Montreal Wrestling Results

*The Montreal Athletic Commission gave Danno O’Mahoney 30-days to defend his World
Heavyweight Title against Yvon Robert. The July 1, 1936 edition of the Montreal Gazette
stated that “O’Mahoney recently defeated Robert in a bout at Boston which was
recognized as for the world title by the Massachusetts commission.”

Montreal, Quebec: Wednesday, July 1, 1936
(Montreal Forum) … World Heavyweight Champion Danno O’Mahoney b. Hal Rumberg (2-
0) … Tommy Nilan and George Wilson drew (20:00) … Abe Kaplan b. Art LeGrand (19:
58) … Charlie Santon b. Floyd Marshall (DQ) (7:36) … George Pencheff and Charlie
Strack drew (30:00) … (promoter: Jack Ganson) … (referee: Danny Murray) … (4,000
fans)
Note: No show next week.

Montreal, Quebec: Thursday, July 16, 1936
(Montreal Forum) … Yvon Robert b. Danno O’Mahoney to capture the World
Heavyweight Title (2/3) (after the match, O’Mahoney’s manager Jack McGrath
complained that Robert fouled O’Mahoney, and several fights broke out in the ring)
(Robert was given the “A.W.A. belt.”) … Floyd Marshall b. Frank Judson (20:10) … Emil
Dusek b. Boris Demetroff (25:28) … Abie Kaplan b. Tony Parkin (15:30) … Charlie
Strack b. Arthur LeGrand (19:55) … Tommy Nilan and George Wilson drew (10:00) …
(promoter: Jack Ganson) … (referee: Danny Murray) … (10,000 fans)
Notes: O’Mahoney was telling people he was going to sail for Ireland “next week” and
was going to take his championship with him. The Montreal Gazette reported that the
crowd “broke all records for paid wrestling attendances in this city, was the largest since
Stan Zbyszko and LeMarin fought in the old Westmount Arena back in 1910, veteran
ringside observers claimed.”

Montreal, Quebec: Wednesday, July 22, 1936
(Montreal Forum) … Floyd Marshall b. Charlie Strack (2/3) (Marshall earned a match with
Yvon Robert) … Emil Dusek b. Scotty MacDougall (19:27) … Ivan Managoff and Tommy
Nilan drew (30:00) … Al Mercier b. George Pencheff (10:36) … Abie Kaplan and Tommy
Wilson drew (30:00) … (promoter: Jack Ganson)

Montreal, Quebec: Wednesday, July 29, 1936
(Montreal Forum) … World Heavyweight Champion Yvon Robert b. Floyd Marshall (2-0)
… Cy Williams b. Ivan Managoff (6:11) … Charlie Santen b. Eli Fisher (21:18) … Tom
Nilan b. Heinie Olson (11:39) … Al Mercier b. Tony Parkin (7:22) … (promoter: Jack
Ganson) … (referee: Danny Murray) … (4,500 fans)
Notes: Eli Fisher was formerly of Rutgers University, and had reportedly only lost three
matches in his six months of pro wrestling. Yvon Robert was training at Val Morin. Floyd
Marshall was billed as being from Phoenix, Arizona and was reputed “bad man” of the
mat. Cy Williams had reportedly been barred in “nearly all the states where wrestling is
carried on.” Santen was billed as being from Ravenna, Nebraska, the hometown of John
Pesek.

Montreal, Quebec: Wednesday, August 5, 1936
(Montreal Forum) …

Notes: Victor Delamarre of Lake St. John was “well past the half-century mark,”
according to the Montreal Gazette. He weighed a little bit more than 160 pounds and was
one of the strongest wrestlers around. George Zarynoff had recently returned from
Mexico.

Montreal, Quebec: Wednesday, September 2, 1936
(Montreal Forum) … Hank Barber b. Ivan Managoff (1:08:54) … Cy Williams b. Jim Wright
(9:18) … Frank Judson and “Count” George Zarynoff drew (30:00) .. Abie Kaplan b. Tony
Parkin (15:15) … Johnny Dallas and Art LeGrand drew (20:00) … (promoter: Jack
Ganson) … (referee: Danny Murray)

Montreal, Quebec: Wednesday, September 9, 1936
(Montreal Forum) … World Heavyweight Champion Yvon Robert b. Hank Barber (2-0) (in-
between the first and second falls, Cy Williams charged the ring to issue a challenge to
the champion. Eddie Quinn, Robert’s manager, tried to prevent any kind of altercation.
Williams took offense to Robert turing his back on him and smashed Quinn) (Quinn fell
from the ring onto his head and was taken to Montreal General Hospital with a possible
skull fracture) (Williams then attacked Robert from behind) (fans rushed the ring,
throwing chairs, and one fan even kicked Williams in the face) (the match was able to
continue, while Williams was apprehended and taken to Montreal Detective
Headquarters) (no charges were immediately filed, although an investigation had started)
… Al Mercier b. Cy Williams (DQ) (16:50) … Frank Judson and “Count” George Zarynoff
drew (30:00) … Charlie Santon and Doug Wykoff wrestled to a double countout (20:00)
… Jim Wright b. Tony Parkin (13:09) … (promoter: Jack Ganson) … (referee: Danny
Murray) … (6,500+ fans)
Note: Wright was billed as being from El Paso.

Montreal, Quebec: Wednesday, September 16, 1936
(Montreal Forum) … World Heavyweight Champion Yvon Robert b. Ivan Managoff (2-0)
… Frank Judson and Cy Williams drew (30:00) (the newspaper stated that there was “ten
times more action in their thirty-minute bout than in the main attraction” and speculated
that Williams had earned a title shot) … Al Mercier b. Heinie Olson (15:42) … “Count”
George Zarynoff b. Bob Jefferson (15:23) (Jefferson’s last name was also spelled
“Jeffson”) … Fred Grubmier and Jim Wright drew (20:00) … (promoter: Jack Ganson) …
(referee: Danny Murray) … (6,000 fans)
Notes: Al Mercier was billed as being from Rimouski, Quebec. Jefferson was from
Toronto.

Montreal, Quebec: Wednesday, September 23, 1936
(Montreal Forum) … Cy Williams b. Frank Judson (2/3) … Abie Coleman and Al Mercier
drew (30:00) … Al Billings b. Floyd Marshall (18:00) … Abie Kaplan and Jim Wright drew
(20:00) … (promoter: Jack Ganson) … (5,000 fans)
Note: Al Billings was billed as the “former United States Navy champion” in 1935.

Montreal, Quebec: Wednesday, September 30, 1936
(Montreal Forum) … World Heavyweight Champion Yvon Robert b. Cy Williams (2/3)
(third fall by DQ) (Eddie Quinn was removed from the ring area after a protest by
Williams) … Abie Coleman and Frank Judson drew (30:00) … Al Billings b. Abie Kaplan
(15:20) … Jimmy Coffield and Art LeGrand drew (20:00) … (promoter: Jack Ganson) …
(referee: Danny Murray) … (10,000 fans)
Notes: The Montreal Gazette stated that Cy Williams has won 80 matches and lost 28 by
disqualification since 1934. Yvon Robert won 41 bout since winning the title from Danno
O’Mahoney in July. It was reported that Robert was going to be accompanied by his
former manager Emil Maupas and his brother Maurice Robert. No show next week and
on October 12, wrestling would be held at the Mount Royal Arena due to the six-day
bicycle race at the Forum. Wrestling would return to the Forum on October 19.

Montreal, Quebec: Monday, October 12, 1936
(Mount Royal Arena) … Cy Williams b. Hank Barber (2/3) (Barber was unable to continue
for the third fall) (Barber won the first fall in 47 seconds) … Al Billings b. Boris Demetroff
(20:00) … Ralph Garibaldi b. Eli Fisher (22:30) … Jimmy Coffield b. Tony Parkin (17:00)
… (promoter: Jack Ganson) … (referee: Jimmy McKimmie)

Montreal, Quebec: Monday, October 19, 1936
(Montreal Forum) … World Heavyweight Champion Yvon Robert b. Cy Williams (2/3) …
Al Billings b. Charlie Santen (15:09) … Frank Judson b. Boris Demetroff … Jimmy Coffield
and Jim Sarandos drew … (promoter: Jack Ganson) … (referee: Danny Murray) …
(9,000+ fans)
Notes: Among those introduced from the ring were Rabbitt Maranville, the new Montreal
Royals manager, and boxers Frankie Martin and Henry Hook, scheduled to fight at the
Arena tomorrow evening.

Montreal, Quebec: Monday, October 26, 1936
(Mount Royal Arena) … Frank Judson b. Al Billings (2/3) … Bibber McCoy and Pat McKay
drew … Jack Donovan b. Jack Marshall (11:30) … Mike Mazurki b. Stanley Sitkosky (12:
15) … (promoter: Jack Ganson) … (referee: Danny Murray)
Notes: Frank Judson was billed as the “man with a 1,000 holds.” Mazurki was billed as a
“giant Polish steel worker from Albany.”

Montreal, Quebec: Monday, November 2, 1936
(Mount Royal Arena) … Steve Casey b. Frank Judson (2-0) … Gus Sonnenberg b. Jack
Donovan (20:00) … Ralph Garibaldi b. Joe Cox (DQ) (9:15) … Mike Mazurki and Pat
McKay drew (20:00) … (promoter: Jack Ganson) … (1,000 fans)
Notes: This was billed as Steve Casey’s “second North American bout as he threw Wally
Dusek, youngest member of the famous wrestling clan, at Boston last Friday night.” Joe
Cox was billed as being from Mountain View, Missouri and was a saloon keeper.

Montreal, Quebec: Monday, November 16, 1936
(Montreal Forum) … Gus Sonnenberg b. Cy Williams (13:46) (Sonnenberg received
some outside help from Arthur LeGrand) … Cliff Olson b. Joe Cox (26:26) … George
Clark b. Richard Stahl (6:45) … Mike Mazurki and Charlie Santen drew (20:00) …
(promoter: Jack Ganson) … (referee: Saxon) … (4,000 fans)
Notes: Cliff Olson was billed as the “villain responsible for [Yvon] Robert’s leg fracture.”
News of Robert’s injury was printed in the Saturday, November 14, 1936 edition of the
Montreal Gazette. The incident between Robert and Olson occurred in Washington “last
night.” Robert was expected to miss at least two months. A paralyzed ex-jockey named
Jimmy Darou would be ringside. A special benefit in Darou’s honor would be staged on
November 23 at the Forum. Richard Stahl was from Konensburgh, Germany. Next show
on December 7.

*The Montreal Athletic Commission threatened to suspend Jack Ganson’s license on
Tuesday, November 17, 1936 pending an investigation following Arthur LeGrand’s
interference during the Gus Sonnenberg-Cy Williams bout.

Montreal, Quebec: Monday, December 7, 1936
(Montreal Forum) … Steve Casey b. Cy Williams (2-0) … George Clark b. Alfred Mercier
(19:53) … Tommy Rae b. Jimmy Coffield (22:20) … Hank Barber and Richard Stahl drew
(20:00) … (promoter: Jack Ganson) … (4,000 fans)
Note: Last show of the year.

Research by Tim Hornbaker
July 16, 2007

Montreal Wrestling Results - 1936