Jackson, Mississippi:  Friday, June 28, 1935
(Open Air Arena) … The Red Flash b. Sailor Moran (2/3) … Joe Kopecky and Sailor
Watkins drew … (promoter:  Billy Romanoff) … (referee:  Claude Skidmore)
Note:  The Open Air Arena was aon Pearl Street, across from the Tower Building.

Jackson, Mississippi:  Friday, July 5, 1935
(Open Air Arena) … Joe Kopecky vs. Red Flash … Frank “Frankenstein” Wolfe vs. Sailor
Watkins … (promoter:  Billy Romanoff) … (referee:  Claude Skidmore)

Jackson, Mississippi:  Friday, July 12, 1935
(Open Air Arena) … Frank “Frankenstein” Wolfe b. Sailor Moran in the finals of a wrestle
royal … Bob Casteele and Joe Kopecky drew … Wrestle Royal (participants: Wolfe,
Moran, Joe Kopecky, Bob Casteel, Red Flash) (number eliminated: Flash, Casteel,
Kopecky) … (promoter:  Billy Romanoff) … (referees:  Claude Skidmore, Sailor Watkins)
… (2,500 fans)
Note:  The Wrestle Royal was said to be “new in Jackson, but it has proven unusually
popular elsewhere as an added attraction.”

Jackson, Mississippi:  Friday, July 19, 1935
(Open Air Arena) … Frank “Frankenstein” Wolfe b. Joe Kopecky (2/3) … Bob Casteel b.
Victor Webber (one-fall match) … Hillman Rice and Harry Townsend drew (amateur bout)
… (promoter:  Billy Romanoff) … (referee:  Claude Skidmore)

Jackson, Mississippi:  Friday, July 26, 1935
(Open Air Arena) … Frank “Frankenstein” Wolfe b. Red Flash (2/3) … Walter Stratton
and Victor Webber drew (30:00) … (promoter:  Billy Romanoff) … (referee:  Claude
Skidmore)

Jackson, Mississippi:  Friday, August 2, 1935
(Open Air Arena) … Wrestle Royal (participants: Frank Wolfe, Red Flash, Joe Kopecky,
Andy Tremaine, Len Hughes) … Len Hughes b. Joe Kopecky … Andy Tremaine b. Frank
Wolfe in the finals … (promoter:  Billy Romanoff)
Notes:  Tremaine was called a Canadian light heavyweight wrestler, who had improved
during a Pacific Coast tour.  Hughes was from Buffalo.

Jackson, Mississippi:  Friday, August 9, 1935
(Open Air Arena) … Len Hughes b. Nick Bozinis (2/3) (Hughes was originally slated to
wrestle Andy Tremaine, who was unable to compete due to a bruised arm) … Walter
Stratton and Count Von Bromberg (1-1) … (promoter:  Billy Romanoff) … (referee:  
Claude Skidmore)
Note:  Tremaine, and his wife of 18 months, were ringsiders for this show.

Jackson, Mississippi:  Friday, August 16, 1935
(Open Air Arena) … Andy Tremaine b. Nick Bozinis (2/3) … Victor Webber b. Count Von
Bromberg (2-0) … (promoter:  Billy Romanoff) … (referee:  Claude Skidmore)

Jackson, Mississippi:  Friday, August 23, 1935
(Open Air Arena) … Andy Tremaine and Victor Webber drew (two hours) (1-1) … Walter
Stratton b. Nick Bozinis (DQ) … (promoter:  Billy Romanoff)
Note:  Both Tremaine and Webber were looking for a match with World Light Heavyweight
Champion Leroy McGuirk.

Jackson, Mississippi:  Friday, August 30, 1935
(Open Air Arena) … Andy Tremaine b. Victor Webber (decision) (more than two hours)
(1-1) … Pat O’Brien b. Walter Stratton … (promoter:  Billy Romanoff) … (referee:  Claude
Skidmore)
Notes:  The main event finish was unpopular with fans.  Tremaine was called a former
Canadian Light Heavyweight champion.

Jackson, Mississippi:  Friday, September 6, 1935
(Open Air Arena) … Pat O’Brien b. Walter Stratton in the finals of a wrestle royal … Nick
Bozinis and Victor Webber drew … Wrestle Royal (participans:  O’Brien, Stratton, Bozinis,
Webber, Andy Tremaine) … (promoter:  Billy Romanoff) … (referee:  Claude Skidmore)

Jackson, Mississippi:  Friday, September 13, 1935
(Open Air Arena) … Pat O’Brien b. Andy Tremaine (2/3) … Victor Webber b. Nick Bozinis
(DQ) … (promoter:  Billy Romanoff) … (referee:  Claude Skidmore)
Notes:  The winner of the main event “will in all probability” meet Leroy McGuirk for the
light heavyweight title.  Last show at the open air arena, and all future programs would be
staged at the Auditorium.

Jackson, Mississippi:  Saturday, September 21, 1935
(City Auditorium) … World Light Heavyweight Champion Leroy McGuirk b. Pat O’Brien
(2/3) (non-title match) … Bill Jeffries b. Victor Webber (one-fall) … (promoter:  Billy
Romanoff) … (2,000 fans)
Notes:  McGuirk agreed to defend his championship in Jackson for $2,000, but Romanoff
couldn’t pay it.  McGuirk then agreed to appear, but not defend his title.  The newspaper
billed McGuirk as “Leroy Michael McGuirk.”

Jackson, Mississippi:  Friday, September 27, 1935
(City Auditorium) … Bill Jeffries b. Victor Webber (2-0) (after the match, Jeffries attacked
Webber, then fought with Skidmore and Romanoff) … Nick Bozinis b. Pat O’Brien (2-0) …
(promoter:  Billy Romanoff) … (referee:  Claude Skidmore)

Jackson, Mississippi:  Friday, October 4, 1935
(City Auditorium) … Nick Bozinis vs. Bill Jeffries … Charley Layden vs. Walter Stratton …
(promoter:  Billy Romanoff) … (referee:  Claude Skidmore)
Notes:  Stratton was a substitute for Victor Webber, who was sick.  This show also
featured a four-round boxing match in the opener.  Layden was billed as “Jimmy Layden”
in one report.

Jackson, Mississippi:  Friday, October 11, 1935
(City Auditorium) … World Middleweight Champion Gus Kallio vs. Nick Bozinis (title
match) … Verne Clark vs. Otto Ludwig … Bill Jeffries vs. Charley Layden … (promoter:  
Billy Romanoff) … (referee:  Claude Skidmore)
Notes:  The Tuesday, October 8, 1935 edition of the Jackson Daily News stated that
Kallio lost his middleweight championship for “thirty days this year to Joe Gunther,
Nashville, Tenn., only to win it back at a later meeting.  Kallio is his own manager and the
quickest breaker of holds in the game.  His favorite and most effective hold is a ‘self-
strangle’ which he invented and is now using in six different ways.”  The Friday, October
11, 1935 edition of the Jackson Daily News stated that this was going to be Kallio’s
second Jackson showing in six years.  In his last appearance, he beat Hugh Nichols.  
Kallio was a veteran of more than 2,000 matches and was 42 years of age.  He weighed
165 pounds.  Layden was a graduate of T.C.U.  No show next week due to the Mississippi
State Fair.

Jackson, Mississippi:  Saturday, October 26, 1935
(City Auditorium) … Wrestle Royal (participants: Verne Clark, Charley Layden, Frankie
Hill, Kid Lott, Nick Bozinis, Bill Jeffries) … two other matches … (promoter:  Billy
Romanoff) … (referees:  Sergeant Harry Nixon, Claude Skidmore)

Jackson, Mississippi:  Friday, November 1, 1935
(City Auditorium) … Charley Layden b. Kid Lott (2/3) … George Ligosky b. Verne Clark
… (promoter:  Billy Romanoff) … (referee:  Claude Skidmore)
Notes:  Layden was called a Texas rodeo champion.  A four-round boxing match was to
be held prior to the first preliminary.  Layden was accompanied by Charlie Hill.

Jackson, Mississippi:  Friday, November 8, 1935
(City Auditorium) … Vernon Clark vs. Charley Layden … George Ligosky vs. Otto Ludwig
… (promoter:  Billy Romanoff) … (referee:  Claude Skidmore)
Note:  The Ligowsky-Ludwig bout was said to be an “Australian” match, consisting of four
3-minute rounds with two-minute rest periods.

Jackson, Mississippi:  Friday, November 15, 1935
(City Auditorium) … Verne Clark b. Red Flash (2/3) … Jack Carson b. Otto Ludwig (DQ)
… George Ligosky and Sergeant Harry Nixon drew (15:00) … (promoter:  Billy Romanoff)
… (referee:  Claude Skidmore)
Notes:  Nixon was called the “Army champ.” Clark was a former football player at
Washington State.

Jackson, Mississippi:  Friday, November 22, 1935
(City Auditorium) … Verne Clark b. Red Flash in fnals of a wrestle royal (2/3) (third fall by
DQ) … Otto Ludwig b. Harry Nixon (2-0) … Wrestle Royal (Jack Carson and George
Ligosky were the first two eliminated) … (promoter:  Billy Romanoff) … (referee: Claude
Skidmore)
Note:  Ace Freeman was originally slated to be apart of this show.

Jackson, Mississippi:  Thursday, November 28, 1935
(City Auditorium) … Red Flash b. Charley Layden (2-0) … Otto Ludwig b. Bill Jeffries …
(promoter:  Billy Romanoff) … (referee: Claude Skidmore)

Jackson, Mississippi:  Friday, December 6, 1935
(City Auditorium) … Otto Ludwig b. Verne Clark (2/3) (third fall by countout) … Ace
Freeman b. Jack Carson (2-0) … (promoter:  Billy Romanoff) … (referee:  Claude
Skidmore)
Notes:  The Clark-Ludwig match was a brutal bout with plenty of blood.  Ace Freeman
was called the “smoothest operating individual Jackson has seen in ages, and he clearly
put on a demonstration of a dozen or more holds local fans have never seen before.”

Jackson, Mississippi:  Friday, December 13, 1935
(City Auditorium) … Otto Ludwig b. Red Flash (2/3) … Ace Freeman b. Bill Jeffries (20:
00) (figure-four head scissors flip) … (promoter:  Billy Romanoff) … (referee:  Claude
Skidmore)
Note:  Prior to this show, the Mississippi State Wrestling Commission warned the
grapplers of their outrageous actions based on last week’s wild show.

Jackson, Mississippi:  Friday, December 20, 1935
(City Auditorium) … Ace Freeman b. Otto Ludwig (2/3) … Verne Clark b. Donald
McNaught … (promoter:  Billy Romanoff) … (referee:  Claude Skidmore)
Notes:  Clark had recovered from an attack of boils.  He was popular in Jackson.

Jackson, Mississippi:  Saturday, December 28, 1935
(City Auditorium) … Vernon Clark b. Otto Ludwig (2-0) … Ace Freeman b. Red Flash …
Donald “Kid” McNaught b. George Ligosky (DQ) ... (promoter:  Billy Romanoff) …
(referee:  Claude Skidmore)

Research by Tim Hornbaker
October 15, 2010
Jackson Daily News, Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson Wrestling Results - 1935