Louisville, Kentucky:  Tuesday, June 4, 1940
(Sports Arena) … Lupe Acosta b. Gladys Ryan (10:51) … Stacy Hall b. George Becker (2/3)
… Larry “Speedy” LaRance b. Jimmy Heffner (2/3) … (promoter:  Heywood Allen)

Louisville, Kentucky:  Tuesday, June 11, 1940
(Sports Arena) … Women’s World Champion Mildred Burke b. Lupe Acosta (14:00) … Paavo
Ketonen b. Walter Achiu (2/3) … Larry LaRance b. Ned Taylor (2/3) … (promoter:  Heywood
Allen) … (1,528 fans)
Note:  Burke’s title was called the women’s “lightweight title.”

Louisville, Kentucky:  Tuesday, June 18, 1940
(Sports Arena) … Dave Levin vs. Frankie Talaber (2/3) … Alex Kasaboski vs. Scotty Williams
… Cecil “Blacksmith” Pedigo in the opening match … (promoter:  Heywood Allen)
Notes:  The winner of the main event was going to wrestle the world champion, Bobby Bruns
on July 2.  This show was postponed due to rain.

Louisville, Kentucky:  Wednesday, June 19, 1940
(Sports Arena) … Frankie Talaber b. Dave Levin (2/3) … Scotty Williams b. Alex Kasaboski
(46:38) … Blacksmith Pedigo b. Gust Johannsen (18:51) (crab hold) … (promoter:  Heywood
Allen) … (1,000 fans)

Louisville, Kentucky:  Tuesday, June 25, 1940
(Sports Arena) … Bobby Bruns b. Dick Shikat (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … Walter Achiu and
Scotty Williams drew (1-1) (60:00) … Blacksmith Pedigo b. Ned Thompson (19:42) …
(promoter:  Heywood Allen)
Notes:  Promoter Allen was staging a heavyweight wrestling tournament to find the “most
formidable challenger” to meet “newly-crowned” Orville Brown.  Ned Thompson was from
Toledo, Ohio.

Louisville, Kentucky:  Tuesday, July 2, 1940
(Sports Arena) … World Light Heavyweight Champion Speedy LaRance vs. World Junior
Middleweight Champion Billy Thom (2/3) … Ned Taylor vs. Buck Weaver … Chief Barefoot
vs. Blacksmith Pedigo … (promoter:  Heywood Allen)
Notes:  This was the fifth anniversary of the Allen Athletic Club “of its entry into the wrestling
world.” The venue was at Burnett and Preston Streets.



Research by Tim Hornbaker
Louisville Wrestling Results - 1940
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