Dallas Wrestling Results

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, March 22, 1949
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Miguel Guzman and
“Whipper” Billy Watson drew (90:00) (1-1) … The Becker Brothers (Bobby and George
Becker) b. Tony Morelli and Paul “Tarzan” Orth … “Cowboy” Orville Carlson b. Leo
Newman (DQ) … Ruffy Silverstein b. Tony Martin … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, July 12, 1949
(The Sportatorium) … Miguel Guzman and Rito Romero b. Leo Newman and Roy
Graham (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … June Byers b. Ellen Olson … Jesse James and Sonny
Myers drew (15:00) … Duke Keomuka (local debut) b. Bill Sledge … (promoter: Ed
McLemore)
Notes: Olson was billed as being from Camden, while Sledge was from Thornton, Texas.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, July 19, 1949
(The Sportatorium) … Miguel Guzman b. Jack Kennedy (2/3) … Juanita Coffman b. June
Byers … Sandy O’Donnell b. Leo “The Lion” Newman … Duke Keomuka and Sonny
Myers drew … Roy Graham b. Al Lovelock … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, July 26, 1949
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Sonny Myers wrestled Sandy
O’Donnell to a no contest (2/3) (the referee Paul Boesch was knocked from the ring
during the third fall, and O’Donnell was thrown over the top rope by Myers) (Boesch
announced O’Donnell the winner by disqualification, but Texas Deputy Commissioner Bill
Hughes reversed the decision and announced that the championship was declared
vacant) … Miguel Guzman b. Roy Graham (DQ) … Jack Kennedy b. Paul Boesch
(abdominal stretch) (Boesch was a substitute for Ruffy Silverstein) … Jesse James and
John Swenski drew … Al Lovelock and Herb Welch drew (15:00) … (promoter: Ed
McLemore) … (referee: Paul Boesch)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, August 30, 1949
(The Sportatorium) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Orville Brown b. Sandy O’
Donnell (2/3) (Brown won the final fall with a piledriver and pin) … Miguel Guzman b. Abe
Kashey (DQ) … Hard Boiled Haggerty and Sonny Myers drew (15:00) … Roy Graham b.
Antone Leone … Al Lovelock b. Ellis Bashara (decision) … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, September 6, 1949
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Miguel Guzman b. Ruffy
Silverstein (first local loss) (2/3) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Orville Brown b.
Roy Graham (1-0) (Graham was unable to continue) … Abe Kashey and Jack Kennedy
drew … Sambra b. Hard Boiled Haggerty (8:00) … (promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, September 27, 1949
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Miguel Guzman b. Leo “The
Lion” Newman (2/3) … Danny McShain b. El Sombra (Dick Holbrook) … Al Lovelock and
Billy Varga drew … Jack Kennedy b. Abe Kashey (abdominal stretch) … “Cowboy” Orville
Carlson b. Roy Graham (DQ) … (promoter: Ed McLemore) … (referees: Lou Plummer,
Leo Voss)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, October 11, 1949
(The Sportatorium) … “Wild” Red Berry b. Danny McShain (2-0) … Miguel Guzman and
Rito Romero b. Al Lovelock and Billy Varga … Orville Carlson b. Leo Newman … Vic
Holbrook and Jack Kennedy drew … Johnny Valentine (local debut) b. Nick Elitch …
(promoter: Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, October 25, 1949
(The Sportatorium) … “Wild” Red Berry b. Miguel Guzman to capture the Texas State
Heavyweight Title (2/3) (Guzman’s first defeat in Dallas in five months) … Hans Schnable
b. Jack Kennedy (Kennedy could not continue due to a cut to his head) (Karl Sarpolis
entered the ring to see the cut and was knocked to the mat by Kennedy) (Sarpolis fought
back) … Johnny Valentine b. Fritz Schnable (DQ) … Joe Pazandak b. Vic Holbrook …
“Cowboy” Orville Carlson b. Paul Orth (decision) … (promoter: Ed McLemore) …
(matchmaker: Dr. Karl Sarpolis) … (physician: Dr. Allen Rowson)
Note: After Karl Sarpolis exchanged fisticufs with Kennedy, Texas Boxing and Wrestling
Commissioners Sam George and Bill Hughes confered and handed down an indefinite
suspension of Sarpolis.

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, November 1, 1949
(The Sportatorium) … Hans Schnable b. Jack Kennedy (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … Leo
“The Lion” Newman b. Texas Heavyweight Champion “Wild” Red Berry (non-title match)
… Miguel Guzman b. “Cowboy” Orville Carlson … Joe Pazandak and Johnny Valentine
drew … Ace Freeman b. Fritz Schnable (decision) … (promoter: Ed McLemore) …
(4,832 fans)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, November 15, 1949
(The Sportatorium) … NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion Leroy McGuirk b. Texas
State Heavyweight Champion “Wild” Red Berry (2-0) (junior title only) … June Byers b.
Mae Weston (19:00) … Verne Gagne and Dutch Hefner b. The Schnable Brothers (Fritz
and Hans Schnable) … Rito Romero and Billy Varga drew … (promoter: Ed McLemore)
… (5,941 fans)

Dallas, Texas: Tuesday, November 29, 1949
(The Sportatorium) … Leo Newman b. “Wild” Red Berry to capture the Texas State
Heavyweight Title (2-0) … Violet Viann b. Mae Young … Jack Kennedy b. Chief Chewacki
… Orville Carlson and Rito Romero drew … Dutch Hefner b. Dennis Clary … (promoter:
Ed McLemore)

Research by Tim Hornbaker
October 2, 2010

Dallas Wrestling Results - 1949