Louisville, Kentucky:  Tuesday, March 4, 1952
(Columbia Gym) … Stu Gibson and Bill Longson b. Chief Little Wolf and Bobby Managoff
(2/3) … Ralph Garibaldi b. Dutch Heffner (DQ) … Sergeant Buck Moore and Frankie
Taylor (ex-Mr. XX) drew … (promoter:  Francis McDonogh) … (referee:  Ellis Joseph)

*On Tuesday, March 4, 1952, Wrestling was featured on WHAS-TV, channel 9, at 9:30
until 10:30 p.m.

Louisville, Kentucky:  Tuesday, March 11, 1952
(Columbia Gym) … Stu Gibson and Bill Longson b. Vincent Lopez and Enrique Torres
(2/3) … Chief Little Wolf and Mike Mazurki drew (30:00) … Terry Majors b. Ida May (2-0)
… (promoter:  Francis McDonogh) … (referee:  Blacksmith Pedigo)
Notes:  Major was said to be from Hollywood and May from Norwich, Connecticut.

Louisville, Kentucky:  Tuesday, March 18, 1952
(Columbia Gym) … Chief Little Wolf and Alo Leilani b. Stu Gibson and Bill Longson (2/3)
(third by DQ) … Vincent Lopez and Enrique Torres b. Finias Hall and Dutch Heffner (2/3)
… Claudie Brown (Cropper, Kentucky) and Mel Meiners (Schnitzelburg) drew (15:00) …
(promoter:  Francis McDonogh)

Louisville, Kentucky:  Tuesday, March 25, 1952
(Columbia Gym) … Stu Gibson and Bill Longson b. Vincent Lopez and Enrique Torres
(special referee:  Ed “Strangler” Lewis) … Al Lovelock b. Dutch Heffner (2/3) … Chief
Little Wolf b. Frankie Taylor … (promoter:  Francis McDonogh)

Louisville, Kentucky:  Saturday, March 29, 1952
(Jefferson County Armory) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz b. Enrique
Torres (2/3) (Thesz won the first fall, Torres won the second, Thesz won the third) (Thesz
complained of a “sore side before the final frame”) (Ed “Strangler” Lewis was ringside
with Thesz) … Chief Little Wolf b. Stu Gibson (DQ) … Ray Eckert and Bill Longson drew
(30:00) … Ethel Johnson b. Louis Greene … Pee Wee James b. Tiny Roe … Buck Moore
b. Al Wasagoski … Chief Little Wolf and Buck Moore b. Stu Gibson and Al Wasagoski …
(promoter:  Francis McDonogh) … (referees:  Blacksmith Pedigo, Ellis Joseph) …
(announcer/timekeeper:  George Lewis) … (Louisville Police’s Fourth Annual Wrestling
Show, earning more than $10,000 for the Police Officer’s Association) …  (9,281 fans) …
(gate:  $22,677)
Notes:  Reported as the largest crowd ever to see wrestling in Louisville by the Courier-
Journal; 500 orphans and underprivileged children were at the show, guests of the
policemen.  Moore was of the Louisville Police Department.  Wolf was an Osage Indian.

Louisville, Kentucky:  Tuesday, April 1, 1952
(Columbia Gym) … Chief Little Wolf, Alo Leilani and Enrique Torres b. Stu Gibson, Dutch
Heffner and Bill Longson (DQ) … Alo Leilani and Bill Longson drew … Dutch Hefner b.
Chief Little Wolf (DQ) (Wolf’s “father” Big Heart interfered) … Enrique Torres b. Stu
Gibson … Frankie Taylor b. Claude Brown (former heavyweight boxer) … (promoter:  
Francis McDonogh) … (referees:  Blacksmith Pedigo, Ellis Joseph)

Louisville, Kentucky:  Tuesday, April 8, 1952
(Columbia Gym) … Ray Eckert and Enrique Torres drew (45:00) (no falls) … Chief Little
Wolf b. Dutch Heffner (2-0) (second by DQ) … Fred Davis b. Frankie Taylor (14:30) … Al
Lovelock and Mike Mazurki drew (30:00) … (promoter:  Francis McDonogh) … (referee:  
Ellis Joseph)

Louisville, Kentucky:  Tuesday, April 15, 1952
(Columbia Gym) … Ray Eckert and Enrique Torres drew (1-1) (60:00) … Alo Leilani and
The Mighty Atlas drew (1-1) … Jack Kennedy b. Dutch Heffner … Stu Gibson and Chris
Zaharias drew … (promoter:  Francis McDonogh) … (referee:  Ellis Joseph)

*The Sunday, April 20, 1952 edition of the Louisville Courier-Journal stated that there
was a show in Scottsburg, Indiana on Saturday at the Scottsburg High School Gym.  
Chief Little Wolf and Enrique Torres were teaming against Ray Eckert and Stu Gibson.  
There was also a show in Jeffersonville on Saturday, May 17 featuring midget grapplers.  
Paoli had a program on May 10 and a show in Seymour on May 9.  “Frankfort starts in
two weeks on bimonthly shows,” the paper reported.

Louisville, Kentucky:  Tuesday, April 22, 1952
(Columbia Gym) … Enrique Torres b. Al Lovelock (2/3) … Ray Eckert b. Jack Kennedy …
Alo Leilani b. Stu Gibson … Chief Little Wolf b. Sergeant Buck Moore … (promoter:  
Francis McDonogh)
Notes:  Benny Ginsburg was billed as Enrique Torres’ manager, but was sick, and in San
Francisco.  Chief Little Wolf acted as his second instead; Torres earned a match with
Baron Michele Leone on the Derby Eve wrestling show

Louisville, Kentucky:  Tuesday, April 29, 1952
(Columbia Gym) …Stu Gibson and Bill Longson b. Chief Little Wolf and Enrique Torres
(Mexican style finish match, one wrestler had to give up) (Longson piledrove Wolf five
times during the fourth fall and the latter did not return) … Ray Eckert b. Vincent Lopez
(2-0) … Mel Meiners b. Flash Clifford (DQ) … (promoter:  Francis McDonogh)

Louisville, Kentucky:  Friday, May 2, 1952
(Columbia Gym) … Baron Michele Leone vs. Enrique Torres … Lorain Johnson vs. Nell
Stewart … Ray Eckert vs. Bill Longson … Chief Little Wolf vs. Stu Gibson … (promoter:  
Francis McDonogh) … (Derby Eve special)




Research by Tim Hornbaker
October 15, 2010
Louisville Wrestling Results - 1952