Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, January 5, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … Bill Longson b. Juan Humberto (2/3) (third by DQ) … Women’s
World Champion Mildred Burke b. Mae Weston (11:00) … Elviry Snodgrass b. Purple
Flash (8:00) … Jack Kennedy b. Sterling Davis (15:00) … Karl Davis and Roy Graham
drew … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (referee:  Joe Parelli)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, January 12, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … World Heavyweight Champion Bobby Managoff b. Juan Humberto
(2/3) … Bill Longson b. Gorilla Macias … Jack Kennedy b. Karl Davis (12:00) … Ed
“Strangler” White b. Chief Little Beaver (decision) … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)
Notes:  Managoff was said to be one of the most popular champions in Texas since the
days of Hugh Nichols.  According to the Dallas Morning News, Managoff began learning
wrestling from his father at 16 years of age, and won amateur championships in Chicago.

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, January 19, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … World Heavyweight Champion Bobby Managoff b. Juan Humberto
(2-0) (first by DQ) … Ray Eckert b. Gorilla Macias (9:25) … Karl Davis and Jack Kennedy
drew … Ellis Bashara b. Sterling “Gardenia” Davis (12:20) … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)
… (referee:  Charles Schwartz)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, January 26, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … Bill Longson b. Ray Eckert (2/3) … Juan Humberto b. Jack
Kennedy (13:30) … Ed “Strangler” White b. Roy Graham (DQ) … Ellis Bashara and
Sterling Davis drew … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (referee:  Joe Parelli)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, February 2, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … World Heavyweight Champion Bobby Managoff b. Ray Eckert (2-0)
… Jack Kennedy b. Roy Graham (16:00) … Ellis Bashara b. Miguel Torres (11:15) …
Chief Little Beaver and Sterling Davis drew … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)
Note:  It was initially reported that Ed Lewis would be on hand to referee the main event,
but then it was switched to next week.

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, February 9, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … Juan Humberto b. Jack Kennedy (2-0) (referee:  Ed Lewis) … Ray
Eckert b. Roy Graham (11:48) … Gorilla Macias b. Ellis Bashara (DQ) … Chief Little
Beaver and Ed “Strangler” White drew … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (referees:  Ed
Lewis, Charlie Schwartz)
Notes:  After the main event, Ed Lewis got into it with fan favorite Jack Kennedy, and
Kennedy hit Lewis, resulting in a suspension by the Texas Boxing and Wrestling
Commission.

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, February 16, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … Juan Humberto b. Ray Eckert (2/3) … Ed “Strangler” Lewis failed
to throw Karl Davis in 20:00 and lost the decision … Ellis Bashara and Chief Little Beaver
drew (20:00) … Sterling Davis b. Gorilla Macias (dec., 20:00) … (promoter:  Ed
McLemore) … (5,000 fans)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, February 23, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … Juan Humberto b. Joe Cox (2/3) … Karl Davis b. Gorilla Macias (6:
25) … Angelo Cistoldi b. Chief Little Beaver … Sterling Davis b. Miguel Torres …
(promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (referee:  Ellis Bashara)

*On Sunday, February 28, 1943, the Dallas Morning News reported that Lou Gray was
going to revive professional boxing in Dallas.  Gray promoted boxing at the Park
Livestock Arena around 1929-’30, and worked out arrangements with Ed McLemore to
use the Sportatorium.  His first show was planned for around March 18.  Gray was going
to use his protégé Buddy Scott.

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, March 2, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … Juan Humberto b. Jack Kennedy (2-0) (second fall by reverse
decision) … Angelo Cistoldi and Karl Davis drew … Ellis Bashara and Sterling Davis drew
… Chief Little Beaver b. Ed “Strangler” White … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (referee:  
Charlie Schwartz)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, March 9, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … Juan Humberto and Yvon Robert drew (60:00) (1-1) … Bobby
Managoff b. Larry Robert … Angelo Cistoldi and Karl Davis drew … Jack Kennedy b.
Chief Little Beaver … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (referee:  Ellis Bashara, Charlie
Schwartz)
Notes:  This was Managoff’s first appearance in Dallas since losing the NWA Title to Bill
Longson in St. Louis.  Yvon Robert was the older brother of Larry Robert.

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, March 16, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … Bobby Managoff b. Karl Davis (2/3) … Yvon Robert b. Juan
Humberto … Jack Kennedy and Larry Robert drew … Sterling Davis b. Dutch Schultz …
(promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (referees:  Ellis Bashara, Charlie Schwartz)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, March 23, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … World Heavyweight Champion Bill Longson b. Bobby Managoff
(2/3) (Longson won the first fall by disqualification when Managoff threw him over the top
rope) … Juan Humberto and Yvon Robert drew … Karl Davis b. Dutch Schultz … Angelo
Cistoldi and Babe Zaharias drew … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (6,000 fans) (sellout)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, March 30, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … Jack Kennedy b. Juan Humberto (2-0) … Angelo Cistoldi b.
Sterling Davis … Ellis Bashara and Karl Davis drew … Jack Curtis and Babe Zaharias
drew … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (referee:  Charlie Schwartz)
Notes:  The Dallas Morning News said the “city championship” was on the like between
Juan Humberto and Jack Kennedy.  They both were from Dallas.  Curtis was billed as a
claimant to the World Junior Heavyweight Title.  The Cistoldi-Davis bout was bloody.  
Cistoldi kept beating on Davis after the bout.

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, April 6, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … Angelo Cistoldi b. Sterling Davis (2/3) … Ellis Bashara b. Juan
Humberto (DQ) … Paul Jones and Babe Zaharias drew … Jack Curtis b. Chief Joe Little
Beaver (decision) … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (referees:  Charlie Schwartz, Karl
Sarpolis)
Notes:  Davis was reportedly participating in his first main event in Dallas.  He was said to
be a “wrestling dress designer.” Curtis was said to be a former World Junior champion.

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, April 20, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … Juan Humberto b. Ellis Bashara (2/3) … Bobby Managoff b. The
Yellow Flash (DQ) … Sterling Davis b. Jack Curtis … Chief Little Beaver and Karl Davis
drew … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, April 27, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … Angelo Cistoldi b. Juan Humberto (2-0) … Karl Davis b. The
Yelllow Flash (6:00) (Flash unmasked to reveal “Sailor” Barto) … Sterling Davis b. Chief
Little Beaver (10:45) … Ellis Bashara and Babe Zaharias drew … (promoter:  Ed
McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, May 4, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … Juan Humberto b. Angelo Cistoldi (2/3) … Sterling Davis b. Ellis
Bashara (dec., 30:00) … Jack Kennedy b. Chief Little Beaver … Gene Blackley b. Dutch
Schultz … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, May 11, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … Sterling Davis b. Ellis Bashara (2/3) (Angelo Cistoldi interfered in
the third fall) … Juan Humberto and Jack Kennedy drew … Cliff Olson b. Angelo Cistoldi
(DQ) … Chief Little Beaver and Babe Zaharias drew … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) …
(referee:  Paul Jones)
Note:  Kennedy was recovering from malaria.

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, May 18, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … Ellis Bashara and Angelo Cistoldi b. Karl Davis and Sterling Davis
(team match) (2/3) … Juan Humberto b. Jack Kennedy (DQ) … Chief Little Beaver and
Cliff Olson drew … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (referee:  Babe Zaharias)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, May 25, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … World Heavyweight Champion Bill Longson b. Angelo Cistoldi (2/3)
… Juan Humberto b. Jack Kennedy (17:25) … Sterling Davis b. Babe Zaharias (DQ) (15:
27) … Ellis Bashara and Karl Davis drew (15:00) … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (5,760
fans)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, June 1, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … World Heavyweight Champion Bill Longson b. Juan Humberto (2/3)
… Ellis Bashara and Angelo Cistoldi b. Karl Davis and Sterling Davis … Jack Kennedy b.
Babe Zaharias … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (6,201 fans)
Notes:  This show drew the largest crowd ever at the Sportatorium.  Bashara and Cistoldi
were said to be the holders of the “team wrestling title.”

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, June 8, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … Juan Humberto b. Sterling Davis (2-0) … Karl Davis and Jack
Kennedy b. Ellis Bashara and Angelo Cistoldi (2/3) (team match) … Chief Little Beaver
and Paul Jones drew … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (referee:  Babe Zaharias)
Note:  Bashara accidentally knocked out his partner, Cistoldi, in the team match.

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, June 15, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … Ellis Bashara and Angelo Cistoldi b. Karl Davis and Jack Kennedy
(tag match) … Juan Humberto b. Paul Jones … Sterling Davis b. Herbie Schultz …
(promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (referee:  Charlie Schwartz)
Note:  Schultz was from Rosenberg, Texas.

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, June 22, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … Sandor Szabo b. Juan Humberto (2/3) (Humberto was unable to
continue for the third fall) … Angelo Cistoldi and Sterling Davis drew (30:00) … Ellis
Bashara b. Jack Kennedy (15:00) … Chief Little Beaver and Karl Davis drew …
(promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, June 29, 1943
(The Sportatorium) … World Junior Heavyweight Champion Leroy McGuirk b. Ellis
Bashara (2/3) … Juan Humberto b. Sterling Davis (DQ) … Chief Little Beaver and Angelo
Cistoldi drew … Ronnie Etchison b. Herbie Schultz (dec., 15:00) … (promoter:  Ed
McLemore) … (referee:  Charlie Schwartz)
Note:  During intermission, a War Bond rally took place and $46,000 was raised.


Research by Tim Hornbaker
October 2, 2010
Dallas Wrestling Results - 1943