Dallas Wrestling Results

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, January 9, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Leo Newman (2-0) … Texas Women’s Champion
Nell Stewart b. Millie Stafford (2-0) … Danny McShain b. Jack Kennedy (DQ) … Enrique
Torres b. Tom Rice … Danny Savich and Whitey Whittler drew … (promoter: Ed
McLemore)
Note: First wrestling program of 1951 in Dallas.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, January 16, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Mars Bennett b. Nell Stewart to capture the Texas Women’s Title
(2/3) … Danny McShain b. Jack Kennedy (2-0) … Duke Keomuka b. Rito Romero (dec.,
60:00) (1-1) … Don Evans and Danny Savich wrestled Ruffy Silverstein and Enrique
Torres to a draw (15:00) … Al Lovelock b. Tom Rice … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, January 23, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Rito Romero (Romero was unable to continue)
(Romero won three out of four falls in their finish match) (wrestler had to return after each
fall within 30 seconds) … Al Lovelock and Danny Savich wrestled to a no contest (match
was stopped due to blood loss of both wrestlers) … Danny McShain and Ruffy Silverstein
drew … Don Evans and Whitey Whittler b. Jesse James and Jack Kennedy (Evans pinned
James) … Jack Kilroy b. Bill Parks … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, January 30, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka and Danny Savich b. Al Lovelock and Rito Romero
to capture the Texas State Tag Team Title (2-0) (Romero was injured during the first fall,
leaving his partner alone the rest of the way) … Danny McShain b. Don Evans (DQ) …
Jack Kilroy and Ruffy Silverstein drew … Enrique Torres b. Whitey Whittler … Jack Curtis
b. Bill Parks … (promoter: Ed McLemore) … (benefit for the March of Dimes Polio Fund,
McLemore’s 12th anniversary show) (contributions reached more than $4,000, but bad
weather inhibited spectators)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, February 6, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Enrique Torres (2/3) … Danny McShain and Art
Nelson (reportedly his local debut) drew … Don Evans and Danny Savich b. Sterling
“Dizzy” Davis and Jack Kennedy … Al Lovelock and Ruffy Silverstein drew … Jack Kilroy
b. Jack Curtis … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, February 13, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz b. Duke Keomuka
(2-0) (first fall by DQ) … Texas Heavyweight Champion Danny Savich and Al Lovelock
drew (1-1) … Enrique Torres b. Leo Newman … Johnny Barend b. Jack Kilroy … Jack
Kennedy and Art Nelson b. Don Evans and Whitey Whittler … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, February 20, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Texas Tag Team Champions Duke Keomuka and Dan Savish b.
Rito Romero and Enrique Torres (2-0) (Romero was injured during the final fall, leaving
Torres to wrestle both opponents by himself) (Torres was counted out during the second
and final fall) … Dizzy Davis and Don Evans drew … Jack Kennedy b. Jack Kilroy
(decision) … Johnny Barend b. Jesse James (13:00) … Art Nelson b. Al Lovelock …
(promoter: Ed McLemore)
Note: Nelson was billed as the “touring Southern Heavyweight Champion.”

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, February 27, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Jack Kennedy and Enrique Torres b. Don Evans and Leo Newman
(Kennedy forced Evans to submit to an abdominal stretch) … Jack Kennedy b. The
Swedish Angel (2-0) (Kennedy was a substitute for Duke Keomuka) (prior to the
Keomuka-Angel match, Kennedy entered the ring to challenge Keomuka) (a brawl started
which prevented Duke from wrestling) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Danny
Savich b. Sterling “Dizzy” Davis (2/3) … Big Humphrey Pennyworth b. Jack Kilroy … Rito
Romero b. Art Nelson (DQ) … (promoter: Ed McLemore)
Note: The Dallas Morning News reported that Pennyworth was a “redheaded grappler
modeled after the Poe (sic) Palooka comic strip character.”

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, March 6, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Jack Kennedy (2/3) … Danny Savich b. Rito
Romero … Big Humphrey Pennyworth b. Don Evans (DQ) … Sterling “Dizzy” Davis and
Art Nelson drew … Al Lovelock b. Johnny Barend … Eduardo Perez b. George Curtis
(DQ) (Curtis was a substitute for Jack Kilroy) … (promoter: Ed McLemore) … (6,171 fans)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, March 13, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz b. Danny Savich (2-
0) (Thesz won the first fall with an airplane spin and the second fall by DQ) … Duke
Keomuka b. Enrique Torres (2/3) (“loser leaves town” match) … Big Humphrey and Jack
Kennedy b. Don Evans and Roy Graham … Sterling “Dizzy” Davis and Rito Romero drew
… Al Lovelock b. Eduardo Perez … (promtoer: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, March 27, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Ed “Tarzan” White (2/3) (White claimed
Keomuka used ether to win the final fall) (Deputy Wrestling Commissioner Bill Hughes
held up both wrestler’s purses) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Danny Savich b.
Big Humphrey Pennyworth (DQ) … Rito Romero b. Don Evans … Johnny Barend and Art
Nelson drew … Sterling “Dizzy” Davis b. Dr. Lee Grable … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, April 3, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Ed “Tarzan” White (2-0) (second fall by
countout) (Keomuka won two weeks worth of pay including the money going to both
wrestlers from last week) … “Wild” Red Berry and Big Humphrey b. Art Nelson and Danny
Savich … Jackie Nichols b. Sterling “Dizzy” Davis (decision) … Bob Ford b. Eduardo
Perez (decision) … Rito Romero b. Mickey Gold … (promoter: Ed McLemore)
Note: Reportedly, the “sixth straight capacity crowd.”

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, April 10, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Rito Romero … Big Humphrey Pennyworth b.
Danny Savich (referee stopped the match because of a cut on Savich’s head) … Jackie
Nichols b. Sterling “Dizzy” Davis (DQ) … “Wild” Red Berry b. Tarzan White … Al Lovelock
and Art Nelson drew … (promoter: Ed McLemore) … (referee: Leo Voss) … (physician:
Dr. Allen F. Rowson) … (capacity crowd)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, April 17, 1951
(The Sportatorium)

Note: Big Humphrey Pennyworth was billed as being from Spanish Lake, Missouri and
weighed 320 pounds.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, April 24, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Big Humphrey Pennyworth (2-0) (second fall by
countout) … Timothy Geohagen b. Art Nelson (Irish sleeper) (Geohagen was scheduled
to wrestle Danny Savich) … Ray Gunkel (local debut) b. Bob Ford … “Wild” Red Berry
and Sterling “Dizzy” Davis drew … Jackie Nichols b. Don Evans … (promoter: Ed
McLemore)
Note: Texas Heavyweight Champion Danny Savich was scheduled to wrestle Timothy
Geohagen, but instead fought with Sportatorium announcer George Preston. Savich was
thrown out of the building by police.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, May 1, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion Verne Gagne and Duke
Keomuka drew (90:00) (1-1) (Gagne won the first fall with a rolling leg split and Keomuka
wont eh second with a sleeperhold) … Timothy Geohagen b. Cyclone Anaya … Don
Evans and Danny Savich b. “Wild” Red Berry and Ray Gunkel (Savich pinned Berry) …
Rito Romero b. Al Lovelock … Emerson Cozier b. Tom Richardson (Negro match) …
(promoter: Ed McLemore)
Note: Reportedly, the tenth straight sellout at the Sportatorium. Keomuka was going for
his 17th victory out of 18 main events; the junior title had a weight limit of 200 pounds.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, May 8, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion Verne Gagne b. Rito
Romero (2-0) (non-title match) … Duke Keomuka b. Timothy Geohagen (2/3) … Sterling
“Dizzy” Davis and Ray Gunkel b. Art Nelson and Danny Savich … Big Humphrey
Pennyworth b. Angelo Cistoldi (DQ) … Cyclone Anaya and Al Lovelock drew …
(promoter: Ed McLemore)
Note: The program was going to be telecast on KRLD-TV beginning at 8:30.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, May 15, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Ray Gunkel b. Duke Keomuka (2-0) (two falls in less than five
minutes) (Keomuka’s streak ended) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Danny Savich
b. Big Humphrey (2/3) (“loser leaves town” match) … Cyclone Anaya and Rito Romero b.
Angelo Cistoldi and Art Nelson … Al Lovelock and “Wild” Red Berry drew … Willie Love b.
Tom Richardson (Negro match) … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas Texas: Tuesday, May 22, 1951
(Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka beat Danny Savich (2-0) … (Ladies) Mildred Burke beat
Mae Young (2-0, dq) … Tim Geohagen drew Ray Gunkel (15:00) … Ellis Bashara &
Angelo Cistoldi beat Cyclone Anaya & Rito Romero … Al Lovelock beat Don Evans …
NOTE: Ed McLemore's show purportedly attracted a "capacity" crowd … Savich's Texas
heavyweight title apparently was not at stake. Research by J Michael Kenyon

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, May 29, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz b. Duke Keomuka
(2/3) (Keomuka was unable to continue after the second fall) … Women’s World
Champion Mildred Burke b. Ann LaVerne (2-0) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion
Danny Savich and Ray Gunkel drew (1-1) … Miguel Guzman and Rito Romero b. Ellis
Bashara and Angelo Cistoldi (Guzman pinned Cistoldi) … Carlos Moreno and Sonny
Myers drew … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, June 5, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Danny Savich b. Ray Gunkel
(2/3) (Savich pummeled Duke Keomuka before the match) … Miguel Guzman b. Wayne
Martin (2/3) (Guzman was scheduled to wrestle Keomuka, who was unable to compete
after being beaten by Savich) … Wayne Martin (local debut) b. Rito Romero … Timothy
Geohagen and Bob Orton drew (15:00) … The Golden Superman b. Don Evans …
(promoter: Ed McLemore)

*Danny Savich lost the Texas State Heavyweight Title.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, June 12, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Danny Savich (2/3) (“loser leaves town” match)
… Miguel Guzman b. Wayne Martin (no disqualification, no time-limit match) … Sonny
Myers b. Bob Orton … Timothy Geohagen and Ray Gunkel drew … Al Lovelock b. Matt
Murphy … (promoter: Ed McLemore) … (“record” crowd in attendance)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, June 19, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Wayne Martin … Al Lovelock and Sonny Myers
b. Miguel Guzman and Rito Romero to capture the vacant Texas State Tag Team Title
(2/3) … Timothy Geohagen b. The Golden Superman … Bob Orton b. Art Nelson …
Tommy Phelps b. Joe Cassius … (promoter: Ed McLemore)
Notes: The Dallas Morning News reported on June 20, 1951: “The semiwindup tandem,
scheduled for one fall, was altered to a 2-our-of-3-falls match and the Texas mat
commission agreed to recognize the winners as the new possessors of the recently
vacated taem trophy.” Incidentally, the paper did not incidate who Lovelock and Myers
beat to capture the title; Wayne Martin, reportedly, “recently” came out of retirement.

Dallas, Texas, Tuesday, June 26, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion Verne Gagne b. Miguel
Guzman (2/3) … Ellis Bashara and “Killer” Karl Davis b. Timothy Geohagen and Ray
Gunkel … Duke Keomuka and Bob Orton drew … Buck Riley b. Tommy Phelps (local
debut) … Rito Romero b. Hal Keene (decision) … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, July 3, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Jack Kennedy b. Duke Keomuka … Miguel Guzman and Rito
Romero b. Ellis Bashara and “Killer” Karl Davis … Dick Raines b. Bob Orton … Ray
Gunkel and Carlos Moreno drew … Buck Riley b. Johnny Henning … (promoter: Ed
McLemore)
Note: Riley was an “ex-cowboy from Muleshoe, Texas.”

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, July 10, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Danny McShain b. Dick Raines (2/3) … Duke Keomuka b. “Killer”
Karl Davis … Roy Graham, Jack Kennedy and Dick Raines b. Ellis Bashara, Sterling
“Dizzy” Davis and Danny McShain … Jack Kennedy b. Ellis Bashara (DQ) … Pat O’
Connor b. Roy Graham (decision) … Wayne Martin and Carlos Moreno drew (15:00) …
(promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, July 17, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Danny McShain (2-0) (second by DQ) (“loser
leaves town” match) (McShain threw Keomuka and the referee over the top rope during
the second fall unintentionally, but earned a disqualification) … Jack Kennedy b. The
Elephant Boy (Boy was accompanied by Slave Girl Moolah) … Bobby Managoff b. “Killer”
Karl Davis … Ray Gunkel and Pat O’Connor b. Dick Raines and Babe Zaharias (decision)
… Carlos Moreno b. Ellis Bashara … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, July 24, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Elimination Tournament … Bob Orton b. Wayne Martin … Dick
Raines b. Pat O’Connor … Bobby Managoff b. Duke Keomuka (decision) … Babe
Zaharias b. Jack Kennedy (countout) … Ray Gunkel b. Jerry Meeker … Danny McShain
b. Carlos Moreno … Bobby Managoff b. Babe Zaharias … Dick Raines b. Bob Orton …
Ray Gunkel b. Danny McShain (DQ) … Bobby Managoff b. Ray Gunkel … Bobby
Managoff b. Dick Raines to win the tournament and earn a bout with NWA World
Champion Lou Thesz … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, July 31, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … NWA World Heavyweight Champoin Lou Thesz b. Bobby Managoff
… Gloria Barattini b. Mae Young … Jack Kennedy b. “Killer” Karl Davis … Danny McShain
b. Carlos Moreno … Sonny Myers b. Timothy Geohagen … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, August 7, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Jack Kennedy (2/3) … Danny McShain and
Sonny Myers drew (60:00) (1-1) … Carlos Moreno b. Wayne Martin … Pat O’Connor b.
Hal Keene … Jerry Meeker b. Matt Murphy … Johnny Cobb and Emerson Cozier b. Bud
Richardson and Martin Wilson (Negro tag team match) … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, August 14, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Danny McShain (2/3) (third fall by countout) (no
holds barred match) … Little Beaver and Sonny Boy Cassidy b. Pancho the Bull and Sky
Low Low … Ray Gunkel and Sonny Myers drew (15:00) … Carlos Moreno b. Timothy
Geohagen (forfeit) (Geohagen suffered a back injury during the second fall) … Ellis
Bashara b. Bob Orton … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, August 21, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Bobby Managoff b. Duke Keomuka (2/3) (third fall by DQ) …
Danny McShain and Rito Romero drew (20:00) … Alberto Correl and Karol Krauser drew
… Ray Gunkel failed to beat both Ellis Bashara and Sonny Myers (Gunkel pinned
Bashara but was beaten by Myers) … Pat O’Connor b. Gene DuBuque … (promoter: Ed
McLemore) … (referee: Leo Voss)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, August 28, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Ray Gunkel vs. Sonny Myers … Danny McShain vs. Rito Romero
… Cora Combs vs. Mae Weston … Duke Keomuka vs. Pat O’Connor (non-title match) …
Karol Krauser vs. Ned Taylor … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, September 4, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Ray Gunkel b. Duke Keomuka to capture the Texas State
Heavyweight Title (2-0) (second fall by DQ) … Danny McShain and Danny Savich
wrestled to a no contest (match was stopped due to cuts suffered by both wrestlers) …
Rito Romero b. Karol Krauser (DQ) … Pat Fraley and Sonny Myers drew … Ellis Bashara
b. Pat O’Connor … Gene Allbert and Joe Marlowe drew (both men were making their
professional debut) … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, September 11, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Danny McShain vs. Danny Savich (2/3) (no disqualification, no
time-limit match) … Ray Gunkel vs. Rito Romero (non-title match) … Pat Fraley vs. Duke
Keomuka … Jack Kennedy vs. Sonny Myers … Gene Allbert vs. Alberto Corral …
(promoter: Ed McLemore)
Note: Gene Allbert was 22 years old and from Denton, Texas.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, September 18, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Danny Savich b. Duke Keomuka (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … Danny
McShain b. Little Beaver and Sonny Boy Cassidy … Ellis Bashara b. Pancho the Bull and
Sky Low Low … Sonny Myers b. Jack Kennedy … Rito Romero b. Pat Fraley (decision) …
(promoter: Ed McLemore) … (referee: Leo Voss)
Note: According to the Dallas Morning News, two of the midgets were hurt in the two-on-
one bouts with Bashara and McShain and a tag team affair against Bashara and McShain
was cancelled.

Dallas, Texas, Tuesday, September 25, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Danny Savich b. Danny McShain (2/3) (“loser leaves town” match)
… Duke Keomuka b. Sonny Myers (decision) … Gloria Barratini b. Mae Weston … Pat
Fraley and Al Lovelock drew … Ellis Bashara b. Carlos Moreno … (promoter: Ed
McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, October 2, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Ray Gunkel and Duke
Keomuka were both counted out during the third fall (1-1) (Keomuka was a substitute for
Miguel Guzman, who was sick) …Sonny Myers b. Bob Gurley (2/3) … The Zahariases
(Babe and Chris Zaharias) wrestled Ellis Bashara and Danny Savich to a draw … Jack
Kennedy b. Al Lovelock (abdominal stretch) … Joe Cassius b. Johnny Shaw …
(promoter: Ed McLemore)
Note: Cassius was billed as an “SMU student” by the Dallas Morning News.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, October 9, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion Verne Gagne b. Ray
Gunkel (2-0) (first fall by DQ) … Miguel Guzman and Duke Keomuka drew (1-1) … Fred
Atkins b. Pat Fraley … Jack Kennedy b. Sonny Myers (abdominal stretch) … The
Zahariases (Babe and Chris Zaharias) b. Ellis Bashara and Danny Savich to capture the
Texas Tag Team Title … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, October 16, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz and NWA World
Junior Heavyweight Champion Verne Gagne were both counted out in the third fall (1-1)
… Jack Kennedy b. Duke Keomuka … Miguel Guzman and Rito Romero b. The
Zahariases (Babe and Chris Zaharias) to capture the Texas State Tag Team Title …
Texas Women’s Champion Nell Stewart b. Gloria Baratinni … Fred Atkins and Big
Humphrey drew … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, October 23, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Miguel Guzman b. Ray Gunkel to capture the Texas State
Heavyweight Title (2/3) … Sonny Myers b. Jack Kennedy (“loser leaves town” match)
(Kennedy was unable to continue due to an arm injury) … Nell Stewart b. Joyce Ford (a
Dallas resident in her local debut) … Fred Atkis and Ellis Bashara b. The Zahariases
(Babe and Chris Zaharias) … Big Humphrey and Karol Krauser drew … (promoter: Ed
McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, October 30, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Miguel Guzman b. Fred Atkins
(1-0) (Guzman won the only fall by disqualification) (the ringside physician would not allow
Guzman to continue) … Danny Savich b. Sonny Myers … Ivan Kalmikoff b. Karol Krauser
(bearhug) … Al Szasz and Rudy Valentino drew … Big Humphrey b. Bill Steddum …
(promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, November 6, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Danny Savich b. Miguel Guzman (2/3) (Savich had it out with Hans
Schnabel before the match, leading him to lose the initial fall) … Fred Atkins and Ray
Gunkel drew … The Schnabel Brothers (Fritz and Hans Schnabel) b. Big Humphrey
Pennyworth and Rito Romero (Hans pinned Humphrey) … Ivan Kalmikoff b. Al Szasz …
Emerson Cozier b. Willie Love (Negro match) … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, November 13, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … The Mighty Atlas b. Fred Atkins (2/3) … Danny Savich b. Al
Williams … Ethel Johnson b. Babs Wingo … The Schnabel Brothers (Fritz and Hans
Schnabel) b. Miguel Guzman and Rito Romero … Ivan Kalmikoff b. Leo Newman (DQ) …
(promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, November 20, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion The Mighty Atlas b. Miguel
Guzman (1-0) (Guzman was unable to continue) (Danny McShain was originally
scheduled to wrestle The Mighty Atlas, but captured the NWA World Junior Heavyweight
Title on Monday in Memphis from Verne Gagne) … Negro Texas State Title Tournament
… Winners: Emerson Cozier, Willie Love, W.C. Norman, Tom Richardson … Ivan
Kalmikoff vs. Don Lewin (Lewin replaced Miguel Guzman, who was bumped up to the main
event) … Danny Savich vs. Hans Schnabel … Leo Newman vs. Rito Romero …
(promoter: Ed McLemore)
Notes: On November 20, 1951, the Dallas Morning News reported that McShane wasn’t
competing because he was “injured in a mat mishap over the week end,” not because he
captured the NWA Junior Title; Atlas won the Texas Title from Miguel Guzman on Friday
in Houston and was knifed by a fan after the bout; Lewin reportedly served in the Marine
Corps for five years and saw action at Iwo Jima and Saipan.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, November 27, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion Danny McShain b.
Danny Savich (2/3) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion The Mighty Atlas b. Rito
Romero (2/3) (third fall by forfeit) … Ivan Kalmikoff and Hans Schnabel drew … Al
Lovelock b. Fritz Schnabel … Rudy Valentino b. Al Szasz … (promoter: Ed McLemore) …
(referee: Leo Voss)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, December 4, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … The Mighty Atlas b. NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion
Danny McShain (2/3) (third fall by DQ when McShain used a chair) (non-title match) …
Fred Atkins b. Al Lovelock … Rito Romero b. Rudy Valentino … Hans Schnabel b. Donn
Lewin … Ivan Kalmikoff and Danny Savich drew … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, December 11, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … Wladek “Killer” Kowalski b. Fred Aktins (2/3) … Ivan Kalmikoff and
The Mighty Atlas b. The Schnabel Brothers (Fritz and Hans Schnabel) … Danny Savich
and Al Szasz drew (15:00) … Rito Romero b. Marvin Jones … Gene Allbert b. Johnny
Shaw … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, December 18, 1951
(The Sportatorium) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz b. Wladek “Killer”
Kowalski (2/3) … Duke Keomuka b. The Mighty Atlas to capture the Texas State
Heavyweight Title (2-0) … Wladek Kowalski won a 5-man Wrestle Royal to earn the title
shot in the main event (number eliminated: Roy Graham, Fred Atkins, Ivan Kalmikoff,
Hans Schnabel) … Fred Atkins b. Roy Graham … Ivan Kalmikoff b. Hans Schnabel … Al
Szasz b. Fritz Schnabel … (promoter: Ed McLemore)
Note: Next show on January 8.

Research by Tim Hornbaker, J Michael Kenyon
February 15, 2012

Dallas Wrestling Results - 1951