Houston Wrestling Results

Houston, Texas: Friday, January 2, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Gorilla Macias b. Ellis Bashara (2/3) … Louis Reynheer b. Don Lee …
Juan Humberto and Paul Jones drew (20:00) (Jones was a substitute for Earl Wampler) …
Ivan Managoff b. Sol Slagel (14:00) … Al Lovelock b. Charlie Layden … (promoter: Morris
Sigel) … (referee: Paul Jones) … (3,000 fans)

Houston, Texas: Friday, January 9, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Ted Cox b. Louis Reynheer (2/3) (third fall by forfeit) (Reynheer was
forced to forfeit the third fall after falling from the ring and hitting his head) … Don Evans
b. Gorilla Macias (DQ) (10:00) … Ellis Bashara b. Don Lee (9:00) … Private Karl Gray and
Dick Lever drew (20:00) … Al Lovelock b. Earl Wampler (15:32) … (promoter: Morris
Sigel) … (referee: Paul Jones) … (physician: Dr. Louis Spivak)

Houston, Texas: Friday, January 16, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Ted Cox b. Bill Lee (2/3) (Cox won the third fall by forfeit) (after losing
the second fall, Lee attacked Paul Jones, Dr. Karl Sarpolis, Dick Lever, Gorilla Macias,
and Miller Daglio) (doctors prevented Lee from continuing the match after dropping the
second fall) … Paul Boesch b. Louis Reynheer (53-seconds) … Gorilla Macias b. Ivan
Managoff (D) … Jack Kennedy b. Juan Humberto (DQ) (15:22) … Emir Badui and Dick
Lever drew (20:00) … (promoter: Morris Sigel) … (referees: Paul Jones, Dr. Karl
Sarpolis) … (physician: Dr. Louis Spivak)
Notes: This marked Paul Boesch’s local debut. Lee was captain of the 1935 Alabama
Rose Bowl football team. He had a trio of matches with World Champion Bronko Nagurski
in Houston.

Houston, Texas: Friday, January 23, 1942
(Sam Houston Coliseum) … Ted Cox b. Bill Lee (2/3) (first fall to Lee by DQ) … Paul
Boesch b. Ellis Bashara (16:00) … Gorilla Macias b. Don Evans (DQ) (Evans was DQ’d for
using his piledriver) … Jack Kennedy and Ivan Managoff drew (20:00) … Cecil McGill and
Miguel Torres drew (Torres was a substitute for Private Karl Gray) … Al Lovelock b. Dick
Lever … (promoter: Morris Sigel) … (referee: Paul Jones) … (5,000+ fans)
Notes: The newspaper reported that this was the second time wrestling shifted to the Sam
Houston Coliseum. The first time was when Bronko Nagurski took the World Title from Lou
Thesz. The winner of the main event was promised a title match with Sandor Szabo next
week. Gray was a “Camp Wallace coast artilleryman.”

*Prior to the January 29, 1942 show in Houston, Ivan Managoff was given an indefinite
suspension by the Texas Wrestling Commission.

Houston, Texas: Thursday, January 29, 1942
(Sam Houston Coliseum) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Sandor Szabo b. Ted Cox
(2/3) (third fall by DQ) … Paul Boesch b. Gorilla Macias (3:04) (Macias was a substitute
for Ivan Managoff) … Ellis Bashara and Gorilla Macias drew (20:00) … Miguel Torres b.
Dick Lever (13:37) … Al Lovelock b. Don Lee (10:00) … (promoter: Morris Sigel) …
(referee: Paul Jones) … (judges: Leo Gaber, Jim Heflin) … (in attendance: NWA
President Harry J. Landry) … (5,000+ fans in attendance)
Notes: The Texas Wrestling Commission backed Sandor Szabo as the World Heavyweight
Champion going into the bout, sponsoring the latter’s bout with Ted Cox, it was
announced by Texas Wrestling Commissioner John D. Reed. Szabo had won the
championship on June 5, 1941, according to the Houston Post.

Houston, Texas: Friday, February 6, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Bobby Managoff b. Paul Boesch (2/3) (third fall by DQ when his
opponent tossed him over the top rope) … Friederich William Otto Von Schacht b. Jack
Kennedy (9:11) … Al Lovelock b. Cecil McGill … Ellis Bashara and Juan Humberto drew
(20:00) … Private Karl Gray b. Miguel Torres (10:15) … (promoter: Morris Sigel) …
(referee: Paul Jones) … (3,000 fans)
Notes: It was said that Boesch was 29 years of age and “always wearing a big, broad
smile.” He was known for his dropkick. McGill was from Oklahoma.

Houston, Texas: Friday, February 13, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Paul Boesch b. Ted Cox (2/3) … Bobby Managoff b. Gorilla Macias
(DQ) (Macias was accompanied by Miguel Torres) … Friederick William Otto Von Schacht
b. Jack Kennedy … Al Lovelock b. Emir Badui … Corporal Karl Gray and Cecil McGill drew
(20:00) … (promoter: Morris Sigel) … (referee: Ellis Bashara, Dr. Karl Sarpolis)

Houston, Texas: Friday, February 20, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Paul Boesch b. Friederich William Otto Von Schacht (2/3) … Ted Cox
and Bobby Managoff drew (30:00) … Gorilla Macias b. Al Lovelock (9:00) … Ellis Bashara
and Ivan Managoff drew … Corporal Karl Gray b. Sergeant Rich (10:29) … (promoter:
Morris Sigel) … (referee: Paul Jones, Dr. Karl Sarpolis) … (3,000 fans)
Note: Rich was “an inspector at the Houston Shipbuilding Corporation,” and was a former
“wrestling and boxing great.”

Houston, Texas: Friday, February 27, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Ted Cox b. Gorilla Macias (2/3) (Macias was unable to continue after
the second fall) … Bobby Managoff and Sandor Szabo drew (60:00) (1-1) … Babe
Zaharias b. Miguel Torres … Sergeant Rich b. Eddie O’Shea … Ray Clements b. Cecil
McGill … Jack Kennedy b. Ivan Managoff (DQ) … (promoter: Morris Sigel) … (referee:
Paul Jones, Dr. Karl Sarpolis) … (3,000 fans)
Note: Szabo lost his championship to Bill Longson in St. Louis “last week.”

Houston, Texas: Friday, March 6, 1942
(City Auditorium) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Bill Longson b. Paul Boesch (1-0)
(20:19) … Ray Clements b. Cecil McGill (11:00) … Ellis Bashara b. Babe Zaharias (DQ) …
Ivan Managoff and Frederich von Schacht drew (20:00) … Bobby Managoff b. Gorilla
Macias … (promoter: Morris Sigel) … (3,000 fans)
Note: The Houston Post made mention of the fact that Man Mountain Dean broke
Longson’s back, but said it happened “two years ago.”

Houston, Texas: Friday, March 13, 1942
(City Auditorium) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Bill Longson b. Ted “King Kong”
Cox (2/3) … Paul Boesch and Ray Steele drew (30:00) … Ellis Bashara b. Abe Kashey
(DQ) … Bobby Managoff b. Babe Zaharias … “Soldier” Karl Gray b. Miguel Torres (Gorilla
Macias was the second for Torres) … (promoter: Morris Sigel) … (referees: Harry
Kaufman, Paul Jones) … (3,500 fans)
Notes: Kaufman was 365 pounds. Longson was originally booked to be in Indianapolis on
Friday night, but Sigel worked with NWA President Col. Harry J. Landry to postpone the
latter affair. Texas Chief Deputy Boxing and Wrestling Commissioner Bill Cummings was
in attendance and issued fines to four wrestlers and a referee for “unnecessary
roughness.”

Houston, Texas: Friday, March 20, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Ted “King Kong” Cox b. Abe “King Kong” Kashey (2/3) … Frederich
William Otto Von Schacht b. Paul Boesch (DQ) (18:00) … Marie Young b. Mae Weston …
Juan Humberto and Bobby Managoff drew (20:00) … Ivan Managoff and Babe Zaharias
drew (20:00) … Jack Kennedy b. Ray Clements (13:00) … (promoter: Morris Sigel) …
(referees: Ellis Bashara, Paul Jones, Dr. Karl Sarpolis) … (4,000 fans)
Note: After the match, Kashey was called the “ex King Kong.”

Houston, Texas: Friday, March 27, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Ted “King Kong” Cox b. Ed “Strangler” Lewis (2/3) (third fall by DQ) …
Marie Young b. Elviry Snodgrass (12:02) … Bobby Managoff and Frederich Von Schacht
drew (20:00) … Paul Boesch b. Ivan Managoff (14:00) … Al Lovelock and Ben Morgan
drew … Ellis Bashara b. Shipyard Tiny (DQ) … (promoter: Morris Sigel) … (referees: Ellis
Bashara, Paul Jones) … (4,000 fans)
Note: “Pet (No Count) Rossi’s newest charge” was “Big” Ben Morgan.

Houston, Texas: Friday, April 3, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Ed “Strangler” Lewis b. Ted “King Kong” Cox (2/3) … Women’s World
Champion Mildred Burke b. Gladys Gillem (18:00) (Gillem was a substitute for Marie
Young, who had a shoulder injury) … Bobby Managoff b. Abe Kashey (DQ) … Shipyard
Tiny and Babe Zaharias drew … Paul Boesch and Frederick Von Schact drew …
(promoter: Morris Sigel) … (referees: Karl Gray, Al Lovelock) … (in attendance: Homer
Norton, coach of the Texas Aggies) … (3,500 fans)
Notes: Paul Boesch and Karl Gray put on a self-defense demonstration of “jiu-jitsu,
unarming assailants, putting people to sleep and keeping all of these same things from
happening to you.” The newspaper stated that “it is the same instruction which the
wrestlers have presented to surrounding army camps for the past three months, and
should prove to be very valuable.” Dr. Karl Sarpolis explained the session to the crowd as
it was demonstrated. The newspaper stated that Young was a “famed softball pitcher.”

Houston, Texas: Friday, April 10, 1942
(City Auditorium) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Bill Longson b. Ted “King Kong”
Cox (2-0) … Bill Lee and Ray Steele drew … Elviry Snodgrass won a battle royal over
Dorothy Johnson, Mae Weston and Gladys Gilliam … Paul Boesch and Frederick Von
Schacht drew … Abe Kashey b. Ray Clements … Jack Kennedy b. Babe Zaharias (DQ) …
(promoter: Morris Sigel) … (referee: Ivan Managoff) … (3,500 fans)

Houston, Texas: Friday, April 17, 1942
(City Auditorium) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Bill Longson b. Ed “Strangler”
Lewis (2/3) (Longson won the first fall by DQ) … Bobby Managoff and Ray Steele drew
(30:00) … Frederich Von Schacht b. Bill Lee (9:12) … Juan Humberto and Al Lovelock
drew (20:00) … Shipyard Tiny b. Abe Kashey (DQ) (Kashey fought with Ellis Bashara and
was fined) … Ellis Bashara b. Babe Zaharias (8:18) … (promoter: Morris Sigel) …
(referee: Ivan Managoff) … (3,000 fans)
Notes: Lewis was said to have entered the ring at 265 pounds and he was “seeking his
fourth championship,” according to the newspaper report. During the 15-minute
intermission, Paul Jones, Paul Boesch and Karl Gray gave a demonstration of “basic”
wrestling holds in the ring.

Houston, Texas: Friday, April 24, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Ted “King Kong” Cox b. Frederich Von Schacht (2/3) … Bobby
Managoff b. Paul Boesch (8 seconds) … Babe Zaharias b. Karl Gray … Roy Graham b.
Jack Kennedy (DQ) … Ellis Bashara and Abe Kashey drew (30:00) … (promoter: Morris
Sigel) … (referee: Paul Jones)

Houston, Texas: Friday, May 1, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Jim “Goon” Henry b. Ted “King Kong” Cox (2/3) … Paul Boesch b.
Abe Kashey … Jack Kennedy and Bobby Managoff drew (20:00) … Al Lovelock b. Babe
Zaharias (DQ) … Otto Kuss b. Ray Clements … (promoter: Morris Sigel) … (referee: Ellis
Bashara) … (3,000 fans)
Note: In the reports of Managoff’s matches in Houston, the word “brilliant” was commonly
used.

Houston, Texas: Friday, May 8, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Bobby Managoff b. Jim “Goon” Henry (2/3) … Juan Humberto and
Otto Kuss drew (20:00) … Ted “King Kong” Cox b. Ellis Bashara … Ivan Managoff b.
Frederich Von Schacht … Babe Zaharias b. Jack Kennedy (DQ) … (promoter: Morris
Sigel) … (referees: Paul Boesch, Karl Sarpolis) … (3,000 fans)

Houston, Texas: Friday, May 15, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Ted “King Kong” Cox b. Lou Thesz (2/3) … Pat Fraley b. Frederich
Von Schacht (13:00) … Vic Christy b. Babe Zaharias (15:31) … Pedro Brazil and Jack
Kennedy drew (20:00) … Sterling “Dizzy” Davis b. Ellis Bashara (DQ) … (promoter: Morris
Sigel) … (referees: Paul Boesch, Karl Gray, Karl Sarpolis, Sergeant Rich) … (3,500 fans)
Note: It was said that Boesch inadvertently helped Cox win the third fall over Thesz.

Houston, Texas: Friday, May 22, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Lou Thesz b. Ted “King Kong” Cox (2-0) (second fall by DQ) … Pat
Fraley b. Jim “Goon” Henry … Juan Humberto b. Frederich Von Schacht (Von Schacht
was a substitute for Bobby Managoff, who was unable to wrestle due to a “serious” leg
infection) … Vic Christy b. Ivan Managoff (7:35) … Jack Kennedy b. Roy Graham (4:58) …
Pedro Brazil and Sterling “Dizzy” Davis drew (20:00) … (promoter: Morris Sigel) …
(referees: Ellis Bashara, Paul Boesch)
Note: The newspaper indicated that Von Schacht was “due soon to report to the United
States Army.”

Houston, Texas: Friday, May 29, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Ted “King Kong” Cox b. Karl Davis (DQ) (11:00) … Ernie Dusek b. Pat
Fraley (2/3) … Vic Christy b. Emil Dusek (15:00) … Sterling “Dizzy” Davis b. Pedro Brazil
(12:00) … Vincent Lopez b. Iavn Managoff … Jim “Goon” Henry and Babe Zaharias drew
(20:00) … (promoter: Morris Sigel) … (referees: Ellis Bashara, Karl Sarpolis) … (4,000
fans)

Houston, Texas: Friday, June 5, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Ted “King Kong” Cox b. Karl Davis (2/3) (during the third fall, Davis
was knocked out by his second Babe Zaharias, leading to the final pinfall) (Cox was
accompanied by Jim “Goon” Henry) (no holds barred, no disqualification match) … Vic
Christy and Ernie Dusek drew (30:00) … Vincent Lopez b. Pat Fraley (DQ) … Bobby
Managoff b. Juan Humberto (7:34) … Pedro Brazil b. Al Lovelock (11:35) … (promoter:
Morris Sigel) … (referees: Ellis Bashara, Karl Sarpolis) … (4,000 fans)

Houston, Texas: Friday, June 12, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Karl Davis b. Ted “King Kong” Cox (2/3) … Juan Humberto b. Vic
Christy (DQ) (Christy slammed the referee) … The Dusek Brothers (Emil and Ernie
Dusek) b. Pat Fraley and Bobby Managoff (2/3) (team match) … Vincent Lopez b. Jim
“Goon” Henry (dec., 20:00) … (promoter: Morris Sigel) … (referees: Ellis Bashara, Karl
Sarpolis) … (3,500 fans)
Notes: Ernie and Emil Dusek were called the “team match champions of the nation.” After
their win, they challenged any team combination in the world. Babe Zaharias
accompanied Cox to the ring and for his attack of Davis, drew a 90-day suspension by
Texas Deputy Wrestling Commissioner Morris Rosenthal.

Houston, Texas: Friday, June 19, 1942
(City Auditorium) … “Killer” Karl Davis b. Vic Christy (2/3) … Vincent Lopez b. Ellis
Bashara (7:42) … Roy Graham b. Pat Fraley (DQ) (the referee initially wanted to give the
match to Fraley by DQ, but the latter refused only to be disqualified himself) … Jim “Goon”
Henry and Bobby Managoff drew (20:00) … Juan Humberto b. Babe Zaharias (17:00) …
(promoter: Morris Sigel) … (referees: Al Lovelock, Karl Sarpolis) … (3,000 fans)
Notes: Davis had reportedly been wrestling for 11 years. Bobby Managoff Sr. was in his
son’s corner, and Henry made several attempts to get at him, while Bobby Jr. protected his
father.

Houston, Texas: Friday, June 26, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Bobby Managoff b. “Killer” Karl Davis (2/3) … Pat Fraley b. Vincent
Lopez (DQ) (18:55) … Vic Christy and Jim “Goon” Henry drew … Gene Blackley b. Al
Lovelock (18:00) … Juan Humberto b. Roy Graham (DQ) … (promoter: Morris Sigel) …
(referees: Ellis Bashara, Karl Gray) … (announcer: Barney Myers) … (3,000 fans)
Notes: Bobby Managoff Sr. taunted Davis throughout the main event. The Houston Post
stated that the “championship of the Houston shipyards remained unsettled as Gene
Blackley won a most unpopular decision from Al Lovelock in 18 minutes. Lovelock still
claims he was up at the count of ‘two.’”

Houston, Texas: Friday, November 6, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Bobby Managoff b. Chief Joe Little Beaver (2-0) (first fall by DQ) …
Ray Eckert and Jim “Goon” Henry wrestled to a no contest … Gladys Gillam and Purple
Mask b. Mildred Burke and Mae Weston (tag team match) … Tom Drennan b. Roy
Graham by reverse decision when the latter refused to let up … Juan Humberto and Jack
Kennedy drew (20:00) … Gorilla Macias b. Flash Gordon … (promoter: Morris Sigel) …
(referee: Ellis Bashara) … (4,000 fans)

Houston, Texas: Friday, November 13, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Bobby Managoff b. Jim “Goon” Henry (2/3) … Elviry Snodgrass and
Mae Weston b. Gladys Gillam and Purple Flash (tag team match) … Chief Joe Little
Beaver b. Gorilla Macias (DQ) … Jack Kennedy b. Ray Clements … Ellis Bashara and Al
Lovelock drew (20:00) .. .The Green Shadow b. Ray Duran (9:00) … (promoter: Morris
Sigel) … (referee: Lou Thesz)
Note: Shadow was making his local debut.

Houston, Texas: Friday, November 20, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Lou Thesz b. Ray Eckert (2/3) … Juan Humberto and Gorilla Macias
b. Chief Little Beaver and Al Lovelock … The Purple Flash b. Elviry Snodgrass … Joe Cox
and Ellis Bashara drew (20:00) … Don Lee b. Ray Clemens (reverse decision) … Roy
Graham b. Flash Clifford (12:00) … (promoter: Morris Sigel)

Houston, Texas: Friday, November 27, 1942
(City Auditorium) … Bobby Managoff b. Yvon Robert to capture the World Heavyweight
Title (2/3) … Women’s World Champion Mildred Burke b. The Purple Flash … Louis Thesz
b. Jim Henry (15:00) … Joe Cox and Ray Eckert drew (20:00) … Chief Little Beaver b. Roy
Graham … (promoter: Morris Sigel) … (referee: Ellis Bashara)

Research by Tim Hornbaker
March 8, 2008

Houston Wrestling Results - 1942