St. Joseph Wrestling Results

St. Joseph, Missouri: Friday, January 3, 1958
(City Auditorium) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Dick Hutton b. Ronnie Etchison
(1-0) (60:00) … Sonny Myers and Otto Von Krupp wrestled to a no decision (1-1) … Rip
Hawk b. Joe Hamilton (9:30) … Bull Montana b. Bobby Bruns … Danny O’Shocker b. Lou
Plummer (O’Shocker was a substitute for Red McIntyre) … (promoter: Gust Karras) …
(2,600 fans)

St. Joseph, Missouri: Friday, January 10, 1958
(City Auditorium) … Sonny Myers b. Bull Montana (2/3) … Rip Hawk and Baron Von
Krupp b. Ronnie Etchison and Danny O’Shocker (1-0) (45:00) … Lee Henning b. Red
McIntyre … Lorraine Johnson and Kay Noble drew (15:00) … (promoter: Gust Karras) …
(2,700 fans)

St. Joseph, Missouri: Friday, January 17, 1958
(City Auditorium) … Sonny Myers b. Bull Montana (2/3) … Ronnie Etchison b. Lee
Henning (2/3) … Otto Von Krupp b. Tommy O’Toole … Rip Hawk and Danny O’Shocker
drew (20:00) … Joe Hamilton b. Red McIntyre (DQ) … (promoter: Gust Karras) … (3,000
fans)

St. Joseph, Missouri: Friday, January 24, 1958
(City Auditorium) … Don Curtis, Ronnie Etchison and Sonny Myers b. Rip Hawk, Lee
Henning and Otto Von Krupp (2/3) … International Heavyweight Champion Don Curtis b.
Bull Montana … Bobby Bruns and Danny O’Shocker wrestled to a no decision when the
latter was injured … Rip Hawk b. Sonny Myers … (promoter: Gust Karras) … (1,800 fans)
Note: Don Curtis reportedly held titles in “Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, and the Far
East,” thus claimed the “International” championship.

St. Joseph, Missouri: Friday, January 31, 1958
(City Auditorium) … Sonny Myers b. Rip Hawk (2/3) … Don Curtis b. Otto Von Krupp (2/3)
(third by countout) … Doll Paige b. Gypsy Rose (11:00) … Bull Montana b. Tommy Fields
… Danny O’Shocker b. Frank Altman … (promoter: Gust Karras) … (1,500 fans)

Joplin, Missouri: Wednesday, February 5, 1958
(Memorial Hall) … The Great Mephisto b. Bob Clay (2/3) (Mephisto won in 14-minutes for
the first fall, Clay won in 9-minutes with an abdominal stretch for the second, Mephisto
won by disqualification when Clay used a chair on him and the referee for the third) … 5-
Man Wrestle Royal. Number Eliminated: Scotty Williams, The Mighty Atlas, Con Bruno,
and then Mephisto wrestled Clay … The Mighty Atlas b. Con Bruno (2-0) (Atlas won by
disqualification in 16:45 for the first fall, Atlas the second won in 8-minutes)

St. Joseph, Missouri: Friday, February 7, 1958
(City Auditorium) … Don Curtis and Sonny Myers b. Rip Hawk and Otto Von Krupp (2/3)
… Central States Women Champion Lorraine Johnson b. Kay Noble (2/3) (third by CO)
… Lee Henning b. Bobby Bruns (Bruns was a substitute for Paul Saxton, who was injured
in Omaha on Thursday night) … Don Curtis b. Rip Hawk (30 seconds) … (promoter:
Gust Karras) … (1,600 fans)
Note: Paul Saxton was billed as “five times a winner of the Pacific Northwest
championship” and was from Hollywood.

St. Joseph, Missouri: Friday, February 14, 1958
(City Auditorium) … United States Heavyweight Champion Verne Gagne and Don Curtis
drew (1-1) (60:00) … Sonny Myers b. Bob Geigel (2/3) (third by DQ) (Myers was thrown
over the top rope) … “Baron” Von Krupp b. Danny O’Shocker … Rip Hawk and Bull
Montana drew (15:00) … (promoter: Gust Karras) … (3,200 fans)
Note: Curtis’s “International” title was not mentioned in pre-match previews.

St. Joseph, Missouri: Friday, February 21, 1958
(City Auditorium) … Bob Geigel, Lee Henning, and “Baron” Von Krupp b. Don Curtis,
Ronnie Etchison and Danny O’Shocker (2/3) … Millie Stafford b. Barbara Clark (2/3) …
Don Curtis and Bob Geigel wrestled to a double disqualification … Ronnie Etchison b.
“Baron” Von Krupp (DQ) … (promoter: Gust Karras) … (1,900 fans)

St. Joseph, Missouri: Friday, February 28, 1958
(City Auditorium) … Dick the Bruiser b. Thor Hagen (2/3) … Don Curtis and Sonny Myers
b. Bob Geigel and Otto “Baron” Von Krupp (2/3) … Kay Noble b. Millie Stafford (11:00) …
Danny O’Shocker b. Rip Hawk (DQ) … (promoter: Gust Karras) … (3,000 fans)

St. Joseph, Missouri: Friday, March 7, 1958
(City Auditorium) … Bob Geigel b. Ronnie Etchison (2/3) … Larry Hamilton b. Otto Von
Krupp (2/3) (third by DQ) (Krupp fined $50) … Don Curtis and Sonny Myers b. Joe Dusek
and Rip Hawk (Curtis pinned Hawk) (both Dusek and Hawk were fined $25 each for
“roughing” the referee) … Bull Montana b. Joe Hamilton … (promoter: Gust Karras) …
(2,400 fans)

St. Joseph, Missouri: Friday, March 14, 1958
(City Auditorium) … United States Heavyweight Champion Verne Gagne b. Don Curtis
(2/3) … Dick the Bruiser b. Joe Dusek (2-0) (Dusek was unable to continue) … Larry
Hamilton and Sonny Myers b. Bob Geigel and Bull Montana … Joe Hamilton and Danny O’
Shocker drew (15:00) … (promoter: Gust Karras) … (3,500 fans)
Note: No show on Friday, March 21, 1958 due to the Women’s National AAU Basketball
Tournament

St. Joseph, Missouri: Friday, March 28, 1958
(City Auditorium) … Sonny Myers and Yukon Eric b. Dick the Brusier and Bob Geigel
(2/3) … Larry Hamilton b. Bull Montana (2/3) (Montana was fined $25 for shoving the
referee) … Don Curtis b. Lee Henning … Joe Hamilton b. Frank Taylor (DQ) … Bob
Geigel and Sonny Myers drew (15:00) … (promoter: Gust Karras) … (3,000 fans)

Research by Tim Hornbaker
October 14, 2010

St. Joseph Wrestling Results - 1958