Chicago, IL: Saturday, January 2, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Hans Schmidt beat Jack Witzig … Ray Gunkel beat Bull Montana … Rocky
Colombo and Jerry Woods beat Paul DeGalles and Benito Gardini … Art Neilson beat Mel Dove …
Larry Chene beat Zack Malkov … promoter: Fred Kohler

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, January 6, 1954
(Rainbo Arena, att.-1,000) … Ray Eckert beat Guy Brunetti … Walter Palmer beat Chris Zaharias …
Ed Cholak beat Joe Gordon … Chris Belkas and Roy Shire beat Billy Parks and Whitey Wahlberg …
Joe Christie beat Tony Steele … promoter: Leonard Schwartz (Fred Hornby results) … NOTE: Bob
Nitsche and Tribune had Cholak drew Gordon.

Chicago, IL: Saturday, January 9, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Antonino Rocca beat Clyde Steeves … Sky Hi Lee beat Frank Hurley … Ivan
Rasputin beat Jack Carter … Gypsy Joe and The Sheik of Araby beat Gordon Hessel and Jerry
Woods … Farmer Jones beat Tarzan Zimba … Einar Olsen beat Bull Montana (dq)

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, January 13, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Ray Eckert beat Jim Wright … Walter Palmer beat Joe Millich … George Bollas
beat Bobby Weaver … Guy Brunetti beat Tony Steele … John Arjon drew Mitch Lassen … Al
Kashey beat Red Kirkpatrick

Chicago, IL: Friday, January 15, 1954
(International Amphitheater, att.-9,629) … Killer Kowalski beat Wladek Kowalski (2-1) … Hans
Schmidt beat Ray Gunkel (2-1, cor) … Larry Chene and Billy Goelz beat Art Neilson and The Sheik
of Araby (2-1, dq) … Sky Hi Lee beat Bobby Nelson … Pat O’Connor beat Ivan Rasputin …
promoter: Fred Kohler

Chicago, IL: Saturday, January 16, 1954
(Marigold Arena, att.-1,400) … Antonino Rocca beat Lenny Montana (as Zebra Kid) (2-0) … Yukon
Eric beat Zack Malkov … Ski Hi Lee beat Jack Carter … Gypsy Joe and The Sheik of Araby beat
Einar Olsen and Jerry Woods … Farmer Jones beat Duke DeMetri … Paul DeGalles beat Mel Dove

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, January 20, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Ray Eckert drew Walter Palmer … Chest Bernard beat Dave Sims …  Al Kashey
beat Chris Belkas … George Bollas beat Marco Polo … Guy Brunetti and Joe Tangaro beat Verne
Taft and Chris Zaharias

Chicago, IL: Saturday, January 23, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Antonino Rocca beat Joe Christie … Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson beat Bob
DeMarce and Jim Siskay … Jack Witzig beat Rocky Gallup … Farmer Jones beat Paul DeGalles …
Farmer Don Marlin beat Ned Taylor … Zack Malkov beat Don Claus

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, January 27, 1954
(Rainbo Arena, att.-1,400) … Bobby Managoff beat Chest Bernard … Al Kashey beat Paul Orth (dq)
…  Guy Brunetti and Joe Tangaro beat Joe Christie and Verne Taft … George Bollas beat Whitey
Wahlberg … Gypsy Joe beat Jack Carter

Chicago, IL: Saturday, January 30, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Verne Gagne beat Firpo Zbyszko (2-0) … Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson beat
Bill Curry and Angelo Poffo … Killer Kowalski beat Matt Murphy … Duke DeMetri beat Mike Sipich …
Farmer Don Marlin beat Gino Angelo … Frankie Hart beat Pete Bartu

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, February 3, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Buddy Rogers beat Al Kashey … Gypsy Joe beat Milt Olsen … Farmer Don
Marlin beat Tarzan Zimba … George Bollas beat Mark Lewin … Balk Estes and Gordon Hessel beat
Paul DeGalles and Bull Montana

Chicago, IL: Saturday, February 6, 1954
(Marigold Arena, att.-1,600) … Verne Gagne beat Billy McDaniel (2-0) … Hans Schmidt beat Jack
Wilson … (National Tag Team Title) Billy Darnell and Bill Melby* beat Johnny Gates and Steve Zold
(as Steve Szold) … Rocky Colombo beat Zack Malkov … Frankie Hart drew Jack Carter … Bobby
Nelson beat Joe Gordon … (results-Bob Nitsche & Tribune)

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, February 10, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Ruffy Silverstein beat Jack Vansky … George Bollas beat Len Hughes … Gypsy
Joe beat Balk Estes … Farmer Don Marlin beat Paul DeGalles … Pete Bartu and Bull Montana beat
Bill Curry and Milt Olsen

Chicago, IL: Saturday, February 13, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … (National Tag Team Title*) Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson beat Bill Melby and
Jack Witzig (sub for Billy Darnell) (won the tag team title) … Pat O’Connor beat Tarzan Hewitt (cor)
… Rudy Kay beat Rocky Colombo … Sky Hi Lee beat Stu Allen … Gordon Hessel beat Duke
DeMetri … Frankie Hart drew Einar Olsen … NOTE: It was said that Darnell was injured. In talking
with Billy in 2007, he said that he was going to school around this time.

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, February 17, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Ray Eckert drew Walter Palmer … Fritz Von Erich beat Bob DeMarce … Gypsy
Joe beat Gordon Hessel … Verne Taft beat Pete Managoff … Al Smith and John Smith beat Jack
Carter and Farmer Don Marlin

Chicago, IL: Saturday, February 20, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Ray Gunkel beat Pierre LaSalle … Killer Kowalski beat Danno O’Shocker …
Ivan Rasputin beat Ludwig Mann … Rocky Colombo drew Rudy Kay … Zack Malkov beat Einar
Olsen … Billy Goelz beat Bobby Nelson (as Jimmy Nelson)

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, February 24, 1954
(Rainbo Arena, att.-1,300) … Ruffy Silverstein beat Pedro Godoy (2-0) … Verne Taft beat Vic
Holbrook … Farmer Jones and Farmer Don Marlin beat Pete Bartu and Paul DeGalles … Bull
Montana drew Johnny (Great) Balbo … Milt Olsen beat Jack Carter … Gypsy Joe beat Gordon
Hessel … NOTE: WAYLI had Montana beat Balbo.

Chicago, IL: Saturday, February 27, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Killer Kowalski beat Pete Managoff … Hans Hermann beat Jack Dorfman (0:23)
… Ivan Rasputin beat Tony Steele … Rocky Colombo beat Tarzan Zimba … Billy Goelz beat Rudy
Kay … Frankie Hart beat Steve Nenoff (dq) … Billy Fox beat Zack Malkov (dq)

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, March 3, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … (NWA World HW Title) Lou Thesz* beat Verne Taft … Great Yamato beat Balk
Estes … Art Bull drew Fritz Von Erich … Paul DeGalles beat Einar Olsen … Great Balbo beat
Gordon Hessel … Farmer Jones beat Bull Montana (dq)

Chicago, IL: Friday, March 5, 1954
(International Amphitheater, att.-8.531) … Antonino Rocca beat Killer Kowalski (2-0, cor) (first fall by
dq) … Jack Witzig beat Sky Hi Lee (dq) … Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson beat Benito Gardini and
Rudy Kay (2-1) … Larry Chene beat Gordon Hessel … The Sheik of Araby beat Harry Lewis

Chicago, IL: Saturday, March 6, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Verne Gagne beat Jan Gotch … Hans Schmidt beat Fritz Von Erich … Hans
Hermann beat Maurice Roberre … George Drake beat Ned Taylor … Larry Chene drew Billy Goelz
… Frankie Hart beat Duke DeMetri

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, March 10, 1954
(Rainbo Arena, att.-1,500) … Big Bill Miller beat Ruffy Silverstein (2-1, dq) … Great Yamato beat
Don Evers (Evans?) … Great Balbo beat Gino Angelo … Jack Carter beat Don Claus … Farmer
Jones and Farmer Don Marlin beat Paul DeGalles and Bull Montana (2-0) … Balk Estes beat John
Arjon … NOTE: Don Evans was on a Texas tour during this period. However he was missing from
San Antonio on March 10.

Chicago, IL: Saturday, March 13, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Antonino Rocca beat Pedro Escobar (2-0) … Mighty Atlas beat Ludwig Mann …
Hans Hermann beat Carlos Freeman … Rocky Colombo drew Billy Goelz … Gregory Jarque beat
Benito Gardini … George Drake beat Harry Lewis … Jim Walmsley drew Mitch Lassen

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, March 17, 1954
(Rainbo Arena, att.-1,200) … Big Bill Miller beat Pierre LaSalle (2-1) … Ruffy Silverstein beat Ted
Germaine … Farmer Don Marlin beat Dutch Hefner (dq) … Bull Montana and Great Yamato beat
Great Balbo and Jack Carter (2-1) … Milt Olsen beat Billy Nichols … John Arjon drew Pete Bartu

Chicago, IL: Saturday, March 20, 1954
(Marigold Arena, att.-1,400) … Bill Melby and Jack Witzig beat Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson (2-1,
dq) … Ray Gunkel beat Zack Malkov … Hans Hermann beat Lou James … Benito Gardini beat
Mitch Lassen … Art Bull beat Duke DeMetri … Joe Gordon beat Jim Walmsley

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, March 24, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Andre Drapp beat Pierre LaSalle … (Judo) Great Yamato beat Gordon Hessel …
Farmer Jones and Farmer Don Marlin beat Duke DeMetri and Dutch Hefner … Gypsy Joe beat
George Drake … Milt Olsen beat John Arjon … Jack Carter beat Paul DeGalles … NOTE: Tribune
likely error, calling DeMetri as Jim Demetrious.

Chicago, IL: Saturday, March 27, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Pat O’Connor beat Friedrich Von Schacht (2-0) … Yukon Eric beat Mike Ryan
… Ivan Rasputin beat Marcel Lobet … Billy Goelz beat Art Bull … Frankie Hart beat Jack Delaney …
Johnny Gilbert beat Ned Taylor

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, March 31, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Wild Bill Longson beat Danno O’Shocker (2-1) … Great Yamato beat Gordon
Hessel (utc) … … Great Balbo beat Paul DeGalles …  Farmer Jones and Farmer Don Marlin beat
Charlie Carr and Tarzan Zimba … Jack Carter beat Pete Bartu (dq) … George Drake drew Zack
Malkov

Chicago, IL: Saturday, April 3, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Pat O’Connor beat Jim Wright (2-0) … Mighty Atlas beat Charlie Carr … Bill
Melby and Jack Witzig beat Pete Bartu and Paul DeGalles … Billy Goelz beat Larry Chene … Mitsu
Arakawa beat Ned Taylor

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, April 7, 1954
(Rainbo Arena, att.-1,400) … Wild Bill Longson beat Pete Managoff (2-1) … Great Yamato beat Al
Warshawski (2-0) … Bobby Nelson beat Stu Allen … Baron Arena beat Wally Steele … Jack Wilson
beat Dutch Hefner … George Drake beat Gordon Hessel … Great Karpozilos beat Pete Bartu

Chicago, IL: Friday, April 9, 1954
(International Amphitheater, att.-9,016) … Hans Schmidt beat Antonino Rocca (60:00, 1-0) …
Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson beat Farmer Jones and Farmer Don Marlin … Ray Gunkel beat
Hans Hermann … Jack Witzig beat Ivan Rasputin … Bill Melby beat Benito Gardini

Chicago, IL: Saturday, April 10, 1954
(Marigold Arena, att.-1,100) … Pat O’Connor beat Bobby Lane (2-0) … Reggie Lisowski and Art
Neilson beat Jack Carter and George Drake (2-0) … Mighty Atlas beat Art Bull … Billy Hickson beat
Doug Donan … Johnny Gilbert beat Don Kirk … Joe Gordon beat Dale Patrick

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, April 14, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Frankie Talaber drew Andre Drapp … Great Karpozilos beat Milt Olsen … Great
Yamato beat Danny Ferrazza … Dutch Hefner beat Great Balbo … Gordon Hessel beat Doug
Donan … (Midgets) Cowboy Bradley and Haile Selassie beat Fuzzy Cupid and Little Darling

Chicago, IL: Saturday, April 17, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Antonino Rocca beat Les Ruffin (2-0) … Hans Schmidt beat Frank Thompson
… Bob Orton beat Harry Lewis … Rudy Kay beat Billy Hickson … Mitsu Arakawa beat Duke Demetri
… Frankie Hart beat George Drake … Jon Arjon beat Mike Sipich … (Tribune and Nitsche results)
… NOTE: WAYLI had Hart drew Drake.

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, April 21, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … (NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion) Baron Michele Leone* beat Jack
Wilson (18:12) … Andre Drapp beat Frankie Talaber (2-0) … Great Kartozilos beat Pedro Godoy …
(Jiu Jitsu Match) Great Yamato beat Great Balbo … John Arjon drew George Drake (20:00)

Chicago, IL: Saturday, April 24, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Yukon Eric beat Dutch Hefner (2-0) … Bob Orton beat Tiger Jack
Moore … Rudy Kay beat George Drake … Gypsy Joe beat Frankie Hart … Billy Hickson beat Einar
Olsen … Mitsu Arakawa beat Milt Olsen

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, April 28, 1954
(Rainbo Arena, att.-1,600) … Don Eagle beat Bob Geigel (2-1) … Great Karpozilos beat Verne Taft
… Great Yamato beat Jack Carter … Gordon Hessel drew Milt Olsen … Ed Cholak beat Tarzan
Zimba (dq) … Guy Brunetti and Joe Tangaro beat Baron Arena and Dutch Hefner

Chicago, IL: Saturday, May 1, 1954
(Marigold Arena, att.-1,235) … Pat O’Connor beat Johnny Heideman (2-0) … Yukon Eric beat Rudy
Kay … Sky Hi Lee beat Jack Wilson … Rocky Colombo beat Billy Hickson … Mitsu Arakawa beat
Baron Arena … Zack Malkov beat Jack Sheppard … Jon Arjon beat Duke DeMetri … (results-Fred
Hornby) … NOTE: Tribune and Nitsche results have Colombo drew Hickson.

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, May 5, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … (Judo Match) Ruffy Silverstein drew Great Yamato … Andre Drapp beat Jim
Lewis … Great Karpozilos beat Chris Zaharias … Dutch Hefner and Bobby Nelson beat George
Drake and Billy Hickson … Jack Carter beat Kostas Davelis … Gordon Hessel beat Tarzan Zimba

Chicago, IL: Friday, May 7, 1954
(International Amphitheater, att.-9,219) … Antonino Rocca beat Hans Schmidt … referee: Joe Louis
… Pat O’Connor beat Mighty Atlas … Reggie Lisowski and The Sheik of Araby vs Rudy Kay and Sky
Hi Lee (ddq) … Frank Stojack beat Dutch Hefner … Bob Orton beat Harry Lewis

Chicago, IL: Saturday, May 8, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … (USTM) Verne Gagne* beat Jim Wright … Bob Orton beat George Babich …
Hans Hermann beat Lou Laposki … The Sheik of Araby beat Jack Carter … Mitsu Arakawa beat
Kostas Davelis … Billy Hickson beat Pete Bartu … Jon Arjon beat Jim Walmsby

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, May 12, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Ruffy Silverstein beat Great Yamato (dq) … Johnny Valentine beat Mike Lane …
Frank Stojack beat Gordon Hessel … Bobby Nelson beat Frankie Hart … Jack Carter beat Mitch
Lassen … Ed Cholak drew Maurice Roberre

Chicago, IL: Saturday, May 15, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … (USTM) Verne Gagne* beat Hardy Kruskamp (2-0) … Bob Orton beat Earl
Fleming … Bill Melby beat Pete Bartu (0:16) … Tarzan Zimba beat Jon Arjon … Maurice Roberre
drew Jack Carter … Benny Rooster drew Mitch Lassen … Billy Hickson beat Ned Taylor

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, May 19, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Don Eagle beat Frank Marconi … Ed Cholak beat Great Yamato (dq) … Farmer
Jones and Farmer Don Marlin beat Baron Arena and Pete Bartu … Bobby Weaver beat Jack
Vansky … Jack Carter beat Bob Olson … Dutch Hefner drew Gordon Hessel

Chicago, IL: Saturday, May 22, 1954
(Marigold Arena, att.-1,237) … Bill Melby beat Sandor Fozo … Mighty Atlas beat Billy Hickson …
Jack Witzig beat Mike Sipich … Billy Goelz beat Kostas Davelis … Rocky Colombo beat Cliff Thiede
… Jon Arjon beat Ned Taylor (dq) … Don Claus drew Dale Patrick

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, May 26, 1954
(Rainbo Arena, att.-1,500) … Buddy Rogers beat Bobby Weaver … Farmer Jones and Farmer Don
Marlin beat Dutch Hefner and Bobby Nelson (dq) … Bert Rubi drew Gordon Hessel … Baron Arena
beat George Drake … (Midgets) Cowboy Bradley beat Otto Bowman

Chicago, IL: Saturday, May 29, 1954
(Marigold Arena, att.-1,382) … Pat O’Connor beat Johnny Moochy … Bill Melby beat Aztec Garcia
(0:24) … Billy Goelz beat Great Yamato (reversed decision) … Bob Orton beat Frank Hurley … Mike
Burnell beat Einar Olsen … Mitsu Arakawa beat George Drake … Billy Hickson drew Gordon Hessel
… Jon Arjon beat Jack Sheppard … NOTE: Aztec Garcia was Mario Galento alias Butch Boyette.

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, June 2, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Lu Kim beat Vern Taft … Farmer Don Marlin beat Bobby Nelson … Great
Karpozilos beat Danny Ferrazza … Juan Hernandez beat Gordon Hessel … Dutch Hefner beat Ed
Cholak … Billy Hickson beat Baron Arena

Chicago, IL: Friday, June 4, 1954
(87th Street Speedway) … Gypsy Joe and The Sheik of Araby beat Rocky Colombo and Farmer
Don Marlin … Juan Hernandez beat Baron Arena … Maurice Roberre beat Ned Taylor

Chicago, IL: Saturday, June 5, 1954
(Marigold Arena, att.-1,250) … Yukon Eric beat Reb Russell … Roy McClarity beat Reggie Lisowski
… Ed Cholak beat Sky Hi Lee (dq) … Rocky Colombo and Billy Goelz beat Duke DeMetri and Zack
Malkov … Billy Hickson beat Benito Gardini (dq) … Benny Rooster beat Ned Taylor (dq)

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, June 9, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Don Eagle beat Chief Kit Fox … Lu Kim beat Vic Holbrook … Dutch Hefner and
Bobby Nelson beat Gordon Hessel and Maurice Roberre … Great Karpozolis beat Bob DeMarce …
Farmer Don Marlin beat Zack Malkov … Juan Hernandez drew Milt Olsen

Chicago, IL: Friday, June 11, 1954
(International Amphitheater, att.-8,890) … (United States Heavyweight TV Champion) Verne Gagne*
beat Hans Hermann (2-0) … Roy McClarity beat Bob Orton … Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson vs
Pat O’Connor and Yukon Eric (nc) … Mighty Atlas beat Jack Witzig … Bill Melby beat The Sheik of
Araby

Chicago, IL: Saturday, June 12, 1954
(Marigold Arena, att.-1,500) … Gorgeous George beat Rocky Colombo … Roy McClarity beat
Sandor Fozo … Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson beat Ralph Bartleman and Earl Fleming … Billy
Goelz beat Benito Gardini … Rudy Kay beat Jerry Woods … Mitsu Arakawa beat Jack Carter

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, June 16, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Big Bill Miller beat Andre Drapp … Great Karpozolis beat Johnny Gates … Dutch
Hefner and Bobby Nelson beat Baron Arena and Zack Malkov … Mitsu Arakawa beat Milt Olsen …
Billy Hickson drew Jon Arjon … Gordon Hessel beat Bill (Duke) DeMetri … NOTE: Someone who
wrote for WAYLI thinks DeMetri was Bill Demetrious.  We can’t prove this however.

Chicago, IL: Friday, June 18, 1954
(87th Street Speedway) … Pat O’Connor beat Sky Hi Lee … Dutch Hefner and Bobby Nelson beat
Juan Hernandez and Maurice Roberre

Chicago, IL: Saturday, June 19, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Roy McClarity beat Sky Hi Lee … Hans Schmidt beat Ed Cholak … Bill Melby
beat Baron Arena … Maurice Roberre beat Rudy Kay (dq) … Benito Gardini beat Jerry Woods …
Zack Malkov drew Jack Carter … Juan Hernandez drew Gordon Hessel

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, June 23, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Don Eagle beat George Macricostas (2-1) … Dutch Hefner and Bobby Nelson
beat Guy Brunetti and Joe Tangaro (dq) … Great Karpozilos beat Ted Marshall … Juan Hernandez
beat Zack Malkov … Jon Arjon beat Bill (Duke) DeMetri … Maurice Roberre drew Milt Olsen

Chicago, IL: Saturday, June 26, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … (USTM) Verne Gagne* drew Roy McClarity … Hans Schmidt beat Maurice
Roberre … Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson beat Stu Allen and Lou Klein … Tommy Martindale beat
Duke DeMetri … Juan Hernandez beat Johnny Carlin … Johnny Gilbert beat Mitch Lassen … Roy
Rogers beat Jim Walmsley

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, June 30, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Farmer Jones and Farmer Don Marlin vs Dutch Hefner and Bobby Nelson (nc) …
Ivan Rasputin beat Bull Montana … Great Karpozilos beat Charlie Carr … Jon Arjon beat Baron
Arena … Juan Hernandez drew Balk Estes … Zack Malkov beat Gordon Hessel

Chicago, IL: Saturday, July 3, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Gorgeous George beat Bill Melby … Mighty Atlas beat Billy Goelz … Gypsy Joe
and The Sheik of Araby beat Juan Hernandez and Maurice Roberre … Red Ryan beat Ted Lewin …
Tommy Martinson beat Zack Malkov (dq) … Jon Arjon drew Joe Gordon

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, July 7, 1954
(Rainbo Arena, att.-1,800) … (WTM) Lou Thesz* beat Bob McCune … Lu Kim beat Chris Zaharias
… Dutch Hefner and Bobby Nelson beat Jon Arjon and Jack Carter … Great Balbo beat Zack
Malkov … Great Karpozilos beat Gino Angelo … Ivan Rasputin beat Billy Hickson

Chicago, IL: Friday, July 9, 1954
(International Amphitheater, att.-6,021) … Hans Schmidt beat Pat O’Connor … Antonino Rocca beat
Mighty Atlas … Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson beat Farmer Jones and Farmer Don Marlin … Roy
McClarity beat Ivan Rasputin … Billy Goelz beat Harry Lewis

Chicago, IL: Saturday, July 10, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Pat O’Connor beat Bob White … Roy McClarity beat Jack Wentworth … Bob
Orton beat Chuck Molnar … Mitsu Arakawa beat Jerry Woods … Jon Arjon beat Einar Olsen (dq) …
Tommy Martindale drew Maurice Roberre … Milt Olsen drew Johnny Kace (John Kakacek)

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, July 14, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Ruffy Silverstein beat Sonny Kurgis … Ivan Rasputin beat Great Balbo … Guy
Brunetti and Joe Tangaro beat Baron Arena and Pete Bartu … Great Karpozilos beat Bob Hanke …
Mitsu Arakawa beat Jack Carter … Gordon Hessel drew Jon Arjon … promoter: Leonard Schwartz

Chicago, IL: Friday, July 16, 1954
(Rainbo Arena, att.-3,000) … (WTM) Lou Thesz* beat Lu Kim (dq) … Andre Drapp beat Big Bill
Miller (dq) … Cyclone Anaya beat Mike Lane … Bob Orton and Ivan Rasputin beat Juan Hernandez
and Maurice Roberre … Great Karpozilos beat Bobby Nelson … NOTE: This was another of
Leonard Schwartz’s special Friday night cards.

Chicago, IL: Saturday, July 17, 1954
(Marigold Arena, att.-1,383) … Antonino Rocca beat Frank (Tarzan) Hewitt … Juan Hernandez beat
Hans Hermann (dq) … Bob Orton beat Harry Lewis … Gypsy Joe and The Sheik of Araby beat Jon
Arjon and Tommy Martinson … Dave Jons beat Don Clauss … Jerry Woods drew Milt Olsen

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, July 21, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … (World Title) Lou Thesz* beat Don Leo Jonathan … Great Balbo beat Ivan
Rasputin (dq) … Dutch Hefner and Bobby Nelson beat Juan Hernandez and Gordon Hessel …
Great Karpozilos beat Baron Arena … Jon Arjon beat Maurice Roberre … Milt Olsen beat Bill (Duke)
DeMetri (as Bill Demetrious in WAYLI)

Chicago, IL: Saturday, July 24, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … (USTM) Verne Gagne* beat Tom Bradley … Hans Schmidt beat Bobby Nelson
… Mighty Atlas beat Gordon Hessel … Danny O’Sullivan and Dick Torio beat Ralph Alexander and
Rip Hawk … Dave Jons beat Johnny Carlin … Milt Olsen beat Dale Patrick

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, July 28, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Big Bill Miller beat Francois Miquet … Ivan Rasputin beat Dutch Hefner … Bobby
Nelson beat Maurice Roberre … Carl Engstrom beat Milt Olsen … Great Karpozilos beat Zack
Malkov … Jack Carter beat Duke DeMetri

Chicago, IL: Saturday, July 31, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Pat O’Connor beat Joe Christie (2-0) … Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson beat
Frank Hurley and Mike Ryan … Mighty Atlas beat Tommy Martindale …
Zack Malkov beat Jerry Woods (Woods was injured and unable to continue shortly after winning the
first fall in 1:51) … Carl Engstrom drew Dave Jons … Gordon Hessel beat Jim Walmsley

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, August 4, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Don Eagle beat Joe Scarpello (1-1, utc) … Reggie Lisowski and Ivan Rasputin
drew Dutch Hefner and Bobby Nelson (60:00, 1-1) … Great Yamato beat Juan Hernandez … Great
Karpozilos beat Balk Estes … Jon Arjon beat Mitsu Arakawa … Mitch Lassen drew Milt Olsen …
promoter: Leonard Schwartz

Chicago, IL: Friday, August 6, 1954
(International Amphitheater, att.-9,891) … (USTM) Verne Gagne* beat Roy McClarity (2-1) … Yukon
Eric and Pat O’Connor beat Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson (2-1, dq) … (Midgets) Little Beaver
beat Tom Thumb … Tommy Martindale beat Mitsu Arakawa … Benito Gardini beat Al Warshawsky
… promoter: Fred Kohler

Chicago, IL: Saturday, August 7, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Roy McClarity beat Bill Melby (0:59) … Gypsy Joe and The Sheik of Araby beat
Danny O’Sullivan and Dick Torio … Billy Goelz drew Carl Engstrom … Tommy Martindale beat Zack
Malkov … Milt Olsen beat Don Clauss … Jack Carter beat Ned Taylor

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, August 11, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Ruffy Silverstein beat Kit Fox (2-0) … Reggie Lisowski beat Roy Martin … Mitsu
Arakawa and Great Yamato beat Gordon Hessel and Chuck Molnar (2-0) … Dave Jons drew
Maurice Roberre (20:00) … Jack Carter beat Bob Wilson … Jon Arjon beat Mitch Lassen

Chicago, IL: Saturday, August 14, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Roy McClarity beat Chest Bernard … Hans Schmidt beat Carlos Freeman …
Reggie Lisowski and Duke DeMetri (sub for Art Neilson) beat Ed Cholak and Maurice Roberre …
Benito Gardini drew Dave Jons … Carl Engstrom beat Milt Olson … Mitch Lassen drew Don Clauss
… NOTE: On Tuesday, August 17, 1954, Rainbo promoter Leonard Schwartz had a heart attack.

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, August 18, 1954
(Rainbo Arena, att.-1,500) … (NWA World Heavyweight Champion) Lou Thesz beat Stu Gibson (2-
0) … Big Bill Miller beat Nick Roberts … Mitsu Arakawa beat Frank Hurley … Dutch Heffner and
Bobby Nelson beat Rudy Kay and Ivan Rasputin (2-1) … Dave Jons drew Tommy Martindale (15:00)
… Gordon Hessel beat Charlie Carr … promoter: Leonard Schwartz … NOTE: This marked the last
of Al Haft influence. (Fred Hornby note)

Chicago, IL: Saturday, August 21, 1954
(Marigold Arena, att.-1,555) … (USTM) Verne Gagne* beat Ted Germaine … Reggie Lisowski and
Art Neilson vs. Gypsy Joe and The Sheik of Araby (nc) … Billy Goelz beat Karl Meyer … Carl
Engstrom beat Duke DeMetri … Jack Carter beat Johnny Carlin … Dave Jons beat Roy Rogers …
NOTE: Nitsche and Tribune had Lisowski and Neilson winning by disqualification.

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, August 25, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Great Karpozilos beat Ivan Rasputin (cor) (14:12) … Art Neilson beat Maurice
Roberre … Benito Gardini beat Jerry Woods (2-1) … Mitsu Arakawa and Great Yamato beat Farmer
Jones and Dan O’Sullivan (2-1) … Billy Goelz beat Zack Malkov … Milt Olsen beat Mike Sipich …
NOTE: This was the last card televised at Rainbo.

Chicago, IL: Saturday, August 28, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Antonino Rocca beat Aldo Bogni … Yukon Eric beat Harry Lewis … Reggie
Lisowski and Art Neilson beat Dave Jons and Roy Rogers … Mitch Lassen beat Zack Malkov (dq) …
Maurice Roberre beat Don Clauss … Gordon Hessel beat Ned Taylor

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, September 1, 1954
(Rainbo Arena, att.-1,700) … Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson beat Dutch Hefner and Bobby Nelson
(2-1) … The Sheik of Araby beat Gordon Hessel (2-1) … Ronnie Etchison beat Benito Gardini …
David Jons drew Mighty Atlas … Gypsy Joe beat Milt Olsen … Juan Hernandez drew Tommy
Martindale

Chicago, IL: Saturday, September 4, 1954
(Marigold Arena, att.-1,555) … Pat O’Connor beat Fritz Wallick … Hans Schmidt beat Bill Brookshire
… Bobby Nelson drew Roy Rogers … Carl Engstrom and Tommy Martindale beat Bull Allen and
Dutch Hefner (dq) … Billy Goelz beat Jerry Woods … Gordon Hessel drew Milt Olsen … NOTE:
WAYLI and Nitsche had Nelson beat Rogers. I saw the top 5 bouts on this card. (Luce)

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, September 8, 1954
(Rainbo Arena, att.-1,200) … Gypsy Joe and The Sheik of Araby beat Gordon Hessel and Jerry
Woods … Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson beat Dutch Hefner and Bobby Nelson … Cowboy Carlson
beat Dave Jons … Billy Goelz beat Tommy Martindale … Great Karpozilos beat Great Yamato (dq)
… (results-Bob Nitsche) … NOTE: The Tribune had Gypsy Joe and The Sheik of Araby beat
Carlson and David Jones. This seems to be a newspaper error. WAYLI did not list this match.
However the other 4 bouts agreed with Nitsche.

Chicago, IL: Friday, September 10, 1954
(Marigold Arena,-att.-1,412) … Verne Gagne beat Gorgeous George (2-0) (first by dq) … Reggie
Lisowski and Art Neilson beat Gypsy Joe and The Sheik of Araby (2-1) … Billy Goelz drew Mighty
Atlas (30:00) … Ivan Rasputin beat Carl Engstrom … referee: Ed Whalen … NOTE: The gross was
$5,628.24 a new record.

Chicago, IL: Saturday, September 11, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Pat O’Connor beat Dutch Hefner … Roy McClarity beat Bobby Nelson … Tiger
Jack Moore drew Steve Novak … Mighty Atlas beat Jack Carter … Martino Angelo beat Dave Jons
… Great Balbo beat Pete Bartu … Mitch Lassen drew Leo Stern

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, September 15, 1954
(Rainbo Arena, att.-1,300) … Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson beat Juan Hernandez and Steve
Novak (2-1) … Billy Goelz drew The Sheik of Araby (1-1) … Gypsy Joe beat Jon Arjon … Great
Karpozilos beat Benito Gardini … Rudy Kay beat Johnny Gilbert … Cowboy Carlson beat Frank
Hurly … promoter: Leonard Schwartz … NOTE: This was the final Rainbo wrestling program shown
on WBKB (channel 7) and across the ABC Television Network.

Chicago, IL: Saturday, September 18, 1954
(Marigold Arena, att.-1,354) … Roy McClarity beat Wild Man Zim … Mitsu Arakawa and Great
Yamato beat Johnny Gilbert and Juan Hernandez … Cowboy Carlson beat Karl Meyer … Billy Goelz
drew Al Szasz … Greg Jarque beat Martino Angelo … Karl Grey beat Mitch Lassen

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, September 22, 1954
(Rainbo Arena, att.-1,500) … Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson beat Jack Carter and Gregory Jarque
(2-1) … Yukon Eric beat Rudy Kay … Gypsy Joe beat Billy Goelz to capture the Midwest Junior
Heavyweight Title (25:50) … Great Karpozilos beat Bill Allen … Great Yamato beat Benito Gardini …
Cowboy Carlson beat Karl Gray … promoter: Leonard Schwartz … NOTE: This marked the first
week without wrestling on WBKB (Channel 7) in a number of years.

Chicago, IL: Saturday, September 25, 1954
(Marigold Arena, att.-1,428) … Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson beat Joe Gordon and Mark Lewin …
Yukon Eric beat Tiger Jack Moore … Don Leo Jonathan beat Juan Hernandez … Greg Jarque beat
Rudy Kay … Bill Fletcher beat Karl Gray … Al Szasz beat Ned Taylor … Jack Carter beat Johnny
Silvi

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, September 29, 1954
(Rainbo Arena, att-1,400) … Billy Goelz beat Gypsy Joe to regain the Midwest Junior Heavyweight
Title (2-1) … (Judo Jacket Match) Mitsu Arakawa and Great Yamato beat Farmer Jones and Farmer
Don Marlin (2-1) … Cowboy Carlson beat Mighty Atlas … Karl Gray beat Milt Olsen … Al Szasz beat
Gregory Jarque

Chicago, IL: Saturday, October 2, 1954
(Marigold Arena, att.-1,485) … (USTM) Verne Gagne* beat Fritz Wallick … Tom Bradley beat Don
Leo Jonathan (dq) … Cowboy Carlson vs Manuel Cortez (ddq) … Gypsy Joe drew Greg Jarque …
Al Szasz beat Duke DeMetri … Bill Fletcher drew Gordon Hessel … Karl Meyer beat Mitch Lassen

Chicago, IL: Wednesday, October 6, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Midwest Junior Heavyweight Champion Billy Goelz beat Mighty Atlas (2-1, dq) …
Great Yamato beat Benito Gardini … Gordon Hessel and Al Szasz beat Karl Gray and Bobby Nelson
… Bill Fletcher drew Gregory Jarque … Milt Olsen beat Johnny Silvi

Chicago, IL: Saturday, October 9, 1954
(Marigold Arena, att.-1,450) … Antonino Rocca beat Buddy Lee … Hans Schmidt beat Roy Rogers
… Don Leo Jonathan beat Bill Brookshire … Billy Goelz and Al Szasz beat Duke DeMetri and Karl
Meyer … Great Karpozilos beat Ned Taylor … Karl Gray beat Mitch Lassen

Chicago, IL: Friday, October 15, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Chief Don Eagle beat Wild Bill Longson … Big Bill Miller beat Sonny Myers …
Great Karpozilos drew Ruffy Silverstein … Dick Hutton beat Lenny Montana … Stu Gibson and Billy
McDaniel beat Ralph Garibaldi and Joe Millich … (results-Bob Nitsche files) … NOTE: Promoter
Leonard Schwartz announced that he was canceling all weekly wrestling shows on Wednesday
nights from Rainbo. Instead he planned on staging two programs a month on Fridays. Incidentally,
this was the final Rainbo show. (Tim Hornbaker note)

Chicago, IL: Saturday, October 16, 1954
(Marigold Arena, att.-1,456) … Roy McClarity beat Johnny Heideman … Don Leo Jonathan beat Art
Staley … Cowboy Carlson beat Pete Bartu … Billy Goelz and Al Szasz beat Karl Gray and Paddy
Mack … Mitsu Arakawa beat Pete Vukovich … Gordon Hessel beat Karl Meyer

Chicago, IL: Friday, October 22, 1954
(International Amphitheater) … Pat O’Connor and Antonino Rocca beat Reggie Lisowski and Art
Neilson … Yukon Eric beat Hans Hermann … Great Karpozilos drew Great Yamato … Don Leo
Jonathan beat Jack Moore … Billy Goelz beat Benito Gardini

Chicago, IL: Saturday, October 23, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … (USTM) Verne Gagne* beat Bob McCune … Hans Schmidt beat Tom Bradley …
Farmer Jones and Dale Patrick beat Karl Meyer and Ned Taylor … Hans Hermann beat Harry Lewis
… (Judo Jacket Match) Mitsu Arakawa beat Al Szasz … Red Bastien beat Paddy Mack

Chicago, IL: Saturday, October 30, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Roy McClarity beat Aldo Bogni … Don Leo Jonathan beat Terry Foster (cor) …
Billy Goelz vs Red Bastien (both cor) … Great Balbo and Farmer Jones beat Pete Bartu and Karl
Gray … Gregory Jarque beat Zack Malkov … Rudy Kay beat Gordon Hessel … Bill Fletcher drew Al
Szasz

Chicago, IL: Saturday, November 6, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson beat Great Balbo and Cowboy Carlson …
Ronnie Etchison beat Maurice Roberre … Don Leo Jonathan beat Greg Jarque … Rudy Kay beat
Johnny Silvi … Billy Goelz beat Jack Carter … Bill Fletcher beat Bobby Nelson (dq) … Pancho
Aquillar drew Milt Olsen

Chicago, IL: Friday, November 12, 1954
(International Amphitheater, att.-7,325) … (USTM) Verne Gagne* beat Roy McClarity … Reggie
Lisowski and Art Neilson beat Ronnie Etchison and Pat O’Connor … Yukon Eric drew Don Leo
Jonathan … Great Yamato beat Cowboy Carlson … Great Karpozilos drew Bobby Nelson

Chicago, IL: Saturday, November 13, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Pat O’Connor beat Bozo Brown … Yukon Eric beat Red Vagnone … Ronnie
Etchison beat Ned Taylor … Mitsu Arakawa and Great Yamato beat Bill Fletcher and Johnny Kace
… Farmer Jones beat Dale Patrick … Great Karpozilos beat Pete Bartu

Chicago, IL: Saturday, November 20, 1954
(Marigold Arena, att.-1,550) … Pat O’Connor beat Stan Mayslack … Roy McClarity beat Jim Bernard
… Don Leo Jonathan beat Bill Cody … Mighty Atlas beat Al Szasz … Johnny Gilbert beat Paddy
Mack (dq) … Karl Gray beat Pancho Aquillar … Johnny Silvi beat Mitch Lassen … Joe Gordon drew
Dale Patrick

Chicago, IL: Saturday, November 27, 1954
(Marigold Arena, att.-1,558) … Antonino Rocca beat Pedro Escobar … Don Leo Jonathan beat Roy
Rogers … Hans Hermann beat Tom Bradley … Farmer Jones and Farmer Don Marlin beat Pete
Bartu and Duke DeMetri … Billy Goelz beat Paddy Mack … Johnny Silvi drew Jack Carter … Harry
Lewis beat Pete Vukavich

Chicago, IL: Saturday, December 4, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Pat O’Connor beat Angelo Martinelli … Hans Schmidt beat Jack Pfeiffer …
Yukon Eric beat Karl Karlsson … Mighty Atlas beat Zack Malkov … Ivan Rasputin beat Greg Jarque
… Great Karpozilos beat Karl Gray … Bill Fletcher drew Al Szasz … Leon Stern beat Johnny Silvi

Chicago, IL: Friday, December 10, 1954
(International Amphitheater, att.-7,112) … (USTM) Verne Gagne* beat Antonino Rocca … Yukon
Eric beat Don Leo Jonathan (dq) … Roy McClarity and Pat O’Connor beat Mighty Atlas and Hans
Hermann (dq) … Rudy Kay beat Farmer Jones … Billy Goelz beat Great Yamato …
Gross-$17,804.06

Chicago, IL: Saturday, December 11, 1954
(Marigold Arena, att.-1,456) … (USTM) Verne Gagne* beat Yukon Eric (dq) … Hans Hermann beat
Allan Stewart (as Stu Allen) … Seymour Koenig beat Jim Bernard … Mitsu Arakawa and Great
Yamato beat Greg Jarque and Al Szasz … Benito Gardini beat Don Clauss … Red Bastien drew Bill
Fletcher … Paddy Mack beat Dale Patrick … NOTE: Yukon Eric turned heel hitting Gagne over the
head with a chair in a nationally televised match. On December 22, Yukon Eric Holmback was
suspended for 30 days by the Illinois Athletic Commission. This ban went all over the country.

Chicago, IL: Saturday, December 18, 1954
(Marigold Arena, att.-900) … Antonino Rocca beat Chris Zaharias … Reggie Lisowski and Art
Neilson beat Harry Lewis and Zack Malkov … Mighty Atlas beat Jack Carter … Billy Goelz beat Karl
Gray … Johnny Silvi beat Pete Bartu (dq) … Great Karpozilos beat Duke DeMetri … Al Szasz beat
Paddy Mack (dq)

Chicago, IL: Saturday, December 25, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Pat O’Connor beat Rudy Kay … Hans Hermann beat Roy Rogers
… Seymour Koenig beat Jim Bernard … Zack Malkov drew Great Karpozilos … Mitsu Arakawa beat
Pedro Aguillar … Benito Gardini beat Red Bastien … Ivan Rasputin beat Jack Wilson … Mighty Atlas
beat Jon Arjon … NOTE: Both Nitsche and Hornby reports had this. The Chicago Tribune had
Malkov beat Karpozilos.

These results are from the records of Bob Nitsche
The WAYLI results of Fred Hornby
The Chicago Tribune research of Tim Hornbaker and Don Luce
Edited by Don Luce




Additional Research below done by Tim Hornbaker

Chicago, Illinois:  Wednesday, January 6, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Walter Palmer b. Chris Zaharias … Ray Eckert b. Guy Brunetti … Ed Cholak and
Joe Gordon drew … Chris Belkas and Roy Shire b. Billy Parks and Whitey Wahlberg … Joe Christie
b. Tony Steele … (promoter:  Leonard Schwartz)
Note:  No wrestling was on the television schedule.

Chicago, Illinois:  Saturday, January 9, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Antonino Rocca b. Clyde Steeves … Einar Olsen b. Bull Montana (DQ) … Ski-Hi
Lee b. Frank Hurley … Farmer Jones b. Tarzan Zimba … Gypsy Joe and The Sheik of Araby b.
Gordon Hessell and Jerry Woods … Ivan Rasputin b. Jack Carter … (promoter:  Fred Kohler)
Note:  This marked the first appearance of Rocca for Fred Kohler since before the war with Schwartz

Chicago, Illinois:  Wednesday, January 13, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Walter Palmer b. Joe Millich … Ray Eckert b. Jim Wright … George Bollas b. Bob
Weaver … Guy Brunetti b. Tony Steele … John Arjen and Merrill Lassen drew … Al Kashey b. Red
Kirkpatrick … (promoter:  Leonard Schwartz) … (broadcast on WBKB) (channel 7) (9:00-9:30) …
(commentator:  Wayne Griffin)

Chicago, Illinois:  Friday, January 15, 1954
(International Amphitheater) … Hans Schmidt b. Ray Gunkel (2/3) (third by CO) … Killer Kowalski b.
Yukon Eric (2/3) (Kowalski won the first fall in 10:55, Eric won the second in 8:06, Kowalski won the
third in 4:08) … Larry Chene and Billy Goelz b. Art Nielsen and The Sheik of Araby (2/3) … Sky-Hi
Lee b. Bobby Nelson (13:20) … Pat O’Connor b. Ivan Rasputin (16:52) … (promoter:  Fred Kohler)
… (9,629 fans) (sellout) … (gate:  $25,581.34) … (net:  $19,677.96)

Chicago, Illinois:  Saturday, January 16, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Antonino Rocca b. The Zebra Kid (George Bollas) (2-0) … Paul DeGalles b.
Mel Dove … Yukon Eric b. Zack Malkov … Ski-Hi Lee b. Jack Carter … Farmer Jones b. Duke
DeMetri … Gypsy Joe and Sheik of Araby b. Einar Olsen and Jerry Woods … (promoter:  Fred
Kohler)

Chicago, Illinois:  Wednesday, January 20, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Ray Eckert and Walter Palmer drew … Chest Bernard b. Dave Sims … Al Kashey
b. Chris Belkas … George Bollas b. Marco Polo … Guy Brunetti and Joe Pankora b. Verne Taft and
Chris Zaharias … (promoter:  Leonard Schwartz) … (broadcast on WBKB) (channel 7) (9:00-10:00)
… (commentator:  Wayne Griffin)

Chicago, Illinois:  Saturday, January 23, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Antonino Rocca b. Joe Christie … Reggie Lisowski and Art Nielson b. Bob
DeMarce and Jim Siskay … Jack Witzig b. Rocky Gallup … Farmer Jones b. Paul DeGalles …
Farmer Marlin b. Ned Taylor … Zack Malkov b. Don Claus … (promoter:  Fred Kohler)

Chicago, Illinois:  Wednesday, January 27, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Bobby Managoff b. Chest Bernard … Al Kashey b. Paul Orth … Guy Brunetti and
Joe Tangaro b. Joe Christie and Verne Taft … George Bollas b. Whitey Wahlberg … Gypsy Joe b.
Jack Carter

Chicago, Illinois:  Saturday, January 30, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Verne Gagne b. Firpo Zbyszko (2-0) … Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson b. Bull
Curry and Angelo Poffo … Duke DeMerti b. Mike Sipich … Farmer Marlin b. Gino Angelo … Frankie
Hart b. Pete Bartu … Killer Kowalski b. Matt Murphy … (promoter:  Fred Kohler)

Chicago, Illinois:  Wednesday, February 3, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Buddy Rogers b. Al Kashey … Gypsy Joe b. Milt Olsen … Farmer Marlin b.
Tarzan Zimba … George Bollas b. Mark Lewin … Balk Estes and Gordon Hessell b. Paul DeGalles
and Bull Montana … (promoter:  Leonard Schwartz)

Chicago, Illinois:  Saturday, February 6, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Verne Gagne b. Billy McDaniels (2-0) … Hans Schmidt b. Jack Wilson … World
Tag Team Champions Billy Darnell and Bill Melby b. Johnny Gates and Steve Szold … Rocky
Columbo and Zack Malkov drew … Frankie Hart b. Jack Carter … Bobby Nelson b. Joe Gordon …
(promoter:  Fred Kohler)

*Billy Darnell suffered a neck injury, possibly in Chicago, possibly in Union, New Jersey.

Chicago, Illinois:  Saturday, February 13, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson b. Bill Melby and Jack Witzig to capture the
World Tag Team Title (Witzig was a substitute for the injured Billy Darnell) … Pat O’Connor b.
Tarzan Hewitt (CO) … Rudy Kay b. Rocky Columbo … Gordon Hessell b. Duke DeMetri … Frankie
Hart and Einar Olsen drew … (promoter:  Fred Kohler)

Chicago, Illinois:  Wednesday, February 17, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Ray Eckert and Walter Palmer drew … Fritz Von Erich b. Bob DeMarce … Gypsy
Joe b. Gordon Hessell … Verne Taft b. Pete Managoff … The Smiths (Al and John Smith) b. Jack
Carter and Farmer Marlin … (promoter:  Leonard Schwartz)

Chicago, Illinois:  Saturday, February 20, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Ray Gunkel b. Pierre LaSalle … Killer Kowalski b. Danno O’Shocker … Ivan
Rasputin b. Ludwig Mann … Rocky Columbo and Rudy Kay drew … Zack Malkov b. Einar Olsen …
Billy Goelz b. Jimmy Nelson … (promoter:  Fred Kohler)

Chicago, Illinois:  Wednesday, February 24, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Ruffy Silverstein b. Pedro Godoy … Verne Taft b. Vic Holbrook … Farmer Jones
and Farmer Marlin b. Pete Bartu and Paul DeGalles … Bull Montana b. The Great Balbo … Milt
Olsen b. Jack Carter … Gypsy Joe b. Gordon Hessell … (promoter:  Leonard Schwartz)

Chicago, Illinois:  Saturday, February 27, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Killer Kowalski b. Pete Managoff … Billy Fox b. Zack Malkov (DQ) … Ivan
Rasputin b. Tony Steele … Hans Hermann b. Jack Dorfman … Rocky Columbo b. Tarzan Zimba …
Billy Goelz b. Rudy Kay … Frankie Hart b. Steve Nenoff (DQ) … (promoter:  Fred Kohler)

Chicago, Illinois:  Wednesday, March 3, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz b. Verne Taft … Art Bull and Fritz
Von Erich drew … The Great Yamato b. Balk Estes … Paul DeGalles b. Einar Olsen … The Great
Balbo b. Gordon Hessell … Farmer Jones b. Bull Montana … (promoter:  Leonard Schwartz)

Chicago, Illinois:  Friday, March 5, 1954
(International Amphitheater) … Antonino Rocca b. Killer Kowalski (2-0) (Rocca won the first fall by
disqualification and the second by countout) … Jack Witzig b. Sky-Hi Lee (DQ) … Reggie Lisowski
and Art Neilson b. Benito Gardini and Rudy Kay (2/3) … Larry Chene b. Gordon Hessell … The
Sheik of Araby b. Harry Lewis … (promoter:  Fred Kohler) … (8,531 fans) … (gate:  $23,564.15)

Chicago, Illinois:  Saturday, March 6, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Verne Gagne b. Jan Gotch … Frankie Hart b. Duke DeMetri … Hans Schmidt b.
Fritz Von Erich … Hans Hermann b. Maurice Roberre … George Drake b. Ned Taylor … Larry
Chene and Billy Goelz drew … (promoter:  Fred Kohler)

Chicago, Illinois:  March 10, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Bill Miller b. Ruffy Silverstein (2/3) (third by DQ) … The Great Yamato b. Don
Evers … The Great Balbo b. Gino Angelo (spinning toe hold) … Jack Carter b. Don Claus …
Farmer Jones and Farmer Don Marlin b. Paul DeGalles and Bull Montana (2-0) … Balk Estes b.
John Arjon … (promoter:  Leonard Schwartz) … (1,500 fans)

Chicago, Illinois:  March 13, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Antonino Rocca b. Pedro Escobar (2-0) … The Mighty Atlas b. Ludwig Mann …
Hans Hermann b. Carlos Freeman … Rocky Columbo and Billy Goelz drew … Gregory Jarque b.
Benito Gardini … George Drake b. Harry Lewis … (promoter:  Fred Kohler)

Chicago, Illinois:  March 17, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Bill Miller b. Pierre LaSalle (2/3) … Ruffy Silverstein b. Ted Germaine (cobra
twist) … Farmer Don Marlin b. Dutch Hefner (DQ) … The Great Yamato and Bull Montana b. Jack
Carter and The Great Balbo (2/3) … Milt Olsen b. Billy Nichols … John Arjon and Pete Bartu drew …
(promoter:  Leonard Schwartz) … (1,200 fans)

Chicago, Illinois:  March 20, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Bill Melby and Jack Witzig b. Reggie Lisowski and Art Nielsen (2/3) … Ray
Gunkel b. Zack Malkov … Hans Hermann b. Lou James … Benito Gardini b. Mitch Lassen … Art Bull
b. Duke Demetri … (promoter:  Fred Kohler) … (1,400 fans)

Chicago, Illinois:  March 27, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Pat O’Connor b. Friedrich Von Schacht (2-0) … Yukon Eric b. Mike Ryan …
Ivan Rasputin b. Marcel Lobet … Billy Goelz b. Art Bull … Frankie Hart b. Jack Del Ray (?) …
Johnny Gilbert b. Ned Taylor … (promoter:  Fred Kohler)

Chicago, Illinois:  March 31, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Bill Longson b. Danny O’Shocker (2/3) … The Great Yamato b. Gordon Hessell
(Hessell was unable to continue) (Hessell bled profusely) … The Great Balbo b. Paul DeGalles …
Jack Carter b. Pete Bartu (DQ) … George Drake and Zack Malkov drew … Farmer Jones and
Farmer Don Marlin b. Charles Carr and Tarzan Zimba … (promoter:  Leonard Schwartz)

Chicago, Illinois:  April 3, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Pat O’Connor b. Jim Wright (2-0) … The Mighty Atlas b. Charlie Carr … Bill
Melby and Jack Witzig b. Pete Bartu and Paul DeGalles … Billy Goelz b. Larry Chene … Mitsu
Arakawa b. Ned Taylor … (promoter:  Fred Kohler)

Chicago, Illinois:  April 7, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Bill Longson b. Pete Managoff (2/3) … The Great Yamato b. Al Warshawski (2-0)
… Bobby Nelson b. Stu Allen … Baron Arena b. Wally Steele … Jack Wilson b. Dutch Hefner …
George Drake b. Gordon Hessell … The Great Karpozilos b. Pete Bartu … (promoter:  Leonard
Schwartz) … (1,400 fans)

Chicago, Illinois:  April 10, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Pat O’Connor b. Bobby Lane (2-0) (11:45, 32 seconds) (piledriver) … Reggie
Lisowski and Art Nielsen b. Jack Carter and George Drake (2-0) … The Mighty Atlas b. Art Bull (12:
17) … Billy Hickson b. Doug Donan (11:33) … Johnny Gilbert b. Don Kirk (13:34) … Joe Gordon b.
Dale Patrick (13:04) … (promoter:  Fred Kohler) … (1,100 fans)

Chicago, Illinois:  April 17, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Antonino Rocca b. Les Ruffin (2-0) … Hans Schmidt b. Frank Thompson … Bob
Orton b. Harry Lewis … Rudy Kay b. Billy Hickson … Mitsu Arakawa b. Duke Demetri … Frankie Hart
b. George Drake … Jon Arjon b. Mike Sipich … (promoter:  Fred Kohler)

Chicago, Illinois:  April 21, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion Baron Michele Leone b. Jack Wilson
(18:12) … Andre Drapp b. Frankie Talaber (2-0) (9:18, 16:28) … The Great Kartozilos b. Pedro
Godoy (14:00) … The Great Yamato b. The Great Balbo (19:18) (jiu-jitsu match) … John Arjon and
George Drake drew (20:00) … (promoter:  Leonard Schwartz)

Chicago, Illinois:  April 24, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Yukon Eric b. Dutch Hefner (2-0) … Bob Orton b. “Tiger” Jack Moore
(backbreaker) … Rudy Kay b. George Drake … Gypsy Joe b. Frankie Hart … Billy Hickson b. Einar
Olsen … Mitsu Arakawa b. Milt Olsen … (promoter:  Fred Kohler)

Chicago, Illinois:  April 28, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Don Eagle b. Bob Geigel (2/3) (Eagle won the third fall in 38 seconds) … The
Great Karpozilos b. Verne Taft … The Great Yamato b. Jack Carter … Gordon Hessell and Milt
Olsen drew … Ed Cholak b. Tarzan Zimba … Guy Brunetti and Joe Tangaro b. Baron Arena and
Dutch Hefner … (promoter:  Leonard Schwartz) … (1,600 fans)


Chicago, Illinois:  Saturday, May 15, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … United States Heavyweight Champion Verne Gagne b. Hardy Kruskamp (2-0) …
Bill Melby b. Pete Bartu (16-seconds) … (promoter:  Fred Kohler)

Chicago, Illinois:  Wednesday, May 19, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Don Eagle b. Frank Marconi … Ed Cholak b. The Great Yamato (DQ) … Farmer
Jones and Farmer Marlin b. Baron Arena and Pete Bartu … Bob Weaver b. Jack Vansky … Jack
Carter b. Bob Olson … Dutch Hefner and Gordon Hessell drew … (promoter:  Leonard Schwartz)

Chicago, Illinois:  Saturday, May 22, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Bell Melby b. Sandor Fozo … The Mighty Atlas b. Billy Hickson … Jack Witzig b.
Mike Sipich … Billy Goelz b. Kostas DeValis … Rocky Columbo b. Cliff Thiede … Jon Arjon b. Ned
Taylor (DQ) … Don Claus and Dale Patrick drew … (promoter:  Fred Kohler)

Chicago, Illinois:  Saturday, June 5, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Reb Russell vs. Yukon Eric … Reggie Lisowski vs. Bill Melby … Sky-Hi Lee vs.
Jim Wright … Danny Loos vs. Ned Taylor … Rocky Columbo and Billy Goelz vs. Duke Demitri and
Zack Malkov … Benito Gardini vs. Billy Hickson … Ralph Bartleman vs. Jon Arjon … (promoter:  
Fred Kohler)

Peoria, Illinois:  June 7, 1954
(Main Street Arena) … The Mighty Atlas b. Sky-Hi Lee (DQ) … Gypsy Joe and The Sheik b. Billy
Hickson and Juan Hernandez … Benito Gardini b. Maurice Roberre

Chicago, Illinois:  Wednesday, June 9, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Don Eagle b. Chief Kit Fox … Lu Kim b. Vic Holbrook … Dutch Hefner and Bobby
Nelson b. Gordon Hessell and Maurice Roberre … The Great Karpozolis b. Bob DeMarce … Farmer
Marlin b. Zack Malkov … Juan Hernandez and Milton Olsen drew … (promoter:  Leonard Schwartz)

Chicago, Illinios:  Friday, June 11, 1954
(International Amphitheater) … United States Heavyweight Champion Verne Gagne b. Hans
Hermann (2-0) … Roy McClarity b. Bob Orton … Reggie Lisowski and Art Nielson wrestled Pat O’
Connor and Yukon Eric to a no contest … The Mighty Atlas b. Jack Witzig … Bill Melby b. The Sheik
of Araby … (promoter:  Fred Kohler)

Chicago, Illinois:  Saturday, June 12, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Gorgeous George b. Rocky Columbo … Roy McClarity b. Sandor Fozo …
Reggie Lisowski and Art Nielson b. Ralph Bartleman and Earl Fleming … Billy Goelz b. Benito
Gardini … Rudy Kay b. Jerry Woods … Mitsu Arakawa b. Jack Carter … (promoter:  Fred Kohler)

Peoria, Illinois:  June 14, 1954
(Main Street Arena) … Pat O’Connor b. Sky-Hi Lee … Rocky Columbo b. Benito Gardini … Juan
Hernandez and Rudy Kay drew

Peoria, Illinois:  June 21, 1954
(Main Street Arena) … Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson b. Hans Hermann and Hans Schmidt (DQ)
… Benito Gardini b. Jerry Woods … Juan Hernandez and Zack Malkov drew

Peoria, Illinois:  June 28, 1954
(Main Street Arena) … Farmer Jones and Farmer Don Marlin b. Benito Gardini and Rudy Kay …
Juan Hernandez and Tommy Martindale drew


Chicago, Illinois:  July 31, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Pat O’Connor b. Joe Christie (2-0) (10:11, 7:49) … Reggie Lisowski and Art
Nielsen b. Frank Hurley and Mike Ryan (15:00) … The Mighty Atlas b. Tommy Martindale (23:30) …
Zack Malkov b. Jerry Woods (Woods was injured and unable to continue shortly after winning the
first fall in 1:51) … Carl Engstrom and Dave Jons drew … Gordon Hessell b. Jim Walmsley (11:52)
… (promoter:  Fred Kohler)

Peoria, Illinois:  August 2, 1954
(Main Street Arena) … Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson wrestled Bill Melby and Pat O’Connor to a
draw … Farmer Jones b. Gypsy Joe (DQ) … Tommy Martindale b. David Jons

Chicago, Illinois:  August 4, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Don Eagle b. Joe Scarpello (2/3) (Scarpello was unable to continue after the
second fall) (Scarpello won the initial fall in 9:31, Eagle won the second in 8:44) … Reggie Lisowski
and Ivan Rasputin wrestled Dutch Hefner and Bobby Nelson to a draw (60:00) (1-1) … The Great
Yamato b. Juan Hernandez … The Great Karpozilos b. Balk Estes … Jon Arjon b. Mitsu Arakawa …
Mitch Lassen and Milt Olsen drew … (promoter:  Leonard Schwartz)

Chicago, Illinois:  August 6, 1954
(International Amphitheater) … Verne Gagne b. Roy McClarity (2/3) (Gagne won the first fall in 24:
13, McClarity won the second in 9:52, Gagne won the third fall with a sleeperhold in 6:21) … Pat O’
Connor and Yukon Eric b. Reggie Lisowski and Art Nielsen (2/3) (third by DQ) … Little Beaver b.
Tom Thumb (21:26) … Tommy Martindale b. Mitsu Arakawa (18:45) … Benito Gardini b. Al
Warshawsky (14:32) … (promoter:  Fred Kohler) … (9,891 fans) … (gate:  $26,310)

Peoria, Illinois:  August 9, 1954
(Main Street Arena) … Antonino Rocca b. Reggie Lisowski (Lisowski was a substitute for The Mighty
Atlas) … The Great Balbo and Gordon Hessell b. Dutch Hefner and Zack Malkov (DQ)

Chicago, Illinois:  Wednesday, August 11, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Ruffy Silverstein b. Chief Kit Fox (2-0) … Reggie Lisowski b. Ray Martin … Dave
Jons and Maurice Roberre drew (20:00) … Jack Carter b. Bob Wilson … John Arjohn b. Mitch
Lassen … Mitsu Arakawa and The Great Yamato b. Gordon Hessell and Chuck Mojar (2-0) …
(promoter:  Leonard Schwartz)
Note:  Fox was called a Comanche Indian.

Chicago, Illinois:  Saturday, August 14, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Chest Bernard vs. Roy McClarity … Carlos Freeman vs. Hans Schmidt …
Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson vs. Ed Cholak and Maurice Roberre … Benito Gardini vs. David
Jons … Carl Engstrom vs. Milt Olson … Duke DeMetri vs. Jim Walmsley

*On Tuesday, August 17, 1954, Leonard Schwartz had a heart attack.

Chicago, Illinois:  Wednesday, August 18, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz b. Stu Gibson (2-0) … Bill Miller b.
Nick Roberts … Gordon Hessell b. Charley Cave … Mitsu Arakawa b. Frank Hurley … Dutch Heffner
and Bobby Nelson b. Rudy Kay and Ivan Rasputin (2/3) … David Jons and Bob Martindale drew (15:
00) … (promoter:  Leonard Schwartz)
Notes:  Gibson was said to be a “former all-around athlete at the University of Kentucky, who passed
up pro football and boxing to perfect grunt-groan artistry.” He was 6’ and 235 pounds.  He “has lost
only four of his 400 grapples, according to his advance agents.”

Chicago, Illinois:  Saturday, August 21, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Verne Gagne vs. Ted Germaine … Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson vs. Gypsy
Joe and The Sheik of Araby … Billy Goelz vs. Karl Meyers … Duke DeMetri vs. Carl Engstrom …
(promoter:  Fred Kohler)
Notes:  Germaine was said to be from Montreal and stand 6’1”, and weighing 210 pounds.

Peoria, Illinois:  August 23, 1954
(Main Street Arena) … Roy McClarity and Yukon Eric wrestled Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson to a
draw … Mitsu Arakawa b. Jerry Woods … Jon Arjon b. Zack Malkov

Chicago, Illinois:  August 25, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … The Great Karpozilos b. Ivan Rasputin (CO) (14:12) … Benito Gardini b. Jerry
Woods (2/3) … Mitsu Arakawa and The Great Yamato b. Farmer Jones and Dan O’Sullivan (2/3) …
Art Nielsen b. Maurice Roberre … Billy Goelz b. Zack Malkov … Milt Olsen b. Mike Supich …
(promoter:  Leonard Schwartz)

Peoria, Illinois:  August 30, 1954
(Main Street Arena) … Reggie Lisowski and Art Neilson b. Gypsy Joe and The Sheik … Billy Goelz
b. Mitsu Arakawa (DQ) … David Jons b. Zack Malkov

Chicago, Illinois:  September 1, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Reggie Lisowski and Art Nielsen b. Dutch Hefner and Bobby Nelson (2/3) … The
Sheik of Araby b. Gordon Hessell (2-0) … Ronnie Etchison b. Benito Gardini … David Jons and The
Mighty Atlas drew … Gypsy Joe b. Milt Olsen … Juan Hernandez and Tommy Martindale drew …
(promoter:  Leonard Schwartz)

Chicago, Illinois:  Wednesday, September 8, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Gypsy Joe and Sheik of Araby b. Cowboy Carlson and David Jones (2/3) …
Cowboy Carlson b. David Jons … Billy Goelz b. Tommy Martindale … The Great Karpolizos b. The
Great Yamato (DQ) … Reggie Lisowski and Art Nielsen b. Dutch Hefner and Bobby Nelson …
(promoter:  Leonard Schwartz) … (1,200 fans) … (television on WBKB) (channel 7) (8:30-10:00 p.
m.)

Chicago, Illinois:  Friday, September 10, 1954
(Marigold Gardens) … Verne Gagne b. Gorgeous George (2-0) (Gagne won the first by DQ in 15:
15, Gagne won the second with a sleeperhold in 3:14) … Reggie Lisowski and Art Nielsen b. Gypsy
Joe and The Sheik of Araby (2/3) … Billy Goelz and The Mighty Atlas drew (30:00) … Ivan Rasputin
b. Carl Engstrom (19:10) … (promoter:  Fred Kohler) … (referee:  Ed Whalen) … (1,412 fans) …
(gate:  $5,628.24)

Chicago, Illinois:  September 15, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Reggie Lisowski and Art Nielsen b. Juan Hernandez and Steve Novak (2-0) …
Billy Goelz and The Sheik of Araby drew (1-1) … Gypsy Joe b. Jon Arjon (20:35) … The Great
Karpozilos b. Benito Gardini (9:30) … Rudy Kay b. Johnny Gilbert (12:50) … Cowboy Carlson b.
Frank Hurly (14:22) … (promoter:  Leonard Schwartz) … (1,300 fans) … (television on WBKB)
channel 7) (8:30-10:00 p.m.)
Note:  This was the final Rainbo wrestling program shown on WBKB (channel 7) and across the ABC
Television Network

Chicago, Illinois:  September 22, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Reggie Lisowski and Art Nielsen b. Jack Carter and Gregory Jarque (2/3) …
Yukon Eric b. Rudy Kay (10:12) … Gypsy Joe b. Billy Goelz to capture the Midwest Junior
Heavyweight Title (25:50) … The Great Karpozilos b. Bill Allen (9:10) … The Great Yamato b. Benito
Gardini … Cowboy Carlson b. Karl Gray … (promoter:  Leonard Schwartz) … (1,500 fans) … (no
wrestling on television)
Note:  This marked the first week without wrestling on WBKB (channel 7) in a number of years.

Chicago, Illinois:  September 29, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Billy Goelz b. Gypsy Joe to regain the Midwest Junior Heavyweight Title (2/3) …
Mitsu Arakawa and Great Yamato b. Farmer Jones and Farmer Don Marlin (2/3) (Judo Jacket
Match) … Cowboy Carlson b. The Mighty Atlas … Karl Gray b. Milt Olson … Al Szasz b. Gregory
Jarque … (promoter:  Leonard Schwartz) … (1,400 fans)

Chicago, Illinois:  October 6, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Midwest Junior Heavyweight Champion Billy Goelz b. The Mighty Atlas (2/3) (third
by DQ) … The Great Yamato b. Benito Gardini (9:55) … Gordon Hessell and Al Szasz b. Karl Gray
and Bobby Nelson … Bill Fletcher and Gregory Jarque drew … Milton Olsen b. Johnny Silvy (18:20)
… (promoter:  Leonard Schwartz)

Chicago, Illinois:  Friday, October 15, 1954
(Rainbo Arena) … Chief Don Eagle vs. Bill Longson (2/3) … Bill Miller vs. Sonny Myers … The
Great Karpozilos vs. Ruffy Silverstein … Dick Hutton vs. Lou Montana … Stu Gibson and Billy
McDaniels vs. Ralph Garibaldi and Joe Millich … (promoter:  Leonard Schwartz)
Note:  Schwartz announced that he was cancelling all weekly wrestling shows on Wednesday nights
from the Rainbo, instead he planned on staging two programs a month on Fridays.  Incidentally, this
was the final Rainbo show of the year.

Sterling, Illinois:  Wednesday, November 3, 1954
(Sterling Coliseum) … Verne Gagne vs. Hans Hermann … Farmer Jones and Farmer Marlin vs.
Benito Gardini and Carl Grey … Bill Fletcher vs. Gregory Jarque


Chicago, Illinois:  Saturday, December 25, 1954
(Marigold Arena) … Pat O’Connor b. Rudy Kay … Hans Hermann b. Roy Rogers … Zack Malkov b.
The Great Karpozilos … Mitsu Arakawa b. Pedro Aguillar … Benito Gardini b. Red Bastien … Ivan
Rasputin b. Jack Wilson … The Mighty Atlas b. Jon Arjon … (promoter:  Fred Kohler)


Research by Tim Hornbaker
April 26, 2011
Chicago Wrestling Results - 1954