Washington, D.C. Wrestling Results

Washington, DC: Monday, January 3, 1949
(Uline Arena) … George Becker and Ray Schwartz beat Karl Davis and George Linnehan
(dq) … Arnold Skaaland beat Tony Martinelli (21:00) … Angelo Savoldi beat Tarzan Frank
Hewitt (cor) … Jim Wallis beat Red Kirkpatrick

Washington, DC: Wednesday, January 5, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Wilbur Nead beat Michele Leone (dq) … George Macricostas and Marvin
Mercer beat Dapper Diz and Pat Welsh … Bibber McCoy vs Dutch Schweigert … Stanley
Novak vs Harry Armus

Washington, DC: Monday, January 10, 1949
(Uline Arena) … Al “Spider” Galento beat Arnold Skaaland (15:00) … George Becker and
Ray Schwartz vs Paddy Mack and Angelo Savoldi … Abe Stein vs Jim Wallis … Red
Kirkpatrick vs Joe Ludlum

Washington, DC: Wednesday, January 12, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Michele Leone vs Dutch Schweigert … Big Ben Moroz vs Fred Carone …
Wilbur Nead vs George Macricostas … Hal Keene vs Harry Finkelstein … Marvin Mercer vs
Len Crosby

Washington, DC: Monday, January 17, 1949
(Uline Arena) … Al Galento and Angelo Savoldi beat George Becker and Ray Schwartz … Abe
Stein drew Great Mephisto (30:00) … Paddy Mack beat Red Kirkpatick … Tarzan Frank Hewitt
beat Olaf
Erickson

Washington, DC: Wednesday, January 19, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Gorgeous George beat Michele Leone (15:00) … Nanjo Singh beat Stu
Hart (10:00) … Bibber McCoy beat Hal Keene (17:00) … Fred Carone beat Harry Finkelstein
(17:00) … Wilbur Nead vs Sammy Menacher

Washington, DC: Monday, January 24, 1949
(Uline Arena) … Tony Galento beat Tarzan Frank Hewitt (15:00) … Arnold Skaaland (Orchid
Boy) vs Abe Stein … Great Mephisto (as Great Mafisto) beat Paddy Mack (13:00) (sub for
Jim Wallis) … Joe Montana vs Joe Ludlum … Paddy Mack drew Angelo Savoldi (30:00) …
NOTE: The Evening Star said that The Orchid Boy and Fritz Wallick also won their bouts.
Their opponents were not named.

Washington, DC: Wednesday, January 26, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … (AWA World Title) Frank Sexton* vs Ivan Kameroff … Golden Superman
vs Wilbur Nead … Hans Steinke vs Jack Vansky … Big Ben Moroz vs Stanley Novak …
Marvin Mercer vs Emanuel Bonica

Monday, January 31, 1949
(Uline Arena) … No Wrestling

Washington, DC: Wednesday, February 2, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … (10 Man Wrestle Royal) (Final) Nanjo Singh beat Marvin Mercer …
eliminated were Fred Carone, Mike Collins, Joe Kameroff, Hans Steinke, Emanuel Bonica,
Henry Piers, Bibber McCoy and one other wrestler

Washington, DC: Monday, February 7, 1949
(Uline Arena) … (10 Man Wrestle Royal) (final) Arnold Skaaland beat Tarzan Frank Hewitt …
eliminated were George Linnehan, Joe Ludlum, Red Kirkpatrick, Paddy Mack, Wally Dusek,
Lew Laird, Fritz Wallick and Mike Clancy (as Bill Clancy)

Washington, DC: Wednesday, February 9, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … (Ladies) June Byers vs Therese Theis … Ivan Kameroff and Wilbur Nead
vs Bibber McCoy and Nanjo Singh … Hans Steinke vs Joe Kameroff … Chief Little Wolf beat
Tony Cosenza (result found 2-16) … Matchmaker: Gabe Menendez … Promoter: Mrs.
Florence Turner

Washington, DC: Monday, February 14, 1949
(Uline Arena) … (Ladies) Therese Theis beat Dot Dotson … Green Hornet beat Lew Laird
(11:00) … Mike Clancy and Arnold Skaaland beat Tarzan Hewitt and Paddy Mack … Art
Brady (sub for Fritz Wallick) beat Red Kirkpatrick

Washington, DC: Wednesday, February 16, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … (Ladies) Juanita Coffman and Therese Theis beat June Byers and Dot
Dotson (2-1) … Chief Little Wolf beat Dutch Schweigert (26:00) … Marvin Mercer beat John
Vansky (24:00) … Kimon Kudo beat Mike Collins (20:00)

Washington, DC: Monday, February 21, 1949
(Uline Arena) … Green Hornet beat Tarzan Frank Hewitt (13:00) … Geza Tako beat Joe
Ludlum … Laird beat Fritz Wallick … Art Brady and Arnold Skaaland beat Angelo Savoldi and
Jim Wallis

Washington, DC: Wednesday, February 23, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … (Ladies) June Byers beat Dot Dotson (15:00) … Chief Little Wolf beat
Ivan Kameroff (25:00) … Nanjo Singh beat Wilbur Nead (dq) … Kimon Kudo drew Marvin
Mercer (30:00) … NOTE: Promoter Mrs. Florence Turner will donate part of the proceeds to
the Metropolitan Police Boy’s Club Drive.

Washington, DC: Monday, February 28, 1949
(Uline Arena) … Tony Galento beat Arnold Skaaland (18:00) … Art Brady and Mike Clancy
beat Tarzan Hewitt and Angelo Savoldi … Joe Montana beat Paddy Mack … Jim Wallis beat
George Wilcheski (as Joe Welcheski)

Washington, DC: Wednesday, March 2, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … (10 Man Wrestle Royal) (Final) Wilbur Nead beat Joe Kameroff (27:00)
… Hans Steinke beat Joe Novak … Bibber McCoy beat Dutch Schweigert … Chief Little Wolf
drew Marvin Mercer (30:00) … NOTE: The Evening Star never told the two other wrestlers
said to be in the 10 man royal.

Washington, DC: Monday, March 7, 1949
(Uline Arena) … Art Brady and Mike Clancy beat Green Hornet and Jim Wallis (2-0, dq) …
Red Kirkpatrick beat Ference Siskay (27:00) … Fred Carone beat Joe Ludlum … George
Wilcheski beat Paul Sparks (sub for Geza Tako)

Washington, DC: Wednesday, March 9, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Tony Cosenza and Marvin Mercer beat Bibber McCoy and Henry Piers …
Gene Stanlee beat Joe Kameroff (15:00) … Nanjo Singh beat Wilbur Nead (27:00) … Golden
Superman beat Dutch Schweigert (17:00) … NOTE: Wilbur Nead was always billed as Jack
Dempsey’s protégée.

Washington, DC: Monday, March 14, 1949
(Uline Arena) … Art Brady and Mike Clancy beat Jim Wallis and Pat Welsh (2-0) … Stan
Sitkowski beat Red Kirkpatrick … Joe Montana beat George Wilcheski … Joe Ludlum beat
Fred Carone (dq) (sub for Jack Bloomfield) … NOTE: This group never told who the promoter
was. Possibly it was Goldie Ahearn who promoted boxing. Mike Uline, owner of the building,
also owned the Washington NBA basketball team.

Washington, DC: Wednesday, March 16, 1949
(Turner’s Arena, Att. 2,732) … Gorgeous George beat Rudy Dusek (19:00) … Nanjo Singh
beat Howard Cantonwine (8:00) … Wilbur Nead beat Ivan Kameroff (16:00) … Hans Steinke
drew Bibber McCoy (30:00) … Kiman Kudo beat Eric Holmbach

Washington, DC: Monday, March 21, 1949
(Uline Arena) … Wally Dusek and Paddy Mack beat Art Brady and Mike Clancy (2-0) … Stan
Sitkowski beat Fritz Wallick (21:00) … Joe Montana beat Joe Ludlum … Bill Casenza beat
Paul Sparks (sub for Red Kirkpatrick) … NOTE: This was the final card for this promotion.

Washington, DC: Wednesday, March 23, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Antonino Rocca beat Eric Holmbach (15:00) … Gene Stanlee beat Kola
Kwariani (14:00) … Wilbur Nead beat George Macricostas (12:00) (sub for Nanjo Singh) …
Bibber McCoy beat Charro Aztec (15:00) … Abe Coleman drew Ivan Kameroff (30:00)

Washington, DC: Wednesday, March 30, 1949
(Turner’s Arena, Att. 2,500) … Antonino Rocca beat Ivan Kameroff (10:00) … Gene Stanlee
beat Bibber McCoy (20:00, utc) … Marvin Mercer and Wilbur Nead beat Kola Kwariani and
Ivan Vacturoff (2-0) … Hans Steinke beat Irish Jack Kelly (16:30) … Referee: Benny Bortnick
… NOTE: Bortnick, at 49 years of age, was called the oldest referee in the game. It was said
that he had 14 broken bones in 32 years.

Washington, DC: Wednesday, April 6, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Jim Londos beat Dutch Schweigert (21:00) … (Ladies) Mae Weston beat
June Byers … Marvin Mercer and Wilbur Nead vs Michele Leone and Bibber McCoy … Pat
Welsh vs Joe Kameroff … (Weston result found 4-10)

Washington, DC: Wednesday, April 13, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … (Ladies World Title) Mildred Burke* beat Mae Weston (15:00) … Gene
Stanlee beat Abe Coleman (22:00) … (Ladies) June Byers beat Juanita Coffman (14:00)
…Michele Leone beat Lou Bernardi

Washington, DC: Wednesday, April 20, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Gene Stanlee beat Michele Leone … Marvin Mercer and Dutch
Schweigert beat Harry Finkelstein and Bibber McCoy … Maurice LaChappelle beat Abe
Coleman … Babe Sharkey beat Stanley Novak

Washington, DC: Wednesday, April 27, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Primo Carnera beat Chief Little Wolf … Gene Stanlee drew Golden
Superman (30:00) … Maurice LaChappelle beat Abe Stein … Babe Sharkey beat Abe
Coleman

Washington, DC: Wednesday, May 4, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Jim Londos beat Bibber McCoy (17:00) … Gene Stanlee beat Dutch
Schweigert (18:00) … Babe Sharkey beat George Macricostas (27:00) … Marvin Mercer beat
Harry Finkelstein (17:00) … Michele Leone beat Johnny Barend (21:00)

Washington, DC: Wednesday, May 11, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Antonino Rocca beat Babe Sharkey (12:00) … Golden Superman beat
Michele Leone (dq) … Maurice LaChappelle and Marvin Mercer beat Abe Coleman and Kola
Kwariani … Chief Little Wolf drew Ivan Kameroff (30:00)

Washington, DC: Wednesday, May 18, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Golden Superman beat Wally Dusek (19:00, dq) … Bibber McCoy and
Chief Little Wolf beat Johnny Barend and Tony Cosenza (sub for Dutch Schweigert) … Babe
Sharkey beat Monsieur Paris … Steve Karas beat Harry Finkelstein … Matchmaker: Gabe
Menendez … Promoter: Mrs. Florence Turner

Washington, DC: Wednesday, May 25, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Gene Stanlee beat Michele Leone (23:00) … Abe Coleman and Chief
Little Wolf beat Steve Karas and Marvin Mercer (2-1) … Ivan Kameroff drew Babe Sharkey
(30:00) … Johnny Barend beat Joe Kameroff

Washington, DC: Wednesday, June 1, 1949
(Griffith Stadium) … Antonino Rocca beat Sandor Szabo (14:00) … (Ladies) Lillian Ellison
beat June Byers (13:00) … Gene Stanlee and Golden Superman beat Kola Kwariani and
Chief Little Wolf (2-0) … Dutch Schweigert beat Babe Sharkey (26:00) … Bibber McCoy beat
Abe Coleman (13:00)

Washington, DC: Wednesday, June 8, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Dutch Schweigert, Gene Stanlee and Golden Superman beat Harry
Finkelstein, Michele Leone and Babe Sharkey (2-1) … Marvin Mercer beat Maurice
LaChappelle (21:00) … Johnny Barend drew Sammy Cohen Jr. (30:00) … Referees: Benny
Bortnick and Claudio Villar … NOTE: The newspaper spelled Johnny Barend as Johnny
Barron always.

Washington, DC: Wednesday, June 15, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … (10 Man Rassle Royal) (Final) Babe Sharkey beat Dutch Schweigert (18:
00) … Monsieur. Paris beat Harry Finkelstein (15:00) … Steve Karas drew Jesse James (30:
00) … Abe Coleman (sub for Hans Kampfer) beat Fred Volrich (as Brad Zolrich) (6:00) …
George Macricostas beat Michele Leone (15:00) … Referees: Benny Bortnick and Claudio
Villar

Washington, DC: Wednesday, June 22, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Golden Superman vs Babe Sharkey … Dutch Schweigert vs Ace
Freeman … George Macricostas vs Hans Kampfer … Tony Cosenza vs Sammy Cohen Jr. …
Steve Karas vs Dick Lever

Washington, DC: Wednesday, June 29, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Antonino Rocca beat Hans Kampfer (15:00) … Steve Karas drew Abe
Coleman (30:00) … Ace Freeman beat Joe Kameroff … Babe Sharkey beat Johnny Barend
… George Macricostas beat Kola Kwariani

Washington, DC: Wednesday, July 6, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Gene Stanlee beat George Macricostas … Felix Miquet beat Monsieur
Paris (11:30) … Chick Garibaldi beat Jesse James (17:00) … Hans Kampfer beat Abe
Coleman (14:30) … Steve Karas beat Harry Finkelstein (21:45)

Washington, DC: Wednesday, July 13, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Golden Superman beat Bibber McCoy (19:00, dq) … Ace Freeman and
Dave Weinstein (sub for Tony Cosenza) beat Jesse James and Hal Keane (2-1) … Felix
Miquet beat Hans Kampfer (19:00) … Steve Karas drew Pete Gomez (30:00) (sub for Irish
Jack Kelly)

Washington, DC: Wednesday, July 20, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Gene Stanlee beat Felix Miquet (22:00) … Johnny Barend (sub for Abe
Coleman) and Ivan Kameroff beat Jesse James and Hans Kampfer … George Macricostas
drew Dutch Schweigert (30:00) (sub for Tony Cosenza) … Milo Steinborn (sub for Johnny
Barend) beat Abe Stein

Washington, DC: Wednesday, July 27, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Michele Leone beat Golden Superman (16:00) … Steve Karas and Milo
Steinborn beat Fred Carone (sub for Harry Finkelstein) and Jesse James (2-0) … George
Macricostas beat Hans Kampfer (15:00) … Ivan Kameroff drew Tony Cosenza (30:00)

Washington, DC: Wednesday, August 3, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Golden Superman beat Chick Garibaldi … Bibber McCoy and Babe
Sharkey vs Tony Cosenza and Ivan Kameroff … Michele Leone vs George Macricostas …
Milo Steinborn vs Johnny Barend … (result found 8-7)

Washington, DC: Wednesday, August 10, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Gene Stanlee beat Bibber McCoy (20:00) … Golden Superman beat
Wally Dusek (14:00) … Tony Cosenza and Ivan Kameroff beat Harry Finkelstein and George
Macricostas (2-1) (sub for Babe Sharkey) … Milo Steinborn beat Monsieur Paris

Washington, DC: Wednesday, August 17, 1949
(Turner’s Arena, Att. 2,400) … Michele Leone beat Golden Superman (17:00, dq) … (Ladies)
Violet Viann beat Cecelia Blevens (11:00) … Nell Stewart beat Helen Hild (10:30) … Wally
Dusek drew Ivan Kameroff (30:00) … Joe Corbett beat Ace Freeman (23:00)

Washington, DC: Wednesday, August 24, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Golden Superman beat Michele Leone (30:00, dq) … (Ladies) Violet
Viann beat Nell Stewart (12:00) … (Ladies) Helen Hild beat Cecilia Blevins (10:00) … Joe
Corbett beat Tony Cosenza (14:00) … Ivan Kameroff beat George Bruckman (17:00) …
Referee: Benny Bortnick

Washington, DC: Wednesday, August 31, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Antonino Rocca beat Joe Corbett (17:00) … LaVerne Baxter beat
Monsieur Paris (7:00) … Ivan Kameroff beat Kola Kwariani (7:00) … Ace Freeman drew
George Bruckman (30:00) … Milo Steinborn beat Harry Finkelstein (12:00)

Washington, DC: Wednesday, September 7, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … LaVerne Baxter beat Golden Superman (16:30) … Joe Savoldi beat Joe
Kameroff (13:00) … Ivan Kameroff beat Chick Garibaldi (19:30) … Bobby Ford beat Jesse
James (21:00) … Dutch Schweigert beat George Bruckman (20:00, cor)

Washington, DC: Wednesday, September 14, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … LaVerne Baxter beat Ivan Kameroff (25:00) … Zeke Estep vs Tony
Cosenza … Martin Karadagian vs Ace Freeman … Babe Sharkey vs Dutch Schweigert …
Bobby Ford vs Harry Finkelstein

Washington, DC: Wednesday, September 21, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … George Macricostas beat LaVerne Baxter (5:00) … Zeke Estep beat Joe
Kameroff (5:00) … Martin Karadagian beat Steve Karas (28:00) … Ivan Kameroff beat Dick
Lever (16:00) … Bobby Ford beat Fred Carone (21:00)

Washington, DC: Wednesday, September 28, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … LaVerne Baxter beat George Macricostas … Martin Karadagian beat
George Flynn … Bobby Ford beat George Bruckman … Hans Kampfer beat Joe Gagiliano

Washington, DC: Wednesday, October 5, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Gene Stanlee beat LaVerne Baxter (18:00, dq) … (Tournament Bout)
Marvin Mercer beat Ace Freeman … Ivan Kameroff beat Bob Ford … Joe Corbett drew
George Macricostas (30:00) … Lou Sjoberg beat Harry Finkelstein

Washington, DC: Wednesday, October 12, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … LaVerne Baxter vs Ivan Kameroff … Wladyslaw Talun (as Stanislaus
Talun) vs Henry Piers … George Macricostas vs Lou Sjoberg … Chick Garibaldi vs Mike
Collins

Washington, DC: Wednesday, October 19, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Antonino Rocca beat LaVerne Baxter (6:00) … (Tournament Bout)
Marvin Mercer beat Martin Karadagian … Lou Sjoberg drew Ivan Kameroff (30:00) … Barney
Bernard beat Kola Kwariani … George Macricostas beat Ace Freeman

Washington, DC: Wednesday, October 26, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Primo Carnera beat Barney Bernard (15:00) … (Tournament Bout)
Marvin Mercer beat Lou Bernardi … Chief Yaqui beat Harry Finkelstein … LaVerne Baxter
beat Hardy Kruskamp … George Macricostas beat Monsieur Paris

Washington, DC: Wednesday, November 2, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … (Ladies) Cecelia Blevins vs Ellen Olsen … (Tournament Bout) Marvin
Mercer vs Tony Martinelli … Joe Savoldi vs Jack LaRue … Elmer Estep vs Martin Karadagian

Washington, DC: Wednesday, November 9, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … (Ladies) Ellen Olsen and Shirley Strimple beat Cecilia Blevins and Nell
Stewart (2-1) … (Tournament Bout) Marvin Mercer beat Steve Karas (31:00) … Barney
Bernard beat LaVerne Baxter (dq) … Joe Kowalski beat Jack LaRue … Referees: Benny
Bortnick and Claudio Villar

Washington, DC: Wednesday, November 16, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Natie Brown beat LaVerne Baxter (dq) … (Tournament Bout) Marvin
Mercer beat Steve Gob (12:00) … Barney Bernard beat George Macricostas (21:30) … Ivan
Kameroff drew Irish Jack Kelly (30:00) … Tony Martinelli beat Harry Finkelstein (26:30) (sub
for Martin Karadagian)

Washington, DC: Wednesday, November 23, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Natie Brown and Ivan Kameroff vs LaVerne Baxter and Irish Jack Kelly …
(Tournament Bout) Marvin Mercer vs Yaqui Bravo

Washington, DC: Wednesday, November 30, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Joe Corbett beat LaVerne Baxter (11:00) … Natie Brown beat George
Macricostas (27:00) … (Tournament Bout) Marvin Mercer beat Tony Cosenza (26:00) …
Jesse James beat Fred Kimball (29:00) … Pedro Ortega beat Ivan Vacturoff (18:00)

Washington, DC: Wednesday, December 7, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Gorgeous George beat Joe Corbett (14:00) … Natie Brown beat Wally
Dern (21:00) (sub for Sammy Menacher) … (Tournament Bout) Marvin Mercer vs Pedro
Ortega … (Tournament Bout) Jim Austeri vs George Bruckman … Al Calza vs Wally Dern

Washington, DC: Wednesday, December 14, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … (Tournament Bout) Marvin Mercer drew Jim Austeri (60:00) … LaVerne
Baxter vs Natie Brown (12:00, nc) … Ivan Kameroff drew Pat O’Hara (30:00) … Tony
Cosenza beat Irish Jack Kelly (dq) … Al Calza beat Joe Kameroff … NOTE: It was said that
both Mercer and Austeri had 11 wins and a draw going into this week which would have been
the final if it had a winner.

Washington, DC: Wednesday, December 21, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … (Final of Tournament for Worlds Junior Heavyweight Title) Marvin Mercer
beat Jim Austeri (27:00) (won title) … LaVerne Baxter and Irish Jack Kelly beat Steve Gob
and Ivan Kameroff (2-1) … Pat O’Hara (sub for Pedro Ortega) beat Harry Finkelstein … Tony
Cosenza drew Mike Collins (30:00)

Washington, DC: Wednesday, December 28, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … (Texas Rules Match) LaVerne Baxter beat Natie Brown (7:00) … Jim
Austeri and Irish Jack Kelly vs Ivan Kameroff and Pat O’Hara … Al Calza vs George
Bruckman … Referee: Milo Steinborn … Matchmaker: Gabe Menendez … Promoter: Mrs.
Florence Turner

Research by Don Luce, 2019

Washington, D.C.: Monday, January 3, 1949
(Uline Arena) … George Becker and Red Schwartz b. Killer Karl Davis and George Lenihan
… Arnold Skaaland b. Tony Martinelli … (750 fans)

Washington, D.C.: Wednesday, January 5, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Wilbur Nead b. Michele Leone (DQ) … George Macricostas and Marvin
Mercer b. Dapper Diz and Pat Welsh … Harry Armus b. Stan Novak … Bibber McCoy and
Dutch Schweigert drew
Note: The Washington Post stated that Nead “won his 116th straight wrestling match.”

Washington, D.C.: Monday, January 10, 1949
(Uline Arena) … Paddy Mack and Angelo Savoldi vs. George Becker and Red Schwartz … Al
Galento vs. Arnold Skaaland

Washington, D.C.: Wednesday, January 12, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Michele Leone vs. Dutch Schweigert … George Macricostas vs. Wilbur
Nead … Fred Carone vs. Ben Moroz … Lee Crosby vs. Marvin Mercer … Harry Finkelstein
vs. Hal Keene
Note: Moroz was said to be 7’ tall.

Washington, D.C.: Monday, January 17, 1949
(Uline Arena) … Al Galento and Angelo Savoldi b. George Becker and Red Schwartz (2-0) …
Frank Hewitt b. Olaf Erickson … Paddy Mack b. Red Kirkpatrick … The Great Mafisto
(Mephisto) and Abe Stein drew

Washington, D.C.: Wednesday, January 19, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Gorgeous George b. “Baron” Michele Leone (15:00) … Stu Hart vs.
Nanjo Singh … Sam Menacker vs. Wilbur Nead … Hal Keene vs. Bibber McCoy … Fred
Carone vs. Harry Finkelstein … (2,800 fans) … (gate: $5,900)
Notes: George’s valet was Jackson Hunter. The Washington Post (Sy Fishbein) called
Michele Leone, “Baron Michele Leone.” George reportedly received 35 per cent of the gate,
according to the Post. Nead was said to be still undefeated.

Washington, D.C.: Monday, January 24, 1949
(Uline Arena) … Tony Galento b. Frank Hewitt (15:00) … Arnold Skaaland vs. Abe Stein …
Jim Gallis vs. Great Mafisto … Joe Ludlum vs. Joe Mantana … Paddy Mack vs. Angelo
Savoldi … (1,400 fans)

Washington, D.C.: Wednesday, January 26, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … World Heavyweight champion Frank Sexton b. Ivan Kameroff … The
Golden Superman vs. Wilbur Nead … Ben Moroz vs. Stanley Novak … Hans Steinke vs.
John Vansky … Emanuel Bonica vs. Marvin Mercer

Washington, D.C.: Monday, February 7, 1949
(Uline Arena) … 10-man battle royal involving Lew Laird, Fritz Wallick
Note: The Washington Post stated that Laird “won more than 150 matches while masked as
the Red Terror.”

Washington, D.C.: Wednesday, February 9, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … June Byers vs. Theresa Theis … Bibber McCoy and Nanjo Singh vs. Ivan
Kameroff and Wilbur Nead … Chief Little Wolf vs. Tony Cosenza … Joe Kameroff vs. Hans
Steinke

Washington, D.C.: Monday, February 14, 1949
(Uline Arena) … Theresa Theis b. Dot Dotson (2/3) … Art Brady b. Red Kirkpatrick … Mike
Clancy and Arnold Skaaland b. Frank Hewitt and Paddy Mack … The Green Hornet b. Lew
Laird

Washington, D.C.: Wednesday, February 16, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) …Juanita Coffman and Theresa Theis vs. June Byers and Dot Dotson …
Chief Little Wolf vs. Dutch Schweigert … Mike Collins vs. Kimon Kudo … Marvin Mercer vs.
John Vansky

Washington, D.C.: Monday, February 21, 1949
(Uline Arena) … The Green Hornet b. Frank Hewitt (13:00) … Geza Tako b. Joe Ludlum …
Lew Laird b. Fritz Wallick … Art Brady and Arnold Skaaland b. Angelo Savoldi and Jim Wallis
Note: Tako was originally slated to wrestle Abe Coleman.

Washington, D.C.: Wednesday, February 23, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … June Byers b. Dot Dotson (15:00) … Chief Little Wolf b. Ivan Kameroff
(25:00) … Nanjo Singh b. Wilbur Nead (DQ) … Kimon Kudo and Marvin Mercer drew (30:00)

Washington, D.C.: Monday, February 28, 1949
(Uline Arena) … Tony Galento vs. Arnold Skaaland … Frank Hewitt and Angelo Savoldi vs.
Art Brady and Mike Clancy … Paddy Mack vs. Joe Montana … Jim Wallis vs. Joe Welcheski

Washington, D.C.: Wednesday, March 2, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Wilbur Nead won the wrestle royal (also reportedly involved Nanjo Singh,
Marvin Mercer, Chief Little Wolf, Dutch Schweigert, Stanley Novak, Ace Freeman, Joe
Kameroff, Bibber McCoy) … Wilbur Nead b. Joe Kameroff (27:00)
Note: The Washington Post stated that Nanjo Singh was “defending the championship he
won a few weeks ago” in the “second wrestle royal” this season.

Washington, D.C.: Monday, March 7, 1949
(Uline Arena) … The Green Hornet and Jim Wallis b. Art Brady and Mike Clancy … Fred
Carone b. Joe Ludlum … George Welcheski b. Paul Sparks … Red Kirkpatrick b. Ferenc
Siskay
Notes: The Washington Post gave conflicting results on the main event, saying that Hornet
and Wallis had won in the article headline, then reporting that they were defeated in the
article itself. Kirkpatrick was originally scheduled to wrestle “Lucky” Lee Crosby, who was a
former auto stunt driver and daredevil.

Washington, D.C.: Wednesday, March 9, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Joe Kameroff vs. Gene Stanlee … Wilbur Nead vs. Nanjo Singh …
Golden Superman vs. Dutch Schweigert … Tony Cosenza vs. Marvin Mercer … Bibber
McCoy vs. Henry Piers

Washington, D.C.: Monday, March 14, 1949
(Uline Arena) … Art Brady and Mike Clancy vs. Jim Wallis and Pat Welsh … Joe Montana vs.
George Welcheski … Jack Bloomfield vs. Joe Ludlum … Red Kirkpatrick vs. Stanley Sitkowski

Washington, D.C.: Wednesday, March 16, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Gorgeous George b. Rudy Dusek (19:00) … Eric Holmback vs. Kimon
Kudo … Bibber McCoy vs. Hans Steinke … Ivan Kameroff vs. Wilbur Nead … Howard
Cantonwine vs. Nanjo Singh … (referee: Bennie Bortnick) … (2,732 fans) … (gate: $5,300)
Notes: The Washington Post made mention of George’s “flop” at Madison Square Garden,
and noted that he still “maintains some allure at Turner’s Arena.”

Washington, D.C.: Monday, March 21, 1949
(Uline’s Arena) … Art Brady and Mike Clancy vs. Wally Dusek and Paddy Mack … Stan
Sitkowski vs. Fritz Wallick … Joe Ludlum vs. Joe Montana … Red Kirkpatrick vs. Bill Sasenza

Washington, D.C.: Wednesday, March 23, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Gorgeous George vs. Kola Kwariani … Wilbur Nead vs. Nanjo Singh …
Eric Holmback vs. Antonino Rocca … Charro Aztec vs. Bibber McCoy … Abe Coleman vs.
Ivan Kameroff
Note: Rocca’s local debut.

Washington D.C.: Wednesday, March 30, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Antonino Rocca vs. Ivan Kameroff … Gene Stanlee b. Bibber McCoy
(McCoy suffered an injured rib after 20-minutes)

Washington, D.C.: Wednesday, June 1, 1949
(Griffith Stadium) … Antonino Rocca vs. Sandor Szabo … Golden Superman vs. Gene
Stanlee … June Byers vs. Lillian Ellison
Note: First outdoor wrestling show of the season.

Washington, D.C.: Wednesday, June 8, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Golden Superman, Gene Stanlee and Dutch Schweigert vs. Harry
Finkelstein, Michele Leone and Babe Sharkey
Note: The Washington Post reported that “Washington wrestling fans will witness something
new tonight when a trio of heroes meets a combination of meanies in a special six-man team
match.”

Washington, D.C.: Wednesday, June 15, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Babe Sharkey b. Dutch Schweigert in finals of the wrestle royal involving
Babe Sharkey, Michele Leone, Dutch Schweigert, Hans Kampfer, Jesse James, Steve Karas,
George Macricostas, Monsieur Paris, Harry Finkelstein, Fred Zolrich … (referees: Benny
Bortnick, Claudio Villar)

Washington, D.C.: Wednesday, June 22, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Golden Superman vs. Babe Sharkey … Ace Freeman vs. Dutch
Schweigert … Hans Kampfer vs. George Macricostas

Washington, D.C.: Wednesday, June 29, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Antonino Rocca b. Hans Kampfer (15:00) … Abe Coleman and Steve
Karas drew … Ace Freeman b. Joe Kameroff … Babe Sharkey b. John Barone … George
Macricostas b. Kola Kwariani (14:00)
Note: The Washington Post stated that Rocca’s “methods recently sent Primo Carnera to a
St. Louis hospital.”

Washington D.C., Wednesday, August 17, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Cecelia Blevins vs. Violet Viann … Helen Hild vs. Nell Stewart …
(broadcast on WMAL-TV) (9:00 p.m.)

Washington D.C.: Wednesday, August 24, 1949
(Turner’s Arena) … Nell Stewart vs. Violet Viann … Cecilia Blevins vs. Helen Hilde … The
Golden Superman vs. Michele Leone

Research by Tim Hornbaker

Washington, D.C. Wrestling Results - 1949

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