Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, January 4, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Wayne Martin b. Jack O’Reilly (2/3) (Martin won the first fall in 15-
minutes, O’Reilly won the second in 17-minutes, Martin won the third) (Martin earned a
shot at Dory Funk Sr.’s Southwest Junior Title) … Bill Sledge b. Mike London (DQ) … Billy
Weidner b. Bob Cummings (2/3) (Weidner won the first fall in 22-minutes, Cummings won
the second in 6-minutes, Weidner won the third in 7-minutes) … (promoter:  Dory Detton)
… (referee:  Pat O’Dowdy)
Notes:  In Lubbock, during the month of December 1950, O’Reilly was slashed with a knife
by a fan and needed stitches to close the wound.  He was from Melbourne, Australia.  
Cummings was said to be from Seaside, Oregon and Weidner was from Amarillo.  Sledge
was from Thornton and London from El Paso.

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, January 11, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Dory Funk Sr., Bill Sledge and Billy Weidner b. Al Getz, Ivan Kalmikoff
and Jack O’Reilly (2/3) (Kalmikoff b. Sledge for the first fall, Funk b. O’Reilly for the
second, Funk, Sledge and Weidner were declared victors by the referee) … Gust Johnson
and Dutch Schultz drew (30:00) … Bob DeMarce b. George Thomas (14:00) … (promoter:  
Dory Detton) … (referees:  Gene Detton, Vic Weber) … (2,186 fans)
Notes:  Johnsonw as said to be from Seattle, DeMarce from Green Bay and Thomas from
Odessa.  Schultz was from Houston.  Getz was said to be the first man to hold the
Southwest Junior Title and hadn’t wrestled in Amarillo since November 1949.  Thomas was
a “Longhorn League baseball umpire.”

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, January 18, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Billy Weidner b. Ivan Kalmikoff (2/3) (Kalmikoff won the first fall in 12:00,
Weidner won the second, Weidner won the third by disqualification) … Dutch Schultz b. Bill
Sledge (27:00) … Gust Johnson and Jack O’Reilly drew (20:00) … Bob Cummings and Al
Getz drew … (promoter:  Dory Detton) … (referee:  Gene Detton) … (1,894 fans)

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, January 25, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Tournament for match against World Junior Champion Verne Gagne …
Dutch Schultz b. Al Getz (The wrestlers fought amidst the fans in the audience in a violent
fight) … Billy Weidner b. Jack O’Reilly (DQ) (45:00) (The referee was going to call the
match a draw when O’Reilly punched him, forcing Trudell to give Weidner the match by
DQ) … Ivan Kalmikoff b. Gust Johnson (22:00) … Dory Funk Sr. b. Bill Sledge (25:00) …
(promoter:  Dory Detton) … (referee:  Benny Trudell) … (2,027 fans)
Note:  Funk was billed as being from Tascosa and Kalmikoff from Rostov, Russia.

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, February 1, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Tournament for match against World Junior Champion Verne Gagne …
Dory Funk Sr. b. Billy Weidner (2/3) (Funk won the first fall in 9-minutes, Weidner won the
second in 12-minutes, Funk won the third in 29-minutes) … Ivan Kalmikoff b. Dutch Schultz
(2/3) (Schultz won the first fall in 8-minutes, Kalmikoff won the second and third) … Whitey
Walberg b. Jack O’Reilly (21:00) … Al Getz and Gust Johnson drew (20:00) … (promoter:  
Dory Detton) … (referees:  Pat O’Dowdy, Vic Weber) … (1,373 fans)
Notes:  Johnson was a “veteran defensive master.”  Weber was from San Angelo.

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, February 8, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Tournament Final for match against World Junior Champion Verne
Gagne … Dory Funk Sr. b. Ivan Kalmikoff to earn the match next week (2/3) (Kalmikoff won
the first fall in 20-minutes, Funk won the second in 4:00, Funk won the third) (A violent and
bloody match that saw the ringside press table destroyed) … Whitey Walberg and Billy
Weidner b. Jack O’Reilly and Dutch Schultz … Gust Johnson and Pat O’Dowdy drew (20:
00) … (promoter:  Dory Detton) … (referee:  George Bruckman) … (3,241 fans)

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, February 15, 1951
(Sports Arena) … NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion Verne Gagne b. Southwest
Junior Heavyweight Champion Dory Funk Sr. (2/3) (Gagne won the first fall in 24:00, Funk
won the second with his spinning toe hold in 19:00, Gagne won the third by countout) …
Whitey Walberg and Billy Weidner b. Ivan Kalmikoff and Dutch Schultz (26:00) … Ted Bell
and Gust Johnson drew (20:00) … (promoter:  Dory Detton) … (referee:  Sam Menacker)
(El Paso promoter) … (3,603 fans)

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, February 22, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Whitey Walberg b. Ivan Kalmikoff (2/3) (Kalmikoff won the first fall in 10:
00, Walberg won the second in 8:00, Walberg won the third fall in 13:00) … Billy Weidner
b. Dutch Schultz (dec., 30:00) … Leo Wallick b. Gust Johnson (piledriver) … Billy Parks b.
Ted Bell … (promoter:  Dory Detton) … (referees:  Al Getz, Vic Weber)
Notes:  Bell was said to be from Lynn, Massachusetts and Wallick from Tacoma,
Washington.

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, March 1, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Ivan Kalmikoff b. Whitey Walberg to earn a future title match against
Dory Funk (2/3) (Walberg won the first fall in 11-minutes, Kalmikoff won the second in 13:
00, Kalmikoff won the third in 22:00) … Leo Wallick b. Billy Weidner (27:00) … Gust
Johnson and Billy Parks wrestled Al Getz and Dutch Schultz to a draw (20:00) …
(promoter:  Dory Detton) … (1,824 fans)

Lubbock, Texas:  Wednesday, March 7, 1951
( ) … Southwestern States Junior Heavyweight Champion Dory Funk Sr. wrestled Ivan
Kalmikoff to a no contest (41:00) (1-1) (Kalmikoff won the first fall in 15:00, Funk won the
second in 13:00, no contest) … (referee:  Al Getz)

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, March 8, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Ivan Kalmikoff b. Southwest Junior Heavyweight Champion Dory Funk
Sr. (1-0) (Kalmikoff won the only fall in 39:00) (60:00) (non-title match) … Leo Wallick b.
Whitey Walberg (31:00) … Gust Johnson b. George Bruckman … Johnny James and Pat
O’Dowdy drew (20:00) … (promoter:  Dory Detton) … (referee:  Ted Bell) … (2,706 fans)

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, March 15, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Ivan Kalmikoff b. Leo Wallick (2/3) (third fall by DQ when Wallick
piledrove him on the hardwood floor) … Al Getz and Billy Weidner drew (1-1) … Ted Bell
and Johnny James b. Pat O’Dowdy and Jack Pappenheim … (promoter:  Dory Detton) …
(referee:  Gust Johnson) … (1,824 fans)
Notes:  Pappenheim was from Troutvale, Oregon and James was billed as being from
Houston.  Another report said Wallick was from Detroit.

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, March 22, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Ivan Kalmikoff b. Leo Wallick (2/3) … Ted Bell b. Sailor Jack
Pappenheim (DQ ) (23:00) … Al Getz b. Johnny James (23:00) … George Bruckman and
Rudy Lyons drew (15:00) … (promoter:  Dory Detton) … (referee:  Vic Weber) … (1,825
fans)
Note:  Lyons was from Beaumount.

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, March 29, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Ivan Kalmikoff b. Ted Bell and earned a title match with Dory Funk (2/3)
… Leo Wallick b. Jack Pappenheim (26:00) … Bill Sledge b. George Thomas (11:00) …
(promoter:  Dory Detton)

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, April 5, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Southwest Junior Heavyweight Champion Dory Funk Sr. b. Ivan
Kalmikoff (2/3) (the match involved flying chairs and was extremely violent) … Leo Wallick
b. Al Getz (piledriver) … Chief Vest and Billy Weidner drew (20:00) … Gust Johnson b.
George Thomas … (promoter:  Dory Detton) … (referee:  Vic Weber) … (3,476 fans)

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, April 12, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Texas State Junior Heavyweight Champion Wayne Martin b. Leo Wallick
(2/3) (Martin was billed as both the Texas and Oklahoma State Junior Heavyweight
Champion) … Whitey Walberg b. Dutch Schultz (15:00) … Gust Johnson and Benny
Trudell drew (20:00) … Billy Weidner b. Bill Sledge (11:00) … (promoter:  Dory Detton) …
(1,974 fans)

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, April 19, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Southwest Junior Heavyweight Champion Dory Funk Sr. b. Texas and
Oklahoma State Junior Heavyweight Champion Wayne Martin (2/3) (third fall when Martin
was unable to continue) … Benny Trudell and Leo Wallick wrestled Gust Johnson and
Whitey Walberg to a draw (1-1) … Al Getz b. Johnny James (15:30) … (promoter:  Dory
Detton) … (3,609 fans) (local record)

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, April 26, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Whitey Walberg b. Jack O’Reilly in the finals of the seven-man Wrestle
Royal (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … Bill Parks b. Dutch Schultz (2/3) … Wrestle Royal.  Number
of Elimination:  Leo Wallick, Billy Weidner, Al Getz, Parks, Schultz … (promoter:  Dory
Detton) … (referee:  Gust Johnson) … (1,200+ fans)

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, May 3, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Whitey Walberg b. Frankie Hill Murdock (2/3) (Murdock used a
sleeperhold to put Walberg out, but didn’t release the hold and was disqualified) (Walberg
was carried to the dressing room) … Bill Parks and Billy Weidner b. Jack O’Reilly and Jack
Pappenheim (2/3) … Al Getz and Benny Trudell drew (20:00) … (promoter:  Dory Detton)
… (referee:  Vic Weber)

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, May 10, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Ray “Big Train” Clements b. Whitey Walberg (2/3) … Frankie Hill
Murdock b. Leo Wallick (1-0) (45:00) (after the match, Wallick chased Murdock to the
dressing room) … Gust Johnson and Bill Parks wrestled Jack Carter and Jack O’Reilly to a
draw (20:00) … (promoter:  Dory Detton)
Notes:  Clements was from Lubbock and Murdock was said to be from Waxahachie.

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, May 17, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Ivan Kalmikoff b. Frankie Hill Murdock (2/3) (the final fall was bloody, with
Murdock smashing a chair on Kalmikoff’s head) (Kalmikoff suffered a four inch cut in his
forehead and a “possible skull fracture”) … Bill Parks and Leo Wallick wrestled Jack Carter
and Jack O’Reilly to a wild no contest … Balk Estes and George Overhuls drew …
(promoter:  Dory Detton) … (referees:  Pat O’Dowdy, Vic Weber)
Note:  Overhuls was from Amarillo.

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, May 24, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Frankie Hill Murdock b. Ivan Kalmikoff (1-0) (Kalmikoff was bleeding
early in the match, and a lot of action, as usual, took place outside the ring ropes)
(Murdock used his sleeperhold to put Kalmikoff to sleep to win the first fall) (Kalmikoff
decided not to continue the match when he revived in the dressing room) … George Curtis
and Leo Wallick drew (20:00) … George Overhuls and Jack O’Reilly drew (20:00) … Billy
Hickson and Rolando Vera drew … Balk Estes b. Bill Parks … (promoter:  Dory Detton)
Notes:  Vera was a newcomer from Monterrey, Mexico.

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, May 31, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Frankie Hill Murdock b. Wayne Martin (2/3) … George Curtis, Balk Estes
and George Overhuls b. Jack Carter, Jack O’Reilly and Leo Wallick (2/3) … Rolando Vera
b. Benny Trudell (using a “new version of the abdominal stretch”) … (promoter:  Dory
Detton) … (referee:  Paul Mischler)

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, June 7, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Ray Clements and Frankie Hill Murdock wrestled a no contest (the
wrestlers began battling before the first fall was scored, earning a no contest decision from
the referee) (fans nearly rioted from the action, rushing the ring and standing on chairs)
(12:00) (the referee, Weidner, was tossed from the ring.  When the promoter Detton
attempted to quiet the brawl, he too was brutalized) (wrestler Jack O’Reilly, referee Billy
McEuin and amateur boxer Alex Perez also attempted to stop the brawl) … George Curtis
b. Ivan Kalmikoff (DQ) (Kalmikoff threw his opponent over the top rope) … Jack O’Reilly
and Leo Wallick drew (20:00) … George Overhuls b. Jack Carter (16:00) … Balk Estes
and Rolando Vera drew (15:00) (Vera was “impressive with his lightning moves and clever
holds”) … (promoter:  Dory Detton) … (referee:  Billy McEuin, Billy Weidner) … (2,227 fans)

Lubbock, Texas:  Wednesday, June 13, 1951
( ) … Frankie Hill Murdock b. Dory Funk Sr. to capture the Southwest Junior Heavyweight
Title

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, June 14, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Frankie Hill Murdock b. Ray Clements (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … George
Curtis b. Jack O’Reilly (18:00) … Goerge Overhuls b. Rolando Vera (16:00) … Balk Estes
b. Jack Carter (11:00) (alligator clutch) … (promoter:  Dory Detton) … (referees:  Gene
Blackley, Paul Mischler) … (2,700+ fans)

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, June 21, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Southwest Junior Heavyweight Champion Frankie Hill Murdock b.
George Curtis (2/3) (Curtis won the first fall in 19:00 with an abdominal stretch, Murdock
won the second in 15:00 with a “Sherry” toe hold, Murdock won the third with a
sleeperhold) … Ray Clements and Jack O’Reilly wrestled Balk Estes and George Overhuls
to a no contest (1-1) (Clements battled his own partner, and his two opponents) … Jack
Carter and Gene Blackley drew (20:00) … (promoter:  Dory Detton) … (2,483 fans)
Notes:  Carter was from Auckland, New Zealand and Blackley was from Buffalo Gap.

Amarillo, Texas:  Thursday, June 28, 1951
(Sports Arena) … Dory Funk Sr. b. Southwest Junior Heavyweight Champion Frankie Hill
Murdock (2/3) (Murdock won the first fall in 33-minutes with a “Sherry” toehold, Funk won
the second with a stepover toehold in 18:00, Funk won the third by decision after the 60-
minutes elapsed) (non-title match) … Balk Estes and Billy Weidner b. Gene Blackley and
Ray Clements … George Curtis and George Overhuls drew (20:00) … (promoter:  Dory
Detton) … (3,327 fans)
Notes:  Curtis was said to be from Vicksburg, Mississippi and Estes from Elk City.

Research by Tim Hornbaker
December 26, 2007
Amarillo Wrestling Results - 1951