyweight Tournament … Paavo Katonan b.
Antone Leone (2/3) (Leone was unable to continue for the third fall) … Johnny Swenski b.
Danny McShain (2/3) … Monte LaDue and Mike Nazarian b. Bobby Coleman and Billy
Vargo (2/3) (tag team match) … George Dusette b. Red Lyons (DQ) … Sammy Kohen
and Don Sebastian drew … Ted Tourtas b. Frankie Schroll … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)

Hollywood, California: Monday, July 6, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Junior Heavyweight Tournament … Gorilla Ramos b.
Paavo Katonan (2/3) … Johnny Swenski b. Mike Nazarian … Paul Bozzell b. Red Lyons …
Dude Chick b. George Dusette … Jimmy Lott and Tony Morelli drew … Don Sebastian b.
Ted Tourtas … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)

Hollywood, California: Monday, July 13, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Junior Heavyweight Tournament … Danny McShain b.
Johnny Swenski … Antone Leone b. Mike Nazarian … Paavo Katonan b. Paul Bozzell …
Gorilla Ramos b. Sammy Kohen … George Dusette b. Tony Morelli (non-tourney bout) …
Monte LaDue and Mike London b. Bobby Coleman and Billy Vargo (tag team match) …
(promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Notes: The Los Angeles Times stated that eight of the best 190-pounders in the country
were going to wrestle tonight in a tournament. The winner was “to become one of the
favorites in the Hollywood wrestling tournament for the junior heavyweight championship.”

Hollywood, California: Monday, July 20, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Junior Heavyweight Tournament … Gorilla Ramos b.
Danny McShain (2/3) … Antone Leone b. Paavo Katonan (2/3) … Johnny Swenski b.
Kenny Ackles … Mike Nazarian b. Paul Bozzell … Jimmy Lott b. Monte LaDue (DQ) … Don
Sebastian and Ted Tourtas drew … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Note: Leone and Ramos advanced to the tournament finals.

Hollywood, California: Monday, July 27, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Junior Heavyweight Tournament … Antone Leone b.
Gorilla Ramos in the finals to win the tournament to capture the World Junior Heavyeight
Title (2/3) (Ramos was unable to continue when he hurt his back) … Johnny Swenski b.
Danny McShain … Kenny Ackles b. Mike Nazarian (DQ) … Bobby Coleman and Paavo
Katonan b. Sammy Kohen and Monte LaDue (tag team match) … Red Lyons and Ted
Tourtas drew … Paul Bozzell b. Don Sebastian … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Notes: The Los Angeles Times stated: “The winner will be recognized by the California
Commisison as new champion to succeed Leroy McGuirk, who refused to take part in the
eliminations.”

*Antone Leone won the “recent” international tournament and won the local claim to the
International (World) Junior Heavyweight Title. Leroy McGuirk was recognized
“everywhere but California” as the World Champion.

Hollywood, California: Monday, August 3, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … The Swedish Angel b. Mike Nazarian (2-0) … John
Swenski b. Danny McShain (2/3) (Swenski earned a title match with Gorilla Ramos) … Ken
Ackles b. Paul Bozzell … Paavo Katonen b. Mike London … Monte LaDue b. Sammy
Kohen … Jimmy Lott and Red Lyons drew (20:00) … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Notes: This marked the Angel’s Hollywood debut. He was managed by Jack Pfefer.

Hollywood, California: Monday, August 10, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … John Swenski b. Gorilla Ramos (2/3) (Swenski earned a
title match with Antone Leone) (Swenski won the first and third falls) … Monte LaDue and
Danny McShain b. Sammy Kohen and Mike Nazarian … Ken Ackles and Paavo Ketonen
drew (45:00) … George Dusette b. Ted Tourtas … Mike London b. Silent Rattan … Don
Sebastian b. Louie Miller (DQ) … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)

Hollywood, California: Monday, August 17, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … The Swedish Angel b. George Zaharias (2/3) … Leroy
McGuirk b. Mike Nazarian (2-0) … Ken Ackles b. Red Lyons … Paavo Katonan b. Paul
Bozzell … Monte LaDue b. Mike London … George Dusette and Louie Miller drew …
(promoter: Hugh Nichols) … (4,500 fans)

Hollywood, California: Monday, August 24, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … “International” Junior Heavyweight Champion Antone
Leone b. Johnny Swenski (2/3) … Ed “Strangler” Lewis and The Swedish Angel drew …
Danny McShain b. Kenny Ackles … Gorilla Ramos b. Monte LaDue … Dude Chick and
Jimmy Lott drew (20:00) … Sammy Kohen b. Silent Rattan … (promoter: Hugh Nichols) …
(5,000 fans)

Hollywood, California: Monday, August 31, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … International Junior Heavyweight Champion Antone Leone
b. Johnny Swenski when the latter was unable to continue … NWA World Junior
Heavyweight Champion Leroy McGuirk b. Danny McShain (2/3) … Gorilla Ramos and
Paavo Katonan b. Monte LaDue and Mike Nazarian … Ken Ackles b. Joe Ferona … Dude
Chick b. Ted Tourtas … Frankie Schroll and Don Sebastian drew … (promoter: Hugh
Nichols)

Hollywood, California: Monday, September 7, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Ed “Strangler” Lewis b. Sandor Szabo (Szabo suffered an
arm injury and was unable to continue) … NWA World Light Heavyweight Champion Leroy
McGuirk b. Kenny Ackles (abdominal stretch) (non-title match) … Gorilla Ramos b.
“California champion” Antone Leone (DQ) (non-title match) … Danny McShain b. Red
Lyons … Paavo Katonan b. Mike Nazarian … Jimmy Lott b. Monte LaDue … Joe Ferona
b. Don Sebastian … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Notes: Ackles was said to be from Rhode Island. Katonan was called the “Helsinki Kid.”
Gorilla Ramos was a “former prize fighter” from Durango. In the promotion for this event,
it was said that two “current” champions, Leone and McGuirk, and four ex-titleholders,
Lewis, Szabo, McShain and Katonan, would be featured.

Hollywood, California: Monday, September 14, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Gorilla Ramos b. Danny McShain (2/3) … John Swenski b.
Kenny Ackles (2/3) … Joe Ferona and Mike Nazarian b. Paavo Katonan and Jimmy Lott
(tag team match) … Paul Bozzell and Red Lyons drew … Mike London b. Jerry Malone …
Ted Tourtas b. Silent Rattan … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Notes: It was said that it was McShain’s last match before joining the Coast Guard. He
was going to be “measured for a naval uniform by Uncle Sam” on Tuesday morning.
Swenski was recently recovered from a shoulder injury.

Hollywood, California: Monday, September 21, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion Leroy McGuirk
b. California recognized World Junior Heavyweight Champion Antone Leone to unify the to
claims (2/3) (Leone won the first fall in 13:30, McGuirk won the second in 10:15, and
Leone was unable to continue) … Paavo Katonan and Gorilla Ramos drew (1-1) … Kenny
Ackles b. Mike Nazarian … Joe Ferona b. Paul Bozzell … Monte LaDue b. Ted Tourtas …
Jimmy Lott b. Louie Miller … (promoter: Hugh Nichols) … (referee: Pat O’Brien)
Notes: The show was being sponsored by Service Sports, Inc. and members of the
California State Athletic Commission to purchase “athletic equipment and to provide
entertainment for Army camps, naval bases and marine concentrations.” The group
wanted to increase their fund to $100,000 “by working with all branches of sports
contributing from the Southern California area.” The McGuirk-Leone affair was called the
“biggest match ever to come to the cinema capital.” The Los Angeles Times said that
“McGuirk and Leone – holders of the split title for the 190 pound division men – figure to
pack the film arena to the rafters. The National Wrestling Association recognizes McGuirk
as the champion. The California State Athletic Commission sanctions Leone as the
titleholder. Leone won the recent international tournament, which McGuirk refused to
enter.” Pat O’Brien was selected to referee the affair. He was said to be a veteran of
World War I.

Hollywood, California: Monday, September 28, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion Leroy McGuirk
b. John Swenski (2/3) … Ben Bolt and Gorilla Ramos b. Paavo Katonen and Monte LaDue
(2-0) … Joe Ferona b. Kenny Ackles … Red Lyons and Mike Nazarian drew … George
Dusette b. Don Sebastian … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Notes: Leone was going to challenge the winner of the McGuirk-Swenski match. Swenski,
from Lynn, Massachustts, was said to have won “the East’s junior heavy tourney.”

Hollywood, California: Monday, October 5, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion Leroy McGuirk
b. Antone Leone … Danny McShain b. Paavo Katonen … Joe Ferona vs. Gorilla Ramos
… Monte LaDue vs. Mike Nazarian … Paul Bozzell vs. Jimmy Lott … (promoter: Hugh
Nichols)
Note: There was talk that McGuirk’s victory over Leone was a “fluke,” and McGuirk
wanted a rematch to clear his status as titleholder.

Hollywood, California: Monday, October 12, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Danny McShain b. Joe Ferona (2/3) … Antone Leone b.
Kenny Ackles (2/3) … Paavo Katonen and Gorilla Ramos vs. Monte LaDue and Red
Lyons … Mike Nazarian vs. Joe Williams … Benny Bolt vs. Bobby Coleman … (promoter:
Hugh Nichols)

Hollywood, California: Monday, October 19, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Antone Leone b. Danny McShain (2/3) … Johnny Swenski
b. Joe Ferona (2/3) … Gorilla Ramos vs. “Sailor” Billy Vargo (Varga) … George Dusette
vs. Mike Nazarian … Red Lyons vs. Joe Williams … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Note: Ferona was called a “New York candy maker.”

Hollywood, California: Monday, October 26, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … John Swenski b. Antone Leone (2/3) … Paavo Katonen
and Billy Vargo drew … Joe Ferona vs. Gorilla Ramos … Paul Bozzell vs. Joe Williams …
Bobby Coleman vs. Jerry Malone … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)

Hollywood, California: Monday, November 2, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Joe Savoldi vs. Johnny Swenski … Danny McShain vs.
Gorilla Ramos … Joe Ferona vs. Karl Gray … Bobby Coleman vs. Silent Rattan …
George Dusette vs. Jimmy Lott … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Notes: This was reportedly Savoldi’s first appearance at the new $250,000 arena.
Swenski was from Lynn, Massachusetts. McShain was in the Coast Guard and Gray in
the Army. Lott was a former University of Alabama football player and was in the Rose
Bowl “here” in 1932.

Hollywood, California: Monday, November 9, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Antone Leone vs. Joe Savoldi … Danny McShain vs. Billy
Vargo … Joe Ferona vs. Paavo Katonan … Mike Nazarian vs. Joe Williams … Bobby
Coleman vs. Joe Valentin … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)

Hollywood, California: Monday, November 16, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Antone Leone vs. Jack “Sockeye” McDonald … Joe
Ferona and Danny McShain vs. Paavo Katonan and Billy Vargo (tag team match) …
George Dusette vs. Mike Nazarian … Paul Bozzell vs. Joe Williams … Al Schisler vs. Don
Sebastian … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)

Hollywood, California: Monday, November 23, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Jack “Sockeye” McDonald b. Antone Leone (2/3) …
Johnny Swenski and Billy Vargo drew (45:00) (1-1) … Gorilla Ramos b. Paavo Katonan
(36 seconds) … George Dusette b. Joe Ferona … Mike Nazarian and Joe Williams drew
(20:00) (Williams was a substitute for Red Lyons) … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)

Hollywood, California: Monday, November 30, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Jack “Sockeye” McDonald b. Joe Savoldi (2/3) … Danny
McShain b. Johnny Swenski (1-0) … Gorilla Ramos b. Joe Ferona (2/3) … Mike Nazarian
and Al Schisler drew … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)

Hollywood, California: Monday, December 7, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Jack “Sockeye” McDonald b. Antone Leone … Danny
McShain vs. Johnny Swenski … Gorilla Ramos and Billy Vargo b. Joe Ferona and Paavo
Katonan (tag team match) … Louie Miller vs. Mike Nazarian … George Dusette vs. Don
Sebastian … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Notes: This was the “Remember Pearl Harbor” mat show. All of the wrestlers were going
to be paid in bonds and stamps. The Los Angeles Times stated “Remember Pearl Harbor
is a national setup in the drive to get more bullets to drive the Japs out of the Pacific.”
McDonald was reportedly banned in California three years earlier because he broke the
legs and arms of his opponents. The paper indicated that “team bouts are popular at the
Legion.”

Hollywood, California: Monday, December 14, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Jack “Sockeye” McDonald b. Johnny Swenski (2/3) …
Danny McShain b. Antone Leone (2/3) … Gorilla Ramos and Billy Vargo b. Joe Ferona
and Paavo Katonan (tag team match) … Jimmy Lott b. Mike Nazarian … George Dusette
and Louie Miller drew … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)

Hollywood, California: Monday, December 21, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Jack “Sockeye” McDonald b. Danny McShain (2/3) …
Antone Leone b. Kenny Ackles … Johnny Swenski b. Billy Vargo … Gorilla Ramos b.
Paavo Katonan … Bob Gregory b. Louie Miller … Jimmy Lott b. Joe Ferona (DQ) … Mike
Nazarian b. George Dusette … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Note: This was the 51st show of the year promoted by Nichols.

Hollywood, California: Monday, December 28, 1942
(Hollywood Legion Stadium) … Jack “Sockeye” McDonald b. Danny McShain (McShain
was unable to continue and carried out on a stretcher) … Antone Leone and Gorilla
Ramos drew (45:00) (no falls) … Kenny Ackles b. Mike Nazarian (DQ) … Paavo Katonan
b. Bob Gregory … Joe Ferona and Red Lyons drew … (promoter: Hugh Nichols)
Note: The winner of the McDonald-McShain bout was going to wrestle the Swedish Angel
on January 4, 1943. The Los Angeles Times stated “Angel has been the East’s biggest
box office attraction during 1942.”

Notes:

The Los Angeles Times often referred to Leroy McGuirk’s championship as the “World
Light Heavyweight” title. It was the World Junior Title that he was holding, 190-pounds.

Research by Tim Hornbaker
December 8, 2007

Hollywood Wrestling Results - 1942