Toledo Wrestling Results

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/01/06:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Verne Gagne & Argentina Rocca vs. Seymour Keonig & King Kong Kox – drew
1st fall: won by Gagne with a shoulder press in 34 minutes
2nd fall: time expired
(not sure if the report of a “draw” is incorrect or if there is a requirement that a team must
win 2 falls
2- Seymour Koenig defeated King Kong Kox
3- Frenchy Roy defeated George Gallagher in 15 minutes
4- Ricky Waldo defeated Jack (Jim?) Hady in 15 minutes

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/01/13:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Verne Gagne vs. Yukon Eric – drew
1st fall : won by Eric
2nd fall: won by Gagne
3rd fall: the referee had DQed Gagne after he hit Eric with a chair, but the decision was
overruled by the Toledo Wrestling Commission
2- the Black Panther & Ricky Waldo defeated El Diablo & Bull Montana – 2/3 falls
3- Herb Schiff vs. Ramon Perez – 45 minute draw
Attendance: 4,611

Toledo, H (Sports Arena) 55/01/20:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Don Leo Jonathan defeated Hans Schmidt – counted outside the ring in the 3rd fall
2- Frenchy Roy defeated Billy Fox when Fox rammed his head into the turnbuckle and
knocked himself out
3- Ray Stevens defeated Chico Garcia
4- Harry Lanzi defeated King Kong Kox
Attendance: 2,948

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/01/27:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Hans Schmidt defeated Don Leo Jonathan taking the 1st & 3rd falls
2- Herb Schiff defeated Ramon Perer – 2/3 falls
3- Bill Savage defeated Bull Montana on a foul
4- El Diablo vs. Ricky Waldo 30 minute draw

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/02/03
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Yukon Eric defeated Hans Schmidt taking the 1st & 3rd falls
2- Bill Savage vs. Frenchy Roy – drew
3- Ray Stevens defeated Johnny Gallagher in 22 minutes
4- Steve Nenoff defeated Chico Garcia on a foul in 16 minutes

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/02/10:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Verne Gagne defeated Yukon Eric taking the 1st & 3rd falls
2- Harry Lanzi defeated Chico Garcia – 2 straight falls
3- El Diablo vs. Herb Schiff – 30 minute draw
4- Bill Savage defeated King Kong Kox

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/02/17:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Verne Gagne vs. Don Leo Jonathan – drew; time expired in the 3rd fall
2- Ray Stevens defeated Billy Fox taking the 1st & 3rd falls
3- Ramon Perez defeated George Gallagher in 15 minutes
4- El Diablo defeated Ricky Waldo in 15 minutes

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/02/24:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Hans Schnabel & Shoulders Newman defeated Reggie Lisowski & Art Neilson – 2
straight falls – championship match
2- Herb Schiff defeated Frenchy Roy
3- Ricky Waldo defeated Billy Fox

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/03/03:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Shoulders Newman & Hans Schnabel (tag champs) vs. Reggie Lisowski & Art Neilson -
drew
2- Ray Stevens defeated Bill Savage taking the 1st & 3rd falls
3- Harry Lanzi defeated Kong Kong Kox in 9 minutes

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/03/10:
Promoter Cliff Maupin
1- Hans Schnabel & Leo Newman (tag champs) defeated Don Leo Jonathan & Chris
Tolos (replaced Pat O’Connor vs. Chris Tolos)
2- Don Kalt (Fargo) defeated King Kong Kox – 2 straight falls
3- El Diablo defeated Herb Schiff
No published results for the following match:
4- Chico Garcia vs. Ricky Waldo
Attendance: 1,000

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/03/17:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Shoulders Newman & Hans Schnabel (tag champs) defeated Reggie Lisowski & Art
Neilson taking the 2nd & 3rd falls
2- Marco Polo defeated Chico Garcia
3- Frenchy Roy vs. Harry Lanzi – drew
Attendance: 2,000

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/03/24:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Hans Schmidt defeated Chris Tolos taking the 2nd & 3rd falls after Tolos took the 1st
fall with a slam and pin in 12 minutes
2- Don Kalt (Fargo) defeated Bill Savage taking the 1st & 3rd falls
3- Marco Polo defeated Raymon Perez in 18 minutes
4- Ricky Waldo vs. Billy Fox – drew

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/03/31:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Lou Thesz (NWA champ) defeated Don Leo Jonathan taking the 1st & 3rd falls
2- Bonnie Watson defeated Diana Lynn – 2 straight falls – ladies match
3- Bill Savage & Bull Montana vs. Don Kalt (Fargo) & Billy Fox – drew; time limit expired in
the 3rd fall

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/04/07:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Verne Gagne defeated Hans Schnabel – 2 straight falls
1st fall: won by Gagne on a foul in 9 minutes
2nd fall: won by Gagne with a pin in 8 minutes
2- Gino Angelo vs. Marco Polo – 1 hour draw with each wrestler winning a fall
3- Bozo Brown defeated Shoulders Newman
4- Dick Torio defeated Frenchy Roy

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/04/14:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Verne Gagne & Roy McClarity vs. Reggie Lisowski & Don Leo Jonathan – 2/3 falls ; 1
hour
2- Frenchy Roy vs. Bozo Brown – 2/3 falls; 1 hour
3- Don Kalt (Fargo) vs. Ricky Waldo – 1 fall; 45 minutes

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/04/21:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Nature Boy Buddy Rogers vs. Don Leo Jonathan – 2/3 falls; 1 hour
2- Don Kalt (Fargo) & Billy Fox vs. Bill Savage & Bull Montana – 2/3 falls; 1 hour
3- Dick Torio vs. Ricky Waldo – 1 fall; 45 minutes

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/04/28:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Roy McClarity defeated Reggie Lisowski – 2/3falls
2- Yukon Eric defeated defeated Art Neilson – 2 straight falls
3- Bill Rayburn defeated Bozo Brown
4- Don Kalt (Fargo) defeated Frenchy Roy

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/05/05:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Roy McClarity defeated Yukon Eric – 2/3 falls
2- Ray Stevens defeated Gino Angelo - 2/3 falls
3- Don Kalt (Fargo) defeated Billy Fox in 18 minutes
4- Ricky Waldo defeated Mike Ryan in 17 minutes

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/05/12:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Hans Schmidt defeated Roy McClarity when McClarity was unable to answer the bell
for the 3rd fall after injuring his arm while losing the 2nd fall
2- Ray Stevens (replaced Bozo Brown) defeated Oyama Kato on a 3rd fall foul
3- China Myra defeated Dot Dotson – 2 straigh falls
4- Bill Savage defeated (replaced Ray Stevens) Bozo Brown

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/05/19:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Seymour Koenig defeated Big Jim Bernard – 2/3 falls
2- Kathleen Wimbley defeated Betty White – 2 straight falls
3- the Black Panther & Ricky Waldo vs. Bill Savage & Gino Angelo – drew

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/05/26:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Ray Stevens & Don Kalt (Fargo) defeated Gino Angelo & Bill Savage – 2/3 falls
1st fall: Kalt pinned Angelo
2nd fall: Angelo pinned Kalt
3rd fall: Stevens defeated Savage
2- Marco Polo defeated Bull Montana taking the 2nd & 3rd falls
3- Ricky Waldo defeated Bob Wilson taking the 2nd & 3rd falls

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/06/02:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- June Byers (ladies world champ) vs. Penny Banner – 2/3 falls; 1 hour
2- Don Kalt (Fargo) & Ray Stevens vs. Ricky Waldo & the Black Panther – 2/3 falls; 1
hour
3- Marco Polo vs. Bozo Brown – 1 fall; 45 minutes

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/06/09:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Bonnie Watson & Ruth Boatiallie vs. Mae Weston & Lee Cona LaClaire – ladies tag
match – 2/3 falls; 1 hour
2- Ray Stevens vs. Bill Savage – 2/3 falls; 1 hour
3- Billy Fox vs. Bill Rayburn – 2/3 falls; 1 hour

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/06/16:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Don Kalt (Fargo) & Ray Stevens vs. the Black Panther & Ricky Waldo – both teams
counted outside the ring in the 3rd fall
2- June Byers (ladies world champ) pinned Bonnie Watson – 2 straight falls in 14 minute
3- Marco Polo defeated Ramon Perez in 22 minutes when Perez was inured and unable
to continue

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/06/23:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Bill Savage & Gino Angelo defeated Ricky Waldo & the Black Panther – 2/3 falls
2- Carol Cook defeated Bonnie Watson – 2/3 falls
3- Bobby Ford defeated Bull Montana on a foul

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/06/30:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Mary Jane Mull & Carol Cook (hometown Toledo girls) defeated Millie Stafford & China
Myra – 2 straight falls
2- Harry Lanzi (Sylvania Burnham High wrestling coach) defeated Ramon Perez on a 3rd
fall DQ
3- Marco Polo vs. Billy Fox – drew when time expired in the 3rd fall

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/07/14:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Dr. Big Bill Miller vs. Frank Taylor – drew; 1 fall each
2- Harry Lanzi & Marco Polo (replaced Roy Rogers) vs. Bill Savage & Bull Montana –
drew; 1 fall each
3- Dot Dotson defeated Ella Waldek – 2/3 falls (replaced Penny Banner vs. Lee Chona
LaClaire)

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/07/21:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Hans Schmidt defeated Don Leo Jonathan taking the 2nd & 3rd falls
2- Anton Leone defeated Frank Taylor taking the 2nd & 3rd falls
3- Harry Lanzi defeated Ralph Alexander
4- Carl von Alvers defeated Bob Wilson

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/08/11:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Billy ‘Red’ Lyons defeated Bull Montana taking the 2nd & 3rd falls
1- Diana Marie Dienkman defeated Carol Kay taking the 2nd & 3rd falls
3- Harry Lanzi & Frank Taylor defeated Bill Savage & Bozo Brown – 2 straight falls

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/08/18:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Don Kalt (Fargo) & Ray Stevens defeated Art Neilson & Bull Montana (replaced
Reggie Lisowski) – 2 straight falls
2- Ralph Alexander (replaced Bull Montana) defeated Billy ‘Red’ Lyons - 2 straight falls
3- Bill Savage vs. Billy Fox – 45 minute draw

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/08/25:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Ray Stevens & Don Kalt (Fargo) defeated Bill Savage & Bull Montana – 2 straight falls
2- Bonnie Watson defeated Dot Dotson – 2 straight falls
3- Frank Taylor defeated Billy ‘Red’ Lyons in 17 minutes

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/09/01:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Dick (Bruiser) Afflis defeated Hans Schmidt – 2 straight falls
1st fall: won by Afflis in 10 minutes on a foul
2nd fall: Schmidt was driven through the ropes with a piledriver and made a motion of
surrender according to referee Paul Orth
2- Ray Stevens defeated Bill Savage taking the 1st & 3rd falls
3- Don Kalt (Fargo) vs. Billy Fox – 1 hour draw; each won one fall

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/09/08:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Verne Gagne defeated Dick (Bruiser) Afflis taking the 1st & 3rd falls
2- Ray Stevens & Don Kalt (Fargo) defeated Bill Savage & Bull Montana – 2/3 falls
3- Billy ‘Red’ Lyons defeated Jim LaRock

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/09/22:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Nature Boy Buddy Rogers defeated Dr. Big Bill Miller
2- Don Kalt (Fargo) & Ray Stevens vs. Jim LaRock & Salvadore Florez – 1 hour draw
3- Marco Polo vs. Billy ‘Red’ Lyons – both wrestler counted out after 10 minutes by the
referee

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/10/06:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Dr. Big Bill Miller defeated Ray Stevens & Don Kalt (Fargo) – handicap match; Miller
must defeated both within 30 minutes
2- Don Arnold defeated Len Montana – 2/3 falls
3- Ali Pasha & Stan Holeck defeated Mr. New York (Seymour Koenig) & Billy ‘Red’ Lyons
– 2/3 falls

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/10/20:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Nature Boy Buddy Rogers vs. Dr. Big Bill Miller – 2/3 falls; 1hour
2- Marco Polo vs. Don Arnold – 1 fall; 45 minutes
3- Len Montana vs. Stan Holeck – 2/3 falls; 1 hour
4- Mr. New York (Seymour Koenig) vs. Red McKin – 1 fall; 45 minutes

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/10/27:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Don Arnold defeated Stan Holeck when Holeck was DQ after 3 minutes of the 3rd fall
2- Mary Jane Mull defeated Lana LaMarr – 2/3 falls
3- Billy Fox vs. Salvador Flores – 30 minute draw
No published results for the following match, but the newspaper reported Billy ‘Red’
Lyons as another winner:
4- Johnny Rougeau vs. Big Jim Bernard – 2/3 falls; 1 hour

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/11/03:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Stan Holek defeated Ali Pasha – 2 straight falls
2- Billy Fox & Marco Polo defeated Gino Angelo & Big Jim Bernard taking the 1st & 3rd
falls
3- Harry Lanzi defeated Billy ‘Red’ Lyons in 14 minutes – 2/3 falls

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/11/10:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Yukon Eric defeated Stan Holek taking the 3rd fall; on a foul
2- Big Jim Bernard defeated Lionel Baillargeon taking the 1st & 3rd falls
3- Gino Angelo defeated Marco Polo taking the 1st & 3rd falls
4- Salvadore Flores defeated Red McKin in 22 minutes

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/11/17:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Big Jim Bernard defeated Stan Holek – 2 straight falls
2- Ethel Wade defeated Patty Neff
3- Tiny Tim & Tito Infante defeated Sky Low Low & Ivan the Terrible – 2/3 falls – midget
tag match
4- Billy ‘Red’ Lyons defeated Ali Pasha

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/11/24:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Big Jim Bernard vs. Stan Holek – 2/3 falls; 1 hour
2- Ali Pasha & Benito Gardini vs. Billy ‘Red’ Lyons & Leon Cavalier – 2/3 falls; 1 hour
3- Tiny Roe vs. the Brown Panther – 2/3 falls; 1 hour – midget match
4- Salvadore Flores vs. Bull Montana – 1 fall; 30 minutes

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/12/08:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Lou Klein vs. Lord Leslie Carlton – no contest
1st fall : won by Carlton in 17 minutes
2nd fall: won by Klein in 2 minutes
3rd fall: both wrestlers counted outside the ring
2- Betty Hawkins defeated Olga Zepeda – 2/3 falls
3- Big Jim Bernard defeated Bull Montana – 2/3 falls
4- Gino Angelo defeated Leon Cavalier

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/12/15:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Billy Fox & Bob Boyer vs. Ali Pasha & Bob Emeier
2- Patty Neff vs. Vicky Lynn – ladies match
3- Stan Holek vs. Big Jim Bernard
4- Bull Montana vs. Lou Klein
all matches: 2/3 falls; 1 hour

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/12/22:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Gino Angelo vs. Ali Pasha – 2/3 falls
1st fall: won by Angelo in 33 minutes
2nd fall: won by Pasha in 17 minutes
3rd fall: time expired
2- Prince Emeir defeated Martino Angelo – 2/3 falls
1st fall: won by Emeir in 8 minutes
2nd fall: won by Angelo in 6 minutes
3rd fall: won by Emeir with a sleeper hold in 1 minute
3- Cowboy Bradley & Pee Wee James defeated Otto Bowman & Ivan the Terrible – 2
straight falls – midget tag match
1st fall: James pinned Ivan in 19 minutes
2nd fall: Bradley pinned Ivan in 7 minutes

Toledo, OH (Sports Arena) 55/12/29:
Promoter: Cliff Maupin
1- Ali Pasha & Bob Emeir defeated Gino Angelo & Stan Holek taking the 2nd & 3rd falls
2- Marco Polo defeated Gypsy Baccaro – 2 straight falls
3- Ralph Alexander defeated Louie Papineau taking the 2nd & 3rd falls

Research by Jim Mandl

Toledo Wrestling Results - 1955