Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, January 5, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … The Golden Terror vs. Pedro Martinez … Farmer Andrews vs.
Elephant Boy … Chuck Benson vs. Ralph Cavanaugh … Other matches … (promoter:  
Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, January 5, 1954
(Pappy’s Showland) … Danny McShain b. Sonny Myers … Cyclone Anaya vs. Stu
Gibson … Don Evans vs. Ricki Starr … Bob Cummings vs. Angelo Savoldi … The
Butcher vs. Danno O’Shocker … (promoter:  Norman Clark)
Notes:  Sonny Myers was returning “after a 15-month absence;” Anaya was returning
from Mexico.

Dallas, Texas:  Friday, January 8, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … “The Leopard Boy” Jimmy Blood vs. Mexican Joe … Farmer
Andrews vs. Jack O’Brien … Terry Foster vs. Frank Marlowe … Arturo Cabello vs. Danny
McKay …
Al Foreman vs. Dick Shaw … (promoter:  Maurice Beck)

*The Dallas Morning News reported on Saturday, January 9, 1954 that Karl Sarpolis was
the matchmaker for Ed McLemore.

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, January 12, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Phil Sylva (Silva) b. Earl Fleming, Terry Foster, Farmer Andrews
and Johnny Dobbs in a karate handicap match … Ralph Cavanaugh and Hugh McKenzie
b. The Golden Terror and Frank Marlowe (2-0) … Ralph Cavanaugh b. Frank Marlowe
… Mexican Joe b. The Golden Terror (DQ) … Hugh McKenzie b. Pearshape Powell …
Chuck Benson b. Yogi Hussane … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (matchmaker:  Karl
Sarpolis)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, January 12, 1954
(Pappy’s Showland) … Sonny Myers b. Danny McShain (DQ) … Don Evans b. Cyclone
Anaya by decision … Danny Savich b. Ricki Starr … Prince Maiava b. Bill Steddam (4:
00) … The Butcher and Larry Hamitlon drew (15:00) … (promoter:  Norman Clark) …
(referee:  Paul Boesch)

Dallas, Texas:  Friday, January 15, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Farmer Andrews vs. The Golden Terror … Hugo Kanae vs. Frank
Marlowe (Special Judo Jacket Match) … Terry Foster vs. Dick Shaw … Alberto Cruz vs.
Cecil “Red” Rodgers … Al “Coot” Foreman vs. Johnny Shaw … (promoter:  Maurice Beck)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, January 19, 1954
(The Sportatorium) ….Phillip Sylva b. The Golden Terror, Tommy Phelps, Jack O’Brien
and Elephant Boy (karate handicap match) … Farmer Andrews b. George McKay (2-0)
… Pedro Martinez and Mexican Joe b. Johnny Dobbs and Dick Shaw (2-0) … (promoter:  
Ed McLemore) … (matchmaker:  Karl Sarpolis)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, Janaury 19, 1954
(Pappy’s Showland) … Gorgeous George and Danny McShain drew in 60-minutes (1-1)
… Sonny Myers b. Danny Savich (2-0) (DQ) … Subi Sito b. Don Evans by decision …
Prince Maiava b. The Butcher … Cyclone Anaya and Larry Hamilton drew … (promoter:  
Norman Clark)

Dallas, Texas:  Friday, January 22, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Jack Kennedy vs. Pedro Martinez … Chuck Benson vs. Mexican
Joe … Ralph Cavanaugh and Terry Foster vs. Frank Marlowe and George McKay …
Sammy Baldwin vs. Yogi Hussane … Farmer Andrews vs. Earl Fleming … (promoter:  
Maurice Beck)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, January 26, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … World Heavyweight Champion Roy Dunn b. Mexican Joe (2-0) …
Ted “King Kong” Cox Sr. and Ted Cox Jr. b. Ellis Bashara and The Golden Terror …
Hugo Kanae and Philip Sylva b. Elephant Boy and Tommy Phelps … Yogi Hussane and
Frank Marlowe b. Chico Cabello and Ralph Cavanaugh … Hugh McKenzie b. Johnny
Shaw … Farmer Andrews b. Jack Kennedy … Pedro Martinez b. Chuck Benson … Terry
Foster b. Jack O’Brien … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (matchmaker:  Karl Sarpolis) …
(McLemore’s 16th Anniversary March of Dimes Benefit)
Note:  Twelve wrestlers were “plastered with custard pies” instead of a tag team match.

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, January 26, 1954
(Pappy’s Showland) … Sonny Myers and Sugi Sito b. Don Evans and Danny Savich …
Danny Savich b. Danny McShain to win a 12-man battle royal (Savich won $500) …
Danny McShain b. Cyclone Anaya … Timothy Geohagen b. Danno O’Shocker … Dick
Hutton b. Bob Cummings … Larry Hamilton b. Ramon Zavalza … Willie Love b. Bud
Richardson … (promoter:  Norman Clark)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, February 2, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Philip Sylva b. Tommy “Nature Boy” Phelps (physician halted the
match due to Phelp’s head cut) … Ted “King Kong” Cox and Jack O’Brien b. Pedro
Martinez and Mexican Joe … Elephant Boy b. Farmer Andrews … Chuck Benson b.
Gorgeous George McKay … Terry Foster b. Earl Fleming (Fleming was a substitute for
Frank Marlowe, who was injured) … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (physician:  Dr. Allen
F. Rowson)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, February 2, 1954
(Pappy’s Showland) … Danny McShain b. Danny Savich (McShain won a $500 prize) …
Duke Keomuka and Sonny Myers drew … Prince Maiava b. “Sockeye” McDonald …
Cyclone Anaya and Don Evans drew … Sugi Sito b. Larry Hamilton … (promoter:  
Norman Clark)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, February 9, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Elephant Boy and Tommy Phelps wrestled to a no contest (1-1) (a
bloody match) (police officers handcuffed both wrestlers after the referee’s decision to
halt the action) … Philip Sylva b. Chuck Benson, The Golden Terror, Frank Marlowe and
Hugh McKenzie (special handicap match) … Ted Cox and Ted Cox Jr. b. Terry Foster
and Jack Kennedy and then beat Pedro Martinez and Mexican Joe … George McKay
and Mexican Joe drew … Jack Kennedy b. The Golden Terror (DQ) … (promoter:  Ed
McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, February 9, 1954
(Pappy’s Showland) … Danny Savich b. Danny McShain (McShain gave up in the fifth
fall) (37:00) … Duke Keomuka b. Prince Maiava (Maiava smashed Keomuka with a
hammer) … June Byers b. Ella Waldek … Timothy Geohagen b. “Sockeye” McDonald …
Sonny Myers and Sugi Sito b. The Butcher and Don Evans … (promoter:  Norman Clark)
… (referee:  Otto Kuss)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, February 16, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Elephant Boy b. Tommy Phelps (Phelps was unable to answer the
bell after the fourth fall after the two had collided in the ring) … Fern LaVerne b. Violet
Ray … Ted Cox and Ted Cox Jr. b. Hugo Kanae and Phillip Sylva … George MaKay and
Mexican Joe wrestled to a no contest … Pedro Martinez b. The Golden Terror (DQ) …
Farmer Andrews b. Frank Marlowe … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, February 16, 1954
(Pappy’s Showland) … Prince Maiava b. Duke Keomuka (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … Don
Evans and Sugi Sito drew (60:00) (1-1) … June Byers b. Dot Dotson … Cyclone Anaya
and “Cowboy” Orville Carlson b. “Sockeye” McDonald and Danny Savich … Dick Hutton
b. Bob Cummings (7:00) … (promoter:  Norman Clark) … (referee:  Otto Kuss)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, February 23, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Ted Cox and Ted Cox Jr. b. Hugo Kanae and Philip Sylva …
Pedro Martinez b. The Elephant Boy (2/3) … George McKay b. Mexican Joe (DQ) …
Jack Kennedy b. Frank Marlowe (abdominal stretch) … Jack O’Brien b. Terry Foster …
Farmer Andrews and Tommy Phelps drew … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (benefit for
amateur baseball players of Dallas County)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, February 23, 1954
(Pappy’s Showland) … Don Evans and Duke Keomuka b. Prince Maiava and Sugi Sito
(2/3) … Sonny Myers b. Danny Savich … Cyclone Anaya and Roger Mackay drew …
“Cowboy” Orville Carlson b. Angelo Savoldi … Stu Gibson b. Timothy Geohagen (DQ)
(Geohagen “accidentally” tossed Gibson over the top rope) … (promoter:  Norman Clark)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, March 2, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Philip Sylva b. Ted “King Kong” Cox (2/3) (third fall by DQ) …
Hugo Kanae b. Ted Cox Jr. (judo-jacket match) … Elephant Boy and Jack Kennedy drew
… Chuck Benson b. Earl Fleming … Pedro Martinez and Mexican Joe b. George McKay
and Jack O’Brien … Farmer Andrews and Terry Foster b. The Golden Terror and Frank
Marlowe … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, March 2, 1954
(Pappy’s Showland) … Texas Heavyweight Champion Ray Gunkel b. Duke Keomuka
(2/3) … Prince Maiava b. Danny Savich (DQ) … Ivan Kalmikoff and Karol Krauser b.
Cyclone Anaya and Sugi Sito (Kalmikoff pinned Anaya) … Don Evans b. Timothy
Geohagen … Big Humphrey b. Lou Palacio (11:00) … (promoter:  Norman Clark)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, March 9, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Ted “King Kong” Cox b. Pedro Maritinez (2/3) …  The Super
Swedish Angel b. Mexican Joe (default) (Angel attacked Joe before the match, rendered
his opponent unable to compete) (The Dallas Morning News reported two finishes in this
bout, initially saying that Angel “won by default,” then said it was “actually a no contest”)
… The Elephant Boy and Red Menace b. Jack Kennedy and Tommy Phelps … Ted Cox
Jr. and Frank Marlowe drew … Farmer Andrews and George McKay drew … Terry
Foster b. Chuck Benson … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, March 9, 1954
(Pappy’s Showland) … Don Evans b. Rito Romero (DQ) (Romero hit the referee Dick
Hutton) … Duke Keomuka b. Prince Maiava (2/3) … Ivan Kalmikoff and Karol Krauser b.
Sonny Myers and Sugi Sito (17:00) … Sonny Myers b. Karol Krauser (DQ) … Ivan
Kalmikoff b. Sugi Sito … Joe Scarpello b. Timothy Geohagen … (promoter:  Norman
Clark)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, March 16, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Pedro Martinez b. Ted “King Kong” Cox (2/3) … Mexican Joe b.
The Golden Terror (DQ) … The Super Swedish Angel b. Elephant Boy and Red Menace
(DQ) (Elephant Boy used a chair) … Phil Sylva b. Ted Cox Jr. … Johnny Dobbs, George
McKay and Jack O’Brien b. Farmer Andrews, Terry Foster and Tommy Phelps … George
McKay b. Terry Foster … Farmer Andrews and Jack O’Brien drew … Tommy Phelps b.
Johnny Dobbs … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, March 16, 1954
(Pappy’s Showland) … Rito Romero b. Don Evans (2/3) … Duke Keomuka b. Sugi Sito
(2/3) (Keomuka won the first fall in the judo style, Sito won the second under catch rules,
Keomuka won the third in the judo style) … Ivan Kalmikoff and Karol Krauser b.
“Cowboy” Orville Carlson and Cyclone Anaya … Cyclone Anaya b. Ivan Kalmikoff (DQ)
… “Cowboy” Orville Carlson b. Karol Krauser (decision) … Stu Gibson and Joe Scarpello
drew … (promoter:  Norman Clark)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, March 23, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … George McKay won a 14-man battle royal … Ted “King Kong” Cox
b. Super Swedish Angel (1-0) (Angel was unable to continue) … Philip Sylva b. Pedro
Martinez (2/3) … Hugo Kanae and Philip Sylva b. five wrestlers (handicap match) …
Mexican Joe b. Elephant Boy … Ted Cox Jr. and Tommy Phelps drew … Jack Kennedy
b. Earl Fleming … Elephant Boy and George McKay b. Farmer Andrews and Terry
Foster … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, March 23, 1954
(Pappy’s Showland) … Duke Keomuka b. Rito Romero (2/3) (third by DQ) … Ivan
Kalmikoff and Karol Krauser b. Don Evans and Stu Gibson (reportedly, Kalmikoff and
Krauser’s “eighth straight Dasllas victory”) … Ivan Kalmikoff and Karol Krauser b. Prince
Maiava and Sugi Sito … Don Evans and Stu Gibson b. The Tolos Brothers (Chris and
John Tolos) (DQ) … Joe Scarpello b. Roger Mackay … (promoter:  Norman Clark) …
(referee:  Marvin Jones)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, March 30, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Ted “King Kong” Cox b. Phil Sylva (2/3) … “Ripper” Antone Leone
b. Mexican Joe (2/3) … Elephant Boy b. “Gorgeous” George McKay … Tommy Phelps b.
Johnny Dobbs … Jack Kennedy b. Buddy Farmer … Dick Bryant and Earl Fleming drew
… Jack O’Brien b. Ted Cox Jr. … Ted Cox Jr., Johnny Dobbs and Buddy Farmer b. Jack
Kennedy, Jack O’Brien and Tommy Phelps (chicken wire surrounded the ring) …
(promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, March 30, 1954
(Pappy’s Showland) … Duke Keomuka b. Bull Curry (DQ) … Ivan Kalmikoff and Karol
Krauser b. “Cowboy” Orville Carlson and Rito Romero to capture the Texas State Tag
Team Title … Don Evans b. Otto Kuss … Dick Hutton b. Joe Scarpello (Olympic rules) …
Willie Love b. Bud Richardson (Negro match) … (promoter:  Norman Clark)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, April 6, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Phil Sylva b. Pedro Martinez (2/3) … Antone Leone b. The
Elephant Boy (1-0) (Leone used a “throat crusher”) … Tommy Phelps b. Ted Cox Jr.
(decision) … Jack Kennedy b. The Golden Terror … Jack Kennedy, Mexican Joe and
Tommy Phelps b. Ted Cox Jr., The Golden Terror and George McKay … Mexican Joe b.
George McKay (DQ) … Chuck Benson b. Red Menace … Jack O’Brien b. Johnny Dobbs
… (promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, April 6, 1954
(Pappy’s Showland) … Bull Curry b. Duke Keomuka … Alo Leilani b. Don Evans (DQ)
(Evans threw his opponent over the top rope) … Rito Romero b. Ivan Kalmikoff (dec., 15:
00) … Larry Chene b. Stu Gibson … Karol Krauser b. Bill Steddum … (promoter:  
Norman Clark) … (benefit for the Oak Cliff Lions Club Auxiliary’s Health Center)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, April 13, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Antone Leone and Phil Sylva wrestled to a no decision … Tarzan
White b. “Gorgeous” George McKay (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … Pedro Martinez and
Mexican Joe b. The Golden Terror and Red Menace … Pedro Martinez b. The Golden
Terror … Mexican Joe b. The Red Menace … Jack Kennedy b. Dick Shaw (Kennedy was
a substittute for Tommy Phelps) … Chuck Benson b. Hugo Kanae … Al Massey b. Ted
Cox Jr. … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, April 13, 1954
(Pappy’s Showland) … Bull Curry and Prince Maiava drew … Don Evans b. Otto Kuss
(2/3) … Larry Chene and Duke Keomuka drew … Rito Romero b. Karol Krauser … Alo
Leilani b. Henry Lenz … Ivan Kalmikoff b. Big Humphrey … (promoter:  Norman Clark)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, April 20, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … World Heavyweight Champion Roy Dunn b. Phil Sylva (1-0) (Sylva
was unable to continue after losing the first fall) (Dunn used a reverse pile driver to take
the initial fall) … Antone Leone b. Pedro Martinez (DQ) (Martinez threw Leone over the
top rope) … Al Massey b. George McKay (forfeit) … Ted Cox Jr., Elephant Boy and Jack
O’Brien b. Chuck Benson, Mexican Joe and Tommy Phelps … Chuck Benson and Jack O’
Brien drew … Tommy Phelps b. Ted Cox Jr. … Elephant Boy b. Mexican Joe …
(promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, April 20, 1954
(Pappy’s Showland) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz and Don Evans
wrestled to a double countout in the third fall (1-1) … Larry Chene and Duke Keomuka
drew (1-1) … Alo Leilani b. Paddy Muldoon … Prince Maiava b. Stu Gibson (DQ) … Rito
Romero b. Bull Curry (countout) … (promoter:  Norman Clark)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, April 27, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … “Gorgeous” George McKay and Tommy Phelps wrestled to a no
contest … Pedro Martinez b. Antone Leone (dec., 60:00) … Elephant Boy b. Al Massey
twice in 30-minutes (special handicap match) … The Ozark Giant b. Jack Kennedy …
Tex Brady b. Jim Carter … Chuck Benson b. Ted Cox Jr. (decision) … (promoter:  Ed
McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, April 27, 1954
(Pappy’s Showland) … Bull Curry b. Prince Maiava (2/3) … Don Evans and Stu Gibson
b. Larry Chene and Cyclone Anaya (2/3) … Alo Leilani b. Duke Keomuka … Dick Hutton
and Karol Krauser drew … Ethel Johnson b. Babs Wingo (Negro girls) … (promoter:  
Norman Clark)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, May 4, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … “Gorgeous” George McKay b. Tommy Phelps (2/3) … Ozark Giant
b. Antone Leone … The Elephant Boy b. Pedro Martinez (2/3) … Chuck Benson, Dick
Bryant and Jack Kennedy b. The Golden Terror, Jack O’Brien and The Red Menace
(Kennedy was a substitute for Mexican Joe) … Chuck Benson b. The Golden Terror
(DQ) … Dick Bryant b. Red Menace (reverse decision) … Jack Kennedy and Jack O’
Brien drew … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, May 4, 1954
(Pappy’s Showland) … Don Evans b. Bull Curry (DQ) (Curry threw Evans over the top
rope) … Prince Maiava and Rito Romero b. Texas State Tag Team Champions Ivan
Kalmikoff and Karol Krauser (Maiava pinned Krauser) (Maiava and Romero ended
Kalmikoff and Krauser’s win streak at 12) (non-title match) … Ethel Johnson and
Kathleen Wembley b. Betty White and Babs Wingo … Karol Krauser and Rito Romero
drew … Prince Maiava b. Ivan Kalmikoff … Larry Chene and Alo Leilani drew …
(promoter:  Norman Clark) … (referee:  Julian Johnson)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, May 11, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … “Gorgeous” George McKay b. Tommy Phelps when the latter was
unable to continue after four falls (finish match) … Ozark Giant b. Elephant Boy (1-0) …
Chuck Benson b. Jack O’Brien (DQ) … Johnny Dobbs b. Dick Bryant … Jack Kennedy b.
The Golden Terror (abdominal stretch) … Ellee Perry b. Blanche Fain (Negro girls) …
(promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, May 11, 1954
(Pappy’s Showland) … Bull Curry b. Larry Chene (2/3) … Don Evans b. Prince Maiava
(2/3) (Maiava was unable to continue for the third fall after suffering a knee injury) …
Enrique Guzman and Rito Romero b. Texas State Tag Team Champions Ivan Kalmikoff
and Karol Krauser (non-title match) … Ivan Kalmikoff and Rito Romero drew … Enrique
Guzman b. Karol Krauser … Billy McDaniels b. Henry Lenz … (promoter:  Norman Clark)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, May 18, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … World Heavyweight Champion Roy Dunn b. The Ozark Giant (2-0)
(second fall by DQ) … Tommy Phelps b. George McKay … Chuck Benson, Dick Bryant
and Jack Kennedy b. Johnny Dobbs, Elephant Boy and Dick Shaw … Chuck Benson b.
Johnny Dobbs … Elephant Boy and Jack Kennedy drew … Dick Bryant b. Dick Shaw
(DQ) … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, May 18, 1954
(Pappy’s Showland) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Bull Curry b. Don Evans …
Texas State Tag Team Champions Rito Romero and Sugi Sito b. Stu Gibson and Duke
Keomuka … Ray Gunkel b. Cyclone Anaya … Larry Chene and Enrique Guzman drew
… Edmund Francis b. Prince Maiava (ending Maiava’s winning streak) … (promoter:  
Norman Clark) … (referee:  Otto Kuss)

Dallas, Texas:  Friday, May 21, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … The Golden Terror vs. The Ozark Giant (2/3) … Jimmy Blood
(Leopard Boy) vs. “Gorgeous” George McKay … Blanche Fain vs. Ellee Perry (Negro
girls) … Dick Bryant vs. Johnny Dobbs … Bobby O’Brien vs. Dick Shaw … (promoter:  Ed
McLemore) … (benefit for the Downtown Dallas and Oak Cliff Exchange Clubs welfare
fund for the underprivileged children of Dallas)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, May 25, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Tommy “Nature Boy” Phelps … The Elephant
Boy b. The Ozark Giant … Johnny Dobbs and Jack Kennedy b. The Golden Terror and
Jack O’Brien … The Golden Terror b. Johnny Dobbs … Dick Bryant b. Roy Kendall …
Sammy Baldwin and Chuck Benson wrestled to a no decision … (promoter:  Ed
McLemore)
Note:  Keomuka was returning to the Sportatorium after “an absence of seventeen
months.”

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, May 25, 1954
(Pappy’s Showland) … Danny McShain b. Rito Romero … Don Evans vs. Otto Kuss …
Enrique Guzman b. Lou Plummer … Edmund Francis b. Ivan Kalmikoff … Larry Chene b.
Karol Krauser … Stu Gibson b. Henry Lenz … (promoter:  Norman Clark)
Note:  The Dallas Morning News reported that this show featured the “arena’s biggest
crowd.” This was Clark’s final program in Dallas on behalf of the Sigel-NWA syndicate.  
The wrestling war in Dallas was over.

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, June 1, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Rito Romero b. Danny McShain (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … Don
Evans b. Paul Boesch (2-0) (Boesch was a substitute for Duke Keomuka, who was
prevented from wrestling by the “commission physician”) … Larry Chene and Edmund
Francis drew … Carol Cook b. Ruth Boatcallie … Ilio DiPaolo (local debut) b. Lou
Plummer … Stu Gibson b. Ignacio Martinez (local debut) … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) …
(referee:  Otto Kuss)
Note:  Paul Boesch was billed aa an announcer for WFAA-TV.

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, June 8, 1954
(The Sportatoriu) … Danny McShain b. Don Evans (2/3) (third fall by DQ when Evans’
second Stu Gibson interfered) … Edmund Francis and Stu Gibson b. Larry Chene and
Rito Romero (countout) … Johnny Valentine b. Sugo Sito … Ilio DiPaolo and Dick Hutton
drew … Henry Lenz b. Ignacio Martinez … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (referee:  Otto
Kuss)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, June 15, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Danny McShain and Rito Romero drew (60:00) (1-1) … Texas
State Heavyweight Champion Edmund Francis b. Larry Chene (2/3) (Francis received
some help from his manager Al Ventres) … Ilio DiPaolo and Stu Gibson drew … Johnny
Valentine b. Henry Lenz … Sugi Sito b. Bill McDaniels (DQ) … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)
Note:  Edmund Francis reportedly won the Texas State Heavyweight Title “last Friday.”

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, June 22, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Gorgeous George Wagner b. “Dirty” Don Evans (George was
accompanied by his valet, Jeffrey) … Larry Chene and Johnny Valentine drew … Duke
Keomuka b. Bill McDaniels … Ray Gunkel b. Stu Gibson … Edmund Francis and Rito
Romero drew … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (referee:  Otto Kuss)
Note:  An distinctive article was written in the Dallas Morning News on June 23, 1954 by
Hamilton Prieleaux Bee (Tex) Maule entitled “The Rasslin’ Show.”

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, June 29, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz b. Ray Gunkel …
Edmund Francis and Johnny Valentine b. Larry Chene and Rito Romero … Rito Romero
b. Johnny Valentine … Edmund Francis b. Larry Chene … Duke Keomuka b. Sugi Sito
… Stu Gibson and Alo Leilani drew … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (gate:  $7,000)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, July 6, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Ray Gunkel b. Texas State Heavyweight Champion Edmund
Francis (2/3) (non-title match) … Johnny Valentine b. Rito Romero (decision) … Larry
Chene and Danny McShain drew … Dick Raines b. Bill McDaniels (backbreaker) … Alo
Leilani b. Dutch Schultz … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, July 13, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion “Gentleman” Edmund Francis
and Ray Gunkel were both counted out in the third fall (1-1) … Stu Gibson, Danny
McShain, Angelo Poffo and Johnny Valentine b. Larry Chene, Alo Leilani, Dick Raines
and Rito Romero … Larry Chene and Johnny Valentine drew … Rito Romero b. Danny
McShain … Dick Raines b. Stu Gibson (DQ) … Alo Leilani b. Angelo Poffo … (promoter:  
Ed McLemore) … (referees:  Otto Kuss, Bill McDaniels)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, July 20, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Larry Chene b. Danny McShain (2-0) (first fall by DQ) … Rito
Romero and Johnny Valentine drew (60:00) (1-1) … Barbara Baker (local debut) b. Ella
Wladek … Ray Gunkel and Dick Raines b. Stu Gibson and Duke Keomuka … Enrique
Guzman and Alo Leilani drew … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, July 27, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Johnny Valentine b. Larry
Chene … Dick Raines b. Duke Keomuka … Rito Romero b. Bill McDaniels … Texas
Women’s Champion Nell Stewart b. Barbara Baker … Stu Gibson and Enrique Guzman
drew … Sugi Sito b. Tommy Phelps (DQ) … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, August 3, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Johnny Valentine b. Dick
Raines (2/3) (Raines suffered a leg injury and was unable to continue in the third fall) …
Texas Junior Heavyweight Champion Billy Raburn and Larry Chene drew (60:00) (1-1) …
Joe Blanchard b. Tommy Phelps (decision) … Texas Tag Team Champions Don Evans
and Duke Keomuka b. Enrique Guzman and Rito Romero … Alo Leilani b. Chuck Benson
… (promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, August 10, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Johnny Valentine b. Edmund
Francis (2/3) … Rito Romero b. Jim Blood … Dick Raines b. Duke Keomuka (DQ) … Joe
Blanchard and Larry Chene drew … George Drake b. Dutch Schultz … Alo Leilani and
Billy Raburn drew … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (referees:  Roy Carter, Otto Kuss)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, August 17, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Rito Romero b. Texas State Heavyweight Champion Johnny
Valentine (2/3) (third fall by DQ) (title did not change hands, reportedly because the title
could not exchange because of the disqualification) … Texas State Tag Team
Champions Don Evans and Duke Keomuka b. Larry Chene and Ray Gunkel … Otto
Kuss b. Jim Blood (battle between two referees) … Joe Blanchard and Alo Leilani drew
… George Drake b. Bill Steddum … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (referee:  Marvin
Jones)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, August 24, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Johnny Valentine b. Rito
Romero … George Drake and Enrique Guzman drew … Ray Gunkel b. Dave Simms …
Larry Chene b. Duke Keomuka (Keomuka reportedly had a broken thumb) … Don Evans
b. Alo Leilani … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (referee:  Jimmy Blood)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, August 31, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champoin Johnny Valentine b. Don
Evans (Valentine’s fifth “straight defense of his title”) … Rito Romero b. Jimmy Blood …
George Drake b. David Sims … Ray Gunkel and Billy Raburn drew … Duke Keomuka b.
Alo Leilani … Joe Christie b. Enrique Guzman … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, September 7, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Joe Christie and Rito Romero wrestled to a double disqualification
in the third fall (1-1) …George Drake, Ray Gunkel and Ricki Starr b. Edmund Francis,
Johnny Valentine and Jack Vansky (2/3) … Johnny Valentine b. Ray Gunkel … Ricki
Starr b. Edmund Francis … George Drake and Jack Vansky drew … Sugi Sito b. Dave
Sims (Sito was a substitute for Billy Raburn, who was injured) … (promoter:  Ed
McLemore) … (referee:  Otto Kuss)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, September 14, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Joe Christie b. Rito Romero to capture “a claim to the Texas Brass
Knucks Championship” (2/3) (Romero was forced to give up in the third fall due to a
shoulde rinjury) … Ray Gunkel b. Johnny Valentine (Gunkel did not win the Texas Title)
… Carol Cook b. Ruth Boatcallie … Sugi Sito b. Ray Clements … Ricki Starr b. Jack
Vansky (DQ) … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, September 21, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Johnny Valentine b. Joe
Christie to capture the Texas Brass Knuckles Title (2/3) … The Great Scott and Jack
Vansky b. Rito Romero and Ricki Starr … Jimmy Blood b. Ray Clements … Rito Romero
and The Great Scott drew … Ricki Starr b. Jack Vansky … The Mask b. Sugi Sito …
(promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, September 28, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz and Ray Gunkel
wrestled to a double-countout in the third fall (1-1) … The Great Scott b. Ricki Starr …
Billy Darnell b. The Mask … Professor Roy Shire b. Tony Ross … Joe Blanchard and Joe
Christie drew … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, October 5, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Johnny Valentine and Duke
Keomuka wrestled to a bloody no contest (1-1) … The Great Scott b. Ricki Starr (Starr
suffered a shoulder injury) … Nell Stewart b. Ida Mae Martinez … Rito Romero and Roy
Shire drew … Billy Darnell b. Joe Christie … Joe Blanchard b. “Gorgeous” George
McKay … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, October 12, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Texas State Heavyweight Champion Johnny Valentine b. Duke
Keomuka (2/3) (third fall by countout) … The Great Scott and Professor Roy Shire b.
George Drake and Rito Romero to capture the Texas State Tag Team Title (2-0) (first
fall by DQ) … Ricki Starr b. George McKay … Billy Darnell b. Jack Vansky … Ida Mae
Martinez b. Bonnie Watson … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (referees:  Jimmy Blood,
Otto Kuss)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, October 19, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Otto Kuss b. Jimmy Blood (finish match with loser leaving his post
as a referee in Dallas, reportedly burning his referee gear in the ring) … Duke Keomuka
b. Johnny Valentine (non-title match) (mixed judo-jacket, catch-as-catch-can affair) …
Texas State Tag Team Champions The Great Scott and Professor Roy Shire b. Larry
Chene and Rito Romero (DQ) (Chene and Romero’s second Billy Darnell fought with
Shire’s manager Bobby Wallace) … Billy Darnell b. George Drake … Jack Vansky b. The
Mask … Willie Love b. Tex Brady (Negro match) … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, October 26, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Larry Chene, Billy Darnell and Rito Romero b. The Great Scott,
Professor Roy Shire and Bobby Wallace (2/3) … Larry Chene b. Bobby Wallace … Billy
Darnell and The Great Scott drew … Rito Romero b. Roy Shire (DQ) … Duke Keomuka
b. Joe Blanchard … Jack Vansky b. Tony Ross … Johnny Valentine b. Jack Kennedy …
(promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, November 2, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Larry Chene (Chene was unable to answer the
bell for the second fall) … Texas State Tag Team Champions The Great Scott and
Professor Roy Shire b. Rito Romero and Polo Torres (2/3) … Billy Darnell b. Joe Christie
(DQ) (Christie was billed as a “holder of a Texas roughouse wrestling trophy) … Jack
Vansky b. Jim Siskay (Siskay was a substitute for Jack Britton) … Fuzzy Cupid b. Tiny
Tim … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (referee:  Jack Kennedy)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, November 9, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Joe Christie (2/3) (third fall by DQ) … The
Great Scott and Polo Torres drew … Billy Darnell b. Babe Zaharias (Darnell’s eight
straight local win) … Larry Chene and Professor Roy Shrie drew … Jack Vansky b. Tony
Ross … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (referee:  Marvin Jones)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, November 16, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … The Great Togo b. Jeo Christie (2-0) … Larry Chene b. Tosh
Togo (DQ in third fall when Togo attacked the referee) … Juan Humberto b. George
Drake … Polo Torres b. The Great Scott (countout) … Billy Darnell b. Jack Vansky …
(promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (referee:  Otto Kuss)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, November 23, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … The Great Togo b. Ray Gunkel (2/3) … Tosh Togo b. Larry
Chene and Otto Kuss (handicap match) (Tosh beat Chene and then both men attacked
him, ending the bout) … Billy Darnell and Ricki Starr drew … Polo Torres b. Buck
Weaver … Rito Romero b. Juan Humberto … Rito Romero and Polo Torres b. Juan
Humberto and Buck Weaver … (promoter:  Ed McLemore) … (referee:  Tony Ross)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, November 30, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka and The Togo Brothers (The Great Togo and
Tosh Togo) b. Billy Darnell, Ray Gunkel and Rito Romero (2/3) (Keomuka and Togos
won $1,500) …The Great Togo b. Ray Gunkel (2-0) (first fall by DQ when he hit the
referee) (Gunkel was blinded by Togo) … Billy Darnell b. Tosh Togo … Duke Keomuka
and Rito Romero drew … Polo Torres b. Joe Christie (less than a minute) … Larry
Chene b. Jack Vansky … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, December 7, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … The Great Togo b. Billy Darnell (Darnell’s first local loss) … Duke
Keomuka and Polo Torres (decision in third fall) (2/3) …Women’s World Tag Team
Champions June Byers and Millie Stafford b. Penny Banner and Betty Hawkins … The
Sheik and Tosh Togo drew … Larry Chene b. Tony Ross (Ross was a substitute for Jack
Adkisson) … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)
Note:  Tosh Togo was billed as the younger brother of The Great Togo.

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, December 14, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Texas Heavyweight Champion Polo Torres b. Duke Keomuka (2/3)
… Larry Chene and Billy Darnell b. The Togo Brothers (The Great Togo and Tosh
Togo) (1-0) … Jack Adkisson and Jack Kennedy drew … The Sheik b. Juan Humberto …
Leo “The Lion” Newman b. Lou Palacio … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)
Note:  This show marked the first match of a Von Erich (Adkisson) in the second version
of the Sportatorium at Cadiz and Industrial.

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, December 21, 1954        
(The Sportatorium) … Duke Keomuka b. Larry Chene (2/3) … Jimmy Blood b. Otto Kuss
(Blood won the right to dress as Santa Claus and to hand out “favors to the fans”) (Kuss
then joined him in the suit) … Polo Torres b. Professor Roy Shire … Billy Darnell b.
Maurice Vachon (local debut) (DQ) … Rocky Columbo and Leo Newman drew … Juan
Humberto and Tommy Phelps wrestled to a no decision … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)
Note:  McLemore announced that another show would be held next Tuesday rather than
closing up for the holidays.

Dallas, Texas:  Tuesday, December 28, 1954
(The Sportatorium) … Jimmy Blood and Otto Kuss wrestled to a no contest … Duke
Keomuka b. Dick Raines (2/3) (third fall by countout) (Blood prevented Raines from
getting back into the ring) (Kuss ran out and brawled with Blood) … Polo Torres b.
Maurice Vachon (DQ) … Leo Newman b. Jose Castillo … Rocky Columbo b. Juan
Humberto … Tommy Phelps and Buck Weaver drew … (promoter:  Ed McLemore)


Research by Tim Hornbaker
Dallas Wrestling Results - 1954