Kansas City, Missouri:  January 23, 1923
( ) ... World Heavyweight Champion Ed "Strangler" Lewis b. Joe "Toots" Mondt (1:28:15)
(one-fall match) ... (promoter:  Gabe Kaufman) ... (referee:  Walter Bates) ... (8,000 fans)
Notes:  The fact that the match was only one fall was a point of contention, and because
Mondt had Lewis in some tough positions, there was reason for a rematch - with three
falls.


Kansas City, Missouri:  February 15, 1923
( ) ... World Heavyweight Champion Ed "Strangler" Lewis b. Joe "Toots" Mondt (2/3)
(Mondt won the first fall and lost the second and third) ... (promoter:  Gabe Kaufman) ...
(10,000+ fans)


Kansas City, Missouri:  March 8, 1923
( ) ... John Pesek b. Joe "Toots" Mondt ... (promoter:  Gabe Kaufman)


Kansas City, Missouri:  April 12, 1923
( ) ... John Pesek b. Stanislaus Zbyszko ... (promoter:  Gabe Kaufman)
Notes:  The winner was promised a match with Ed Lewis.  The local fans were firmly
behind his push to the title.




Kansas City, Missouri:  Wednesday, May 2, 1923
(Convention Hall) ... World Heavyweight Champion Ed "Strangler" Lewis b. John Pesek
(2-0) (1:02:00, 2:30) ... (referee:  Walter Bates)
Notes:  In the Kansas City Star, it was said that Pesek "was a great wrestler," but would
be unable to make a comeback in that city.  He apparently "fooled the folks around here"
because his showing against Lewis was "a thing of sorrow to those who liked the
Nebraskan." Lewis weighed around 218 for the match.  On December 30, 1923, the
Kansas City Star again talked about this Lewis-Pesek match saying that instead of seeing
a "super-exhibition with the brilliant and tigerish Pesek," fans instead got a "very meek
and effeminate Pesek." Billy Sandow was quoted as saying that:  "Pesek is a great
wrestler against anyone else except Lewis.  He is afraid of Lewis, and that's why he
looked so tame in there." The paper stated that "All of Pesek's popularity vanished with
the showing he made against Lewis."




Kansas City, Missouri:  October 26, 1923
( ) ... World Heavyweight Champion Ed "Strangler" Lewis b. John Turner (2-0)


Kansas City, Missouri:  November 23, 1923
( ) ... Stanislaus Zbyszko b. (?)



Kansas City, Missouri:  December 7, 1923
( ) ... World Heavyweight Champion Ed "Strangler" Lewis b. Stanislaus Zbyszko (2/3)
Note:  Lewis reportedly used tactics that made fans angry.











Research by Tim Hornbaker
February 15, 2011
Kansas City Wrestling Results - 1923