Toronto Wrestling Results

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, January 1, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Gene Kiniski and Fritz Von Erich b. Claude Dassary and Yukon
Eric (Dassary was counted out) (14:30) … Roger Littlebrook and Tiny Tim wrestled Fuzzy
Cupid and Irish Jackie to a draw (25:16) … Pietro Roncadin b. Terrible Ted the Bear (DQ)
(3:45) … Ivan Kalmikoff b. Bernard “Frenchy” Vignal (15:52) … Bobo Brazil b. Fred Atkins
(12:38) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referee: Bert Maxwell) … (8,000 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, January 8, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Gene Kiniski and Fritz Von Erich b. Claude Dassary and Yukon
Eric (Von Erich pinned Dassary) (20:35) … The Kalmikoff Brothers (Ivan and Karol
Kalmikoff) b. Fred Atkins and George Penchoff (Ivan pinned Penchoff) (14:55) … Mike
Valentino b. Al Korman (14:59) … Frank Thompson b. Tiger Tasker (DQ) (14:52) …
Bunny Dunlop and Terrible Ted wrestled to a double countout (9:02) … (promoter: Frank
Tunney) … (referees: Bert Maxwell, Lou Pitoscia) … (5,500 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, January 15, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Pat O’Connor b. Lou Thesz
(CO) (37:39) … Bobo Brazil b. Hans Hermann (Koko Bump) (10:34) … The Kalmikoffs
(Ivan and Karol Kalmikoff) b. Fred Atkins and Mike Valentino (Ivan pinned Valentino) (21:
30) … Hans Schmidt b. Al Korman (backbreaker) (8:26) … Wally Seiber b. Tiger Tasker
(10:49) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referee: Bert Maxwell) … (8,500 fans)
Note: The incomparable Steve York of the Toronto Globe and Mail wrote the following,
printed in the January 16, 1959 edition of the paper: “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa
Claus. How else can you account for O’Connor replacing Dick Hutton as NWA champion?
O’Connor bounces around, has more color and is more expressive than the phlegmatic,
stolid Hutton, who dies everything deliberately. Besides which Pat is as good a wrestler as
Hutton. And this Thesz is still a treat to watch. Though into his early 40’s, he is still
wonderfully fast. His only concessions to age appear to be his thinning hair and a
thickening at the waist. He knows every hold and counter in the book and can rile a crowd
almost as fast as Gene Kiniski. Thesz will be still going when all his opponent have sons
old enough to try the pro game.”

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, January 22, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Pat O’Connor and Lou
Thesz drew (curfew) (50:24) … Bobo Brazil b. Abe Zvokin (10:30) … Yukon Eric b. Fred
Atkins and Tiger Tasker (Tasker submit to a reverse backbreaker) (5:48) … Walter Sieber
b. Al Korman (11:16) … Bull Montana b. Larry Moquin (17:36) … (promoter: Frank
Tunney) … (referee: Bunny Dunlop) … (5,000 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, January 29, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Pat O’Connor b. Hans
Schmidt (19:45) … Bobo Brazil and Bearcat Wright wrestled the Kalmikoffs (Ivan and Karol
Kalmikoff) to a draw (30:00) … Fritz Von Erich b. John Foti (11:14) … Wally Sieber b. Len
Montana (8 seconds) (dropkick and pinfall) … Fred Atkins and Athol Layton drew (20:00)
… (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referee: Bert Maxwell) … (6,500 fans)

East York, Ontario: Thursday, February 5, 1959
(East York Arena) … Bobo Brazil and Bearcat Wright b. The Kalmikoff Brothers (Ivan and
Karol Kalmikoff) (Wright pinned Ivan) (32:51) … Ilio DiPaolo b. Abe Zvonkin (10:48) … Len
Montana b. Frank Thompson (15:50) … John Foti and Al Korman drew (20:00) … Mike
Valentino b. Tiger Tasker (16:56) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (500 fans)
Note: Steve York’s Globe and Mail article on February 6, 1959 stated: “When they get
around to looking for a successor to Pat O’Connor as champion they don’t need to look
any further than Ilio DiPaolo. He is massively muscled, strong, adept, handsome, and
highly popular.”

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, February 12, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Bobo Brazil and Yukon Eric b. Gene Kiniski and Fritz Von Erich
(DQ) (29:00) … Bearcat Wright b. Athol Layton (countout) (19:57) … Ilio DiPaolo b. Ivan
Klimenko (7:53) … John Foti and Len Montana drew (20:00) … Pat Flanagan b. Tiger
Tasker (10:47) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referees: Henry Armstrong, Bunny
Dunlop) … (5,500 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, February 19, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Gene Kiniski and Fritz Von Erich b. Bobo Brazil and Bearcat
Wright (Wright was counted out) (20:54) … Ilio DiPaolo b. Bull Montana (16:00) (giant
swing) … Al Korman and Mike Valentino drew (20:00) … Fred Atkins b. John Foti (16:02)
… Wally Seiber b. Abe Zvonkin (9:20) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referees: Bunny
Dunlop, Bert Maxwell) … (5,000 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, February 26, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … British Empire Heavyweight Champion “Whipper” Billy Watson b.
Gene Kiniski (DQ) (11:37) … Gorgeous George b. Wally Sieber (6:00) … Ilio DiPaolo b.
Mike Valentino (12:19) … The Great Bolo b. Bull Montana (10:10) … Pat Flanagan b. Al
Korman (13:18) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referee: Bert Maxwell) … (12,000 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, March 5, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Pat O’Connor b. Dick Hutton
(CO) (18:16) … Bobo Brazil and Bearcat Wright b. Athol Layton and Abe Zvonkin (Wright
pinned Zvonkin) (11:42) … Fritz Von Erich b. Mike Valentino (16:37) … Pat Flanagan b.
John Foti (11:57) … The Great Bolo b. Mike Mazurki (11:55) … (promoter: Frank Tunney)
… (referee: Bunny Dunlop) … (6,000 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, March 12, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … “Whipper” Billy Watson b. Gorgeous George (DQ) (10:21) (if
Watson lost, he’d retire, if George lost, he’d have his head shaved) (George was
disqualified when Gene Kiniski interfered) (Watson was saved by Mike Valentino, Waldo
Von Seiber, Pat Flanagan and Ilio DiPaolo) (George Hansen shaved George’s head while
the wrestlers held him) (George was accompanied by Cherie Dupre, who tried to prevent
the inevitable from happening) … Ilio DiPaolo b. Bill McMurray (8:25) … Pat Flanagan b.
Ivan Klimenko (9:28) … Bobo Brazil b. Mike Valentino (15:26) … The Great Bolo b. John
Foti (10:50) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referee: Joe Gollob) … (announcer: Jerry
Hiff) … (13,999 fans, according to the Globe and Mail)
Note: Several pictures of the night’s festivities were in the Globe and Mail on Friday,
March 13, 1959.

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, March 19, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Pat O’Connor and Ilio
DiPaolo drew at the curfew (37:46) … Yukon Eric b. Athol Layton (16:16) … Bearcat
Wright b. Abe Zvonkin (12:00) … Wally Sieber b. Al Korman (18:20) … The Great Bolo b.
Frank Fozo (9:12) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referee: Bunny Dunlop) … (6,000
fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, March 26, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … “Whipper” Billy Watson b. Gorgeous George (Canuck
Commando hold) (6:42) (Gene Kiniski got involved and was chased off by Bobo Brazil) …
Farmer McGregor and Little Beaver b. Irish Jackie and Mighty Schultz (Beaver pinned
Jackie) (12:05) … Bearcat Wright b. Mike Valentino (15:50) … Gene Kiniski b. Bobo Brazil
(15:31) … The Great Bolo b. Sandor Kovacs (10:59) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) …
(referees: Bunny Dunlop, Bert Maxwell) … (announcer: Jerry Hiff) … (12,000 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, April 2, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Gorgeous George and Gene Kiniski b. Bobo Brazil and
“Whipper” Billy Watson (Kiniski pinned Brazil) (13:58) … Little Beaver and Mario Valentino
Sanchez b. Pee Wee James and Tom Thumb (Beaver pinned James) (11:17) … Pat
Flanagan b. Sandor Kovacs (countout) (12:32) … Athol Layton b. Mike Valentino
(Australian surfboard) (13:03) … Wally Sieber b. Abe Zvonkin (DQ) (11:17) … (promoter:
Frank Tunney) … (referees: Bunny Dunlop, Bert Maxwell) … (9,000 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, April 9, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … British Empire Heavyweight Champion “Whipper” Billy Watson b.
Gene Kiniski (DQ) (12:52) … Bearcat Wright and Yukon Eric drew (15:53) … Al Korman
and Sandor Kovacs drew (20:00) … Ilio DiPaolo b. Athol Layton (11:25) … The Great Bolo
b. Jack Laskin (8:20) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referee: Bunny Dunlop) … (6,000
fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Friday, April 17, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Gene Kiniski b. “Whipper” Billy Watson to capture the British
Empire Heavyweight Title (DQ) (15:42) (ring was surrounded by a wire fence) (Kiniski was
carried from the ring) … Joe Brunetti and Bearcat Wright drew (20:12) … The Great Bolo
b. Guy Brunetti … Tom Collins and Al Korman drew (20:00) … Pat Flanagan and Wally
Sieber drew (20:00) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referee: Joe Gollob) …
(announcer: Jerry Hiff) … (5,498 fans)
Notes: Watson claimed the championship could not change hands by disqualification;
The Toronto Globe and Mail stated “Kiniski Becomes Champ” in their Saturday, April 18,
1959 newspaper; the wire fence was erected by Garden superintendent Bill James.

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, April 23, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Canadian Open Tag Team Champions “Whipper” Billy Watson
and Yukon Eric b. Gorgeous George and Gene Kiniski (Watson pinned George) (15:55)
(George was accompanied by Cherie Dupre) … The Great Bolo b. Joe Brunetti (17:07) …
Tom Collins and Sandor Kovacs drew (20:00) … Don Jardine b. Abe Zvonkin (10:06)
(Jardine’s local debut) … Guy Brunetti and Jack Laskin drew (20:00) … (promoter: Frank
Tunney) … (referee: Joe Gollob) … (5,500 fans)
Notes: According to the Globe and Mail, Watson had “noticed Jardine on an Easter Seals’
tour of the Maritimes.” Jardine stood 6’4”, weighed upwards of 221 pounds, was 19 years
old, and was from Moncton. He reportedly reminded Watson of Vic Christy.

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, April 30, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … “Whipper” Billy Watson b. Gene Kiniski (Texas Death Match, first
in Toronto history) (Kiniski won the first fall in 11:25, Watson won the second in 12:20 and
won the match when Kiniski was unable to continue) (Great Bolo was involved in the main
event) (Kiniski’s British Empire Title was not on the line) … Yukon Eric b. Bearcat Wright
(Kodiak Krunch) (14:36) … The Great Bolo b. Wally Sieber (DQ) (9:53) … Don Jardine b.
Al Korman (12:22) … Pat Flanagan b. Sandor Kovacs (12:04) … (promoter: Frank
Tunney) … (referees: Bunny Dunlop, Bert Maxwell) … (7,500 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, May 7, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … The Great Bolo b. “Whipper” Billy Watson (DQ) (24:15) … The
Lisowski Brothers (Reggie and Stanley Lisowski) b. Pat Flanagan and Bill Stack (Stan
pinned Stack) (16:05) … Ricki Starr b. Frank Fozo (11:33) … Hard Boiled Haggerty b. Tom
Collins (7:10) … Karl Kulaski and Jack Laskin drew (20:00) … (promoter: Frank Tunney)
… (referee: Bunny Dunlop) … (7,000 fans)
Notes: On May 8, 1959, in the Toronto Daily Star, Joe Perlove called Great Bolo the "long
lost brother of Al 'Bunny' Dunlop," lost on the "sea shore of Timbuctoo." Dunlop apparently
helped Bolo win, starting a fued between him and Watson, and setting up next week's main
event.

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, May 14, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … “Whipper” Billy Watson b. Bunny Dunlop (10:38) … Ivan the
Terrible and Sky Low Low wrestled The Brown Panther and Little Beaver to a draw (30:00)
… Ricki Starr b. Steve Stanlee (10:58) … Karl Kulaski and Jackie Nichols drew (20:00) …
Hard Boiled Haggerty b. Mike Valentino (8:55) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referees:
Jersey Joe Walcott, Joe Gollob) … (announcer: Jerry Hiff) … (6,500 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, May 21, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … The Great Bolo and Yukon Eric drew at the 11:15 curfew (32:48)
… Brown Panther and Little Beaver wrestled Ivan the Terrible and Sky Low Low to a draw
(22:39) … Al Korman and Mike Valentino drew (20:00) … Pat Flanagan and Jack Laskin
drew (20:00) … Hard Boiled Haggerty b. Don Jardine (countout) (7:11) … (promoter:
Frank Tunney) … (referees: Bunny Dunlop, Joe Gollob) … (4,000 fans)

East York, Ontario: Thursday, May 28, 1959
(East York Arena) … “Whipper” Billy Watson b. Baron Gattoni (Canuck commando hold) (9:
31) … Hard Boiled Haggerty b. Bill Stack (12:55) … Jack Laskin b. Ivan Klimenko (9:23) …
Wally Siebert b. Abe Zvonkin (20:28) … Don Jardine b. Karl Kulaski (dec., 20:00) …
(promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referee: Bert Maxwell) … (471 fans)
Note: The opera was at Maple Leaf Gardens

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, June 4, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … “Whipper” Billy Watson b. The Great Bolo (countout) (23:28)
(Watson said he would retire if he lost) (Bolo was unmasked to be Al Lovelock) … Yukon
Eric b. Ed Miller (DQ) (Dan Miller interfered) (7:24) … Howard Martin and Mike Valentino
drew (20:00) … Pat Flanagan and Dan Miller were both counted out (11:45) … Tom
Collins and Al Korman drew (20:00) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referee: Athol
Layton) … (6,000 fans)

East York, Ontario: Thursday, June 11, 1959
(East York Arena) … “Whipper” Billy Watson b. Dan Miller (10:48) … Ed Miller and Wally
Sieber drew (30:00) … Karl Kulaski and Howard Martin drew (20:00) … Jack Laskin b. Abe
Zvonkin (DQ) (7:08) … Don Jardine and Bill Stack drew (20:00) … (promoter: Frank
Tunney) … (referees: Joe Gollob, Bert Maxwell)
Notes: The ballet was at Maple Leaf Garden; Watson was reportedly 27-0 at the East York
Arena.

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, June 18, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … “Whipper” Billy Watson b. Gene Kiniski to regain the British
Empire Heavyweight Title (15:26) (Dick Hutton pulled off referee Yukon Eric’s torn shirt
after the match) … Dick Hutton b. Don Jardine (abdominal stretch) (11:25) … Ricki Starr b.
Karl Kulaski (10:46) … Pietro Roncadin b. Al Korman (11:11) … Pat Flanagan and Mike
Valentino drew (20:00) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referees: Yukon Eric, Bert
Maxwell) … (5,500 fans)
Note: Ontario Athletic Commissioner Merve McKenzie fined Dick Hutton $50 and Gene
Kiniski $50 for their actions against referee Yukon Eric.

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, June 25, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Canadian Open Tag Team Champions “Whipper” Billy Watson
and Yukon Eric b. Dick Hutton and Gene Kiniski (DQ) (14:52) … Hard Boiled Haggerty b.
Happy Farmer Humphrey (11:50) … Wally Sieber b. George McArthur (9:10) … Don Leo
Jonathan b. Howard Martin (6:04) … Jack Laskin and Bill Stack drew (20:00) … (promoter:
Frank Tunney) … (referees: Jack Sharkey, Bert Maxwell) … (4,500 fans)
Note: It was Watson’s birthday; Jonathan reportedly returned to Toronto after a six year
absence.

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, July 2, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … “Whipper” Billy Watson and Dick Hutton drew at the 11:15 curfew
(42:03) (the winner was to wrestle Pat O’Connor for the NWA Title) … Timothy Geohagen
b. Happy Farmer Humphrey (15:09) … Pietro Roncaden b. Martin Hutzler (15:03) … Don
Leo Jonathan b. Tarzan Tourville (Mormon Sickle) (5:00) (Jonathan challenged the winner
of the main event) … Wally Sieber b. Karl Kulaski (16:39) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) …
(referee: Bunny Dunlop) … (3,500 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, July 9, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Don Leo Jonathan b. Hard Boiled Haggerty (countout) (19:35) …
Dick Hutton b. Timothy Geohagen (abdominal stretch) (17:47) … Bill Stack and Abe
Zvonkin drew (20:00) … Jack Laskin and Mike Valentino drew (20:00) … Athol Layton b.
Howard Martin (10:45) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referee: Joe Gollob) … (3,600
fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, July 16, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Don Leo Jonathan b. Yukon Eric (14:30) … The Brown Panther
and Chief Red Feather wrestled Billy the Kid and Tom Thumb drew (20:00) … Hard Boiled
Haggerty b. Mike Valentino (11:59) … Don Jardine and Karl Kulaski drew (20:00) … Athol
Layton and Wally Sieber drew (20:00) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (3,333 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, July 23, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Don Leo Jonathan b. Dick Hutton (26:51) (Hutton retained the
$1,000 he offered to anyone who could pin him in 20 minutes or less) (Jonathan earned a
match with NWA champion Pat O’Connor) … Roy McClarity and Fritz Von Erich drew (20:
15) … Hard Boiled Haggerty and Wally Sieber were both counted out (5:09) … Sam
Steamboat b. Bill Stack (10:45) … Jack Laskin b. Howard Martin (14:46) … (promoter:
Frank Tunney) … (3,500 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, July 30, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Pat O’Connor and Don Leo
Jonathan drew at the 11:15 curfew (46:18) … Dick Hutton b. John Foti (abdominal stretch)
(16:49) … Edouard Carpentier b. Ken Kenneth (6:43) … The Vachon Brothers (Maurice
and Paul Vachon) b. Pat Flanagan and Don Jardine (Paul made Jardine submit) (16:54)
(Vachons local debut) (Vachons were managed by Bull Hocoma) … Sam Steamboat b.
Bob “Legs” Langevin (13:30) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referee: Bert Maxwell) …
(4,000 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, August 6, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Don Leo Jonathan b. Lou Thesz (countout) (22:57) … Hard
Boiled Haggerty and Dick Hutton drew (20:16) … Edouard Carpentier b. Joe Christie (8:09)
… The Vachon Brothers (Maurice and Paul Vachon) b. Jack Laskin and Howard Martin
(Paul made Martin submit) (15:15) … Pat Flanagan b. Bob “Legs” Langevin (11:50) …
(promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referee: Bunny Dunlop) … (4,500 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, August 13, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Don Leo Jonathan b. Edouard Carpentier (countout) (24:19) …
Hard Boiled Haggerty and Walter Sieber drew (20:10) … The Great Antonio b. Joe Christie
(bearhug) (3:15) … Sam Steamboat b. Ken Kenneth (7:40) … John Foti and Don Jardine
drew (20:00) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referee: Bert Maxwell) … (4,500 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, August 20, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Pat O’Connor b. Gene
Kiniski (DQ) (21:35) … Dick Hutton and The Mighty Ursus drew (25:00) … Hard Boiled
Haggerty b. Wally Sieber (countout) (17:06) … The Great Antonio b. Ken Kenneth (3:18)
… Joe Christie and Pat Flanagan drew (20:00) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referee:
Bunny Dunlop) … (5,000 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, August 27, 1959
(Maple Leaf Stadium) … Don Leo Jonathan b. “Whipper” Billy Watson (DQ) (25:45) (Gene
Kiniski went to the ring after the match to help Jonathan and angry fans threw chairs at
both heels) (a flying chair hit referee Gollob, and he needed 15 stitches) … Farmer
McGregor and Little Beaver wrestled Fuzzy Cupid and Sky Low Low to a draw (24:05) …
Hard Boiled Haggerty and Gene Kiniski b. Pat Flanagan and Yukon Eric (Kiniski pinned
Flanagan) (20:30) … The Great Antonio b. Karl Kulaski (Siberian Bearhug) (4:27) … Sam
Steamboat b. Don Jardine (16:03) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referees: Bunny
Dunlop, Joe Gollob) … (6,000 fans)
Notes: First show at the stadium; rain began to fall during the semi-final and continued
through the main event.

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, September 3, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Yukon Eric b. The Great Antonio (bearhug) (7:18) … Timothy
Geohagen and The Mighty Ursus wrestled Hard Boiled Haggerty and Gene Kiniski to a
draw (20:15) … The Brown Panther and Little Beaver wrestled Fuzzy Cupid and Sky Low
Low to a draw (30:00) … Joe Christie and Don Jardine drew (20:00) … Mike Valentino b.
Ian Campbell (DQ) (6:07) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referees: Bunny Dunlop, Joe
Gollob) … (5,000 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, September 10, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Don Leo Jonathan b. Edouard Carpentier (countout) (22:12) …
Hard Boiled Haggerty and Gene Kiniski b. Timothy Geohagen and Yukon Eric (Haggerty
pinned Geohagen) (22:52) … Sam Steamboat b. Karl Kulaski (20:34) … The Mighty Ursus
b. Ken Kenneth (9:21) … Jack Laskin b. Bob “Legs” Langevin (10:54) … (promoter: Frank
Tunney) … (referees: Sam Gotter, Bert Maxwell, Cliff Worthy) … (3,500 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, September 17, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Antonino Rocca b. Hard Boiled Haggerty (countout) (13:14) …
Gene Kiniski b. The Mighty Ursus (19:08) … Sam Steamboat b. Harry Lewis (50 seconds)
… Timothy Geohagen b. Karl Kulaski (22:01) … Pat Flanagan b. Howard Martin (12:42) …
(promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referee: Bunny Dunlop) … (4,000 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, September 24, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … British Empire Heavyweight Champion “Whipper” Billy Watson
and Don Leo Jonathan drew at the 11:15 curfew (45:36) … Gene Kiniski b. The Great
Antonio (9:34) … Sam Steamboat b. Bud Cody (15:52) … The Mighty Ursus b. Ian
Campbell (10:30) … Ken Kenneth and Jack Laskin drew (20:00) … (promoter: Frank
Tunney) … (referee: Bert Maxwell) … (7,000 fans)

East York, Ontario: Thursday, October 1, 1959
(East York Arena) … “Whipper” Billy Watson b. Hard Boiled Haggerty (12:51) (Don Leo
Jonathan tried to punch Watson, who ducked, and hit Haggerty, leading to the pinfall) …
Don Leo Jonathan b. Jack Laskin (11:22) … Yvon Losier b. Tiger Tasker (14:19) … Pat
Flanagan b. Bud Cody (11:57) … Timothy Geohagen b. Ken Kenneth (16:57) …
(promoter: Frank Tunney)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, October 8, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … “Whipper” Billy Watson b. Don Leo Jonathan (17:37) (Watson
ended Jonathan’s unbeaten streak) … Hard Boiled Haggerty and Sam Steamboat drew (21:
08) … Yvon Losier b. Ken Kenneth (15:44) … Pat Flanagan b. Ian Campbell (2:02) …
Timothy Geohagen and The Mighty Ursus drew (20:00) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) …
(referee: Bert Maxwell) … (6,000 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, October 15, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Don Leo Jonathan b. Sam Steamboat (25:57) … Yukon Eric b.
Raoul Lopez (10:52) … Ilio DiPaolo b. Dan Miller (13:46) … Bud Cody and Yvon Losier
drew (20:00) … Hard Boiled Haggerty b. Mike Valentino (15:13) … (promoter: Frank
Tunney) … (referee: Cliff Worthy) … (4,000 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, October 22, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Ilio DiPaolo and Don Leo Jonathan drew at the 11:15 curfew (39:
37) … Karol Kalmikoff b. Timothy Geohagen (countout) (25:48) … Hard Boiled Haggerty
and The Mighty Ursus drew (16:05) … Ivan Kalmikoff b. Bud Cody (12:11) … Pat Flanagan
b. Yvon Losier (10:09) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referee: Bill Stack) … (5,000
fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, October 29, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Don Leo Jonathan and Gene Kiniski b. “Whipper” Billy Watson
and Yukon Eric to capture the Canadian Open Tag Team Title (Eric was counted out) (19:
11) … Ilio DiPaolo b. Lee Henning (8:49) … Ivan Kalmikoff and Sam Steamboat drew (30:
00) … Karol Kalmikoff b. Mike Valentino (12:08) … Timothy Geohagen and The Mighty
Ursus drew (20:00) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referees: Joe Gollob, Bert Maxwell)
… (6,000 fans)
Note: In the headline for the results in the Globe and Mail, it stated that Kiniki and
Jonathan “snatch British Empire Title from Watson, Yukon.” In the article itself, the title was
correctly identified as the “Canadian Open Tag Championship.”

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, November 5, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Canadian Open Tag Team Champions Don Leo Jonathan and
Gene Kiniski wrestled Lou Thesz and “Whipper” Billy Watson to a draw at the 11:00 curfew
(39:09) … Sam Steamboat b. Hard Boiled Haggerty (17:08) … Timothy Geohagen and
Ivan Kalmikoff drew (22:58) … Karol Kalmikoff b. Yvon Losier (12:57) … Pat Flanagan b.
Budy Cody (9:53) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referees: Bert Maxwell, Cliff Worthy)
… (5,000 fans)

East York, Ontario: Thursday, November 12, 1959
(East York Arena) … “Whipper” Billy Watson b. The Mighty Ursus (Canuck Commando
“unconscious” hold) (20:00) … Sam Steamboat b. Martin Hutzler (10:28) … Timothy
Geohagen and Yvon Losier drew (20:00) … Pat Flanagan and Karol Kalmikoff drew (20:
00) … Ivan Kalmikoff b. Bill Stack (15:30) … (promoter: Frank Tunney)
Note: An ice show was being held at the Gardens

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, November 19, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Canadian Open Tag Team Champions Don Leo Jonathan and
Gene Kiniski b. The Kalmikoffs (Ivan and Karol Kalmikoff) (20:38) … Sam Steamboat b.
Don Lewin (11:05) … Timothy Geohagen b. Raul Lopez (11:53) … Cowboy Hughes and
Yvon Losier drew (20:00) … Bud Cody and Tiger Tasker drew (20:00) … (promoter:
Frank Tunney) … (referee: Bert Maxwell) … (4,000 fans)

East York, Ontario: Thursday, November 26, 1959
(East York Arena) … “Whipper” Billy Watson b. Karol Kalmikoff (11:42) … Cowboy Hughes
and Larry Kasaboski drew (20:00) … Ivan Kalmikoff b. Yvon Losier (10:20) … “Whipper”
Billy Watson b. Lenny Montana (9:38) (special match) … Sam Steamboat b. The Mighty
Ursus (dec., 20:00) … Timothy Geohagen b. Bud Cody (13:25) … (promoter: Frank
Tunney) … (referee: Bill Stack)
Note: Watson was reportedly 31-0 in East York; the ballet was at the Gardens

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, December 3, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Canadian Open Tag Team Champions Gene Kiniski and Don
Leo Jonathan b. “Whipper” Billy Watson and Yukon Eric (DQ) (22:32) (DiPaolo interfered)
… The Kalmikoff Brothers (Ivan and Karol Kalmikoff) wrestled the Miller Brothers (Dan and
Ed Miller) to a draw (25:35) … Ilio DiPaolo b. The Mighty Ursus (11:17) … Bobo Brazil b.
Yvon Losier (6:14) … Cowboy Hughes and Pat Flanagan drew (20:00) … (promoter:
Frank Tunney) … (referees: Bert Maxwell, Cliff Worthy) … (6,000 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, December 10, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Don Leo Jonathan and Gene Kiniski wrestled Ilio DiPaolo and
“Whipper” Billy Watson to a double countout (Kiniski and Watson were counted out) (18:
09) … Sam Steamboat b. The Mighty Ursus (13:46) … The Kalmikoff Brothers (Ivan and
Karol Kalmikoff) b. Timothy Geohagen and Yvon Losier (Ivan Kalmikoff pinned Losier) (20:
11) … Hard Boiled Haggerty b. Beatnik Zabio (8:54) … The Mighty Atlas b. Bud Cody (15:
38) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referees: Bert Maxwell, Bill Stack) … (6,000 fans)

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, December 17, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Canadian Open Tag Team Champions Don Leo Jonathan and
Gene Kiniski wrestled Ilio DiPaolo and “Whipper” Billy Watson to a draw at the 11:00
curfew (22:42) … Sam Steamboat b. Dan Miller (7:50) … Hard Boiled Haggerty and Fritz
Von Erich b. Bobo Brazil and Timothy Geohagen (countout) (12:01) … Doc Gallagher b.
Cowboy Hughes (10:48) … Ivan Kalmikoff and Ed Miller drew (20:00) … Bud Cody and
Yvon Losier drew (20:00) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referees: Bert Maxwell, Bill
Stack) … (6,000 fans)
Note: No show next week.

Toronto, Ontario: Thursday, December 31, 1959
(Maple Leaf Gardens) … Ilio DiPaolo and “Whipper” Billy Watson b. Don Leo Jonathan and
Gene Kiniski to capture the Canadian Open Tag Team Title (Kiniski was counted out) (16:
53) … Dandy Andy and Little Beaver b. Sky Low Low and Tom Thumb (Beaver pinned Low
Low) (20:37) … Ivan Kalmikoff and Sam Steamboat drew (14:10) … Pat Flanagan and
Timothy Geohagen were both counted out (10:53) … Cowboy Hughes and Don Jardine
drew (20:00) … (promoter: Frank Tunney) … (referees: Bill Stack, Cliff Worthy) … (5,000
fans)
Note: Tunney held the main event at 9:00 and the midgets grappled after that.

Research by Tim Hornbaker
December 2, 2010

Toronto Wrestling Results - 1959