Rochester, NY: Wednesday, January 14, 1959
(War Memorial) … Ilio DiPaolo beat Gorgeous George (2-0) (first by cor) … Doc
Gallagher and Mike Gallagher drew Guy Brunetti and Joe Brunetti (30:00) … Jim Wright
drew Dick Beyer (20:00) … Frank Fozo beat Tarzan Tourville … referee: Joe Arlaukas …
(first card of the year)

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, January 21, 1959
(War Memorial, att.-600) … Guy Brunetti and Joe Brunetti beat Doc Gallagher and Mike
Gallagher (2-1, dq) … (Midgets) Little Beaver and Mario Sanchez beat Mighty Schultz
and Tom Thumb (2-1) … Hombre Montana beat Al Albertino … Baron Gattoni drew
Bobby Brown (20:00) (sub for Jim Wright) … referee: Frank Powderly

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, January 28, 1959
(War Memorial, att.-800) … Ilio DiPaolo beat Jim Wright (2-0, first by dq) (sub for Yukon
Eric) … Guy Brunetti beat Bill McMurray … Joe Brunetti beat Frank Fozo … Man
Mountain Hombre Montana beat Wally Greb … George Pencheff drew Tony Marino (20:
00) … referee: Joe Arlaukas … NOTE: The original card had the Brunetti brothers vs.
Frank Fozo and Jim Wright … referee: Joe Arlaukas

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, February 4, 1959
(War Memorial) … Ilio DiPaolo beat Paul Bunyan … Hombre Montana drew Jim Wright …
Guy Brunetti drew Mike Gallagher … Joe Brunetti drew Doc Gallagher … Tony Marino
drew Bobby Brown (aka Ovila Asselin, Guy LaRose, Roy Asselin)

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, February 11, 1959
(War Memorial) … Big Bill Miller drew Ilio DiPaolo … Hombre Montana beat Jim Wright …
Bobby Brown drew Dick Beyer … Tony Marino beat Bill MacMurray

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, February 18, 1959
(War Memorial) … Ilio DiPaolo beat Mike Gallagher … Dick Beyer beat Doc Gallagher
(dq) … Jim Wright drew Tony Marino … Bobby Brown beat George Pencheff

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, February 25, 1959
(War Memorial) … Ilio DiPaolo beat Hans Schmidt … Doc Gallagher and Mike Gallagher
beat Bobby Brown and Tony Marino … Roy McClarity beat Jim (Bull) Wright … Baron
Gattoni drew Man Mountain Hombre Montana

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, March 4, 1959
(War Memorial, att.-1,500) … Doc Gallagher and Mike Gallagher beat Guy Brunetti and
Joe Brunetti (2-1) … Ilio DiPaolo beat Hombre Montana … Tony Marino beat Frank Fozo
… Jim Wright drew Bobby Brown (30:00) … referee: Joe Arlaukas

Stillwater, OK: Wednesday, April 15, 1959
Bob Marella beat Ted Holmes (default-8:52) … (Final) Bill Kerslake beat Bob Marella
(dec) (won the National AAU heavyweight Greco-Roman title)

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, May 15, 1959
(War Memorial, att.-1,219) … Hans Schmidt beat Big Bill Miller … Doc Gallagher and
Mike Gallagher beat Dick Beyer and Steve Stanlee … Ricki Starr beat Lenny Montana …
Tony Marino beat Curt (Killer) Douglas … (only May show) … NOTE: This was the first
card since March 4.
Rochester, NY: Wednesday, June 3, 1959
(War Memorial, att.-1,400) … Hans Schmidt beat Bobo Brazil (2-1) … Doc Gallagher and
Mike Gallagher beat Dick Beyer and Fred Atkins (dq) (sub for Tony Marino) … Amazing
Zuma drew Ivan Kalmikoff (20:00) (sub for Chief Chewacki) … Ricki Starr beat Baron
Gattoni … referee: Joe Arlaukas

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, June 17, 1959
(War Memorial) … Ilio DiPaolo drew Fritz Von Erich (both cor) … Hans Schmidt beat Ed
Miller … (Midgets) Little Beaver and Tiny Tim beat Sky Low Low and Mighty Schultz (2-1)
… Frank Townsend beat Frank Fozo … Bobby Brown beat Chief Chewacki … referee:
Joe Arlaukas

Leningrad, Russia: Monday, June 22, 1959
Bob Marella, formerly of Jefferson High and now Ithaca College, lost in the heavyweight
match.

Istanbul, Turkey: Tuesday, July 7, 1959
(Mithatpasha Soccer Stadium, att.-1,000) … Ismet Atli beat Bob Marella (points)

Istanbul, Turkey: Wednesday, July 8, 1959
Bob Marella beat Suleyman Bastimur (points)

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, July 15, 1959
(War Memorial) … Doc Gallagher and Mike Gallagher beat Reggie Lisowski and Stan
Lisowski (2-1) … Dick Beyer drew Roy McClarity (30:00) … Bobby Brown drew Chief
Chewacki (30:00) … Sam Rios beat Wally Greb … referee: Joe Arlaukas … (only card of
July)

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, August 12, 1959
(War Memorial, att.-1,300) … Ilio DiPaolo beat Fritz Von Erich (2-1, dq) … Dan Miller and
Ed Miller beat Farmer Boy Frank Townsend and Sam Rios … Tony Marino drew Bobby
Brown (30:00) … Mighty Atlas beat Ramon Lopez … referee: Frank Powderly

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, August 26, 1959
(War Memorial) … Ilio DiPaolo beat Roy McClarity (2-1) … Doc Gallagher and Mike
Gallagher beat Leo Garibaldi and Farmer Frank Townsend … Fritz Von Erich beat Bobby
Brown … Tony Marino drew Ivan Kalmikoff (20:00) … Red Lyons beat Frank Fozo …
referee: Frank Powderly

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, September 16, 1959
(War Memorial, att.-600) … Bobo Brazil beat Waldo Von Erich (2-1) … Fritz Von Erich
beat Tony Marino … Roy McClarity beat Chief Chewacki … Sam Rios beat Frank Fozo …
Billy (Red) Lyons beat Ramon Lopez … referee; Eddie Clark … (first September card)

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, September 23, 1959
(War Memorial, att.-700) … Bobo Brazil and Roy McClarity beat Doc Gallagher and Mike
Gallagher (2-0, dq) … Mighty Atlas drew Waldo Von Erich (30:00) … Tony Marino beat
Ramon Lopez … Fred Atkins beat Chief Chewacki … referee: Joe Arlaukas

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, September 30, 1959
(War Memorial, att.-688) … Fritz Von Erich beat Roy McClarity (2-1) … Tony Marino drew
Lee Henning (30:00) … Sandor Kovacs beat Wally Greb (sub for Al Albertino) … Sam
Rios beat Frank (Scotty) Thompson … referee: Eddie Clark

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, October 7, 1959
(War Memorial) … Fritz Von Erich beat Bobo Brazil (2-1) … Mighty Atlas drew Dick Beyer
(30:00) … Sam Rios beat Ramon Lopez … Wally Greb drew Frank (Scotty) Thompson
(30:00) (sub for Zabio the Beatnik)

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, October 14, 1959
(War Memorial) … Fritz Von Erich beat Ilio DiPaolo (2-1, cor) … Dan Miller and Ed Miller
beat Tony Marino and Sam Rios … Mighty Atlas beat Frank (Scotty) Thompson … Zabio
the Beatnik beat Ken Kenneth … referee: Eddie Clark … NOTE: Tony Marino subbed for
Red Lyons in the tag team match. Originally Marino was to meet Atlas.

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, October 21, 1959
(War Memorial) … Fritz Von Erich beat Bobo Brazil (2-1, dq) … Dan Miller and Ed Miller
beat Dick Beyer and Roy McClarity … Zabio the Beatnik beat Tom Bradley (sub for Emile
Dupre) … Sam Rios beat Ken Kenneth (sub for Lee Henning) … referee: Joe Arlaukas

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, October 28, 1959
(War Memorial, att.-1,000) … Dan Miller and Ed Miller beat Waldo Von Erich and Mighty
Atlas (2-1) (sub for Fritz Von Erich) … (Midgets) Bennie (Bernie) Burke and Brown
Panther beat Pee Wee James and Tom Thumb (2-1) … Dick Beyer beat Lee Henning
(sub for Mighty Atlas) … Sam Rios beat Frank Fozo

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, November 4, 1959
(War Memorial, att.-1,100) … Doc Gallagher and Mike Gallagher vs Dan Miller and Ed
Miller (ddq, 1-1) … Dick Beyer beat Mike Valentino … Donn Lewin beat Wally Greb …
Sam Rios drew Ramon Lopez (30:00) … referee: Eddie Clark

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, November 11, 1959
(War Memorial, att.-1,000) … Dan Miller and Ed Miller beat Doc Gallagher and Mike
Gallagher (2-1) … Mighty Atlas beat Zabio the Beatnik … Sam Rios beat Abe Zvonkin …
Mike Valentino beat Frank Thompson … referee: Joe Arlaukas

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, November 18, 1959
(War Memorial, att.-900) … Mike Gallagher beat Hans Schmidt (2-1) … Dan Miller and Ed
Miller beat Mighty Atlas and Ilio DiPaolo … Zabio the Beatnik drew Sam Rios (20:00) …
Red Lyons beat Waldo Von Erich … referee: Eddie Clark … NOTE: In the third fall
Schmidt missed a dropkick and was pinned clean.

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, November 25, 1959
(War Memorial, att.-1,500) … Mike Gallagher beat Fritz Von Erich (2-1, dq) … Bobo
Brazil beat Chief Chewacki … Doc Gallagher beat Mighty Atlas (sub for Red Lyons) …
Donn Lewin drew Lee Henning (20:00) … Waldo Von Erich beat Sam Rios … referee:
Frank Powderly … NOTE: Sandor Kovacs was called the promoter at this point. Earlier
Pedro Martinez seemed to be promoter.

Rochester, NY: Wednesday, December 2, 1959
(War Memorial, att.-1,000) … Bobo Brazil and Ilio DiPaolo beat Dan Miller and Ed Miller
(2-1) … Dick Beyer beat Chief Chewacki … Sam Rios drew Fred Atkins (30:00) (sub for
Hard Boiled Haggerty) … Mike Valentino beat Ramon Lopez … referee: Joe Arlaukas …
(Last card of the year)


Research by Don Luce
Rochester Wrestling Results - 1959