Oklahoma City Wrestling Results

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Wednesday, January 2, 1935
(Market Garden) … Barney Cosneck b. Alvin Britt (2/3) … Speedy LaRance b. Paul Orth
(third round) … Bob Montgomery and Tuffy Cleet drew (20:00) … Jack Kennedy b. Bill
Hassan … (promoter: Sam Avey)

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Wednesday, January 9, 1935
(Market Garden) … Barney Cosneck b. Speedy LaRance (2-0) … Frank Wolff b. “Smoky”
Joe Woods (third round) … “Roughhouse” Jack McDonald and Bob Montgomery drew (30:
00) … Lloyd Kennedy b. Tuffy Cleet (DQ) … (promoter: Sam Avey)

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Wednesday, January 16, 1935
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Shawnee, Oklahoma: Thursday, January 17, 1935
( ) … Lloyd Kennedy b. Leroy McGuirk (non title match) (2/3) (McGuirk won the first fall,
Kennedy won the second and third straight)
Note: Kennedy was billed as being from Cleveland, Ohio.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Wednesday, January 23, 1935
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Wednesday, January 30, 1935
(Market Garden) … Barney Cosneck b. Paul Orth (2/3) … “Roughhouse” Jack McDonald
b. Alvin Britt (third round) … Lloyd Kennedy and Jimmy Logas drew … Frankie Taylor b.
Doug Marell (second round) … (promoter: Sam Avey)

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Wednesday, February 6, 1935
(Market Garden) … Hugh Nichols b. Paul Orth (2/3) … George Sauer b. Lloyd Kennedy
(third round) … “Roughhouse” Jack McDonald b. Speedy LaRance (third round) …
Frankie Taylor b. Bob Montgomery (DQ in the second round) … (promoter: Sam Avey) …
(referee: Ernie Webb)

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Wednesday, February 27, 1935
(Market Garden) … George Sauer b. “Roughhouse” Jack McDonald … Bobby Pearce b.
Silent Rattan (2/3) … Frankie Taylor and Les Wolfe drew (20:00) … Al Karasick b. Lloyd
Kennedy … (promoter: Sam Avey)

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Wednesday, June 5, 1935
Show on Wednesday at Sam Avey’s open-air arena (first of the outdoor season)
Leroy McGuirk b. Al Karasick (earned a match with heavyweight champion Jim Londos)
(first fall by DQ) (referee: Tom Churchill) … Speedy LaRance b. Mystery Mike … “Wild”
Red Berry (billed as a “new bad man”) b. Steve Strelich (aligator clutch) … Frankie Hill b.
Louie Miller

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Wednesday, July 17, 1935
(open air arena) … Frankie Taylor b. Angelo (Boston Italian) (2/3) … Bob Montgomery b.
Red Berry (one fall in the third round) … Jimmy Logas b. Bunny Martin (second round) …
Len Hughes and Johnny LaRue (Oklahoma University) drew (20:00) … (promoter: Sam
Avey)

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Wednesday, July 31, 1935
(open air arena) … Jack McDonald b. Red Berry (2/3) … Bob Montgomery b. Johnny
LaRue … Jimmy Logas b. Angelo (DQ) … Scotty McNaught b. Mystery Mike … (promoter:
Sam Avey) … (referee: Churchill)
Notes: Berry was billed as a coalminer from Pittsburg, Kansas; Mystery Mike was billed as
the “burly protégé of Hugh Nichols.”

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Wednesday, August 7, 1935
(Texas League baseball park) … World Light Heavyweight Champion Leroy McGuirk b.
Hugh Nichols and “settled all disputes as to whom the light-heavyweight wrestling
champion of the world is.” (McGuirk won the first fall, Nichols won the second with a
stepover double reverse leg hold, McGuirk won the final) … Red Berry and Charley Carr
drew … Scotty McNaught b. Michael Angelo (DQ) … Johnny LaRue b. Jack Conway …
(promoter: Sam Avey) … (referees: Tom Churchill, Ernest “Red” Andrews, Charles
Rentrop) … (benefit for the Daily Oklahoman and the Oklahoma-Times Milk and Ice Fund)
… (5,000 fans) … (in attendance: Colonel Harry Landry, president of the NWA)
Notes: McGuirk trained for the match with his old schoolmate Joe “Red” McCrary, Nichols
reportedly learned tips in St. Louis from Jim Londos and worked out in a Tulsa gym with
Jimmy Logas; Landry had ordered McGuirk and Nichols to wrestle to settle the situation,
which “blew up when they met in Louisville, KY., on Derby eve. In that match, Nichols won
the only fall that was scored. The time was limited to one hour and McGuirk, defending
champion, claimed his title was not at stake. – The Daily Oklahoman, August 8, 1935

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Wednesday, August 14, 1935
(open air arena) … Jack McDonald b. “Wild” Red Berry (sixth round knockout) (billed as a
regulation boxing match) (they wore six-ounce gloves) … Scott McNaught b. Charley Carr
… Antonio Angelo (Boston) b. Johnny LaRue … Chris Zaharias b. Jack Conway …
(promoter: Sam Avey) … (referee: Tom Churchill) … (3,500 fans)

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Wednesday, August 21, 1935
(open air arena) … Scotty McNaught b. Antonio Angelo (2/3) … Red Berry and Chris
Zaharias drew … Charlie Carr b. Jack McDonald … Jimmy Logas b. Sailor Wade …
(promoter: Sam Avey)

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: September 4, 1935
(open air arena) … Frankie Taylor b. Barney Cosneck (Cosneck’s first defeat in several
months) (2/3) … “Wild” Red Berry b. Jimmy Logas … Charley Carr b. Chris Zaharias (DQ)
… Johnny Layden b. Bobby Wagner (third round) … (promoter: Sam Avey) … (referees:
Tom Churchill, Ernie Webb)

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: September 11, 1935
(open air arena) … Frankie Taylor b. Leroy McGuirk (non title match) (Taylor weighed
more than 175 pounds) (Taylor won his fourth straight local match) (2/3) … Barney
Cosneck b. Chris Zaharias … “Wild” Red Berry b. Bunny Martin (Sand Springs) … Charley
Carr and Jimmy Logas drew (30:00) … (promoter: Sam Avey)

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Wednesday, September 18, 1935
(open-air arena) … Barney Cosneck b. “Wild” Red Berry (2/3) … Charley Carr and Eddie
Elzea drew (Elzea was billed as a former heavyweight) … Chris Zaharias b. Hans Schacht
… Everett “Silent” Rattan b. George Lappan (Chicago) … (promoter: Sam Avey)

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Wednesday, October 2, 1935
( ) … Paul Orth vs. Chris Zaharias

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Wednesday, October 9, 1935

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Wednesday, October 16, 1935
(Market Garden) … NWA World Light Heavyweight Champion Leroy McGuirk b. Frank
Wolff (2-0) … Charley Carr b. Barney Cosneck … Sailor Moran b. “Wild” Red Berry …
Bobby Pearce b. George Bennett (flying head scissor) … (promoter: Sam Avey)

Research by Tim Hornbaker
September 8, 2007

Oklahoma City Wrestling Results - 1935